Ortega y Gasset, José (1883–1955) Quick reference
Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
...the rise of Franco, however, Ortega chose exile in Argentina and Portugal. When he finally returned to Spain in 1946 he founded in Madrid the Institute of Humanities, where he taught and wrote for the last years of his life. Philosophically Ortega argued for what he called ‘perspectivism’. The world, he insisted, can be known only from a specific point of view. He consequently took as the fundamental feature of his theory of knowledge not mind or matter but ‘perspective’. All perspectives were equally valid. The only indubitably false perspective was that...
Indigenous Policy and Politics in 20th-century Brazil Reference library
Seth W. Garfield
Oxford Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture
...Indians, the focus on cosmology and world-making practices privileges a Native-centered approach to history, including processes of interethnic contact. 73 Particularly influential in the field of anthropological theory has been Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s concept of perspectivism. Challenging traditional Western ontological divisions between nature and culture (the former, purportedly universal, objective, and physical; the latter, particular, subjective, and social), Viveiros de Castro argues that Native Amazonians see a world inhabited by persons,...
Indigenous Societies in Brazil before the European Arrival Reference library
Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes
Oxford Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture
...das Letras, 1992), 53–86. 38. Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes , “ Politics and Ritual in Large Villages in Santarém, Lower Amazon, Brazil ,” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27, no. 2 (2017): 275–293. 39. Eduardo Viveiros de Castro , “Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4, no. 3 (1988): 469–488. 40. Pierre Clastres , “A sociedade contra o Estado,” in A sociedade contra o Estado: Pesquisas de antropologia política (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2003), 11–79. 41. Carolina Levis et al.,...
Pérez, Loida Maritza (b. 1963) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
...not aware of this past history. The book details the points of view of at least five family members and the doings of four more. Pérez explains that she wrote it this way to avoid focusing on just one character's perspective, as is typical with coming-of-age novels. The rich perspectivism, the excavation of past history and memory, and the moments of magic and the uncanny make at times for an unwieldy narrative. The awkward ending with its double rape is hardly credible. But the book's depth, psychological acuity, and lack of sentimentality outweigh its...
Novel Reference library
Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Josna Rege, Harry Aveling, and Teri Shaffer Yamada
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
...techniques. His Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas ( 1881 ; English trans., Epitaph of a Small Winner , 1952 ), a narration from the grave, is an early manifestation of the fantastic; his Dom Casmurro ( 1899 ; English trans., Dom Casmurro , 1953 ) is a forerunner of perspectivism. The predicament of women was paralleled in some nineteenth-century works to that of racially marginalized groups. A growing fascination among writers with the region's indigenous peoples gave rise to indianismo and indigenismo ; the former offers a romanticized portrayal...
Water and Sewers in the American City Reference library
Joel A. Tarr
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History
...the evolution of these systems. Melosi’s work on both water and wastewater systems must be the starting point for any investigation of these topics. Many comprehensive articles are included in Tarr’s volume The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspectiv e and Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region . 50 Early methods of dealing with household plumbing issues are insightfully analyzed in Maureen Ogle’s All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840–1890 . 51 In...
A Historical View on Attitudes and Persuasion Reference library
Pablo Briñol, Richard E. Petty, and Joshua J. Guyer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Modern Psychology
...the modification and distortion of judgments. In H. Guetzkow (Ed.), Groups, leadership, and men (pp. 177–190). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Press. Banaji, M. R. (2004). The opposite of a great truth is also true. In J. T. Jost , M. R. Banaji , & D. A. Prentice (Eds.), Perspectivism in social psychology: The yin and yang of scientific progress (pp. 127–140). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Bargh, J. A. (1999). The cognitive monster: The case against the controllability of automatic stereotype effects. In S. Chaiken & Y. Trope (Eds...
The History of Psychology in Brazil Reference library
Regina Helena de Freitas Campos
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Modern Psychology
...her role had always been prescribed. This role was inscribed in the village structure itself, where the localization of the habitations and the rules for inhabiting them determined the social roles and the villagers’ vision of the world. This vision, generically denominated “perspectivism” in anthropology ( Viveiros de Castro, 2002 ), sees the world as inhabited by different species of subjects (human and nonhuman), which apprehend it from different points of view. In this mosaic of perspectives, both humans and animals can look upon one another as people,...
