Search Results for epistemological cultures

... The history of second-wave feminism provides a vivid illustration of the tensions between cultural essentialism and universalism and of the dangers associated with each pole. Perhaps from that history we can glean lessons of use to the project of this book. This chapter suggests the following...

... This chapter proposes a fresh approach, based on the notion of epistemological culture, to the seminal work of Cuvier on mammal paleontology. It recounts the story of the reconstruction of Tertiary mammals on the basis of scattered and incomplete fossils found in gypsum quarries around Paris...

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.... This chapter proposes a fresh approach, based on the notion of epistemological culture, to the seminal work of Cuvier on mammal paleontology. It recounts the story of the reconstruction of Tertiary mammals on the basis of scattered and incomplete fossils found in gypsum quarries around Paris. In the process...

... cultural environments, where knowledge, practices, representations, epistemological values, institutions, and social configurations all influenced the final result. This chapter is devoted to the conceptual history of “quadratic equation” in China between the first and the eleventh centuries...

... Chapter 3 further develops the concept of seascape epistemology as an embodied and emotional ontology for Kanaka Maoli, which involves an engagement with ke kai in such a way that indigenous identity becomes mobile as the body merges with the fluid ocean. This ocean-body assemblage joins...

... This chapter challenges the notion that the “new racism” is rooted in culture, as opposed to the “purer” and earlier biological racism that was not. It questions what those who study the history of racism think we know about racial epistemologies and what might be considered the political...

... Through a reading of Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s long-overlooked contribution to epistemology and aesthetics, Intellectual and Manual Labour , the first introduction argues that any robust theory of modernist abstraction must account for real abstraction, namely the triangulation among a mode...

... analysis of the idealist foundations of knowledge and a devastating critique of how this epistemology had insinuated itself into various political and cultural forms, such as philology, literature, and liberalism. His critique was especially concerned with how this theory of knowledge authorized a method...

... Emerging from the long Black intellectual tradition, radical Black lesbian feminist work anticipates (and to some degree mitigates) some of the thorny epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic questions that anthropologists face, and have critiqued, since at least the early 1980s. This chapter...

... of the larger enlightenment cultural formation. Lecture 5, “Rationalism and Descartes,” presents an overview of rationalism as a major epistemological position through a consideration of the contributions of René Descartes. Lecture 6, “Empiricism and Hume,” explores the assumptions and history...

... is used to struggle for accountability and postwar repair by linking them to an ethnomathematics—mathematics practiced by an identifiable cultural group—in this case early modern Europeans. Rather than a simple “number is good because it’s true” versus “number is bad because it’s dehumanizing...

... and celebrates trans* possibilities, asexual or ace modes of reproduction, and intersex embodiments. It ultimately shows how nonhuman life forms help students and scholars of queer anthropology grasp and defy boundaries between materiality and semiotics; ontologies and epistemologies; nature and culture; as well...

... the author’s research in Dutch New Guinea with Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg’s groundbreaking Righteous Dopefiend. The chapter finds ingredients of a more affirmative stance toward anthropology than usually associated with Writing Culture, one based on what Michel-Rolph Trouillot calls “an epistemology...

... Ambiguity refers to the instability or multiplicity of meaning and is therefore something of a fact of life, whereas affect is not an issue of meaning as such. The turn to affect in cultural inquiry from the 1990s has partly been a reaction to the perceived dominance of questions connected...

... work. Far from being neutral and natural operations, reading and using Galois’s work were subjective exercises conducted in particular cultural environments, where knowledge, practices, representations, epistemological values, institutions, and social configurations all influenced the final result...

... First drafted shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon, this chapter explores key elements in Anzaldúa’s onto-epistemology (“desconocimientos,” “the path of conocimiento”); aesthetics (“the Coyolxauhqui imperative”); and ethics (“spiritual activism...

... these standards, and masking the persistence of Native Hawaiian food cultures and land-based epistemologies of health. Wartime domestic projects in Hawai‘i organized family life—as well as Hawai‘i’s role in the so-called American family—during a period when the political, military, and cultural incorporation...