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Transatlantic crossing in the 1920s and 30s – the trajectories of the European poetic and scientific avant-garde in Brazil

open access: yesGragoatá, 2016
This article focuses on four paradigmatic cases of travelers. The central part concerns Dina Lévi-Strauss who gave the first course on modern ethnography in Brazil.
Ellen Spielmann
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Impact of Drug and Alcohol Use on Family, Work, Emotional and Leisure Time Life

open access: yesJournal of Family Therapy, Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT While numerous studies examine the characteristics of families affected by psychoactive substance (PAS) use, less attention has been given to the broader impact of substance use on key aspects of family life. This study explores the effects of PAS consumption on four dimensions: family dynamics, work, emotional well‐being, and leisure time.
Alejandra Villamil‐Sánchez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Claude Levi-Strauss: Mask and Myth

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
This paper discuss a relationship between mask and myth and how the appropriate analysis by Claude Levi-Strauss may make clearer a complex field of masks in the part of North America.
Senka Kovač
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE TRAFFIC IN REPAIRMEN AND A CASE OF GENDER IMPROPRIETY IN POST‐WAR SARAJEVO

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 275-296, May 2026.
ABSTRACT In postwar Sarajevo, repair is mainly a masculine activity, and people lean on communal networks to get things fixed under dire economic circumstances. Yet increased numbers of women without men in their households as an effect of the war necessitate the mediation of other women in facilitating access to men's labor.
HALİDE VELİOĞLU
wiley   +1 more source

Teamwork Bricolage and HRM in a Time of Crisis: Workplace Strategies of Frontline Healthcare Professionals

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 366-382, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how healthcare professionals navigate relational dynamics within a frontline healthcare team in a time of crisis and with limited HRM support. Drawing on scholarship about work teams, HRM and bricolage, the paper analyzes research data from interviews with kinesiologists at an Accidents & Emergency (A&E) hospital in ...
Jenny K. Rodriguez, Stephen Procter
wiley   +1 more source

JEAN PAUL SARTRE Y CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS: notas sobre una polémica en torno al eclesiastés modermo. Epistemología, ciencias humanas y filosofia

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia, 2008
El presente trabajo realiza una lectura en clave epistemológica de la polémica animada en la década de 1960 entre Jean Paul Sartre y Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Diego A. Mauro
doaj   +1 more source

Reading Australia in a grain of rice

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 87-100, April 2026.
Abstract By ethnographically reading Australia in a grain of rice, this article recasts Australia's entangled histories with the Asia‐Pacific and the epistemic tensions through which rice emerges as a source of sustenance and metabolic concern in everyday life.
Malini Sur
wiley   +1 more source

How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 63-72, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
wiley   +1 more source

‘We all live well together now’: Ethics, ontology, and the face of the other « Nous vivons bien ensemble maintenant » : éthique, ontologie et visage de l'autre

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 874-898, September 2025.
Ethics and ontology have become prominent concepts in recent anthropology, informing a variety of research endeavours. Despite their different approaches, agendas, and concerns, they share a central focus on alterity and the relationship between self and other: Who is the other? How should I relate to the other?
Jan David Hauck
wiley   +1 more source

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