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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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
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
- Pages:
- 108–127
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
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
Jingyi Li
that include text and illustrations. They both follow a task-based English teaching approach and contain topics that are related to the daily life of children in China and around the world. Each volume of textbooks contains eight issues for pupils from
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 128–144
J. Eugene Clay and Anna Bara
Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe Aileen E. Friesen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), xiii + 224 pp., index, illustrations (black and white), map. $48.75 (cloth). ISBN: 978
Ronald de Rooy
’s illustrations are an exemplar of the prevalent pars pro toto method for illustrating Dante’s Comedy , which focuses on one or at the most two or three illustrations per canto; in this way, one or two of the canto’s key narrative moments are used to compress a
Cècile Mathieu
Translator : Matthew Roy
book’s title, calling their product simply “Larousse.” Through that marketing strategy, they determined to make Larousse the inevitable choice of dictionary for the French reading public. Modern-looking illustrations and low sales prices were also key
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 48–72
Ann Miller and Kaveri Gopalakrishnan
. Following an illustration residency at the School of Visual Arts, New York (August 2014), she shifted largely to making graphic narratives. Her short graphic story Before You Step Out (January 2015) was commissioned for The Hindu BLink ’s anniversary