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Introduction: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia
- 2011
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Ingår i: Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory. - 9781607320944 ; , s. 1-27
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- Hornborg, Alf
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Theorising ethnolinguistic diversity under globalisation : Beyond biocultural analogies
- 2024
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - 1474-774X. ; 21:5, s. 990-1008
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper seeks to advance our theoretical understanding of diversifying and homogenizing processes in human societies by exploring the sources of and threats to ethnolinguistic or cultural diversity. Invoking concepts such as ethnogenesis, schismogenesis, and structural transformations, it discusses the parallels as well as the divergences between biological and cultural theory. Models in historical linguistics risk importing unwarranted assumptions about diversification from biological models of speciation. A more pertinent theorization of ethnolinguistic diversity might build on anthropological perspectives such as those of Fredrik Barth, Gregory Bateson, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, all of whom recognized that such diversity reflects interaction rather than isolation. The empirical test of these considerations is the ethnography and history of language use among Indigenous peoples in Amazonia and the Andes. The conclusion is that premodern expansions of language families, in tolerating local cultural autonomy, multilingualism, and diglossia, did not threaten ethnolinguistic identities as has modern globalization.
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- Hornborg, Alf
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A pandemic can do what a movement cannot
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Ingår i: Social Anthropology. - : Berghahn Books. - 0964-0282 .- 1469-8676. ; 29:1, s. 210-212
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- Hornborg, Alf
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Artifacts have consequences, not agency: Toward a critical theory of global environmental history
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Theory. - : SAGE Publications. - 1461-7137 .- 1368-4310. ; 20:1, s. 95-110
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- This article challenges the urge within Actor-Network Theory, posthumanism, and the ontological turn in sociology and anthropology to dissolve analytical distinctions between subject and object, society and nature, and human and non-human. It argues that only by acknowledging such distinctions and applying a realist ontology can exploitative and unsustainable global power relations be exposed. The predicament of the Anthropocene should not prompt us to abandon distinctions between society and nature but to refine the analytical framework through which we can distinguish between sentience and non-sentience and between the symbolic and non-symbolic. The incompatibility of posthumanist and Marxist approaches to the Anthropocene and the question of agency derives from ideological differences as well as different methodological proclivities. A central illustration of these differences is the understanding of fetishism, a concept viewed by posthumanists as condescending but by Marxists as emancipatory.
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