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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 1022-1039, September 2026.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 581-594, September 2026.ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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(Un)threading Rhythms: On Affect and Vibe in a Rave
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT In Toronto, raves arise across large nightclubs, DIY venues and outdoors, despite changing regulations that have further arranged and narrowed their possibility in the past 4 years. Following a rave in Toronto, this work explores ways that potentialities and affects emerge in a single night, through my entry of taking part in dancing and ...
Tatiana Yunadi
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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What It Was Like, What Happened, What It Is Like Now: Liminal Spaces and the Pedagogy of Recovery
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT Addiction recovery is frequently interpreted through biomedical or punitive frameworks that overlook its cultural, ritual, and pedagogical dimensions. This article offers a theoretical and interpretive analysis of peer‐led, meeting‐based recovery communities in North America, particularly those organized around mutual‐aid traditions such as ...
Patrick L. Pellett
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Mysticism : value and validity of mystical experiences
, 2015 Mystiset kokemukset ovat hyvin erityislaatuisia kokemuksia, jotka kuvausten ja määritelmien perusteella näyttäisivät ylittävän normaalin käsityskykymme rajat aina sen perustavimpia rakenteita myöten. Kautta aikojen, mystikot lähtöisin lukuisista eri perinteistä ja jopa täysin perinteiden ulkopuolelta ovat kertoneet kohdanneensa toisenlaisen ...
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International Progress and Colonial Critique in E.H. Carr's Reflexive Realism
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 311-320, September 2026.
Arturo Chang
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