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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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Reconnaissance des capacités d'innovation des agriculteurs face aux pressions environnementalistes : projet scientifique [PDF]

, 2015
Recherche en socio-anthropologie dans le domaine des interactions entre processus d'innovations et pressions environnementalistes exercées par des acteurs publics ou privés sur les acteurs ruraux dans le contexte des systèmes agroforestiers et forestiers.
Sibelet, Nicole
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Care Pathways and Determinants in Essure® Contraceptive Implant Use and Removal: A Qualitative Study

Health Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Introduced in 2002, the Essure® implant was promoted as a minimally invasive permanent contraceptive. After widespread use, increasing reports of adverse effects led to its global withdrawal in 2018. This study explores the experiences of women in France who chose Essure®, focusing on their motivations and the factors leading to its
Jéronine Tengue, Adeline Darlington‐Bernard, Titouan Michon, Nathalie Bernoud‐Hubac, Benoit Ter‐Ovanessian, Ana‐Maria Trunfio‐Sfarghiu, Claude Dussart, Romain Lan, Florence Carrouel   +8 more
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Evidence of Vocal Gradation in the Vocal Repertoire of Wild Moor Macaques (Macaca maura)

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 3, March 2026.
Social‐tolerant wild moor macaques produce graded vocalizations. ABSTRACT Nonhuman primates constitute an ideal model to study the evolutionary origins of human language, because of their close phylogenetic distance to humans and their reliance on complex communication systems that include different signal types.
Federica Amici, Elisa Gregorio Hernandez, Victor Beltrán Francés, Bonaventura Majolo, Risma Illa Maulany, Putu Oka Ngakan, Katja Liebal, Kurt Hammerschmidt   +7 more
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Local/global : de la dualité au dialogue [PDF]

, 2010
Le colloque " Pour une socio-anthropologie de l'environnement ", s'est tenu à Paris, les 23 et 24 septembre 2010. Le présent compte rendu examine les concepts donnés dans le titre de la table ronde Local/ global : de la dualité au dialogue.
Sibelet, Nicole
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Du bon usage des drogues en religion. Consommations néo-chamaniques à Burning Man [PDF]

, 2009
Avec la massification de la « culture de l’authenticité et de l’expressivité » (Charles Taylor) à la suite de l’avènement de la société de consommation dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle est apparu le phénomène de la prise de psychotropes à des fins « 
Gauthier, François
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Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 150-166, March 2026.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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Women's sense of their hak, divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul Sens du hak des femmes, justice divine et économies du divorce à Istanbul

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 167-185, March 2026.
Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
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Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe Changer le monde, ferme par ferme : le soin moral de l'audit et le paradoxe des contrôles du bien‐être animal en Europe

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 55-74, March 2026.
In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
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