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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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LeviathanDer Annahme der Kontingenz liegt eine formale Anthropologie des Menschseins zugrunde, die begründet, warum es im Politischen letzte Gründe nicht geben kann.
Frauke Höntzsch
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The evolutionary study of human dispersal is a key topic in biological anthropology. However, recent research has revealed inconsistencies between molecular and anatomical data across different timescales and geographic regions. Despite increased interdisciplinary dialogue, these discordances are rarely analyzed in depth or interpreted for ...
Lumila Paula Menéndez, Sophie Veigl
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Nature CommunicationsStudies have found a pronounced decline in male effective population sizes worldwide around 3000–5000 years ago. This bottleneck was not observed for female effective population sizes, which continued to increase over time.
Léa Guyon +4 more
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Cache‐Cache: Dans les souffles du Grand Fleuve…
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between ventriloquism and divination, devotion and consecration, an old and sublime marine game unfolds each day, with living breaths shared in the waters of the great river. In Tadoussac, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary, at the mouth of the Saguenay, the rumor of whales has long resonated.
David Jaclin +3 more
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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American Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 7, July 2026.Lemur species respond differently to fire‐related vegetation changes (structure, species diversity) according to body size and ecological specialization in the dry deciduous forests of northwestern Madagascar. ABSTRACT Habitat quality is a key determinant of wildlife distribution. Fire degrades forests by increasing canopy openness and eliminating even
Naina Ratsimba Rabemananjara +8 more
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Urbana: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos da Cidade, 2013 Resenha de CHOAY, Françoise. Pour une anthropologie de l’espace. Paris: Seuil, 2006.
Amilcar Torrão Filho
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 412-433, June 2026.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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