The idea of the diagram as a ‘working object’ is used to discuss the biologist C. H. Waddington’s epigenetic landscape (EL) diagrams. This article investigates the diagrams’ history and discusses their usages in relation to Stengers’s idea of the ‘nomadic concept’. What is it about these diagrams that have made them a tool for transdisciplinary research? The article argues that it is useful to distinguish between the diagram and the illustration, and that it is in part because the EL diagrams retain an illustrative graphic character that they have been apt for imaginative adaptation and reuse. The diagram in this case becomes an ‘ontological go-between’ that is thereby able to function in different contexts, such as sociology and anthropology.
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In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 110–130 (21 total)
Patricia Mainardi
While periodicals with illustrations had existed prior to the 1830s, the letter-press used for text until the advent of photographic technology could not be combined with the etching, engraving, or lithography that produced images. Pictures had to
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 34–48 (15 total)
Šahrzâd and Šahrbâz
A Story Illustrated in Signs
Elham Etemadi
the secondariness of his work, but rather because of a lack of the required theoretical and critical tools to address his work sufficiently. In this study, the content of an illustration of the manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights , painted under
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 108–127 (20 total)
Women and War in the Balkans
A Comparative Review Essay
Maria Bucur
Alin Ciupală, Bătălia lor: Femeile din România în Primul Război Mondial (Their battle: Women in Romania during World War I), Iași: Polirom, 2017, 392 pp., 48 illustrations, RON 39.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-9-73466-577-8. Jelena Batinić
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2016
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 266–267 (1 total)
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2015
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 233–235 (2 total)
Julián Antonio Moraga Riquelme, Leslie E. Sponsel, Katrien Pype, Diana Riboli, Ellen Lewin, Marina Pignatelli, Katherine Swancutt, Alejandra Carreño Calderón, Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Sergio González Varela, Eugenia Roussou, Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Miho Ishii, Markus Balkenhol, and Marcelo González Gálvez
ANDÍA, Juan Javier Rivera, ed., Non-Humans in Amerindian South America: Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs , 396 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. Hardback, $135.00. ISBN
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 205–228 (24 total)
Shavagne Scott, Walter Goettlich, Sheila Petty, Wang Yanjun, Chimwemwe Phiri, and Larissa Kopytoff
, NY: University of Rochester Press/Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2018), 310 pp., ten black and white illustrations. $125.00. In their edited collection on African migration narratives, Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor undertake the monumental task of
Why Draw Flowers?
Botanical Art, Nationalism and Women's Contribution to Israeli Culture
Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld and Edna Gorney
illustration, as well as scientific research, have played a central role in the creation of a new Jewish identity and the establishment of a connection to the Jewish homeland ( Hirschfeld 2006: 112 ). For Jews settling in their ancient homeland, the practice of
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 45–69 (25 total)
Sandra Dinter, Weipin Tsai, and Freke Caset
-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019), 347 pp., 67 black-and-white illustrations, $40.00. Cities and regions around the world are pursuing smarter growth initiatives in order to curb the adverse environmental impacts of