their differences, both types demonstrate the importance of social visibility in the cultural classification of introduced species. Affirmed Species: Natural and Iconic Introduced Species Moving along the spectrum of cultural responses, the final
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A New Cultural Typology of Introduced Species
Clayton Fordahl
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2023
- Article Type:
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- 280–301 (22 total)
Glossolalia and Linguistic Alterity
The Ontology of Ineffable Speech
Evandro Bonfim
This article proposes a revised definition of glossolalia based on the ritual value of incomprehensible speech, which allows for an approach to meaning emergence in non-human languages and the issue of extreme linguistic alterity. The main social and acoustic features associated with glossolalia will be presented through the case study of a Christian charismatic community in Brazil (the Canção Nova), showing us how linguistic evidence supports different notions of Christian personhood and an iconic-based communication between human and divine beings.
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 75–89 (15 total)
Revealing the Icons/Eye-Cons of Girls' Culture
Natalie Coulter
Kathleen Sweeney. 2008. Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age. New York: Peter Lang.
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
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- 01 Jun 2004
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 195–212 (18 total)
Interdependent Freedom: Sartrean Collectivism as (Good) Bad News for an Iconic American Myth
Damon Boria
This article attempts a full appreciation of interdependence in Sartre's thinking about practical freedom. The result is an account that opens Sartre's thinking on practical freedom to more than just the empowerment of individuals and groups. Ultimately, this means privileging, perhaps paradoxically, a vision of practical freedom that is greater by being more limited. The trajectory for this attempt is Sartre's 1971 diagnosis of America as “full of myths,” which provokes a critical examination of a vision of freedom in independence. The attempt is then fleshed out through encounters with notions that linger at the fringes of Sartre's thought, namely, happiness, progress, equality and the possibility of everything.
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 32–42 (11 total)
The Girl in the Hijab
Contemporary Feminist Perspectives
Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith
The image of a young girl wearing a hijab can be seen to be an iconic representation of the complex intersection between feminism on the one hand, and religion and culture on the other. While the hijab is a visible marker of traditional gender
Identity in Sensible and Ephemeral Experiences
Religion, History, Society and Politics Revisited through Everyday Life Practices, Tourism, Symbols and Rituals
Soheila Shahshahani
author. The culinary vocabulary of this text is noteworthy as is its attention to tourism today and how a specific food presented symbolically can help in forming an important tourist icon. It is not only hard structures and heavy objects which can give
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–5 (5 total)
Fates Worse Than Death
Destruction and Social Attachment in Timor-Leste
Gabriel Tusinski
arbitrary representational capacities of symbols, but also on the causal and qualitative dimensions of indexical and iconic signs. Following Keane’s (1997 , 2007) and Stasch’s (2011) revisions of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce’s ([1940
A Wolf’s Eye View of London
Dracula, Penny Dreadful, and the Logic of Repetition
Dragoş Manea
most iconic depictions). It is little wonder then that such characters have come to dominate our media landscape in recent years. As we have moved towards an age of transmedia franchises, riddled with competing reboots, remakes, and reimaginings
Exhibition Reviews
Sheila K. Hoffman, Aya Tanaka, Bai Xue, Ni Na Camellia Ng, Mingyuan Jiang, Ashleigh McLarin, Sandra Kearney, Riria Hotere-Barnes, and Sumi Kim
Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, Massachusetts After major disasters, it is common for communities to gather at places of worship to give thanks for what was salvaged, pray for what was lost, and draw comfort, strength, and hope from shared