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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
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
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Claude Levi-Strauss: Mask and Myth
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
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
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THE TRAFFIC IN REPAIRMEN AND A CASE OF GENDER IMPROPRIETY IN POST‐WAR SARAJEVO
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
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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
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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
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Reading Australia in a grain of rice
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
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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
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
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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
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