Anthropological Imagination Research Articles

Information Design: Textualization, Documentarization, Auctorialization

In this article on information design, we will begin by recalling our definition of information anchored in an anthropological vision of communication, and we will then present Buckland’s ternary approach to information, which is in tune with our typology. Secondly, we will return to the notion of device (dispositif) to introduce information and communication devices, of which we will give a few examples. This will allow us, in the third section, to present the design of recorded information in all its richness and complexity, combining the issues of textualization, authorialization, and documentarization.

La Educación sentimental en el pensamiento de Julián Marías. Una reflexión en el contexto colombiano

La educación sentimental es uno de los núcleos importantes de reflexión del pensamiento del filósofo español Julián Marías Aguilera y corresponde a una visión antropológica personalista. La educación sentimental es el núcleo donde se encuentra la raíz de todos los demás aspectos vitales. Este artículo pretende analizar la visión antropológica de la filosofía de Julián Marías, específicamente en la obra La educación sentimental, y pensar a la persona como una criatura amorosa. Volver sobre los sentimientos en la persona contribuirá a rescatar una de las dimensiones más olvidadas y desplazadas por la cultura intelectual, de tal manera que esta investigación destaca el valor de una antropología filosófica que, al haber sido pensada y expresada en español, tiene unas posibilidades humanas que no han sido desarrolladas por otras lenguas en las que se ha hecho filosofía hasta el siglo XX, con posibilidades de aplicación en el posconflicto colombiano.

СУЧАСНА ТРАКТОВКА ГЕШТАЛЬТУ: АНТРОПОЛОГІЧНІ АСПЕКТИ

І ntroduction. The important role of the modern interpretation of is not only seen from the epistemological positions, or from the point of view of the self-reflection of the people. Thus, the current anthropological vision of the of the Poleag is in fact, in particular, the special features of the healty, the progress of the it. The importance of the process itself is the formatting process. Analysis of publications. The current status of the article is related to the need to develop the tools of this self-identified people for self-importance in other anthropological aspects. Characteristics of perception as the processes of the emergence of persistent images were studied in classical philosophy, in particular, by such philosophers as Aristotle, D. Locke, I. Kant and representatives of the Wurtzburg School of Gestalt-direction, as the theory of a holistic perceptual image and developed by the representatives of H. Eerenfels. The main methodological principle of the theory of is E. Husserl, M. Merlot-Ponty, M. Anri, J. L. Marion. The purpose of the article is to study the concept of Gestalt in the philosophical and anthropological aspect for the structuring, generalization and functioning of cultural experience. Results. Particularly important are the people who can live in the light of the modern informational space. By way of statistics is studying the concept of gestalt in the philosophical and anthropological aspect for the structure of a government, which is a function of a cultural experince. Objectively, the concept is “gestalt”, which means the structure, image, form, confession, language, followed by the laws of the order of the names of anthropological organizations. Let's take a look at how to achieve this. The ideas of modern to get a little banged up with dummies of existential-analogical territory. The process of confrontation is whether it is a manifestation of its own form, especially if there is a special focus on the boundaries of the manifestations, follow the distance from each other. Within the framework of the created gestalt, a person adapts to reality and at the same time adapts reality to himself by the fact that she is looking for ways not only to understand reality for herself, but also to make it aesthetically favorable. Thats, the picture of the peculiarity will be on that resonance, which is the people’s answer, which will be appreciated at the same time, but at the same time, the resonance can be made in the form of the design, or in the form of the reenactment. Great value is given to the aesthetic aspect of the movement.. Thus, within the framework of such theory, there is a natural factor in shaping the formation of the Polagan in a long-term extension of the capital and economic direction without favoring singing. In other words, if the structure of a is torn down, whether it is a special structure, or a situation structure, you’ll go beyond the drawing of the singing parts, the new structure of the will automatically open, or a third side of the saved part of the front gest, and the whole gest, and the whole of the top gesture will form, and the other side will be replaced by the best gest, and the whole of the top gesture will be replaced by the best gest, and the whole will of the opposite side of the top gest, The anthropological manifestation of the all-inclusive – theory of transmission is authentic. The internal reality of the is the irracial component, which includes to itself the singing transformation of reality, and the transformation of personal responsibility for the subconscious distribution. Such postmodernist theories of the subjectivity may be meaningful for the complete in the anthropological aspect. Dialogue is one more anthropological aspect of the important gestalt. It is known, that one of the main principles for dialogue is included. The inclusion of the gear is not just a glance to the internal aspects of life or a situation of life, but also a special life. Thats, dialogue can take place between the two sides of the party, and constructive projects can form the door of the constellation of the reality of the parties, created by the yak new shape. Conclusion. Modern theory sets new strategic tasks in the field of interpersonal relations of the social aspects of the development of a person and society, and also offers options for solving them.

