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Virtuoses ambivalents

Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2011
This article compares the approaches of two different classes of magicians: entertainers who use illusion to entertain and apostles of Christianity who use illusion to evangelize.
Graham Jones
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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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Dream and Sensory Illusions in Seventeenth-century France

Etudes Epistémè, 2016
What does the apparently simple phrase “sensorial illusion” mean in the case of dreams? What forms did the century of Calderón, Shakespeare and Descartes give to this illusion ?
Florence Dumora (Université Paris-Diderot, CERILAC)   +1 more
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Overcoming the Paradox of Measuring Self‐Awareness Development by Focusing on Outcomes

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many HRD interventions aim to enhance self‐awareness to shape employee behavior, to develop skills, or as a performance‐related outcome. But measuring this development faces significant metacognitive challenges: self‐awareness changes when one's attention is directed to it, and self‐report relies on accurate self‐awareness.
Anna Sutton, Samantha Carey
wiley   +1 more source

Lamarckian Illusions

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2015
In recent years the term 'Lamarckian evolution' has become a household name for processes that do not follow classical Mendelian pattern of inheritance, and it is seen as a relevant complement to Darwinism. In this article I argue that bringing back Lamarck is unjustified and misleading.
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Spiritual Cannibalism in HRD: How Workplace Spirituality Devours Sacred Traditions

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper interrogates how the discourse of workplace spirituality in human resource development (HRD) operates as a tool of colonization. Through a systematic review of 48 articles published between 1997 and March 2025, the study uncovers recurring patterns of spiritual appropriation in which non‐Western traditions are detached from their ...
Shoaib Ul‐Haq
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and Use of AI Generated Photographs: Illusion, Delusion and Make-Belief in The Digital Space

Sanskriti
This study examines the influence of gender on use of AI generated photographs, and how they create illusion, delusion and make-belief in the mind of the people. The idea behind this study is because of the proliferation of AI-generated images that have
Ifeanyi M. Nwokeocha, Samuel Asukwo Etifit   +1 more
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The illusion confusion [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
In Batty (2010b), I argue that there are no olfactory illusions. Central to the traditional notions of illusion and hallucination is a notion of object-failure-the failure of an experience to represent particular objects. Because there are no presented objects in the case of olfactory experience, I argue that the traditional ways of categorizing non ...
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar, Julien Cayla, Jean‐Baptiste Suquet   +2 more
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