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Practices and Politics of Culture

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Japan

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Ethics | Japanese Thought | Hermeneutic Phenomenology | Art

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ISCTE

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Has a BA degree in Asian Studies from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon and a Master degree in Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at ISCTE-IUL, where he seeks to develop an articulation between hermeneutical phenomenology and anthropology, with application to field work. He is currently developing research on rural Japan, relational ethics, Japanese thought and philosophy and theory of knowledge in anthropology.

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Collaborator (2022-07-01)

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2018/09/01-2021/08/31

Re-interpretando a Tradição: Ética Relacional numa Comunidade Rural Japonesa

SFRH/BD/135843/2018

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

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Journal article

On the nature of tradition: The Japanese notion of furusato and a historical quest for place

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, History and Anthropology. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2337626 . 10.1080/02757206.2024.2337626 . published

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Culture, its mode of being: a proposal for reflection following Edward Sapir

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, Etnográfica. 101 - 116. 1. 28. 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.15175 . 10.4000/etnografica.15175 . published

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Over the ruins of subjects: A critique of subjectivism in anthropological discourse

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, Anthropological Theory. 292 - 312. 3. 23. 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14634996221128079 . 10.1177/14634996221128079 . published

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From Humility to Human Finitude: Robert R. Marett and the sketch of the ontological role of religion in the consciousness of human limitations [in PT]

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, 07-09-2022.

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The Work of Words: Poetry, Language and the Dawn of Community

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, Topoi. 497 - 504. 41. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-021-09740-7 . 10.1007/s11245-021-09740-7 . published

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The interval between humans: A probe into the possibilities of being

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, Culture & Psychology. 65 - 87. 1. 28. 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067x211017307 . 10.1177/1354067x211017307 . published

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At Home in the World: An ontology of landscape in Japan [in PT]

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, 23-03-2019.

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A Humanistic Trace: From the critical appraisal to the re-reading of Edward Sapir's 'Culture, Genuine and Spurious' [in PT]

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, 05-06-2019.

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Being and Landscape: An Ontological Inquiry into a Japanese Rural Community

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 232 - 246. 3. 20. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2019.1615121 . 10.1080/14442213.2019.1615121 . published

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The Suspension of the I: An anthropological interpretation of the concept of 'nothingness' in Japanese thought [in PT]

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, 06-09-2018.

Book review

Thomas P. KASULIS, Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2018

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5840/philosophica2018265233 . published

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Is Space a Part of Being? Reassessing Space Through Japanese Thought

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, philosophy@LISBON. 145 - 159. 5. 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16925 . published

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Being and Landscape: An Ontological Investigation in a Japanese Rural Community

Santos Alexandre, Ricardo, 31-08-2016.

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