Over the course of the last six years, New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy has taken a case-study approach to questions concerning the nature of knowledge production. Launched in 2001, New Directions promotes interdisciplinary collaborations where physical scientists, social scientists, and humanists work together with public science agencies, the private sector, and communities to deepen our understanding of and develop effective responses to societal problems. Two key elements characterize all New Directions projects. First, by involving the sciences, engineering, and the humanities, in dialogue with the public and private sectors, New Directions unites the two axes of interdisciplinary—the wide and the deep. Second, these experiments in interdisciplinary problem solving function as a means for thematizing the problem of the breakdown between knowledge production and use.
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Robert Frodeman, Julie Thompson Klein, Carl Mitcham, and Nancy Tuana
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2007
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 176–187 (12 total)
The Tacit Logic of Ritual Embodiments
Rappaport and Polanyi between Thick and Thin
Robert E. Innis
Roy Rappaport’s attempted semiotic schematization of the logic of ritual, relying on analytical tools from C. S. Peirce’s philosophical semiotics, is examined in terms of both its conceptual coherence and its relation to other schematizations of ritual, especially Michael Polanyi’s thematization of a ‘tacit logic’ of meaning-making. The Peircean foregrounding of sign types (icons, indices, symbols) is compared to Polanyi’s delineation of an irreducible from-to structure of consciousness, rooted in the distinction between focal and subsidiary awareness, and to his further distinction between indication and symbolization as ways of relating to and effecting symbolic complexes, such as rituals. One of the startling upshots of this comparison is that the distinctions between ‘thick ritual’ and ‘thin ritual,’ and between art and ritual, become extremely labile. Examples from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philip Larkin, and Simone Weil illustrate this last point.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2004
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 195–212 (18 total)
Introduction
Experiencing Anticipation. Anthropological Perspectives
Christopher Stephan and Devin Flaherty
linking speech to the public discourses operating to construct and manage subaltern identities, we see how enacting identity can be founded in anticipatory experience. Thematizing actors’ relative awareness of the social stakes of their speech, the
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–16 (16 total)
William Nessly, Noel B. Salazar, Kemal Kantarci, Evan Koike, Christian Kahl, and Cyril Isnart
beyond the United States, including Canada and Jamaica, and her genre-blurring writing and the complex, hybrid subject position she adopts articulate a broader transnational perspective. Eaton’s works thematize the crossing, complication, and defiance of
Introduction
(De)materializing Kinship—Holding Together Mutuality and Difference
Kathryn E. Goldfarb and Caroline E. Schuster
. By thematizing dis-alignment, exclusion, and non-mutuality in kinship, we seek an alternative grounds for comparative study in anthropology that does not presume mutuality and that incorporates otherness as a necessary focus in order to understand
The Possibilities of Failure
Personhood and Cognitive Disability in Urban Uganda
Tyler Zoanni
being on the margins of the human, especially for reasons related to madness and mental illness (e.g. Biehl 2005 ; Chatterji 1998 ; Das 2015 : chapter 3; Desjarlais 1997 ). These writings have tended to thematize the lives of the people they study in
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 61–79 (19 total)
Captured by Texts
Travel Tales of Captivity in Rabbinic Literature
Joshua Levinson
alterity and thematize this meeting of self and Other, in tales of captivity the other identity grappled with is often the other that the self has lost or has become. All this is equally true for late antiquity where the taking of captives for slaves or
The Alimentary Forms of Religious Life
Technologies of the Other, Lenience, and the Ethics of Ethiopian Orthodox Fasting
Diego Malara
stages of life, overcoming it is understood to be almost impossible. Fasting is an ongoing thematization of imperfection in which, as Yared suggested, if one is unable or unwilling to aim high in ascetic terms, he “can at least avoid making his
Karen Hébert, Joshua Mullenite, Alka Sabharwal, David Kneas, Irena Leisbet Ceridwen Connon, Peter van Dommelen, Cameron Hu, Brittney Hammons, and Natasha Zaretsky
intimated but rarely thematized in much existing political ecology, that “the history of capitalism is one of successive historical natures” (19). It is in Moore’s dogged insistence on “historical nature” over against “nature in general” that he gains some
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 129–150 (22 total)
Righting Names
The Importance of Native American Philosophies of Naming for Environmental Justice
Rebekah Sinclair
.” Cordova argues that it is “possible to identify some of the conceptual commonalities shared by Native Americans,” yet these commonalities are recognized and thematized by Native Americans themselves, not the colonial, Western eye (2007: 102). Even as
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 91–106 (16 total)