La place de l'usager en design | The Place of the User in Design

The aims of this issue is a reflection on the concept of user in design projects and its place in design processes. Beyond any lexical choice, questioning the multiple identities of users means considering them according to the contexts and approaches: users, individuals, persons, citizens, beneficiaries, stakeholders, actors, subjects, agents, clients, patients, consumers, etc. Each definition consists in a conceptual posture that both includes and constructs an anthropological vision of the subjects concerned as well as the consequent practices.

Patchy Anthropocene: Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications

Patchy Anthropocene: Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications

Em busca do bom lugar

O espaço público da rua tem sido alvo de planejamento e ações projetuais fundamentais para intervenções urbanas contemporâneas, quando assume um novo papel de responsabilidade no planejamento das cidades e na qualidade de vida das pessoas, de forma a contribuir na criação de oportunidades econômicas e na promoção de equidade social; promovendo também a saúde da população e auxiliando nas práticas que envolvem a segurança pública. Portanto, a rua é hoje um elemento chave para as boas práticas de planejamento urbano que visam à sustentabilidade ambiental e econômica do lugar. Através da visão conceitual e antropológica de DaMatta (1997), sobre o exercício da cidadania no Brasil, e das recomendações urbanísticas de Ghel & Svarre (2018), que promovem o uso da rua como um espaço cidadão, experiências com projetos de parklets executados na cidade do Recife (Brasil) e emToronto (Canada) são analisados e a rua é discutida enquanto espaço de cidadania nas duas cidades. Nestas, as culturas e formas de ver e vivenciar a rua se mostram diferentes, refletindo, consequentemente, diferentes soluções projetuais para o uso da mesma, bem como para o uso e apropriação do espaçopúblico urbano.

El patrimonio arqueológico posthispánico del sur bonaerense a través de las colecciones

In this article, we address the state of the art in post-Hispanic archaeological heritage from a southern micro-region of the Buenos Aires province. Here, we study both public (the San Cayetano, Tres Arroyos and Loberia museums) and private (the Lopez Alfaro and Magret collections) post-Hispanic archaeological collections. Our analysis is centered on two main themes: 1) to identify the post-Hispanic archaeological record registered in the area, and 2) to evaluate the preservation of the studied samples, analyzing the conditions of management and protection of this archaeological heritage. In addition, we discuss the importance of these collections in post-Hispanic archaeological research in the south of Buenos Aires Province. Our approach highlights the important contribution of “archaeological materiality” in the narratives created around these collections. At times, these narratives are biased and decontextualized, while at other times they serve to democratize a variety of voices from the past. Nevertheless, even though there was an attempt to achieve an anthropological vision in the public museums we studied, we found that the colonial, independence and republican periods suffered from historical and archaeologically blurring, whereby parts of the past and the discourse and active agency of both local and regional indigenous communities during those periods, as well as that of the first non-indigenous frontier settlers was rendered invisible.

