James Fernandez
Biographic Data
| ID | 87850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Fernandez |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernandez |
| SIGNATURE | FERNANDEZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4502-1003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Psychosomatic intelligence of young soccer players. Relationship with sports injuries prevention and self-regulation
The athlete’s perception of internal and external information seems to be crucial for the prevention of sports injuries and the self-regulation of healthy states. The goal of this cross-sectional study was to explore the relationship of athlete’s psychosomatic intelligence with injuries and mind-body practices. After obtaining the ethical approval, 217 young soccer players responded to a Psychosomatic Competence questionnaire assessing six dimens…
Memory and Self-Reference
Our memories elicit, in us, both beliefs about what the external world was like in the past, and beliefs about what our own past experience of it was like in the past. What explains the power of memories to do that? I tackle this question by offering an account of the content of our memories. According to this account, our memories are 'token-reflexives', in that they represent their own causal origin. My main contention will be that our memories…
Memory in two dimensions
Memories can be accurate or inaccurate. They have, then, accuracy conditions. A reasonable picture of the accuracy conditions of a memory is that a memory is accurate just in case the reference of a memory satisfies the information provided by the memory. But how are the references of our memories determined exactly? And what are the accuracy conditions of memories, given their references? In this paper, I argue that the notion of accuracy condit…
Imagining oneself being someone else
Sometimes, one can imagine, in virtue of having some experience, that one is someone else having some property. This is puzzling if imagination is a guide to possibility, since it seems impossible for one to be someone else. In this paper, I offer a way of dissolving the puzzle. When one claims that, by having some experience, one imagines that one is someone else having some property, what one imagines, I suggest, is that if the other person had…
The Contents of Imagination
Our imaginings seem to be similar to our perceiving and remembering episodes in that they all represent something. They all seem to have content. But what exactly is the structure and the source of the content of our imaginings? In this paper, I put forward an account of imaginative content. The main tenet of this account is that, when a subject tries to imagine a state of affairs by having some experience, their imagining has a counterfactual co…
Observer memory and immunity to error through misidentification
Leisure and Death
Interdisciplinary study of dark tourism that examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practice is used to meditate upon and mediate life. Grounded in international anthropological case studies, the authors theorize on the links between spaces of death and leisure"--Provided by publisher
What are the benefits of memory distortion
I defend the view that beneficial memory distortion is possible. • I distinguish the reconstructive function of memory from its preservative function. • Observer memories of trauma could be beneficial in certain circumstances. • Fabricated memories of abuse could be beneficial in certain circumstances
Farewell Lord Jeffrey Amherst
Over the last quarter century or more there has been continuous debate in American colleges and universities over the use of icons and mascots as identity markers and subjects of dramatized playing field appearances and of rouse songs. For the most part these icons and mascots have been essentialized American Indians. The Amherst case is unique. The icon, mascot and song subject is an historical figure, Lord Jeffrey Amherst, the British general u…
Memory, past and self
The purpose of this essay is to determine how we should construe the content of memories. First, I distinguish two features of memory that a construal of mnemic content should respect. These are the ‘attribution of pastness’ feature (a subject is inclined to believe of those events that she remembers that they happened in the past) and the ‘attribution of existence’ feature (a subject is inclined to believe that she existed at the time that those…
Los Guardianes de la Tradición
Book Review| April 01 2004 Los Guardianes de la Tradición: Ensayos Sobre la "Invención" de la Cultura Popular Los Guardianes de la Tradición: Ensayos Sobre la "Invención" de la Cultura Popular, Luis Dýaz G. Viana. James Fernandez James Fernandez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 230–231. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137852 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
The Wild Man and the Elephant
Looking for a Good Deal (El Trato en Las Alpujarras) . 1992. A film by Naomi Vera‐Sanso 52 minutes, color
Els Tatuatges Dels Fang de l'Africa Occidental
Blazing the Trail
General/Theoretical Anthropology
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Historians Tell Tales
Persuasions and Performances
"This is a rich and stimulating collection of articles." -Journal of Ritual StudiesThe importance of the figurative imagination in human interaction is the focus of these seminal essays by cultural anthropologist James W. Fernandez
Ethnology
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
Ethnology
Conference on Religious Movements in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
La adivinanza en la Zona de los Ntumu
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
Observer memory and immunity to error through misidentification
Leisure and Death
Interdisciplinary study of dark tourism that examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practice is used to meditate upon and mediate life. Grounded in international anthropological case studies, the authors theorize on the links between spaces of death and leisure"--Provided by publisher
Farewell Lord Jeffrey Amherst
Over the last quarter century or more there has been continuous debate in American colleges and universities over the use of icons and mascots as identity markers and subjects of dramatized playing field appearances and of rouse songs. For the most part these icons and mascots have been essentialized American Indians. The Amherst case is unique. The icon, mascot and song subject is an historical figure, Lord Jeffrey Amherst, the British general u…
