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Genetics and Philosophy

Paul E. Griffiths, Karola C. Stotz • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2013)

In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In this rich and accessible book, Paul Griffi...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511744082

Genetics and Reductionism

Sahotra Sarkar • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1998)

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139173216

Experimental study on the factors influencing performance and emissions of hydrogen internal combustion engines

Wu Taoyang, Liu Jixu, Wu Chunling, Jing Xiaojun et al. • E3S Web of Conferences (2024)

Hydrogen internal combustion engines (H2-ICEs) have advantages such as clean combustion and zero carbon emissions, and have become one of the important technical routes for decarbonization in the internal combustion engine industry. In this...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/e3sconf/202452201009

Calidad de las aguas meteóricas en la ciudad de Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Herlane Costa Calheiros, Mônica Regina Gomes, Percy Máximo Anco Estrella • Revista Ambiente & Água (2014)

El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la calidad del agua meteórica en la ciudad de Itajubá, ubicado en la parte sur de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Para ello, se realizaron la colecta y análisis de la calidad de las muestras de agua de lluvia d...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4136/ambi-agua.1329

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

Gonzalo Bustamante Kuschel • Problemos (2024)

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15388/Problemos.2024.106.4

Anthropology Art and Aesthetics

(1992)

Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198277330.001.0001

Anthropological Theory

David Kaplan • Routledge eBooks (2017)

Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315082271

The Anthropology of Christianity

Jon Bialecki, Naomi Haynes, Joel Robbins • Religion Compass (2008)

Abstract This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub‐discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirica...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00116.x

Adolescence: an anthropological inquiry

Alice E. Schlegel, Herbert Barry • Choice Reviews Online (1991)

The anthropological study of adolescence -- An ethological approach to human social organization -- Looking at adolescent socialization across cultures -- Adolescents and their families -- Peer groups and community participation -- Marriage...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.29-2185

Anthropology and Voice

Amanda J. Weidman • Annual Review of Anthropology (2014)

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This rev...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030050

WITTGENSTEIN AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Veena Das • Annual Review of Anthropology (1998)

▪ Abstract This essay explores the theme of Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture. The primary text on which the essay is based is Philosophical Investigations; it treats Stanley Cavell's work as a major guide for the understanding and r...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.171

Comparison in Anthropology

Matei Candea • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2018)

Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these question...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108667609

Anthropological Linguistics

William A. Foley • Wiley eBooks (2020)

Anthropological linguistics is the study of language within the wider context of culture. It is concerned with how humans employ communicative culturally meaningful, or semiotic practices, as resources to forge large and small, transient or...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0031.pub2

Information systems and anthropology: and anthropological perspective on IT and organizational culture

David Avison, Michael David Myers • Information Technology and People (1995)

Considers the potential role of anthropology as a source discipline for information systems. Although anthropology has been largely neglected in the IS research literature, it is argued that important insights can be gained by adopting an a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09593849510098262

Rethinking Visual Anthropology.

Paul Hockings, Marcus Banks, Howard Morphy • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1998)

For many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This book shows that the scope...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3034522

Anthropological Theory Today

Henrietta L. Moore (2000)

The Contributors. 1. Anthropological Theory at the Turn of the Century. (Henrietta L. Moore). 2. From Private Virtue to Public Vice. (James G. Carrier and Daniel Miller). 3. Clash of Civilizations of Asian Liberalism?:An Anthropology of the...

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