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The "Naturalistic Free Recall" dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions. [PDF]
Sci DataRaccah O +4 more
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 509-516, September 2025.ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Dataset for the recognition of Kurdish sound dialects. [PDF]
Data BriefRawf KMH +3 more
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 517-528, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the contested status of “sign language” in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.
Timothy Y. Loh
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Reports of Non‐Physical Beings Assisting in Reiki Sessions
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT The belief in non‐physical beings playing crucial roles in illness and healing is widespread across diverse cultures. Our previous study found reports of alleged non‐physical beings during energy medicine sessions. To evaluate the perceived presence and characteristics of non‐physical beings mentioned during Reiki sessions.
Helané Wahbeh +3 more
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Virtually Shamans: An Anthropological Perspective on AI Chatbots
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 2, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the emerging relationship between humans and AI chatbots through the anthropological lens of shamanic practice, proposing the concept of “virtually shamans” to understand these digital interactions. Drawing on ethnographic traditions of studying magic, spirituality, and technological mediation, we argue that AI chatbot ...
Mark Friis Hau, Jakob Krause‐Jensen
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Input to the Language Learning Infant: The Impact of Other Children
Developmental Science, Volume 28, Issue 5, September 2025.ABSTRACT In urban, industrialized cultures, the best predictor of how children acquire their native language is child‐directed speech from adults. However, in many societies, children are much less exposed to such input. What has remained unexplored is the impact of another type of input: other children's speech. In cross‐cultural head‐turn experiments,
Johanna Schick +2 more
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How to crip your sign language linguistic theory. [PDF]
J Deaf Stud Deaf EducHou L, Namboodiripad S.
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