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From venomous snakebites to anomalous spirits (in three easy steps) [PDF]
, 2015 I came to Oxford as an undergraduate in Human Sciences. This was where I first encountered social anthropology and its power as a method of comparative and reflexive critique.
Dolley, Daniel
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Kuwae, Epi and Tongoa Islands: Transformations of a volcanic landscape in central Vanuatu
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a detailed overview of archaeological research undertaken on Epi and Tongoa, in central Vanuatu. These islands were previously connected to one another and respectively formed the western and eastern portions of Kuwae, one of the largest islands in the Vanuatu archipelago, until the catastrophic Tombuk volcanic eruption ...
ROBERT HENDERSON +7 more
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African Nightclubs of Lisbon and Madrid as Spaces of Cultural Resistance
Open Cultural Studies, 2019 The main objective of this article involves describing how African nightclubs of Lisbon have become spaces for cultural resistance against certain representations of African-ness, taking Madrid as a contrasting case.
Sedano Livia Jiménez
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Fazendo pessoas e fazendo roças entre os Panará do Brasil Central
Revista de Antropologia, 2005 Neste artigo, o valor panará de disposição e sociabilidade (suakiin) é contrastado com seu oposto, falta de disposição e retraimento social (suangka), para mostrar como a vida codiana panará é constituída. Caracterizadas como condições físicas, sociais e
Elizabeth Ewart
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Nanaga Site of Wasavulu (Labasa, Fiji): Mapping of a Traditional Religious Site of Vanua Levu
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pre‐Christian religious sites of the Fijian Archipelago have been seldom studied and even less often mapped by archaeologists. This is especially the case for the enigmatic Nanaga enclosures, whose functioning has remained poorly documented by the first ethnographers of the 19th century.
Christophe Sand +5 more
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Commentary: Three questions for the study of traumatic brain injury in animals
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Gregory Hollin
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The Short Anthropological Guide to the Study of Ethical AI [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Over the next few years, society as a whole will need to address what core values it wishes to protect when dealing with technology. Anthropology, a field dedicated to the very notion of what it means to be human, can provide some interesting insights into how to cope and tackle these changes in our Western society and other areas of the world.
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Anthropological knowledge production [PDF]
, 2020 The reader of What is Anthropology? could see this book as an introduction to the power of the anthropological craft vividly visualized by the globally recognized educational father of anthropology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, giving his perspective on the ...
Cidrelius, Daniel
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The past and future of the evolutionary taxonomy of cultures [PDF]
, 2010 Anthropology was originally conceived as a bridge between the natural and social sciences. Its remit was to fill in the gaps in knowledge about human history between the emergence of our species and the appearance of the first civilizations in written ...
Tehrani, J.J.
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Survey of Cultural Awareness in Language Models: Text and Beyond [PDF]
arXivLarge-scale deployment of large language models (LLMs) in various applications, such as chatbots and virtual assistants, requires LLMs to be culturally sensitive to the user to ensure inclusivity. Culture has been widely studied in psychology and anthropology, and there has been a recent surge in research on making LLMs more culturally inclusive in ...
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