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Webb Keane
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 53
Citations - 4126
Webb Keane is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ideology & Agency (philosophy). The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 52 publications receiving 3833 citations. Previous affiliations of Webb Keane include University of Pennsylvania.
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Semiotics and the social analysis of material things
TL;DR: In this paper, Peircean semiotics can contribute to the social analysis of material artifacts, focusing on the concepts of iconicity and indexicality, paying particular attention to their roles in mediating contingency and causality, and their relation with possible actions.
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Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the history of Protestantism in the United States and its history in the Colonies, including the story of Umbu Neka's conversion and the use of Fetishism and the Word.
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The politics of method in the human sciences : positivism and its epistemological others
TL;DR: The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences as mentioned in this paper provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences, focusing on the decades since World War II.
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Sincerity, "Modernity," and the Protestants
TL;DR: The project of religious conversion commonly proposes a more or less dramatic transformation of the person as mentioned in this paper, and it may offer more general insights into the practices by which human subjects are constituted.
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Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society
Rita Smith Kipp,Webb Keane +1 more
TL;DR: Keane as mentioned in this paper explores the implicit logic of speaking in pairs and argues that the replicability of utterances among different speakers displace utterances from persons and bespeak the transcendent authority of ancestors.