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Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health‐seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty‐eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients’ diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis.
Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman
wiley   +1 more source

Why Do Voters Vote for ‘the Other Side’? Instrumental and Expressive Motives for Cross‐Ethnolinguistic Voting in Brussels

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert, Silvia Erzeel, Didier Caluwaerts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Des choses aux mots, des mots au discours : pour une utilisation maximale des données des atlas linguistiques et ethnographiques

La Bretagne Linguistique, 1989
The dialectologist’s interest in the cultural environment of the language is no longer seen as a mere illustration of the language data. Increasingly, dialectologists have felt the need for what we will call a multidisciplinary opening.
Xavier Ravier
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Speaking to Power: How Linguistic Minority Accents Shape Voter Perceptions of Party Leaders

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In multilingual countries, does the way minority group members speak the majority language hinder their chances of attaining the highest political office? Can their accent undermine their claim to represent all citizens? Is it associated with certain stereotypes?
Florence Laflamme, Philippe Chassé
wiley   +1 more source

La langue bretonne à Arradon au XXe siècle

La Bretagne Linguistique, 2010
Language change, from Breton to French, occuring in Western Brittany during XXth century, is studied on a village scale of the Vannes area: Arradon. Ethno-socio-linguistic approach enlighten oral accounts from a few native Breton speakers.
Armelle Audic
doaj   +1 more source

Welcome Home: A Shared Identity Recognition in the Time of Crisis

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does a society sustain collective identity when formal citizenship and cultural recognition persistently diverge? Drawing on qualitative interviews with native‐born sabras and Russian‐speaking immigrants in Israel, this article develops a recognition‐gap framework specifying the mechanisms through which national belonging is produced ...
Mania Borzenko
wiley   +1 more source

Evil: Concept and Reality. Ethnolinguistics Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2016
The research of forms and etymologies of names of mythical can provide a safe and straightforward way to discover the ancient meanings of myths and mythical-religious representations essence named by them.
Voica Radu-Călugăru
doaj  

Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

I stumbled when I saw: Fieldwork, fallibility, and the politics of being wrong

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract What does it mean for an anthropologist to be wrong? This essay takes the question seriously in two registers at once: the everyday mistakes of fieldwork, from mistranslating a greeting to misreading a shaved head as a sign of mourning, and the deeper entitlement through which our discipline claimed authority over other people's languages and ...
Mark Turin
wiley   +1 more source

The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
wiley   +1 more source