CULTURAL MATERIALIST READING OF DEALING WITH CLAIR

A dialectical materialist reading of the sign

In this article, I reread sections of Karl Marx’s Capital, substituting the term ‘sign’ wherever he used ‘commodity.’ I show that such a substitution yields statements that have close family relationship with the results of twentieth century scholarship in a variety of disciplines. The question about the origin of such family resemblance can be found in the notion of substitution that occurs in...

Materialist, cultural and biological theories on why Yanomami make war

For decades, there have been three primary anthropological perspectives on why people make war: materialist, cultural, and biological. Each has a long history of application to the Yanomami. This paper considers these three alternatives. First, it summarizes the author’s materialist models and what they are purported to explain. Second, it discusses more cultural explanations offered by several...

[Reading colophons from mesopotamian clay-tablets dealing with mathematics].

Dealing with Multiple Perspectives: Using (Cultural) Profiles in System Dynamics

Many important dynamically complex issues are also characterised by a large number of actors with different world views, value systems, lifestyles, perspectives, interests, resources, and goals. One way to deal with this diversity in System Dynamics modelling –without modelling only one, or at the other extreme, all possible perspectives– is to use a set of different profiles to represent diffe...

Dealing with diversity: incorporating cultural sensitivity into professional midwifery practice.

In the Australian College of Midwives, Code of Ethics, Section 11. Practice of Midwifery, the following is stated "A. Midwives provide care for women and childbearing families with respect for cultural diversity while also working to eliminate harmful practices within those same cultures." However, it is difficult to know what is meant by "respect for cultural diversity". This paper presents th...