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Measuring MAN (incorporating JRAI): Computational anthropological analysis and quantitative speculation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 32-54, March 2026.
Abstract In this paper, we present a foray into the computational study of anthropological texts. Drawing on a corpus of approximately 2,500 articles published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (formerly Man) from 1950 to 2018, we discuss selected findings from the deployment of two methods for computational text analysis, namely ...
Kristoffer Albris, Matei Candea, Thyge Enggaard, Terne Sasha Thorn Jakobsen, Morten Axel Pedersen   +4 more
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The Rhythmic and the Metronomic: On Charlie Chaplin's Gait

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Matthew Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Haunted by Houses: Built and Lived Absences in a Transnational Mexican Community

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Globally, millions of migrants have sent money home to build a house. In early phases of migration, remittance houses are aspirational objects that materialize the continuous belonging of migrants to a community. In later stages, experiences of loss, estrangement, deportation, and death increasingly challenge these attachments.
Julia Pauli
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“The Voice of Hotness from the Margins”. On the interaction of poetry and politics

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
In contemporary critical literature, there are various perspectives on the relationship be­tween the political and the poetic. Some view poetry as a form of politics, encapsulated in the aphorism ‘the word is a weapon’, while others argue that politics ...
Martynov M.Y.
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The Semiotics of Colors in Al Maghout Poetry [PDF]

دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2017
Mohammed Maghout expresses his feelings through colors and uses colors to communicate his ideas. He also uses colors to define and characterize his poetry and render it different from what is conventional so that it provokes more, appeals to the eye as ...
Tayseer Graykous, Fadia Sulaiman
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Abducted by a Terrestrial Alien: Sensory Distortions, Weird Fungi and Aerial Anomalies in a Decrepit Mountain Cabin

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This account explores how circumstances verging on the other‐worldly alter human perception and consciousness in a fieldwork situation. The case study involves an archaeological field survey team stranded for a time on a remote Lapland mountain.
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen, Vesa‐Pekka Herva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defamiliarization in Ibn Hisham’s Interpretation of The Poem, Banat Souad by Kaeb bin Zuhair [PDF]

دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2018
This study provides a new textual interpretation of the poem, Banat Souad by Kaeb bin Zuhair. This study emphasizes defamiliarization, which Kaeb has employed in his poem, technique which produces artistic and ideational richness.
Ghayath Babo
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SENSING BIMBIA: Ancestry Reconnection in an Anti‐Crisis Atmosphere

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 107-133, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the disappearance of the Bimbia slavery memorial from ancestry reconnection programming activities in 2018 as a reflection of an emerging effect of the “Anglophone” crisis in 2018: an anti‐crisis atmosphere. Building on growing literature that treats atmosphere as a mode of sensorial attunement, this article puts ...
VICTORIA M. MASSIE
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Text – Shape Defamiliarization in contemporary Arabic Poetry (servey and Review) [PDF]

دراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2013
Contemporary poets have employed all their literary devices to add creativity to their work . defamilian zation in text shape is one such device to break away from familiar writing conventions and create new implication. This device is also considered in
Ali Akbar Mohseni, Reza Kiani
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Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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