Humanae vitae: una encíclica profética

Fifty years that went by since the promulgation of Humanae vitae underline its prophetic importance and meaning. The rejection of the encyclical was associated –as already denounced by Paul VI (HV, 17) – with the loss of truth concerning human love and life, the negation of human person, and the domination of the powerful over the weak.This article reflects on some aspects that render this encyclical prophetic and offers several indispensable keys for its reading, namely, an adequate anthropological vision and a correct interpretation of the Magisterium’s competence in the Church with regard to issues concerning natural morality.

Intimate ethnography and the anthropological imagination:

ABSTRACTIntimate ethnography is work of the anthropological imagination that models dialectical thinking in its approach to people, topics, and analysis. Rooted in particular intellectual, cultural, political, and anthropological currents, intimate ethnography comes when the need to engage larger publics in rethinking and recounting lives lived and experienced is increasingly urgent. An example of such work,My Father's Wars, centers an intimate Other as the subject of my research, a transnational life story in the context of historically constituted violence. Intimate ethnography illustrates feminist ethnography and illuminates the dangers of ethnonationalism; requires the crafting of an evocative, compelling account through the writing itself; and offers the possibility of an afterlife for anthropological work in the public sphere and thus of anthropology as an intervention in public discourse. [dialectics,intimate ethnography,violence,feminism,transnational history,political economy,public anthropology]

Civil Mass Murder: Nietzsche’s Political Options and the Shoah

ABSTRACTIn the immediate aftermath of World War II, Nietzsche was widely regarded as a thinker who instigated the selective breeding and the eugenic policies of National Socialism, indeed even its genocidal violence. In the subsequent years and decades, however, Nietzsche was largely cleared of such charges. His many defenders claimed that he was a firm protector of Judaism, his writings offering a rich and nuanced anthropological vision. This common, virtuous portrayal of Nietzsche eschews his resonant call to exterminate masses of ‘failed’ people. This jarring, portentous call, found both in his published and unpublished work, cannot be discounted and ought not to be relativized. The present essay underscores the significance of Nietzsche’s transgression of ethical limits and explores the possible consequences of the view that the state has the right to dispose of masses of its own population. It contends that in that transgression was contained, even, the possibility of the Shoah.

Applications of Solar Energy: History, Sociology and last Trends in Investigation

The increase in global energy demand, environmental problems and geopolitical tensions due to the control of finite conventional energy resources; these are reasons that have currently focused the attention of scientists on the applications of solar energy. The objective of this contribution is to reflect the trends in research regarding applications of solar energy. The materials and methods used in this investigation consisted of a search and bibliometric analysis carried out in the academic directory Scopus. A group of publications was detected under specific search criteria. The information detected was processed with text mining elements in the visualization software and bibliometric map exploration of VOSviewer science. The article dead sections, records of the first applications of solar energy, the social environment of solar energy applications, the first scientific meetings of global connotation in this subject, and bibliometrics of scientific activity focused on the applications of solar energy in the 21st century. As a result of the research, a sociological and anthropological vision of the man / energy interaction is exposed; This complements lines of research such as sustainable production and consumption, energy management and climate change. Conclusions: The trend in these investigations today, is to growth, and are focused on: heating and cooling of buildings, electric power generation, both in concentrated and distributed forms; and energy conversion for industrial processes.

"Humanae vitae": 50 años después. Una encíclica profética

espanolLos 50 anos transcurridos desde la publicacion de Humanae vitae ponen de relieve su significado profetico y su actualidad. El rechazo de la Enciclica esta relacionado –como ya denunciaba Pablo VI (HV, 17)– con la perdida de la verdad del amor y de la vida humanos, con la negacion de la persona y con el dominio de los poderosos sobre los debiles.El articulo reflexiona sobre algunos de los aspectos que dan razon de esa calificacion como profetica y ofrece algunas claves necesarias para la lectura de la Enciclica: la adecuada vision antropologica y la correcta interpretacion de la competencia del Magisterio de la Iglesia en los temas de moral natural. EnglishFifty years that went by since the promulgation of Humanae vitae underline its prophetic import and relevance. The rejection of the encyclical was associated –as already denounced by Paul VI (HV, 17)– with the loss of truth concerning human love and life, the negation of human person, and the domination of the powerful over the weak.This article reflects on some aspects that render this encyclical prophetic and offers several indispensable keys for its reading, namely, an adequate anthropological vision and a correct interpretation of the Magisterium’s competence in the Church with regard to issues concerning natural morality.

