Anthropology

The Loss of Criteria: essay on the pathological reverie of non-being and not-willing to know. Pathological essay on Being and Not Being Universal Dualism about Contextualism.

An essay on the role of the philosopher in society nowadays.

Society or individuals? WHat must be saved? There's any hope to social and virtual violence or It is Just the way It Is?

Between medieval sapienza and the duty of silence...because it can be harmfull for other, takes care to transmit and inform in a cultural way.

the study of ants and insects com understand human behaviour and discourse, his politics and ways do keep alive some dreams that can come true.

Portuguese Discoveries and Erasure's theme "Ship of Fouls", navigating in an age of loneliness and excelera<ting public cerimonies of hapyness, seeking for social recognition and professional realizations for question os status or just simply competition , on the realm of danger and street violence, between normality and pathology, what is norm?, could be mental ilness just a process of individual salvation to ta better way of being?

Body and Soul, the infinite dualism of existenz.

This paper takes the Status Loss Theory (introduced and explained in the first "How Humor Works" paper), and applies it to 40 real-world examples, including memes, radio and TV shows, movie and comic book tropes, song parodies, humor sayings, stand-up comedy cliches, known psychological quirks of humor, and more, to demonstrate the theory's potential to function as the first clear, complete, logical, and simple basis for defining, studying, and understanding humor in all of its forms.

This paper introduces the "Status Loss Theory of Humor," as detailed in "How Humor Works" and "How Humor Works, Part II" , in a single page. This theory has the potential to fully, clearly, and naturally explain the human humor instinct, and has made predictions that are being confirmed by other studies.

This presentation is about an evolutionary scenario for self-consciousness linked to a human specific anxiety. It is a continuation of other works (2011 Book chapter, 2014 TSC Poster). AIM: Present a scenario describing an evolutionary nature of self-consciousness that introduces a human specific anxiety which is active in our human lives. METHOD: The scenario starts with our pre-human ancestors which were capable to manage representations and to partly identify with their conspecifics (Olds 2006, DeWaal 2008). These identifications brought our ancestors (...) to merge the representations of their conspecifics with the limited auto-representation of their own entity. The result was an auto-representation becoming about an entity existing in environment. This process is proposed as having progressively generated an ancestral form of self-consciousness as object and as subject. These identifications took place also with suffering conspecifics and have imposed to our ancestors a huge anxiety increase that had to be limited. Tools developed for that limitation (caring, collaboration, empathy, ToM, ...) have linked consciousness to anxiety management while also procuring evolutionary benefits. Human minds now contain an unconscious part of that ancestral anxiety that guides many of our mental states. RESULT: An evolutionary scenario for self-consciousness is made available as linked to a specific anxiety management that characterizes human minds. Continuations are introduced, some related to mental health. CONCLUSION: The proposed evolutionary scenario presents self-consciousness and a specific human anxiety as sharing a same evolutionary nature. This new source of anxiety needs more investigations. (shrink)

Saturation, intoxication to the medias of realization and porsuit of happyness.

Long Range and short range, guns and violence, everyday life in cities and streets, between social and group identity and faith and religious belief, the vision to the "things of the world that cannot be seen" (Heróis do Mar).

rails to total abstraction, to conjure a perfect social system, between fulfilment of individual and colective will.

Fear. Cerimonial Fear, as the Judge could be God, wich represents, some way, the entire society, dead or alive.

Vacuity, vanity, proposal of a elapsed time fadeaway, an essay in portuguese language, soon on english.

nevrosity for the dense social relations in urban context.

psychic dilemas in a world of finantial turmoil, between lack os resources and soviet imperialism.

Debt to a friend, debt to the humaniny, there's the destiny of a young anthropology trying to succeed.

Writing for a better world, for better persons, on the street, the neighbourhood, the academy and the church.

the event, on the evening of time, should be a place in our society for optimism?

Evolution of good will during spring days on a southern country, with lots of good food and rede wine (I lost my walet).

minimal toughts on a maximal world, to make a general theory of understanding a perception os social reality.

to know how to forgive, besides hollywood films.

object subjectivity and the other, perceving otherness and troubled self, needing do praise some God or Godess.

meaning trough a political world, as said the song.

from sensation to imposition of media tought.

Anemia, the syntoms of a great disease in the heart of society.

What about polite politics, even in the streets? A brief reflection about sense and violence and representational difference.

happyness porsued by a robot, realization of futuristic and transcendent dreams of man.

how does society works? By the group? By will of a single individual? Interesting to notice the articulation between several social systems.

obedience and freedom at the same time, due to social responsability.

One after Other, Legionella and Covid have marked everyday life on Portugal and on the world in the last two-there years, creating a kind of vão (bay), rebaixamento, in the moeur of society and individuals.

actor progressing social life and scale on screen.

Prison, porsuing the work of Erwing Goffman, and Paul Valéry, au-delá of Victor Turner.

the journal of everyday life, between success and resiliation, shine and shadow, clarity and sadness.

tensional relations in the city, in the small village, all due to bad use of power and disrespect of singular expectations.

someday somehow, all of our dreams can come true.

A new dimension beyond criticism, pessimism and dispute.

semiology of social and global transformations on public relations and, by consequence, of human intimacy.

biography as a revenge to some ideal ideals.

Autonomy as a desonesty, i.e., exogamic behaviour does not betray family values.

goin to the south, of the mind, of the southern of Europe, not Algarve, but to a place in my mind.

is happyness productive? See book by Roger Scruton, "On Pessimism".

some literary day about philosophical topics and some anthropological items.

Faith, festivity, joy, social transformation on a relative ethnographic context of southern atlantic Europe.