Anthropological Dimension Research Articles

Gambling, games of skill and human ecology: a pilot study by a multidimensional analysis approach.

The present pilot study aims at analyzing the human activity of playing in the light of an indicator of human ecology (HE). We highlighted the four essential anthropological dimensions (FEAD), starting from the analysis of questionnaires administered to actual gamers. The coherence between theoretical construct and observational data is a remarkable proof-of-concept of the possibility of establishing an experimentally motivated link between a philosophical construct (coming from Huizinga's Homo ludens definition) and actual gamers' motivation pattern. The starting hypothesis is that the activity of playing becomes ecological (and thus not harmful) when it achieves the harmony between the FEAD, thus realizing HE; conversely, it becomes at risk of creating some form of addiction, when destroying FEAD balance. We analyzed the data by means of variable clustering (oblique principal components) so to experimentally verify the existence of the hypothesized dimensions. The subsequent projection of statistical units (gamers) on the orthogonal space spanned by principal components allowed us to generate a meaningful, albeit preliminary, clusterization of gamer profiles.

Secrecy

Although expansions of state secrecy and the countervailing leaks of classified documents imbue the anthropology of secrecy with urgent relevance, secrecy has a long-standing status as a paradigmatically anthropological topic. In the ethnographic record, initiatory secrets often stand for the quiddity of culture, and the revelation of concealed realities is an organizing trope in much ethnographic writing. While situating research on secrecy as a reflection of epistemological and ethical dimensions of cultural anthropology more broadly, this review simultaneously explores parallels between different anthropological traditions by focusing on descriptions of the media through which social relations involving secrecy are transacted. Attending to ethnographic accounts of the way secrets travel across different media and coexist simultaneously in various mediated states provides both a novel intellectual framework for surveying recent research and a basis for conceptualizing the anthropology of secrecy itself as a practice that involves intermedial and transmedial knowledge flows.

O desenvolvimento histórico da interpretação de línguas indígenas brasileiras e o seu papel no contexto atual

<p>Este artigo investiga o desenvolvimento histórico da interpretação de línguas indígenas brasileiras por meio das relações interculturais no país e o seu papel no contexto atual. A metodologia usada é a revisão da literatura, com um estudo de caso de abordagem instrumental incluído como exemplo. Diferentes dimensões do problema são investigadas, com base na história da tradução oral no Brasil (WYLER 2003), na trajetória das línguas na Amazônia brasileira (FREIRE 2003), nos modelos de interpretação na dimensão antropológica (PÖCHHAKER 2002 e CRONIN 2002) e, finalmente, em tradução, globalização e línguas minoritárias (CRONIN 2003). De acordo com a análise dos dados, ainda hoje a interpretação é relevante para essas comunidades. Este estudo, portanto, teoriza sobre as especificidades da interpretação comunitária para línguas indígenas minoritárias e sua necessidade no mundo globalizado.</p>

Acute and Chronic Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract

within community care. These studies have identified the cultural anthropological dimension of uncertainty avoidance (UA) as being particularly relevant in explaining why doctors in some European countries have a greater propensity to prescribe antibiotics for predominantly viral conditions, such as colds, flu, and sore throat, in the face of clear scientific evidence. UA is described in the Geert Hofstede model of cultural dimension as a construct estimating the extent to which a society tolerates uncertainty and ambiguity. Such cultures often try to counteract the unease created by situations of uncertainty through the adoption of dogmatic and excessive measure, even when there is no evidence of cost-effectiveness or risk attenuation. There is no evidence to support postoperative prophylaxis.

Historical, Institutional, and Personal Dimensions of World Anthropology

American AnthropologistVolume 116, Issue 3 p. 657-657 WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY Historical, Institutional, and Personal Dimensions of World Anthropology Jim Weil, Jim Weil Associate Editor for World AnthropologySearch for more papers by this author Jim Weil, Jim Weil Associate Editor for World AnthropologySearch for more papers by this author First published: 05 August 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.12135Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF 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 Citing Literature Volume116, Issue3September 2014Pages 657-657 RelatedInformation

El ritmo silencio-palabra, clave para el encuentro y la escucha en un ambiente frenético

<p align="justify">El propósito de este artículo es mostrar la necesidad de recuperar el silencio que, como un elemento antropológicamente esencial, se convierte en clave para el encuentro y la escucha del Otro, de sí mismo, de la naturaleza y de los demás, frente a un ambiente saturado de frenesí, de gritos y palabras que dominan al hombre contemporáneo. Muestra, además, cómo el silencio, el gusto por estar con los propios pensamientos y sentimientos, por escuchar y esperar, por evocar e imaginar, parece haber menguado, si no desaparecido en muchos ambientes sociales. En suma, lo que busca es presentar al silencio como una dimensión antropológica que es posible recuperar y vivir en medio de ambientes saturados por el ruido y el frenesí.</p>

An enquiry concerning the nature of conceptual categories: a case-study on the social dimension of human cognition.

