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El Argonauta español
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ISSN: 17652901 Year: 2004 Publisher: Aix-en-Provence Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme

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Fondée en 2004, dans le cadre de l’UMR Telemme, El Argonauta español est une revue bilingue, franco-espagnole, d'histoire moderne et contemporaine consacrée à l'étude de la presse espagnole de ses origines à nos jours (XVIIe-XXIe siècles). La revue publie chaque année un numéro comportant deux livraisons (l’une en janvier, l’autre en juin). Depuis 2008, chaque numéro comporte une livraison sur un thème monographique et une autre de miscellanées.


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L'arme du droit
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ISBN: 9782724611236 2724611233 Year: 2009 Volume: 7 Publisher: Paris : Presses de Sciences Po,


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Vitalism and its legacy in twentieth century life sciences and philosophy
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ISBN: 3031126041 3031126033 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importance of vitalism and other non-mechanistic conceptions of life. It points towards the integration of genomic science into the broader history of biology. It details a broad engagement with a variety of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century vitalisms and conceptions of life. In addition, it discusses important threads in the history of concepts in the United States and Europe, including charting new reception histories in eastern and south-eastern Europe. While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy of biology and of historians of ideas, the range of the contributions as well as the geographical and temporal scope of the volume allows for it to appeal to the historian of science and the historian of biology generally.

Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back
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ISBN: 1417573686 1282763164 1598750089 9786612763168 0520938488 9780520938489 9781598750089 9781417573684 0520243552 9780520243552 0520243560 9780520243569 9781282763166 Year: 2005 Volume: 13 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,

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In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia, the consumer practices of the American poor, American foreign policy in the Balkans, and contemporary debates over race, welfare, and violence against women. In the clear, vigorous prose of the pundits themselves, these contributors reveal the hollowness of what often passes as prevailing wisdom and passionately demonstrate the need for a humanistically complex and democratic understanding of the contemporary world. Available: November 2004Pub Date: January 2005

The graves of Tarim : genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean
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ISBN: 9786612771828 0520938690 1282771825 0520904036 9780520938694 9781429467421 1429467428 9780520904033 9781282771826 9780520244535 0520244532 9780520244542 0520244540 6612771828 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Ranging from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges-in kinship and writing-that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions yet remain cosmopolitans with vital connections across the ocean. At home throughout the Indian Ocean, diasporic Hadramis engaged European empires in surprising ways across its breadth, beyond the usual territorial confines of colonizer and colonized. A work of both anthropology and history, this book brilliantly demonstrates how the emerging fields of world history and transcultural studies are coming together to provide groundbreaking ways of studying religion, diaspora, and empire. Ho interprets biographies, family histories, chronicles, pilgrimage manuals and religious law as the unified literary output of a diaspora that hybridizes both texts and persons within a genealogy of Prophetic descent. By using anthropological concepts to read Islamic texts in Arabic and Malay, he demonstrates the existence of a hitherto unidentified canon of diasporic literature. His supple conceptual framework and innovative use of documentary and field evidence are elegantly combined to present a vision of this vital world region beyond the histories of trade and European empire.

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