Memory, past and self
The purpose of this essay is to determine how we should construe the content of memories. First, I distinguish two features of memory that a construal of mnemic content should respect. These are the ‘attribution of pastness’ feature (a subject is inclined to believe of those events that she remembers that they happened in the past) and the ‘attribution of existence’ feature (a subject is inclined to believe that she existed at the time that those…
Historians Tell Tales
Conference on Religious Movements in Africa
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
La adivinanza en la Zona de los Ntumu
Ethnology
The Mission of Metaphor in Expressive Culture [and Comments and Reply]
The reappearance of the metaphor concept in ethnologic inquiry suggests the need for a clearer trope-ology than we now possess. Metaphor (and metonym) is defined here as the predication of a sign-image upon any of the set of inchoate pronouns-the essential social subjects. The study of metaphor is the study of the way these subjects take objects unto themselves or are assigned them-the way that, in the parlance of G. H. Mead, they "take the other…
Ethnology
Persuasions and Performances
"This is a rich and stimulating collection of articles." -Journal of Ritual StudiesThe importance of the figurative imagination in human interaction is the focus of these seminal essays by cultural anthropologist James W. Fernandez
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Historians Tell Tales
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Looking for a Good Deal (El Trato en Las Alpujarras) . 1992. A film by Naomi Vera‐Sanso 52 minutes, color
Els Tatuatges Dels Fang de l'Africa Occidental
Blazing the Trail
The Wild Man and the Elephant
Los Guardianes de la Tradición
Book Review| April 01 2004 Los Guardianes de la Tradición: Ensayos Sobre la "Invención" de la Cultura Popular Los Guardianes de la Tradición: Ensayos Sobre la "Invención" de la Cultura Popular, Luis Dýaz G. Viana. James Fernandez James Fernandez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2004) 117 (464): 230–231. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137852 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Memory, past and self
The purpose of this essay is to determine how we should construe the content of memories. First, I distinguish two features of memory that a construal of mnemic content should respect. These are the ‘attribution of pastness’ feature (a subject is inclined to believe of those events that she remembers that they happened in the past) and the ‘attribution of existence’ feature (a subject is inclined to believe that she existed at the time that those…
Farewell Lord Jeffrey Amherst
Over the last quarter century or more there has been continuous debate in American colleges and universities over the use of icons and mascots as identity markers and subjects of dramatized playing field appearances and of rouse songs. For the most part these icons and mascots have been essentialized American Indians. The Amherst case is unique. The icon, mascot and song subject is an historical figure, Lord Jeffrey Amherst, the British general u…
What are the benefits of memory distortion
I defend the view that beneficial memory distortion is possible. • I distinguish the reconstructive function of memory from its preservative function. • Observer memories of trauma could be beneficial in certain circumstances. • Fabricated memories of abuse could be beneficial in certain circumstances
Leisure and Death
Interdisciplinary study of dark tourism that examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practice is used to meditate upon and mediate life. Grounded in international anthropological case studies, the authors theorize on the links between spaces of death and leisure"--Provided by publisher
Observer memory and immunity to error through misidentification
The Contents of Imagination
Our imaginings seem to be similar to our perceiving and remembering episodes in that they all represent something. They all seem to have content. But what exactly is the structure and the source of the content of our imaginings? In this paper, I put forward an account of imaginative content. The main tenet of this account is that, when a subject tries to imagine a state of affairs by having some experience, their imagining has a counterfactual co…
Imagining oneself being someone else
Sometimes, one can imagine, in virtue of having some experience, that one is someone else having some property. This is puzzling if imagination is a guide to possibility, since it seems impossible for one to be someone else. In this paper, I offer a way of dissolving the puzzle. When one claims that, by having some experience, one imagines that one is someone else having some property, what one imagines, I suggest, is that if the other person had…
Psychosomatic intelligence of young soccer players. Relationship with sports injuries prevention and self-regulation
The athlete’s perception of internal and external information seems to be crucial for the prevention of sports injuries and the self-regulation of healthy states. The goal of this cross-sectional study was to explore the relationship of athlete’s psychosomatic intelligence with injuries and mind-body practices. After obtaining the ethical approval, 217 young soccer players responded to a Psychosomatic Competence questionnaire assessing six dimens…
Memory and Self-Reference
Our memories elicit, in us, both beliefs about what the external world was like in the past, and beliefs about what our own past experience of it was like in the past. What explains the power of memories to do that? I tackle this question by offering an account of the content of our memories. According to this account, our memories are 'token-reflexives', in that they represent their own causal origin. My main contention will be that our memories…
Memory in two dimensions
Memories can be accurate or inaccurate. They have, then, accuracy conditions. A reasonable picture of the accuracy conditions of a memory is that a memory is accurate just in case the reference of a memory satisfies the information provided by the memory. But how are the references of our memories determined exactly? And what are the accuracy conditions of memories, given their references? In this paper, I argue that the notion of accuracy condit…
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