Cognitive Science, in all its guises, has not yet accorded any fundamental importance to the social dimension of human cognition. In order to illustrate the possibilities that have not so far been developed, this article seeks to pursue the idea, first put forward by Durkheim, that the major categories which render conceptual thought possible may actually have a social origin. Durkheim illustrated his thesis, convincingly enough, by examining the societies of Australian aborigines. The aim here is to extend this idea to cover the case of the conceptual categories underpinning modern Western science, as they developed historically first in Ancient Greece, and then at the Renaissance. These major non-empirical concepts include those of abstract Space (Euclidean space, perfectly homogeneous in all its dimensions); abstract Time (conceived as spatially linearized, with the possibility of imaginatively going back and forth); and a number of canonical logical categories (equality, abstract quantity, essential versus accidental properties, the continuous and the discontinuous, the transcendental…). Sohn-Rethel (1978) has proposed that the heart of the conceptual categories in question is to be found in an analysis of the exchange abstraction. This hypothesis will be fleshed out by examining the co-emergence of new social structures and new forms of conceptual thought in the course of historical evolution. This includes the Renaissance, which saw the emergence of both Capitalism and Modern Science; and on the contemporary situation, where the form of social life is dominated by financial speculation which goes together with the advent of automation in the processes of production. It is concluded that Cognitive Science, and in particular the nascent paradigm of Enaction, would do well to broaden its transdisciplinary scope to include the dimensions of sociology and anthropology.

Right interim and advocacy functions of administrative law: an anthropological dimension

Right interim and advocacy functions of administrative law: an anthropological dimension

CHANNELING: SEARCH OF THE METAANTHROPOLOGIC MEAS-UREMENTS OF MIND BEING IN THE UNIVERSE (based on the World Wide Web)

The relevance of the study. In the context of religious and philosophical movements of the «New Age» gained channeling phenomenon – «laying channel», «transmission channel» information from the consciousness that is not in human form, to the individual and humanity as a whole. In the socio-cultural environment of the postmodern channeling reflects the problem of finding extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI; «ETC-problem»; SETІ problem) and to establish contacts with them, this problem has a different projection, important philosophical and anthropological measurements in culture. Investigation of mechanisms of constructing virtual superhuman personalities in the world web is not only of interest for further analysis of the problem of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), but also to extend subject field of anthropology of the Internet as an important area of philosophical and anthropological studies. The purpose of the study. Analysis of the phenomenon of channeling as a projection of the fundamental problems of life ETI, its representation on the World Wide Web, the impact on the archaism of postmodern culture posing problems meta an-thropological dimensions of existence in the universe of reason and contact with him in the doctrinal grounds channeling. Analysis of research on the problem and its empirical base. Clustered nature of the problem of ETI and channeling its element involves the widespread use of radio astronomy paradigm works carriers solve CETI; work in anthropology Internet; works of researchers of the phenomenon of «New Age». Empirical basis of the study are network resources, as well as texts–representatives created and introduced into circulation by the channelers, their predecessors. Research Methodology. Channeling as an object of research, its network of representation – as a matter of methods involve the use of analytical hermeneutics and archaeographic commenting text fractal logic cluster analysis. The main body. The features of channeling as cultural practices aimed at solving the problem of finding meta an-thropological dimensions of existence in the universe of the mind, as an attempt to resolve the contradiction between the theoretical ideas about extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of empirically observable, the expected signs of their activities. The analysis of the solutions to the problems being ETI loci, its substrate base forms of activity in the Earth's socio-cultural space that offers channeling. Considered as a complete retrospective of channeling cultural practices that emerged in the western segment of the socio-cultural environment, especially its being presented in the form of postmodern religion, emphasized the role of channeling as an indicator cosmization archaism and modern culture. Scientific novelty. Channeling is one of the sociocultural system reactions on Earth absence of bilateral contacts with the ETC. Studying the mechanisms of constructing virtual superhuman personalities in the global network is one of the directions of further development of subject- thematic field of anthropology of the Internet as an important area of philosophical and anthropological studies. Conclusions. Channeling as a holistic, complex structure phenomenon connects the dynamics of transformation of humanity with establishing contacts with polymorphic ETI. Channeling is one of the sociocultural system reactions on Earth absence of bilateral contacts with the ETC. In the development of channeling manifest fractal effects associated with the reproduction of their previous ideas about the history of ETI. Retrospection channeling as cultural practices show his obedience to the law of the cultural series: a temporary phenomenon in the long-range specific chronotope culture is defined by its inclusion in the actually exist-ing set of genetically related forms.

