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ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
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ABSTRACT Drawing on Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough and Philosophical Grammar, it is shown that, from a hermeneutic perspective, the Middle Wittgenstein, develops a fluid model of understanding which supposes a fixable meaning of any given text. In this context, to understand a text (intransitively) means to (imaginatively) play the language games ...
Sebastian Abel
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Generative AI and the Future of Musical Diversity
Abstract I argue that the current proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new stage in a longer historical process of distancing humans from their unique individual psyches and of reducing participation and cultural diversity in music. The argument consists of six parts: (1) reiterating the uniqueness of individual psyches,
Dor Shilton
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Teaching Through Making: |xam and !xun Material Culture of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection
ABSTRACT At Wits Art Museum (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a small collection donated to the former Wits Museum of Ethnology by Percival Kirby in 1952. A note in the accession register ties the items into the context of the renowned ‘Bushman researches’ of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd in Cape Town in the 1870s and ...
Vibeke M. Viestad, Justine Wintjes
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ABSTRACT Although the Philippines is gaining growing recognition as an effective site for English learning, especially among Japanese and Korean students, critical attention must be paid to the instrumentalization of Filipino instructors and the country, and the racialized discourse and practice.
Aika Ishige
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An Introductory Perspective on “Computer Ethnology” [PDF]
The term of "computer ethnology" was given to one of the research divisions of the National Museum of Ethnology. Initially, this term was considered synonymous with computer applications in ethnological studies, such as information retrieval, image ...
スギタ, シゲハル +2 more
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Towards a Social History of Early Modern Dutch [PDF]
In Towards a Social History of Early Modern Dutch benadert Peter Burke de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse taal tussen 1500 en 1800 vanuit een sociaal-cultureel historisch perspectief.
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The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy
Abstract This essay draws from the author's personal experiences to examine how forgetting and remembering operate in Ukrainian society following the totalitarian era, particularly under the ongoing full‐scale Russian invasion. It draws on ideas from Paul Connerton, Alexander Etkind, and Tamara Hundorova regarding memory and the effects of violence on ...
Julia Buyskykh
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Beyond the war: Essays on loss, resilience and Hope. Introduction to a “Ukrainian section”
Abstract This short essay examines epistemic injustice within contemporary hierarchies of knowledge, and it argues for more insightful, sensuous, and grassroots forms of knowledge production “from the edges” to shine a light on the persistent inequality between ways of knowing and ways of (de)valuing different epistemologies.
Olena Sobolieva, Julia Buyskykh
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An act of gathering: Scholarship from posttotalitarian contexts
Abstract Researching a community living through violence and its aftermath reshapes the ethical stakes of the work and challenges claims to academic objectivity by foregrounding insights drawn from the lived experience of the field. My discussion here is structured around three such insights. The first is that a community after violence is not simply a
Olena Sobolieva
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