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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

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In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic autonomy and political sovereignty. Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. In Ecuador, this has created a boom that is changing the economic fortunes of many Indigenous Amazonians.

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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

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Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries.

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Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal

Anthropology News

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. Result African companies facing economic difficulties in 2024 are turn into artificial intelligence to reduce marketing and advertising expenses, raising concerns about potential job losses.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

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The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data

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PC Magazine concisely defines user data as “any data a user creates or owns,” but this flaunts the crux of user data’s ethical quagmire: to what extent do any users own their data? In other words, I found myself in the unusual situation of occupying both “realms”—industry and academic anthropology—simultaneously.