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Searching for the beasts in the archive as methodological praxis
This article offers searching for the beasts in the archive as a methodological tool available to researchers invested in both anticolonialism and antianthropocentrism. By focusing on three basic units of reference—categories, histories, and borders—the article shows how searching for the beasts unsettles some taken‐for‐granted assumptions that ...
Senel Wanniarachchi
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Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther
In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ...
Esther Brownsmith
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Bound by blood and bloodshed: Sibling ties and participation in genocidal violence
Abstract Focusing on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, we examine how sibling relationships—one of the most salient familial bonds—influence individual engagement in violence during mass atrocity. Drawing on an adaptation of differential association and social learning theories for contexts of mass atrocity, we analyze a novel dataset linking over 300,000 ...
Jack G. R. Wippell +3 more
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Euphemization of Death Conceptual Domain in Old English
Euphemisation is a popular research topic in linguistics. However, no reliable classification has appeared for the study of cryptolalic euphemisms because the adjacent position of this concept in the terminology of euphemisms remains understudied.
Sofya A. Lunina
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Source: Friedrich von Hagedorn: Sämmtliche poetische Werke, Leipzig: Reclam, o.J.
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Thinking through payment in fieldwork
Abstract Ethnographic research has long illuminated diverse economic relations. Yet ethnographers have said little about an economic relation that they themselves often rely on: payment in fieldwork. Indeed, the particularities of monetary exchange between ethnographers and their interlocutors often remain hidden—or taboo.
Tijo Salverda +6 more
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ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci +3 more
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Etymology and entomology: The semiotics and ethics of multispecies gene nomenclatures
Abstract This article examines controversies surrounding gene names that are perceived as humorous in the context of fruit flies but are considered rude in the clinical context of human medicine. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in insect laboratories, interviews with entomologists and geneticists, and an analysis of scientific and clinical ...
Colin M. E. Halverson
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Zegris eupheme (Esper, 1804) Distribution: Mediterranean-Asiatic Notes: References: Cooke (1928), Agenjo (1963a), Agenjo (1970a), Gómez-Bustillo & Fernández-Rubio (1974), Lencina & Albert (1998), Calle et al. (2000), Lencina (2001), Garre (2007), Ortiz et al. (2007), González-López (2008), Aistleitner (2016), Abad & Albadalejo (2025).
Garre, Manuel +6 more
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Palatal violence: Sonic gatekeeping and enemy‐making in wartime Ukraine
Abstract Within 2 days of Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine, a single word—palianytsia, a Ukrainian round loaf—became a phonetic test separating Ukrainians from Russians. The article traces how a culinary term was enregistered as a wartime shibboleth that structurally marks the very citizens it was meant to protect as enemies.
Anatoli Ulyanov
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