IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-07-03 Epub Date: 2025-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70014

Adom Philogene Heron

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Motherhood amidst reprimands and advice: Parenting and class in Rio de Janeiro 谴责和建议中的母性：巴西的育儿和课堂

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-07-03 Epub Date: 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70013

Laura Lowenkron, Camila Fernandes

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More than visual: The apprenticeship of skilled visions 不仅仅是视觉：熟练视觉的学徒

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Epub Date: 2022-12-25 DOI: 10.1111/etho.12372

Cristina Grasseni

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The resonance of seen things: Seeing the Virgin Mary in the concrete 所见之物的共鸣：在混凝土中看到圣母玛利亚

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Epub Date: 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1111/etho.12446

Gregory A. Thompson, Zachary J. Chase

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Textures of care: Rethinking culture and therapeutic expertise in global psy 护理的纹理：全球精神病学的文化反思和治疗专业知识

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Epub Date: 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/etho.12450

Nadia Augustyniak

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Images of spectral relatedness: How couples anchor life together in a nursing home in Denmark 光谱关系的图像：夫妇如何在丹麦的养老院一起锚定生活

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Epub Date: 2025-01-12 DOI: 10.1111/etho.12449

Mikka Nielsen, Anne Toft Ramsbøl

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What it is to see: Artificial vision as constitutive interaction 看到什么：人工视觉是构成性互动

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Epub Date: 2023-01-04 DOI: 10.1111/etho.12367

Cordelia Erickson-Davis MD PhD

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Seeing, being seen, and the semiotics of perspective 看，被看，以及透视的符号学

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Epub Date: 2023-02-06 DOI: 10.1111/etho.12386

Constantine V. Nakassis

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Past present: A letter from the editors 过去时现在：编辑的一封信

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Epub Date: 2025-03-16 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70002

Julia Cassaniti, Jacob R. Hickman

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Thick perception 厚的感知

IF 1.3 4区社会学

Ethos Pub Date : 2025-03-25 Epub Date: 2025-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/etho.70000

Zachary J. Chase, Gregory A. Thompson

{"title":"Thick perception","authors":"Zachary J. Chase, Gregory A. Thompson","doi":"10.1111/etho.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1111/etho.70000","url":null,"abstract":"We advance an anthropological approach to human visual experience that opposes reductive conceptions founded on notions of historically and socio-culturally abstract and unsituated subjects. Instead, we propose that vision is part of an ongoing semiotic relation between seeing subjects and visual contexts that are not just psychological but also socio-historical and cultural. We engage with the other articles in this special section to argue that human vision works by seeing together. People calibrate their seeing with that of those around them, thereby shaping what's seen and the seeing subjects themselves. These processes are accomplished through overlapping (or “thick”) circuits of intromission and social “extromission” (i.e., actions appropriate to the things seen within specific socio-historical trajectories), so that mutuality of seeing is integral to “mutuality of being.” Understanding seeing processes requires historical and ethnographic investigations of the varieties of visual experience that extend far beyond biophysical mechanisms. The other papers in this section consider the apprenticeship of skilled visions, an account for a vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe in a Chicago underpass, the semiotics of perspective and the tactility of seeing in Tamil cinema, and the role of engineers’ theories of vision in their efforts to develop a prosthetic retina.","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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