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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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The Novel And The Autobiography: Reflection On The Literary Paradox Of Genres In Rebecca Walker’s Black, White And Jewish (2001) And Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) [PDF]

Akofena
: This study focuses on the literary paradox including the African-American autobiography and the novel. It analyses the factual or nonfictional and fictional patterns of the autobiography and the novel respectively in Rebecca Walker’s Black, White and ...
Seydou CISSÉ
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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Flows, mediations and narratives: the communication process of the fictional audiovisual genres in Brazilian webseries of Netflix

, 2020
A proposta do artigo é analisar o consumo cultural de séries exibidas pela Netflix em relação ao processo de comunicação dos gêneros audiovisuais, observando a tecnicidade da plataforma streaming, modelo próprio de classificação “gêneros” e seu fluxo ...
Gonçalves, Carlos Pereira
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Modern French Studding of the Biographical Texts: Prolegomena

Pitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva, 2014
The article deals with the main directions of the studding of the biography as a text in the modern French humanities. We described the structural and the functional peculiarities of the biographical text (discourse), particularly based on the fictional ...
Alina Hromyk
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How Swiss is Swiss television? Analysing structural and content references in SRG SSR television programmes

Studies in Communication Sciences, 2022
No Billag – in Switzerland, the debate about the necessity and financial viability of public broadcasting has been sparked anew. Closely linked are questions about the public value of the SRG SSR and how much of Switzerland is actually portrayed on Swiss
Eva Spittka, Vivien Benert, Matthias Wagner, Stephanie Fiechtner   +3 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Trust and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Fictional Genres and Metacognitive Disruptions

This dissertation investigates how constructions of trust can be undermined or reinforced by examining trust’s entanglement with our compulsive and subjective desire to know in nineteenth-century American literature. Specifically, I analyze how different
Van Gilder, Jessica Marie
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