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Pentecostalism and Witchcraft
(2017)
charismatic Christianity; Holy Spirit; demonology; evangelism; indigenous Pentecostal movements; ethnography
Chapter Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Relativism
(2016)
One important strand in the contemporary debate over epistemological relativism focuses on the question whether, and to what extent, Wittgenstein in “On Certainty” (1969) leaned towards this position. This paper is a ...
Chapter 11 Dogmas of Superficiality
(2015)
The article critically analyzes the characterization of Asian traditions as
'humanism' as presented in the writings by three Chinese historians.
Theater as Metaphor
(2019)
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on ...
Chapter 8 Non-thermal Plasma Technology for the Improvement of Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine - A Review
(2016)
Non-thermal plasma technology is one of those techniques that suffer relatively little from diffusion limits, slow kinetics, and complex geometries compared to more traditional liquid-based chemical surface modification ...
Chapter 52 Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research
(2013)
This chapter provides an introductory overview of some of the basic experimental paradigms traditionally employed in the field of gesture studies to investigate both comprehension and production in adult and child populations. ...
Chapter Dynamic Dispatch for Method Contracts Through Abstract Predicates
(2017)
Dynamic method dispatch is a core feature of object-oriented programming by which the executed implementation for a polymorphic method is only chosen at runtime. In this paper, we present a specification and verification ...
Chapter Plasma Polymerization for Tissue Engineering Purposes
(2018)
The ability of non-equilibrium plasmas to modify surfaces has been known for many years. And a promising way to perform surface modifications without altering the bulk properties is plasma polymerization since this technique ...
Chapter Labeling (Romance) causatives
(2017)
Classical analyses of Romance causatives of the Italian/French type illustrated in examples like (2) and (3) below for Italian, proposed that an overt process of VP-preposing occurs in the derivation of these structures ...
Chapter Disentangling geography from genealogy
(2013)
In this paper I will not seek to settle this question for individual cases of shared characteristics between two specific languages (e.g. why do French and German have no distance contrast in demonstratives?; see Diessel ...
Chapter Restricted integer partition functions
(2014)
Additive; multiplicative and probabilistic number theory; Sequences and sets; Extremal and classical combinatorics; Ramsey theory; Hypergraphs
Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
(2013)
Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms ...
Social Media in South India
(2017)
One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid ...
Experimental Affinities in Music
(2015)
Experimental Affinities in Music brings together diverse artistic, musicological, historical, and philosophical essays, enhancing a broad discourse on artistic experimentation, and exploring various experimental attitudes ...
How the World Changed Social Media
(2016)
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a ...
Chapter Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective
(2012)
Among the indigenous languages of the Andean region of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and northern Argentina, Quechuan and Aymaran have traditionally occupied a dominant position. Both Quechuan and Aymaran are ...
Chapter 19 Subjects, topics and the interpretation of pro
(2018)
In this paper I would like to address the classical issue of the similarities and differences between subject and topic positions. In doing so, I will build on seminal work by Andrea Calabrese, particularly Calabrese (1986) ...
Chapter Ruth Barcan Marcus on Believing Without a Language
(2015)
This paper surveys Ruth Marcus’ many contributions to modal logic and its interpretation, starting with her pioneer work on quantified modal logic and ending with the controversies concerning the origin of the idea of rigid ...
Kosmos: Weltentwürfe im Vergleich
(2014)
cosmos - cosmology - culture - myths
AcrossBorders I
(2017)
The present volume is the first in a series of monographs dedicated to the results achieved by AcrossBorders, a European Research Council Project (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Ludwig Maximilian University Munich). With ...