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Claude Levi-Strauss: Mask and Myth
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 This paper discuss a relationship between mask and myth and how the appropriate analysis by Claude Levi-Strauss may make clearer a complex field of masks in the part of North America.
Senka Kovač
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An Anthropological Reading of the Modern World
Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2014 REVIEW TEXT: Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Anthropology before the modern world problems. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2012. 94 p.
Joicy Suely Galvão da Costa Fernandes +1 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 983-1002, September 2026.Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 707-717, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Meaning in Morphological Method
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT The reception history of Goethean morphology is not only interdisciplinary in scope, but it also comprises various contested interpretations of morphological method, such as how to determine the relation between metamorphosis and type. This article surveys some of the recent philosophical reception history of Goethean morphology with a focus ...
Isabel Jacobs, Daniel Whistler
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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Progress and dialogue in cultural analysis are often hindered by analysts' reliance on implicit ontic claims, namely, foundational, unstated assumptions about the expected properties and typical characteristics of cultural kinds, thus precluding proper debate and theoretical progress.
Omar Lizardo
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Impact of Drug and Alcohol Use on Family, Work, Emotional and Leisure Time Life
Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT While numerous studies examine the characteristics of families affected by psychoactive substance (PAS) use, less attention has been given to the broader impact of substance use on key aspects of family life. This study explores the effects of PAS consumption on four dimensions: family dynamics, work, emotional well‐being, and leisure time.
Alejandra Villamil‐Sánchez +4 more
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İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi“Perhaps it would be wiser to let obsolete theories fall into oblivion, and not to awake the dead. But, as old King Arkel says, history does not produce useless events.” (Lévi-Strauss, Totemism, p. 15).According to Marshall Sahlins, “All famous theorists
Şeyda Sevde Tunçbilek
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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THE TRAFFIC IN REPAIRMEN AND A CASE OF GENDER IMPROPRIETY IN POST‐WAR SARAJEVO
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 275-296, May 2026.ABSTRACT In postwar Sarajevo, repair is mainly a masculine activity, and people lean on communal networks to get things fixed under dire economic circumstances. Yet increased numbers of women without men in their households as an effect of the war necessitate the mediation of other women in facilitating access to men's labor.
HALİDE VELİOĞLU
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