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How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria. Wale Adebanwi

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Review of How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria by Wale Adebanwi. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2024. lvii + 526 pp. US dollars 49.00 (paperback). ISBN 9780253070364.

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Linguistic Citizenship Inside and Beyond the Coloniality of English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article describes how Black students within educational settings are positioned in relation to English, while also foregrounding fleeting moments of liberation and transformation. We focus specifically on the role of English within the linguistic repertoires of Black students in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector ...
Alexa Anthonie, Marcelyn Oostendorp
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Shifting Paradigms In Subaltern Literature: Women As Subaltern

open access: yes, 2018
To Provide a glimpse into the representation of the unheard women subaltern within the patriarchal culture. To revisit relocate and reflect upon the image of the female subaltern as presented hitherto in the select literary texts To explore and analyse the changing configurations and shifiting paradigms in the literary Presentation of the image of ...
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Artificial interlocutors: AI chatbots, mediated knowledge, and the ethnographic encounter

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract This article explores treating AI chatbots as “artificial interlocutors” in ethnographic research. Drawing on a small‐scale experiment with a consenting participant, it examines accounts of her produced by two AI systems, ChatGPT, and Kindroid, both of which had accumulated substantial interaction histories with her.
Jennifer Cearns
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The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
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