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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Spiritual counselling and women's well-being in orthodox christianity: embryo adoption as surrogate motherhood. [PDF]

Front Glob Womens Health
Tarabrin R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Propaganda: Reinterpreting the Democratic Problem

Constellations, EarlyView.
Siri Sylvan
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptions of Contraceptive Use and Preconception Counselling among Women with Diabetes, Hypertension, and Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Qualitative Study. [PDF]

Rwanda J Med Health Sci
Nambaje J, Mukanumviye MS, Rutayisire DM, Ntirushwa D, Mucyo HM, Rutaganda E, Munyaneza E, Kabakambira JD, Munganyinka BC, Niyitegeka P, Rugema J, Hategekimana V, Nzamurambaho PH, Bagweneza V.   +13 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the lived experience of mothers of children with leukemia: a qualitative study from Iran. [PDF]

BMC Womens Health
Shaygani F, Jalali K, Javanmardi Fard H, Afrasiabi Z, Ahmadi Marzaleh M.   +4 more
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Beyond the Populist Moment: Nationalism and the Democratic Chain of Conflict

Constellations, EarlyView.
Michaelangelo Anastasiou
wiley   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source