Schizophrénie et territorial self
editorial reviewed
Waldo, Florida: Ruination and Dissolution
The small town of Waldo is disintegrating. Although part of the larger Alachua County, residents still must drive far into Gainesville to send their children to school, go to the bank, the doctors, and get their groceries and medicine. Even though Waldo residents pay taxes to this county, they remain without many of the necessities only available i...
Analyse pragmatique des rapports entre Science et Gestion de la biodiversité à Madagascar. Les cas du lémurien, de la ba...
Le rapport entre Science et Gestion de la biodiversité est fortement imprégné d’un paradigme dominant dont le socle est double : d’un côté, il y a le concept de conservation qui sépare la Nature de la Culture, et qui incrimine les activités humaines avec une tendance alarmiste sur l’état de la biodiversité et sa décimation imminente. Et d’un autre ...
At the Core of Institutional Care in Two Children’s Residential Homes (Mexico)
peer reviewed / This article examines what institutionalisation means for children under five, in two children’s residential care homes (casas cuna) in Mexico through the concepts of care and agency. It stems from the observation that there is little literature on this topic in general and on Mexico City, in particular. There is both a lack of empi...
'A Smaller Mask': Freedom and Authenticity in Autistic Space.
Published in Culture, medicine and psychiatry
Autscape is an autistic-led conference, organised annually in varying locations around England. Governed by a strict set of rules and regulations, Autscape is a social and spatial setup explicitly devised to accommodate the tendencies, sensitivities, and preferences of people on the autism spectrum. It is a design, in other words-as organisers and ...
The casts of Pompeii: Post-depositional methodological insights.
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The casts of Pompeii bear witness to the people who died during the Vesuvius 79 AD eruption. However, studies on the cause of death of these victims have not been conclusive. A previous important step is the understanding of the post-depositional processes and the impact of the plaster in bones, two issues that have not been previously evaluated. H...
Mashups digitales. Algoritmos, cultura y antropología
Este trabajo discute el concepto de algoritmo desde una mirada antropológica, considerando la centralidad de la noción de agencia y tecnología desarrollada en los estudios de ciencia y tecnología. En primer lugar, se revisan las principales áreas que han estudiado las ecologías digitales y el lugar que ocupan los algoritmos en ellas. A continuación...
Distribuer l’espoir, préparer le deuil. Réajustements des attentes procréatives face à l’échec de la FIV dans une cliniq...
À partir d’une enquête ethnographique menée dans une clinique de fertilité belge, cet article examine plusieurs stratégies déployées par le corps médical afin de réajuster les attentes des couples qui multiplient les essais infructueux de fécondation in vitro (FIV). À ce moment du parcours, il est proposé au couple une dernière tentative avec ses p...
A Manual for the Recovery of CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) Contaminated Human Remai...
Despite many international agreements and treaties prohibiting the use of CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) weaponry, the proliferation of contaminated human remains displays the historic and continued use of inhumane war efforts. Due to the complications of recovery, contaminated human remains are often left unreco...
MEMOR: A database of archeological human remains collections from Flanders, Belgium
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status: published
