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Visual Anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that focuses on the study and production of visual representations, such as films and photographs, to understand and interpret cultural practices, social interactions, and human experiences. It emphasizes the role of visual media in ethnographic research and the ways in which culture is visually constructed and communicated.
The unveiling of cities. The sense of belonging and cultural diversity] Society and culture are two strongly intertwined realities even if they do not coincide. There is no society that does not have cultural production and there is no... more
Photo-elicitation as a qualitative research technique has attracted considerable attention. It is generally agreed that photo-elicitation is not applicable to all topics, and it is seldom the researcher's only tool, however, there are... more
Η θεματική της γειτονιάς αποτέλεσε από νωρίς τη βάση για την ανάπτυξη σεναρίων στην ελληνική μικρή οθόνη. Εστιάζοντας σε μια εβδομαδιαία σειρά της κρατικής τηλεόρασης (ERT), το άρθρο αυτό θα προσπαθήσει να αναδείξει τους τρόπους με τους... more
Resumen Como resultado de una monografía reciente sobre Políticas étnicas: entre el etnocidio y los derechos humanos (2025) con una selección altamente representativa de la población mundial (56,24%), considero de interés adelantar... more
En una época donde el arte contemporáneo se ve cada vez más intervenido por las tecnologías digitales, el propósito del presente ensayo es hacer una crítica al monopolio del capital que impone su lógica mercantilista sobre los procesos... more
Acta Académica es un proyecto académico sin fines de lucro enmarcado en la iniciativa de acceso abierto. Acta Académica fue creado para facilitar a investigadores de todo el mundo el compartir su producción académica. Para crear un perfil... more
Trauma is by its very nature an unnameable entity, one that defies language and instead exists in the realm of dreams, memories, and half-fictional shadows. Nonetheless, the events that form the aftereffects of trauma permeate Western... more
Since the beginnings of intercultural literary studies, ›foreignness‹ has been one of its basic concepts. Here it means an intense experience of difference, which at worst can turn into demarcation, but in the case of successful... more
My comparative analysis of two major texts dealing with pre-Independence India produced by two European writers at the turn of the past century-I misteri della jungla nera (The Mysteries of the Black Jungle, 1895) by Emilio Salgari and A... more
Resumen: Los incipientes medios de comunicación de masas, nacidos a finales del siglo XIX, fueron uno de los principales instrumentos empleados por las metrópolis europeas para dar a conocer los territorios recién incorporados en África.... more
Resumen: Los incipientes medios de comunicación de masas, nacidos a finales del siglo XIX, fueron uno de los principales instrumentos empleados por las metrópolis europeas para dar a conocer los territorios recién incorporados en África.... more
The film programme “If Cinema is a Weapon”, presented at the Batalha Film Centre in Spring 2024, provided the set-up for a discussion on identity, power and resistance. From a post-colonialist perspective, the films revealed latent... more
Erich Fromm abordó el problema de la agresión humana desde todas las aristas para detectar cuáles son las causas que originan esa genuina destructividad. Basándose en los hallazgos de disciplinas como la antropología, la paleontología, la... more
Anthropologists working at home were, for a long time, considered the poor cousins of their peers working abroad. Somehow they were perceived to have failed the test of travelling out of the comfort zone of their own society and grappling... more
настоящата статия разглежда града като център на света, наситен със скрити и невидими сакрални пространства и топоси, защото градът, лишен от своето метафизично ядро, митове, легенди и сакрални пространства, би представлявал обезсмислена... more
This article deals with the question of how to conceptualize the human person as a living subject. The main difficulty consists on relating the single components of the human person to itself and to the external world. It is based on... more
Since the 2010s, there has been an enthusiastic call for using multimodal methods in anthropological research. This call dovetails with the democratization of media production technologies that make the collection of data and the... more
In this article, we suggest that archaeologists should recognise the limitations of the term “artefact”, because it does not capture the many ways that diverse groups think about and interact with such objects. There are two important... more
