DEBARY, Octave, 2025. Retourner le monde : arts, anthropologies, ressemblances.

Baracchini_Leïla Published: Categories: French

Avec ce nouvel ouvrage, Octave Debary livre le fruit de vingt ans de recherche autour de l’anthropologie des restes et de la mémoire. Réunissant un corpus d’« arts de la mémoire » (p. 33), ce livre offre une relecture transversale des thèmes et des terrains qui ont jalonné les travaux antérieurs de l’auteur : De la poubelle au musée : anthropologie des restes (2019) ; La ressemblance dans l’œuvre de Jochen Gerz (2017) ; Les fantômes de Christian Boltanski (2023), pour engager une réflexion[…]

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Michael M. Cernea

Managing Editor Published: Categories: English

1931-2026 Dr. Michael M. Cernea, the Romanian-born sociologist who helped place people at the heart of the World Bank’s approach to development, died on September 10, 2026, aged 94. His career rested on a conviction: development must be judged not only by economic returns and infrastructure, but by its consequences for people, their livelihoods and […]

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Traces of a Magical Class Struggle

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

The Tattarisuo Mystery was a sensationalized witchcraft case in Finland in the early 1930s. At its centre was a group of displaced working-class individuals, called by the press the Tattarisuo coven, who sought through magical rituals to re…

A Revelation You Can Taste

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

How do practitioners learn to recognize divine presence? Drawing on apprentice ethnography in the Court of Aine, a Swedish Wiccan coven—four interviews and some twenty ritual occasions—this article argues that revelation is best understood …

Religion: Concealed and Revealed

Tiina Mahlamäki Published: Categories: English

Within religion, spirituality and esotericism aspects of concealment and revelation are a recurring theme. This thematic issue brings together articles developed from papers presented at the summer school and conference Religion: Concealed …

The Kantele of Lucifer

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

In this article I explore the evolving relationship the Finnish poet and journalist Aarni Kouta had to the mythological character of Lucifer over his lifetime. Kouta was a prominent figure in the early-twentieth-century Finnish cultural sph…

From Concealment to Heritage

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

This article examines the historical formation and contemporary significance of Kirishitan shrines (Kirishitan jinja) in Nagasaki Prefecture. Rather than viewing Kakure Kirishitan survival primarily as the preservation of Christian practice…

A Feminine Enlightenment?

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

The focus of the article is Duchess Hedwig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp and her involvement in Freemasonry, specifically through her lodge of adoption, which operated within the Stockholm royal castle in the late eighteenth centu…

Nature as a Site of Alternative Epistemologies

Irene Stengs Published: Categories: English

In this article I engage with the video works Sentimentum and Fantomi by the Finnish visual artist Venla Helenius, departing from the conceptual frameworks of esotericism and critical posthumanism. In these video works, different epistemolo…