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Magic, an appreciation
No full textResponse to comments on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic’s reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Moving forward in international mathematics education research
No full textThis final chapter revisits some of the key issues addressed by the authors and explores a selection\ud
of the many research issues that need attention in the advancement of our discipline.\ud
Specifically, we give consideration to the following questions:\ud
1. What role can research play in illuminating the multidisciplinary debates on the powerful\ud
mathematical ideas required for the 21st century?\ud
2. How can research support more equitable curriculum and learning access to powerful\ud
mathematical ideas?\ud
3. How can research support the creation of learning environments that give learners better and more equitable access to powerful mathematical ideas?\ud
4. How can research contribute to the kind of teacher education and teacher development programs that will be needed to facilitate student access to powerful mathematical\ud
ideas?\ud
5. How can we assess the extent to which students have gained access to powerful mathematical\ud
ideas, and their abilities to make effective use of these ideas? How can research\ud
inform such assessment?\ud
6. What are some of the latest research designs in mathematics education? How do we assess\ud
and improve research designs in mathematics education?\ud
7. What is the nature of semiotic mediation and what is its role in mathematics education
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language - By Arika Okrent
No full textWhile it is not a scholarly work, Arika Okrent’s In the Land of Invented Languages recommends itself to linguistic anthropologists on a variety of counts. An intellectual picaresque describing the author’s historical and ethnographic forays into the imaginative worlds of language inventors and their followers, it offers engaging examination of shifting motivations behind the production and promotion of constructed languages (conlangs). It could be used alongside similarly accessible trade books in teaching introductory language and culture type courses. In this context, Okrent, who has graduate training in psycholinguistics, presents an argument that largely complements the linguistic anthropological perspective. Students primed with key concepts will be able to draw pertinent theoretical connections
The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters: Gender, Secrecy, and Fraternity in Italian Masonic Lodges by Lilith Mahmud.
Full text linkProfound paradoxes motivate Lilith Mahmud’s singular ethnography of Italian Freemason women: although the Enlightenment’s core democratic values of liberty, equality, and fraternity in many ways originated within Euro-American Freemasonry, most Italians suspect present-day Freemasons of involvement in nefarious antidemocratic conspiracies. Moreover, Freemasons’ marginalization of women betrays how deep-rooted exclusivity compromises their guiding principle of universal
brotherhood. It is among the social networks of women who nevertheless gravitate to Freemasonry’s official auxiliary societies and to mixed-gender or women-only lodges not sanctioned by Freemasonry’s paramount governing body that Mahmud conducts a form of ethnography she terms “profane”—mostly (but not always) outside sacred ritual spaces. In describing how these women style themselves as “brothers” and aspire to enact fraternity as a genderless value, Mahmud casts light on the broader tradition of European liberal humanism and its limitations
Agrocinopine C, a Ti-plasmid-coded enzyme-product, is a 2-O, 6-O linked phosphodiester of D-Glucose and sucrose
No full textAsenstorfer, Robert E., Ryder, Maarten H., Jones, Graham P. (2022): Agrocinopine C, a Ti-plasmid-coded enzyme-product, is a 2-O, 6-O linked phosphodiester of D-Glucose and sucrose. Phytochemistry (113013) 194: 113013, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.113013, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.11301
MAGIC WITH A MESSAGE: The Poetics of Christian Conjuring
No full textThis article examines the performance practices of U.S. gospel magicians, evangelical Christians who convey religious messages with conjuring tricks. Emphatically denying that they possess supernatural powers and scrupulously avoiding effects that resemble biblical miracles, they take pains to present their tricks as unambiguously skillful performances intended to entertain, uplift, and instruct. When patterned on a Christian motif, otherwise self-referential magic tricks constitute a versatile signifying medium. Addressing the poetics of gospel magic in the setting of instructional workshops, this analysis explores a variety of ways performers utilize iconic resemblances between conjuring effects and Christian referents to produce complex and evocative expressions of faith. At the same time, they carefully manage signifiers of virtuosic agency that are intrinsic to the efficacy of gospel magic performance, but that also threaten to undermine their Christian message.Fellowship of Christian Magician
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