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The Anthropologist as Deviant Modernizer: Felipe Landa Jocano’s Journey Through the Cold War, the Social Sciences, Decolonization, and Nation Buildin…
2021
This chapter traces the transnational journey of Philippine anthropologist Felipe Landa Jocano from the 1950s to the 1970s. Jocano was part of a group of Philippine social scientists who earned their post-graduate degrees at the University of Chicago after the Philippines became independent from the US. One of the pre-eminent scholars in the Philippines, Jocano’s professional and intellectual journey unfolded against the backdrop of the Cold War and decolonization. Jocano received funding from US institutions that contributed to the Cold War, and he was committed to structural functionalism and modernization theory. Yet he developed a decolonized approach to modernization that questioned th…
Searching for a common core of family law in Europe
2018
In this Article the Author, a member of the group of European investigators involved in the searching process for a Common Core of Family Law in Europe, does not want to present the results of the project, that will be published in a forthcoming volume, but, instead, seeks to distinguish the FLCCP (Family Law Common Core Project) from similar research experiences, such as the CEFL (Commission of European Family Law) one. In order to highlight these differences, in the first part (paragraphs 1,2,3) the paper describes the goals of the Common Core Project and the methodology it employs, making references to the Cornell’s Studies, the Schlesinger’s factual approach and the Sacco’s formants the…
The Waves of Time Revisited : Glimpses of life
2022
This study could perhaps be characterized as the art of walking in time, verbally, pictorially and abstractly, i.e. using words, images and thoughts. Of course, the ideal of essayism also includes a scientific dimension. Equally the aim is to make multi-level use of the idea of dialogue. At the same time, the writer is also carrying on a monologue (with himself), an aspect that is called dialogic monologue. After all, the respondent, too, is himself the questioner. Architecture and the essay are reminiscent of each other. The created building and the created word are close relatives. An essayistic study signifies a hermetic state of language. A text’s inner verbal room is constructed from a…
Analogia e omologia: la questione della filogenesi delle emozioni
2013
Aim of this paper is to outline a new evolutionary interpretation of aesthetic emotions, in the light of the most recent developments in Evolutionary Biology, in particular the so-called “Extended Synthesis of Evolution” (Pigliucci-Müller 2010). Focussing on the biological concept of homology, the Author argues that, in order to effectively understand role and evolutionary value of aesthetic emotions, it should be asked not “what aesthetic emotions are for?”, rather “what kind of constraints and homologies influence the specific “shape” of human aesthetic emotions?”. In a few words, we should move from a functionalist approach to human aesthetic emotions towards a morphological one.
Funktionskreis e Gestaltkreis: la metafora del circolo nella biologia teoretica
2014
This paper aims to examine the use of the circle metaphor within the functionalist perspective by Jakob von Uexküll and the morphological perspective by Viktor von Weizsäcker. Whereas the functionalist theory dissolves the unity of the organism in the multiplicity of functional relationships, Weizsäcker’s morphology recognizes the fundamental unity of the biological act, leading to a new concept of the living organism.
Paradigma pragmático-funcional en la rehabilitación de la afasia
2020
Durante las últimas dos décadas, la investigación sobre la rehabilitación de la afasia ha desarrollado una visión pragmática y funcional del lenguaje, lo que ha llevado a una orientación cada vez más multifacética del trabajo terapéutico. En este enfoque pragmático-funcional de la rehabilitación de la afasia convergen diferentes programas concebidos de forma independiente, centrando la terapia en la dimensión relacional del lenguaje, que incluye: las interrelaciones funcionales entre los componentes del sistema lingüístico; la función comunicativa y el uso del lenguaje en contextos naturales como las conversaciones cotidianas; las interrelaciones entre el comportamiento verbal y otros medio…
Paradigme pragmatique-fonctionnel dans la rehabilitation de l’aphasie
2020
Durante las últimas dos décadas, la investigación sobre la rehabilitación de la afasia ha desarrollado una visión pragmática y funcional del lenguaje, lo que ha llevado a una orientación cada vez más multifacética del trabajo terapéutico. En este enfoque pragmático-funcional de la rehabilitación de la afasia convergen diferentes programas concebidos de forma independiente, centrando la terapia en la dimensión relacional del lenguaje, que incluye: las interrelaciones funcionales entre los componentes del sistema lingüístico; la función comunicativa y el uso del lenguaje en contextos naturales como las conversaciones cotidianas; las interrelaciones entre el comportamiento verbal y otros medio…