When Is a Thing? Transduction and Immediacy in Afro-Cuban Ritual; or, ANT in Matanzas, Cuba, Summer of 1948

AbstractRevisiting William R. Bascom's 1948 ethnography of Afro-Cuban religious practices in Jovellanos (a semi-urban site in Cuba's Province of Matanzas) in light of current theoretical concerns in our discipline, this essay constitutes a thought experiment. As such it seeks to re-describe some of Bascom's data in terms of Actor-Network Theory, to see if his patent puzzlement over his interlocutors’ statements concerning the liveliness and even personhood of mineral objects—stones that embody, rather than represent deities—can be resolved that way. At the same time, I offer a critique of current attempts to redefine our discipline's mission under the sign of an “ontological turn” that recurs to notions of radical alterity that strike me as potentially essentialist, and certainly profoundly ahistorical. Drawing on Karen Barad's theories of “agential realism,” I suggest that contemporary concerns with post-humanist anti-representationalism need to be tempered by a view of our epistemic pursuits, including those of anthropology, as embedded in thoroughly historical—and so fundamentally emergent—ontologies. In light of such considerations, the essay concludes with a vision of anthropology as a form of knowledge that cannot afford to evade the historical transformations of the social worlds it aims to illuminate, nor those of the concurrent transformations in its own epistemic orientations. Instead, it must reframe its goals in terms of conjunctures of ontologies and epistemologies of mutually relational and, most importantly, historical scope.

Sentido cristiano del hombre. La antropología teológica de Jean Mouroux

The French theologian Jean Mouroux developed a valuable reflection about faith and Christian experience in the middle of the 20th century. In this essay, the author shows how Mouroux’s personalistic perspective is underpinned by a Christian anthropological vision, which in some aspects anticipates the point of view taken by the Second Vatican Council.

Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research: Exploring an Approach

ABSTRACTAs has been thoroughly rehearsed in the literature, the failures of the liberal peace model of post-conflict intervention have given rise to a ‘local turn’ in peace research. This in turn has refocused attention away from the motivations and practices of international actors towards local ownership and ‘buy-in’, and the importance of culture, context, and ‘the Everyday’. There is a mismatch, however, between the methodological skills among peace researchers today, and the new imperative to explore local and everyday understandings, perceptions, and experiences of conflict, transition, and peace. For this reason a number of scholars have recently emphasized the importance of incorporating ethnographic methods and an anthropological imagination into peace research. However, at this point, and as evidenced in the contributions to this special issue, there are many challenges to such incorporation which must be acknowledge and addressed if the ethnographic approach is to fulfil its early promise to add empirical substance to the local turn. The contributing authors each address different challenges to conducting Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR) in post-conflict contexts and, as this introduction argues, they evidence clearly the variety of questions yet to be answered while suggesting different ways ethnographic approaches can be incorporated into peace research.

Literature in the German science of the soul: Johann Gottlob Krüger’s Dreams

ABSTRACTThe early history of anthropology in eighteenth-century Germany wove together contributions from medicine, metaphysics, and a host of other disciplines in an attempt to develop a holistic ‘science of man.’ This paper examines a literary text written by prominent figure in that movement, Johann Gottlob Krüger’s Dreams (Träume) (1754). The collection of parables staged as dreams in this book presents specifically literary cases against the sufficiency of either philosophy or physiology for the study of human life as a whole. Through close readings of a number of these dreams and related texts, this paper shows how Krüger’s Dreams advocates an approach to anthropology that recognizes the importance of literature for an interdisciplinary study of human life. More than simply recognising literary writing as another means of studying human life, the vision of a new anthropology implied in this book draws on literary devices to counter the overconfidence and partisanship of existing philosophical and medical theories of human nature.

