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AI as guru or conjurer?

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 136-141, May 2026.
Abstract This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle.
Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Agrarian counterpoint

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 171-182, May 2026.
Abstract In Colombia's northeastern borderlands, agrarian economies shape how disease risk and stigma are understood and managed. As shown in ethnographic fieldwork in and around the Catatumbo region, cutaneous leishmaniasis—a sandfly‐transmitted disease that produces chronic skin lesions—appears in two radically different guises across adjacent ...
Javier Lezaun, Lina Pinto‐García
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The Complexity of Expressions of Approval—One Aspect of Relational Practice in Diverse Workplaces

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1045-1055, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The majority of workplaces in Aotearoa New Zealand typically include team members from diverse cultural backgrounds, and yet an orientation to majority group norms (in this case, Pākehā) still dominates. In this article, we draw on naturally occurring workplace talk in a range of workplaces to explore both dominant group practices and norms ...
Janet Holmes, Bernadette Vine
wiley   +1 more source

Investing in Game‐Based Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE): A Chinese‐Speaking Gaming Community

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1371-1387, May 2026.
ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
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Overreliance on Orthographic Similarity in L2‐Japanese Conceptual Processing by L1‐Chinese Learners

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1807-1820, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Orthographic and phonological similarities between first (L1) and second (L2) languages can facilitate L2 processing. Particularly, L1‐Chinese learners of L2‐Japanese can benefit from the shared morphosyllabic Chinese characters (Japanese kanji/Chinese hanzi) because of their similar orthographies.
Xuehan Zhao, Kexin Xiong, Sachiko Kiyama
wiley   +1 more source

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