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UNINA9910309952603321 |
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Kannike Anu |
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The dynamics of cultural borders / / edited by Anu Kannike & Monika Tasa |
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Tartu, : University of Tartu Press, 2016 |
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Tartu : , : University of Tartu Press, , 2016 |
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations, charts |
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Approaches to cultural theory ; ; vol. 6 |
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Semiotics / semiology |
Oral history |
Archaeology |
History of religion |
Cultural studies |
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
Human geography |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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This volume encompasses a broad span of issues related to borders as areas of intense activity substantially contributing to the dynamics of culture. The chapters address questions relating to the construction and reconstruction of borders, as well as the experience and representation of physical, spiritual, imagined and symbolic borders. The authors provide perspectives on emerging and dissolving borders in the past and present. Special emphasis is placed on subjective perception by asking how borders are experienced and expressed at the level of the specific community or individual. Several articles tackle dramatic and controversial issues like war, conflict between different ideologies and cultures, and remembering. The authors also explore dialectical relations between culture, social relations and landscape, and the interplay of ideological constructions and material culture. The contributions are arranged into two sections focusing on two wider |
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issues: how borders are drawn in landscape, religion and scientific discourse (Wandering borders), and how representations of cultural borders and border crossings have changed over time (Bordering ruptures: the dynamics of self-description). The authors of this volume come from various scholarly fields and offer innovative tools for expanding the concept of the border across disciplinary frames. |
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UNINA9910294360003321 |
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Loess letter |
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Lower Hutt, N.Z., : Published by DSIR Soil Bureau on behalf of the Western Pacific Working Group of the INQUA Loess Commission, 1979- |
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Issues for <Apr. 1984-> have also title in French: Lettre du loess. |
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UNINA9910841861703321 |
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Diogo Rui |
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Darwin’s Racism, Sexism, and Idolization : Their Tragic Societal and Scientific Repercussions / / by Rui Diogo |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
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9783031490552 |
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[1st ed. 2024.] |
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1 online resource (439 pages) |
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Evolution (Biology) |
Social evolution |
Religion and science |
Anthropology |
Evolutionary Biology |
Cultural Evolution |
Social Evolution |
Religion and Sciences |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-409) and index. |
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1. Science, society and Darwin’s idealization -- 2. Darwin’s society and science -- 3. Racism and its societal repercussions -- 4. Misogyny and its damaging legacy -- 5. Bringing reality to society and science. |
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In this book Diogo, a renowned biologist and anthropologist, addresses a question that is critical for the understanding of science, beliefs, idolization, systemic racism and sexism, and our societies in general: why has Darwin been idolized in such a unique way, particularly by Western scholars? Diogo shows that many evolutionary 'facts' stated in Darwin's works, particularly about human evolution, are inaccurate constructions based on Victorian biases and stereotypes: non-Europeans are inferior, women have a lower intelligence than men, Victorian society was the pinnacle of evolution, and so on. Importantly, such inaccurate biased statements about our evolution are markedly in |
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contrast with the mostly accurate, and often brilliant, ideas put forward by Darwin concerning non-human organisms. Importantly, it was precisely the combination of such brilliant ideas, the use of simplistic and sometimes exaggerated metaphors that were catchy and easily absorbed by the general public, and Darwin's intellectual conservatism and biased ideas about women and non-European peoples that led to Darwin's idolization, particularly by Western scientists, as well as to the darkest societal repercussions of his works. By portraying such biased ideas as “evolutionary facts”, Darwin provided easy ammunition for populist political leaders, authoritarians, colonialists, and white supremacists to 'scientifically' defend social hierarchies, sexism, racism, discrimination, oppression, and segregation. A typical argument used to defend Darwin from portraying such erroneous sexist and racist ideas as “facts” is that ‘back then’ everybody was racist and sexist. Diogo deconstructs this argument by providing enthralling case studies and travel descriptions by authors such as Wallace and Humboldt, who often praised the indigenous peoples that repulsed - and criticized the social hierarchies and Western imperialism that marveled - Darwin. The aim of this book is therefore not to 'cancel' Darwin or argue that he was always wrong: not at all, in general he was an extraordinary biologist, but was a much less successful anthropologist due in great part to his Victorian biases. Instead, the book discusses Darwin's writings, ideas, and their repercussions in a broader way, without taboos, omissions, idolization or demonization in order to show Darwin, and science in general, in all their complexity. This is because, if we fail to acknowledge and emphasize the biases, prejudices, inaccuracies, and abuses of our past, and merely continue to blindly idealize it, our kids will be condemned to undertake or suffer similar societal abuses in the future. |
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