Edinburgh 1910 and Pentecostalism: Towards a Pneumatological Missiology

This article examines the missionary spirit of the Edinburgh Conference 1910 and that of the Pentecostal movement. While the optimistic confidence of Edinburgh to evangelize the entire world by the best human resources of the Western church was waned away in a couple of decades after the Conference, the Spirit empowered missionaries of the Pentecostal movement were more effective in accomplishing the same task. Although Pentecostals did not complete the task of world evangelization yet, they became the fastest growing missionary movement in the world today. A definite missiological shift seems to be the key in Pentecostal mission – from an anthropological dimension to a theological dimension of mission – which leads this article to propose a pneumatological Pentecostal missiology. A pneumatological missiology has the potential to serve multiple purposes, as it takes into consideration several aspects of mission, including evangelism, social action, and engaging with people of other faiths.

Historia teologii moralnej jako element przekazu orędzia moralnego

History understood both as history of man and as a narration about the past is a school of life and a treasury of experience. History of man is also history of salvation that allows understanding in faith God's salutary interventions. History of the world has an anthropological dimension and it illustrates the history of mankind experiencing the effect of various factors. History of moral theology is marked with the saints' action and with theologians' works. Theologians created handbooks and they influenced the life of the Church. The twenty centuries of Christianity have become the arena of transformations of man's moral awareness; and the transformations were influenced by political and economical events, but first of all by outstanding individuals' work. Evangelical inspiration has given the world a new conception of anthropology and it has shown a possibility of interpreting history in the perspective of being led by Divine Providence. The article shows such an understanding of history and points to the forms in which the Gospel is manifested in the history of moral theology. A gradual growing in understanding the evangelical message in itself is becoming a school of education for searching for good.

The Democratic Public To Be Brought into Existence and Education as Secularization

The Democratic Public To Be Brought into Existence and Education as Secularization Stefano Oliverio (bio) Introduction: Democracy as the ‘Dead God’ of Modernity and the Dimensions of the ‘Office’ A decade ago the German sociologist Ulrich Beck seemed to consign democracy to the past and, significantly, drew upon an ironically religion-inspired vocabulary: Democracy becomes the religion of the past epoch. One still practises it—on Sunday or on Christmas under the ‘Christmas tree’ of polls. But no one really still believes in it. It is the dead God of the first modernity.1 When Ulrich Beck dismisses democracy as “the dead god” of a past era or as a liturgy drained of any substantial meaning, he misses the target principally in reference to modernity: indeed, from a Deweyan perspective, if democracy is really going to expire it may be not because of the end of modernity but precisely because modernity is “as yet unformed, inchoate.”2 Against this backdrop the question this paper would like to explore is whether (and in what sense) the engagement with a genuine democracy is, in the final analysis, the engagement with modernization as secularization (in a sense which needs to be investigated). And whether (and in what sense) such an engagement is also (if not primarily) an educational one. I will deal with this thematic constellation (weaving together the themes of God and a [bygone?] liturgy, democracy and modernity, secularization and education) through a reading of The Public and Its Problems and, in particular, through an investigation of what official means, the latter being a notion which is pivotal in Dewey’s political theory. Indeed, the very first illustration of what ‘public’ means is realized by referring to ‘official’ as opposed to ‘private,’3 and the very definition of ‘public’ implies a mobilization of the notion of ‘officials.’ By resorting to an archaeological analysis of sorts in the wake of Giorgio Agamben,4 I will investigate how and in what sense the notion of ‘official’ is interlaced with that of ‘community’ up to the point that they come to constitute a sort of dyad. I will take my cue from and build on a peculiar expression that Dewey uses after summarizing his hypothesis on the public: officials and their special powers give form and organization to the public, which otherwise would be formless,5 but [End Page 5] since the public forms a state only by and through officials and their acts, and since holding official position does not work a miracle of transubstantiation, there is nothing perplexing nor even discouraging in the spectacle of the stupidities and errors of political behavior.6 I am not interested here in the sociological remark about possible crimes and misdemeanors but, firstly, in the occurrence (very rare but very significant in Dewey7) of such a momentous word as “transubstantiation” in the context where the ‘forming power’—in a non-substantialist but rather purely functionalist sense—of officials is highlighted and, secondly, in the fact that, in terms of the history of ideas, the officials’ position has much to do with the miracle of transubstantiation. In a sense, to speak with a taste for the paradox, the question of ‘democratic officialdom’ amounts to how transubstantiation occurs in human communities. Inadvertently and independently from any clear historical and genealogical consciousness that he could have had about it, Dewey is here hinting at one of the depths of the idea of the office as officium (I am using the Latin word here to signal that the concept is being used in reference to its long-standing history). Investigating this idea, by capturing and elaborating the clue offered in the text, will allow us to understand what is at stake when the question of officialdom emerges and when it reacts with those of democracy and of community. This will require an exploration of the idea of officium and the distinction between three different (but interrelated) senses of it (I will speak, then, of officium0, officium1, officium2, for the sake of brevity). By officium0 I refer to the anthropological dimension of the notion, related to the institution and management...

PHILOSOPHICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF AESTETICS IN POST-CLASSICAL EPOCH

Purpose. To understand the dynamics of conception as representative of the main directions of philosophical anthropology, identifying their contribution to the development of aesthetics and expand its research field. The condition of the study of the problem is the evolutionary process of adequateness, authenticity and alternativeness in determination of both the phenomenon of aesthetic and its role in philosophical and convention. Methodology. Both the measurements of as a unique, peculiar, specific and dimensions of philosophical anthropology /systems of philisophy/ have in sight the necessity to solve the same problem - the identification of new basis. Theoretical results. The experience of theoretical researches of contemporary domestic and foreign philosophical and schools іs generalized. The content of phenomenological and existential breakthrough in modern age of aesthetics іs revealed. The essence of anthropological turn in European philosophy of 20th century as philosophical paradigm of the modern age and its impact on development of theories of post-classical period was investigated. Conclusion. Philosophical and studies have amounted the methodological synthesis that appeared as the theoretical principles of the understanding of aesthetics due to its polystylistics.

Developing a Framework and Agenda for Students' Voices in the School System acrossEurope: from diametric to concentric relational spaces for early school leaving prevention

There are significantlacunaein the otherwise highly progressive documents on early school leaving prevention from theEuropeanCommission andCouncil in 2011, as part of theEU2020 headline target of 10% early school leavers across theEU. These documents offer no explicit account or analysis of the voices of children and young people, nor vision of systemic accountability of schools to students’ needs. This article argues that key problems of early school leaving can be interpreted as system level blockages in communication, including blockage in communication of children's voices. It seeks to develop a conceptual framework for understanding relational systems by reinterpreting a particular dimension of the structuralist anthropology ofLévi‐Strauss’ cross‐cultural examination of systems of relation, namely, the interplay between diametric oppositional and concentric relational spaces. The theoretical framework proposed in this article will also seek to translate structural features of system change into structural indicators for system scrutiny and accountability. Identification of key structural indicators is to facilitate change beyond blocked, diametric school space and towards concentric relational spaces in the school system — based on diverse accounts of students’ voices and needs in specificEuropean contexts, as part of a potential strategy atEuropean level to prevent early school leaving. Emerging issues highlighted as an agenda for reform include authoritarian teaching, alternatives to suspension, splits in communication, emotional supports, teacher conflict resolution skills and substantive structures and processes for active student voices in school.

Globalization, Urbanization and Migration : Anthropological Dimensions of Trends and Impacts

Whereas globalization and urbanization are historical and gradual social processes, migration, and that of human in particular, is an event that takes place at a certain time and space. The above three terms have though different connotations and discrete sociological and historical interpretations, but their implications in social science in general and anthropology in particular, have made them complementary to each other. Today, world over, large-scale urbanization and human migration are but the result of rapid globalization. Hundreds of references of books and articles could be found in the internet and elsewhere, relating to different facets of globalization, such as, economic globalization, political globalization, neo-liberal globalization, cultural globalization, architectural globalization, ideological globalization, technological globalization, social globalization, and so on and so forth; but one seldom comes across a precise reference that succinctly explains “why globalization “ ? Or, “globalization is the result of what”? Globalization, Urbanization, and Migration are not new phenomena; rather, the process of the trio began ever since man appeared on earth. The bridge between them has been ‘technology.’ It is the ever developing technological advancement by mankind that has linked them together, and will continue to do so for ever. The anthropological dimensions of the trends and impacts of the above could be understood only by examining how the technological advancement by man vis-à-vis economic development has been instrumental in bringing about urbanization, large scale human migration, and eventually, what we call today, globalization.

