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Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 319-331, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to sociolinguistic scholarship on register formations, digital technology, and labor by analyzing technofuturist registers—historically inherited, typified, and socially shared modes of speaking about technology. These registers create distinct modes of feeling, relating, idealizing, and desiring technology and its ...
Alfonso Del Percio
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‘What Can They Criticise Us for, Loving Each Other Too Much?’: Visa Bans for Mixed Marriages Between Moroccan Soldiers and French Women After the Second World War

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 919-930, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule by engaging with how the French colonial state controlled the marriages permitted between French women and Moroccan soldiers who had fought in France during the Second World War.
Catherine Phipps
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Mythogeographies of anthropological knowledge: writing over the lines and footsteps of history in Southwest China

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 808-829, September 2025.
In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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The Fashioning of the Humanist Governor at the Dawn of a New Political and Cultural Era: Francesco Barbaro as Podestà of Venetian Vicenza

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 473-492, September 2025.
Abstract The patrician Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454) is well known for having been both a first‐class humanist and a figurehead of the Venetian government in the new territories of the Stato da Terra. This article explores the pioneering use of humanist culture in the official praises he received during his political career, which helped shape a ...
Clémence Revest
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Assessing the relative influence of island climatic and geographical factors on body size in an endangered iguana species of the French Caribbean

Journal of Zoology, Volume 326, Issue 4, Page 392-402, August 2025.
This study examines the influence of climatic and geographical factors on the body size of iguanas in the Lesser Antilles. We show that iguana body size increases with island size and decreases with distance from the mainland, suggesting that geographical conditions have a greater influence on body size compared to climatic conditions.
F. Desigaux, K. Martin, M. Breuil, B. Thierry, N. Rebout, J.‐R. Gros‐Désormeaux, D. Chevallier   +6 more
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Dendroglyphs, Pictographs and Social Identity in the Wet Tropics Rainforest of Northeastern Australia

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 119-131, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This research examines rock art and dendroglyphs in the Wet Tropics of northeast Australia to investigate their relationship to linguistic social identity. The region was selected for its complex socio‐cultural landscape, marked by a diversity of languages in a distinct, relatively small area.
Alice Buhrich
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The clock‐drawing test: reading temporalities of dementia from clinical chart notes Le test de l'horloge : lire les temporalités de la démence dans les notes des dossiers cliniques

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 91-108, April 2025.
The clock‐drawing test, a cognitive screening test widely used clinically, is here taken as a window onto forms of temporality present in clinical encounters involving dementia. Drawing on close reading of clinical notes from their medical records, I offer imagistic silhouettes of three older adults in the Seattle area who had no living spouse or ...
Janelle S. Taylor
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Décentrer le regard : l’histoire populaire des luttes et des résistances

Cahiers d’histoire, 2017
Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, professeur émérite à l’université Claude-Bernard Lyon-I, est une historienne, chercheuse, profondément aussi une formatrice, comme on le sent à la lecture de ses ouvrages et de cet entretien.
Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, Anne Jollet
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Introduction. Ageing time beings: Temporality and ethics in old ages Introduction. Des êtres temporels vieillissants : temporalité et éthique du grand âge

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 5-18, April 2025.
What can we learn about temporality by studying different ways of measuring time, institutional time regimes, and (a)typical experiences and creations of time when growing older? This introduction sets perspectives on this question from the anthropologies of ageing, ethics, and temporality.
Lone Grøn, Lotte Meinert
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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