Starbucks, Racism, and the Anthropological Imagination

Anthropology NewsVolume 59, Issue 3 p. e139-e142 May/June Online Content Starbucks, Racism, and the Anthropological Imagination Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega, Luzilda Carrillo ArciniegaSearch for more papers by this author Luzilda Carrillo Arciniega, Luzilda Carrillo ArciniegaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 January 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.865AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume59, Issue3Special Issue: #MeTooMay/June 2018Pages e139-e142 RelatedInformation

Where do we go when we follow the money? The political-economic construction of Antimafia investigators in Western Sicily

ABSTRACTThis paper traces the changing role of wealth and movements of money in investigators' evolving anthropological imagination of the social structure of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and its relationship with its surrounding in key moments of Antimafia investigations in one Sicilian province over the past 40 years. The routes of money, which initially marked exchange-based relations between two otherwise mutually extraneous actors, gradually indexed a more complex combination of reciprocity, exchange, and redistribution both within the mafia legally constructed and in its relationship to its surrounding. At the same time, the public and official anthropological imaginary of the mafia-politica nexus permits only exchange between mutually-external parties or reciprocity as an entity-creating internal thread. As a result, the complexity of wealth, which investigations reveal by 'following money,' requires constant reduction to individual bearers of monetary worth and interests.

Ethical legitimacy of criminal law

The paper argues that the model of ethical legitimacy of criminal law should be welcomed. Two types of legitimacy may be recognized - primary and secondary. Primary legitimacy derives its validity from its coherence with ethical principles of responsibility, thus together shaping a message about what is right and wrong. Under this interpretation, severing of the ties between law and ethics does not mean that criminal law ceases to bind in the formalistic sense. Clearly, however, in such a case it loses one of the fundamental rationales for its validity, and it becomes increasingly more difficult to enforce it. Secondary legitimacy, contemporarily often considered the only one, reposes the validity of criminal law in decisions of an authorized legislator, thus deciding upon the bindingness of normative determinations (however, other constructs may also perform this function). Justifiability of ethical legitimacy of criminal law, where the principle of dignity of the person is dominant, is shown by reference to the example of unconscious non-intentionality. Of course, ethical legitimacy of criminal law and the choice of a constitutional anthropological vision have implications not only for this institution. Others include the theory of a criminal act, attempt, assignment of liability for a consequence, defences and errors.

An attack called defence: the communication strategy of ‘gender opponents’ in Italy

Abstract ‘Gender Ideology’ (‘GI’), as an expression, appeared at the beginning of this century within documents of the Catholic Church with the aim of delegitimising what had been produced in the field of Gender Studies. That intent was strongly clarified, being coincident with the discussion in France about the law on equal marriage, during the protests of Manif pour Tous. Likewise, in Italy, oppositions to draft laws about homophobia and civil unions generated movements unified by the denouncing of ‘GI’. This essay presents research conducted between 2014 and 2017 about online materials of some Italian associations that are positioned as ‘GI opponents’. The content analysis underlines the use of a violent communication style that aims to create alarm and panic regarding presumed ‘gender drifts’ within social and educational contexts. This operation reveals the attempt to reaffirm an anthropological vision of sexuality based on the hierarchical–complementary relationship between male and female. The analysis highlights the risk of a sort of ‘Silence Spiral’, where – in the face of a noisy and violent minority – numerous and various voices disappear. These voices differentiate and invoke the urgency of a deeper debate about the concept of gender and its implications within educational, social and ecclesiastical contexts.