El ambiente comunitario y fraterno como eje en el trabajo evangelizador de la pastoral juvenil, The atmosphere as an evangelist of community and fraternity

Este artículo destaca la importancia clave del ambiente como evangelizador en sí mismo. Dentro del trabajo con y entre jóvenes en parroquias, grupos y comunidades, movimientos, instituciones educativas un clima de testimonio, fraternidad, fe y buen trato que tome a Jesús como modelo, lleva a dignificar a la persona, en miras a procesos integrales de conversión. Por tanto, la opción de construir un ambiente evangelizador -fundamentado en dimensiones antropológicas comunitarias y kerygmáticas- no puede quedar ajeno a cuestiones pedagógicas y formativas en el trabajo con la Pastoral Juvenil.

Christoph Schlingensief und das Schauspiel des Mittelalters: Beobachtungen

The subject of his Fluxus-oratorio Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir by the German theatre-maker and artist Christoph Schlingensief was his advanced stage of cancer. His intention was to encourage everyone suffering this illness to deal with the complexities of fear and despair. Because the central character, close to death at the moment of the performance, was represented by the artist himself, the boundaries between reality and symbolic representation were blurred. This duality combined with strong social implications harks back to characteristics of the religious plays of the Middle-Ages. The fact is his method of expression and that of church rituals are almost identical. This paper studies the socio-cultural, communicative potential of performance by focusing on the theatrical devices and techniques used in both to show a certain anthropological dimension: that aesthetic stimulation can draw on the religious customs and traditions.

Mimesis: The History of a Notion

If we examine the history of the word mimesis, often rendered as imitation, we discover that the ease with which it is used cloaks a myriad of meanings that can be and have been attached to the term. Indeed, this indeterminacy is perhaps the most constant feature of mimesis. Mimesis moves with history and takes on forms appropriate to each historical period. Today the concept is experiencing a renaissance all the more astounding in light of the criticism on it received during the artistic upheavals at the turn of the century. Erich Auerbach's book returned mimesis as a kind of leitmotif for representing social reality in Western literature. Describing mimesis as an ongoing attempt to approximate social reality, Auerbach wrote a purely intellectual history, without considering semiotics, the material conditions of written communication, and the anthropological dimension of literature. Exactly these aspects form the crux of twentieth-century efforts to take up the concept of mimesis. Picking up on Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno elaborates mimesis as the core of his aesthetic theory. In the work of Jacques Derrida, mimesis is used to see processes of signification from a new perspective, one that is to overcome the boundaries of semiotics.

Antropologiczny wymiar wiary. Spojrzenie Jana Pawła II

The article analyzes, on the basis if the private letters of John Paul II, the anthropological dimension of faith which is, for the Pope, the essential good of faith because it reveals the goodness of human nature as rational and free being, able to recognize the trans-phenomenological truth and able to choose in free act the recognized truth.In the act of faith, this human ability is actualized in the most basic and deepest way, because it concerns the absolute reality, that is, the Absolute God.This thesis finds its confirmation in the personal journey of faith enacted by John Paul II. This journey can be summarized in the following points: upbringing in a Christian family, intellectual selfformation and personal search for the truth about the sense of life, reading of the Bible, experience of conformity between faith and personal structure of man, and consciousness of passing away and the hope for everlasting life in unity with God.

A one health perspective on HPAI H5N1 in the Greater Mekong sub-region

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been a global concern for almost 10 years since its epidemic emergence in South-east Asia in 2003/2004. Despite large investment of resources into the region, the infection has not been eradicated and continues to result in outbreaks in poultry and a small number of human fatalities. This review synthesizes the knowledge base generated by a vast number of research activities conducted in the region and beyond, and adopts an interdisciplinary perspective consistent with the one health paradigm towards analysing the problem and formulating possible policy solutions. A key outcome of the work has been the need to integrate socio-economic and anthropological dimensions with any disease control and prevention activities traditionally informed by primarily epidemiological, virological and pathological attributes of the infection in poultry and wild waterbirds. Recommendations at a broad conceptual level are presented that acknowledge the diversity in the region with respect to livestock production, as well as the changing nature of the risk landscape as a consequence of the rapid economic development which some of the countries in the Greater Mekong sub-region are currently undergoing, as well as their strong trade links with China as the major economic power in East Asia.