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Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Language Games About Language Games: Wittgensteinian Hermeneutics Between Imaginative Participation and Analysis

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Generative AI and the Future of Musical Diversity

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Through Making: |xam and !xun Material Culture of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2027.
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
wiley   +1 more source

English Learning, Coloniality, and Racism: Practice and Discourse of Study Abroad in the Philippines in the Japanese ELT Market

open access: yesTESOL Journal, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

An Introductory Perspective on “Computer Ethnology” [PDF]

open access: yes
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
core   +1 more source

Towards a Social History of Early Modern Dutch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
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.
Peter Burke   +2 more
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The orphaned orchard in Crimea, the dead poets, and the persistence of Ukrainian cultural legacy

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the war: Essays on loss, resilience and Hope. Introduction to a “Ukrainian section”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

An act of gathering: Scholarship from posttotalitarian contexts

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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