scholarly journals QUANDO OS PESCADORES ENVELHECEM: IDENTIDADE E IDADE AVANÇADA ENTRE OS CONSTRUTORES DO SAMBAQUI MAR VIRADO, NO LITORAL PAULISTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (32) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Soraya Martins de Alencar

A velhice não é um tema recorrente na arqueologia como nas outras disciplinas das ciências sociais e humanas, sendo mais frequentemente foco de atenção de pesquisas bioarqueológicas, com poucos estudos que investigam aspectos da identidade social, sobretudo no que se refere à questão produtiva. Os construtores de sambaquis se caracterizam como grupos de pescadores, caçadores coletores complexos, em que a organização social em torno da pesca pressupõe uma diferenciação por sexo e idade, onde os mais longevos são entendidos como atores passivos nessa atividade. O sítio Mar Virado, no litoral paulista, se destaca como um sambaqui insular e raso, particularidades que podem sugerir uma diversificação nas estratégias de pesca, que podem nos dizer como esse grupo etário interagia com essa atividade. As práticas funerárias podem elencar elementos sobre os objetos associados à essa atividade, em seus três componentes: os adornos que impactam na aparência física; os utilitários e os de caráter ritual. Abstract: The old age is not a common subject in archeology as in other social sciences and humanities disciplines, where is more often focus of bioarchaeological research, with few studies that investigate aspects of social identity, especially in concern to the productive question. The shell midden (sambaquis) builders are characterized as complex hunter-gatherer fishing groups, in which the social organization around the fishery presuppose differentiations by sex and age, where the elders are considered as passive actors in this activity. The Mar Virado site, in the coast of São Paulo State, stands out as an insular and flat sambaqui, particularities that may suggest a diversification in fishing strategies, which can tell us how this age group interacted with this activity. Funerary practices can list elements on the objects associated with this activity, in its three components: adornments that affect physical appearance, and the utilitarian and ritual characteristics objects.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong

Valian rightly made a case for better recognition of women in science during the Nobel week in October 2018 (Valian, 2018). However, it seems most published views about gender inequality in Nature focused on the West. This correspondence shifts the focus to women in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in a low- and middle-income country (LMIC).


Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Mohamed Amine Brahimi ◽  
Houssem Ben Lazreg

The advent of the 1990s marked, among other things, the restructuring of the Muslim world in its relation to Islam. This new context has proved to be extremely favorable to the emergence of scholars who define themselves as reformists or modernists. They have dedicated themselves to reform in Islam based on the values of peace, human rights, and secular governance. One can find an example of this approach in the works of renowned intellectuals such as Farid Esack, Mohamed Talbi, or Mohamed Arkoun, to name a few. However, the question of Islamic reform has been debated during the 19th and 20th centuries. This article aims to comprehend the historical evolution of contemporary reformist thinkers in the scientific field. The literature surrounding these intellectuals is based primarily on content analysis. These approaches share a type of reading that focuses on the interaction and codetermination of religious interpretations rather than on the relationships and social dynamics that constitute them. Despite these contributions, it seems vital to question this contemporary thinking differently: what influence does the context of post-Islamism have on the emergence of this intellectual trend? What connections does it have with the social sciences and humanities? How did it evolve historically? In this context, the researchers will analyze co-citations in representative samples to illustrate the theoretical framework in which these intellectuals are located, and its evolution. Using selected cases, this process will help us to both underline the empowerment of contemporary Islamic thought and the formation of a real corpus of works seeking to reform Islam.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Beatriz Marín-Aguilera

Archaeologists, like many other scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities, are particularly concerned with the study of past and present subalterns. Yet the very concept of ‘the subaltern’ is elusive and rarely theorized in archaeological literature, or it is only mentioned in passing. This article engages with the work of Gramsci and Patricia Hill Collins to map a more comprehensive definition of subalternity, and to develop a methodology to chart the different ways in which subalternity is manifested and reproduced.


Hypatia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 580-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitte Bargetz

Currently, affect and emotions are a widely discussed political topic. At least since the early 1990s, different disciplines—from the social sciences and humanities to science and technoscience—have increasingly engaged in studying and conceptualizing affect, emotion, feeling, and sensation, evoking yet another turn that is frequently framed as the “affective turn.” Within queer feminist affect theory, two positions have emerged: following Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's well‐known critique, there are either more “paranoid” or more “reparative” approaches toward affect. Whereas the latter emphasize the potentialities of affect, the former argue that one should question the mere idea of affect as liberation and promise. Here, I suggest moving beyond a critique or celebration of affect by embracing the political ambivalence of affect. For this queer feminist theorizing of affective politics, I adapt Jacques Rancière's theory of the political and particularly his understanding of emancipation. Rancière takes emancipation into account without, however, uncritically endorsing or celebrating a politics of liberation. I draw on his famous idea of the “distribution of the sensible” and reframe it as the “distribution of emotions,” by which I develop a multilayered approach toward a nonidentitarian, nondichotomous, and emancipatory queer feminist theory of affective politics.


2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110483
Author(s):  
Janet Heaton

Pseudonyms are often used to de-identify participants and other people, organizations and places mentioned in interviews and other textual data collected for research purposes. While this is commonplace, the rationale for, and limits of, using pseudonyms or other methods to disguise identifying information are seldom explained in empirical works. Following an illustrated outline of pseudonyms, epithets, codenames and other obscurant techniques used in the social sciences and humanities, this paper considers how they variously frame the identities of, and position the relations between, participants and researchers. It suggests ways in which researchers might improve on current practice.


2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 07001
Author(s):  
Wadim Strielkowski

This paper aims at explaining the universality and broadness of the research in energy studies. Specifically, it wants to show that the energy research is not a solely engineering or natural sciences field and how it can be done in social sciences. The paper draws some relevant examples including energy research in literature and poetry, history, religion, art, as well in other social sciences and humanities. In general, it becomes apparent that energy research can boast vast depths and angles that are worth exploring for any social scientist. Given the key importance of energy research in the third decade of the 21st century and the worldwide focus on the renewable energy sources, electrification of transport and heating in the face of the threatening global warming and climate change, it seems relevant to focus on researching the perspectives and paradigms for the traditional and renewable energy sources in the 21st century using the toolbox of the social sciences.


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