Con mucho gusto les cuento Josefa Zambrano "Escriba, Josefa, que algo queda." Con esta premisa, Josefa Zambrano nos sumerge en un testimonio vívido y emotivo sobre su vida y sus raíces en la región andina de Venezuela. Josefa Zambrano... more
2 ART HISTORY HISTORIES On Rethinking Art History Meditations on a Coy Science by Donald Preziozi & The language of art history edited by Salim Kemal + Ivan Gaskell Art explains something like art with something else like additional... more
Circaea alpina, Corаllоrhiza trifida) ранее были известны с сопредельных участков. Два вида (Naumburgia thyrsiflora и Hypericum kamtschaticum) известны по единичным местонахождениям на территории парка. Один вид (Cryptogramma stelleri)... more
In this essay, the authors offer the reader some photographs. They are images portraying women in the Bolivian Amazon in the early 20th century and in the contemporary Indigenous Chaco (Argentina), respectively. The photographs offer an... more
The article pays attention to the children's book itself, reveals the features of the perception of A. Rackham's illustrations by children. It is shown that the art of the children's books arose at the end of the XIX century in England in... more
I created the installation Atlas of Dreams, a series of artistic maps and audio recordings, to portray the emotional traces left by 145 dreamers when they narrated their memorable dreams in the cities of the Bay Area of San Francisco. I... more
A partir de narrativas de cenas cotidianas e fragmentos de casos clinicos, discutimos as implicacoes da permeabilidade entre um Centro de Atencao Psicossocial III (Caps) e o territorio para a estruturacao do cuidado, salientando aspectos... more
peruanas", todas las obras recogidas en ella merecen ser tratadas como esbozos visuales surgidos de la reflexión de la artista sobre los Andes. Tanto las pinturas como los gráficos, ya a simple vista, fascinan por su enorme intensidad... more
When St John's conventual church was completed in the year 1577, 1 the appearance of the interior was significantly different to what one sees today [Figure 1]. In contrast with the exuberant embellishment it was simple and plain. The... more
In this article, the authors examine the global store design strategy launched by Starbucks in 2009 in the wake of the economic crisis, increasing brand dilution, and growing competition. They offer a visual-material analysis of the... more
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or... more
Stunning photographs set this coffee table book apart, but historians might frown upon oversimplifications and generalisations of a colonial past.
O Turismo está inevitavelmente associado ao pressuposto de uma actividade territorial, de deslocação espacial. Compreende-se por isso, que a paisagem ou o meio ambiente sejam de importância vital no sucesso/insucesso de um determinado... more
“La Inteligencia Artificial como medio de reconexión para entender las representaciones de arte hipermoderno del presente”, a cargo de Luis Carlos Garza Valero, quien propone la descontextualización sobre la cultura visual y la sociedad... more
Ez a könyv az 1989-es rendszerváltás utáni magyar rendezői filmben megjelenő férfialakokat vizsgálja, szoros összefüggésben a kor a társadalmi-kulturális jelenségeivel. A könyv egyes fejezetei az „új magyar film” legnevesebb rendezőinek... more
¿Producen nuevos constructos, que son parte del imaginario de la ecuatorianidad, el uso de las representaciones simbólicas, de los códigos y de los lenguajes del cine ecuatoriano posmoderno, desde procesos comunicacionales e identitarios... more
El videojuego es hoy en día un tema de especial relevancia para el desarrollo social y cultural del ser humano; a este respecto es muy ilustrativo el hecho de que en España, por ejemplo, el videojuego es la principal actividad de ocio,... more
Dieses Editorial leitet in ein Schwerpunktheft ein, das mit seinen Beiträgen auf das nicht selten mit dem Schlagwort »Bilderflut« bezeichnete Phänomen der Omnipräsenz von Bildern in unterschiedlichen Bereichen menschlichen Lebens... more
Avec des enquêtes menées à distance des grands pôles mondiaux de la production phonographique, ce dossier renouvelle les perspectives sur les studios d’enregistrement dédiés à la musique. L’éventail des nouvelles configurations et... more
Висвітлено творчість сучасного художника Матвія Вайсберга на основі теоретичних основ взаємозв'язку антропології та мистецтва. У відповідності до поставленої мети обрано комплекс дослідницьких методик сучасного мистецтвознавства, що... more
I focus on Pentecostal genres performed in the market space, a thick religiously plural environment. I look at the ways in which Pentecostal evangelizers (animateurs, a subcategory of the evangelizing ministry in Pentecostal churches)... more