A discussion forum for the anthropologists amongst us.
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited The Story Behind Any Story: Evolution, Historicity, and Narrative Mapping in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
“The narratives of the world are numberless”; yet, all stories may be seen as chapters of a single story, the story of universal evolution as uncovered by contemporary science, with processes of human emergence and cultural development as a prominent backdrop to the understanding of any narrative process. Evolutionary approaches to literary and…[Read more]
Darshi Arachige deposited A guided tour through a labyrinth of biological and behavioural information- A Review of Behave by Robert Sapolsky (Vintage, London, 2017) in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
Behave by Robert Sapolsky (Vintage, London, 2017) is a book full of information about human aggression. Even though Prof. Sapolsky does not provide new solutions to deal with human aggression, he tells us about its biological roots and makes us look at the aggressors with a broader understanding. Our behaviours are more complex than what a single…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Con la Historia a cuestas: ‘Lone Star’, de John Sayles in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
Spanish abstract: ‘Lone Star’ (John Sayles, 1996) es una película sobre la etnicidad y sobre el peso del pasado tratado aquí de manera reflexiva. Es un tema inevitablemente presente en las películas norteamericanas (o en muchas de ellas) pero a menudo sólo como parte del trasfondo, o evitado en el desarrollo de la historia principal. Aquí está…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Infiltrados (The Departed): La paradoja del espía in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: Dos hombres en lados opuestos de la ley están infiltrados —en la Policía y en la mafia— pero hierven la violencia y la sangre derramada cuando la información sale a la luz, y se envía a cada topo a averiguar quién es el enemigo interior. ‘Infiltrados’ es una película de Martin Scorsese que explora la ‘paradoja del espía’, a…[Read more]
Justin Walsh deposited Photography and the International Space Station Archaeological Project in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
This chapter describes the International Space Station Archaeological Project and the importance of photography as a source of evidence for life and society on ISS.
Justin Walsh deposited Eternity in Low Earth Orbit: Icons on the International Space Station in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
This paper investigates the material culture of icons on the International Space Station as part of a complex web of interactions between cosmonauts and the Russian Orthodox Church, reflecting contemporary terrestrial political and social aairs. An analysis of photographs from the International Space Station (ISS) demonstrated that a particular…[Read more]
Ostap Kushnir deposited Business, Values, and EU’s Response to Protests in Ukraine: Cases from 2003–2004, 2010, and 2013–2014 in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
This book aims to uncover and assess changes in the EU’s foreign policy towards Ukraine in the times of wide-scale social protests in Kyiv. To accomplish this task, this book enlists and analyses documents, agreements, and treaties which establish the frameworks for EU-Ukraine cooperation. It also identifies the interests of lobbying groups in…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited An Interactional Theory of Truth: On Searle on Truth and Facts in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week ago
This is a critique of the logicist theory of truth and facts set forth in the final section of John R. Searle’s book ‘The Construction of Social Reality’ (1995). Searle’s logicist account, much in the line of his theory of speech acts, is contrasted to a pragmaticist and interactionalist perspective on truth, facts, and discourse. Keywords:…[Read more]
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited WOMEN AND BIOMEDICAL HEALTHCARE IN A COMMUNITY IN GHANA in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 months ago
The contribution of women to the development of societies and medicine around the world cannot be overstated. Their contribution to medicine is great; this is seen, in particular, in their role among other physicians, obstetricians, nurses, herbalists, and assistant physicians. Despite the significant contribution of women to medicine and health…[Read more]
Omer Aijazi deposited What about Insaniyat? Morality and Ethics in the Pahars of Kashmir in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
What about insāniyat (humanity)? Or put differently, how are morality and ethics compelled and shaped in the pahars (mountainscapes) of Kashmir? Insāniyat is an emotion and ethics that expresses interdependencies between people. Insāniyat is moral and ethical proclivity. It is not enforced by an external authority but inheres in human en…[Read more]
Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine’s “learning” revolutions of 1990, 2004/05 and 2013/14 in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Collected volume review. Paweł Kowal, Georges Mink and Iwona Reichardt (eds.) “Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemporary Ukraine.” Volume one. Stuttgart, Ibidem Verlag, 2019.
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Los poderosos (se) engañan in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
Spanish abstract: Algunas reflexiones sobre (auto)engaño e ideología por vía de un comentario sobre el libro Ideología de Teun A. van Dijk. Los poderosos engañan. Creen tener un acceso privilegiado a la realidad, y utilizan esa perspectiva dominante (‘topsight’) para dominar. Con frecuencia para dominar engañando. Pero también se engañ…[Read more]
Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
This book first proves that the rationale behind Russia’s aggressive actions in its neighborhood resides in its goal of achieving certain geostrategic objectives which are largely predefined by the state’s imperial traditions, memories, and fears that the Kremlin may irretrievably lose control over lands which were once Russian. In other words,…[Read more]
Ostap Kushnir deposited The Intermarium as the Polish-Ukrainian Linchpin of Baltic-Black Sea Cooperation in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The term “Intermarium” has a long historical tradition and was commonly used to define the area between the Baltic and Black Seas. With its regular re-appearances in contemporary academic and political discourses, this book explores and assesses a variety of its connotations. In order to do this, it applies a multi-dimensional approach to the Int…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Radical Lumpers (Sobre las diferencias raciales) in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
English abstract: A paper arguing the relevance of a cognitive narratological perspective and a retrospective stance attentive to hindsight bias in order to clarify the debate on racial differences and population diversity in biology. The issue is discussed with reference to the dichotomy between ‘lumpers’ and ‘splitters’ in paleoanthropology as…[Read more]
Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Diaspora, temporality, and politics: Promises and dangers of rotational time in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
In this contribution, I take up Michael Nijhawan’s focus on the embodied aspects of memory and time he elaborates so insightfully in “The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations”, specifically his invocation of, via Veena Das’s work, of Bergson’s distinction between translational and rotational time. Drawing on examples from my ow…[Read more]
Ryan Schram deposited The compensation page: News narratives of public kinship in Papua New Guinea print journalism in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks ago
In Papua New Guinea (PNG), news media frequently report on events in which groups exchange gifts as compensation for alleged harms. In news narratives of this type, compensation is a metaphor for the contact between liberal and relational social orders. In this way, news media in PNG produces knowledge of what it means to be a citizen in a society…[Read more]
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited FUNERALS AMONG THE AKAN PEOPLE: SOME PERSPECTIVES ON ASANTE in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
This work discusses the processes of celebrating funerals among the Akan people, some Akan belief systems and modern trends that have evolved in funeral ceremonies. It also demonstrates the complexities involved in organizing the funeral from the day of death culminating into the celebration of the final funeral rite. The actual purpose of funeral…[Read more]
Lloyd Graham deposited A comparison of the anthropomorphic Vodun power-figure (West African bocio/bo/vodu/tro) with its Kongo counterpart (Central African nkisi) in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
This paper compares anthropomorphic power-figures from the Vodun and Kongo cultural areas. Vodun is practised along the Guinea Coast of West Africa (especially in Benin and Togo) whereas the Kongo religion is native to the west coast of Central Africa (especially the two Republics of the Congo and northwest Angola). First, overlaps in belief and…[Read more]
Ilana Gershon deposited The Breakup 2.1: The ten-year update in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Since 2007–2008, American undergraduates’ media ecology has changed dramatically without an accompanying transformation in how they use media to end relationships. The similarities in people’s breakup practices between 2008 and 2018 reveal that, regardless of what social media is used, American undergraduates turn to media in moments of break…[Read more]
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