Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Diferentes tipos de seres demoniacos viven en la Pachamama, la personificación de la naturaleza, y se alimentan de los sacrificios que los humanos les hacen con la finalidad de asegurarse una buena salud, prosperidad en las cosechas, y multiplic…
This article addresses the stool of thought from the perspective of a researcher from the Bará people of the Upper Negro River, an Eastern Tukanoan people situated in Northwestern Amazonia. Bará children are offered the stool, a being consi…
“Eric, you no longer have an Americano soul,” my Avá-Guaraní sister told me as my 2006-2007 fieldwork was ending. In 2005, her mother became my ritual sponsor in the naming/ensouling ritual, mitã karaí, identifying me as “Yvyrajú”, indicati…
More-than-human beings consistently challenge ethnographic practices. However, ethnographic training has not consistently adopted such actors as irrefutable subjects of field research. In this article, I describe how the relationship betwee…
Relations with microbes—especially the pathogens that cause infectious diseases–affect the methods and products of ethnographic field research in multiple ways, both corporeal and conceptual. In work with Indigenous people and their histori…
This paper examines how Generation Z (Gen Z) bridges online and offline spaces to reclaim normal life. Drawing on the concepts of “quiet encroachment” and “everyday resistance”, I argue that resistance flows between online and offline realm…
For Amazonian Indigenous people, the forest plays a vital role in sustaining their subsistence; it also serves as the social arena for interactions between different classes of beings. This paper analyses forest cosmo-politics and the agenc…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Tammisto, Tuomas. 2024. Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-29
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing …
The marriage ritual for the Dayak Benawan Indigenous people is a sacred ceremony that has been carried out for generations. Traditional rituals are simultaneously performed with the wedding party for three consecutive days and three consec…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
This article addresses more-than-humans in ethnography by focusing on embodied encounters during fieldwork with the help of concepts such as relationality, being with, and with-nessing microbes. Through an ethnographic study of a diarrhoea …
The use of citation metrics has progressed to a point where a growing number of scholars are contemplating the possibility of using citation practices to enforce necessary changes on the academia – preferential citing practices, citation bo…
This paper develops a quadripartite panpsychist theory of shamanism(s). This fourpart framework revives and combines four theories: (i) mystical constructivism, (ii) role-taking theory, and (iii) mental imagery cultivation as a cultural pra…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
To mitigate global climate change and diverse socio-ecological crises, ecological restoration (ER) has emerged as a solution to repair damaged and degraded environments and landscapes. ER’s primary strategy relies on planting trees, often i…
In this autoethnographic essay, I trace and explore different ways of knowing soils through personal experiences and discussions between three generations (me, my father and my grandparents) who have lived and worked on a family farm in Cen…
Academic research results can serve diverse communities and individuals, whilst the research can itself transform researchers in multiple ways. In this article, I examine the significance of more-than-human beings in the process of becomin…
This essay is based on an ethnographic study at a self-subsistence-oriented yak herding village in Tibet (Tibetan Autonomous Region, China). I demonstrate how the social-biophysical profile and the life history of the researcher influences …
Bantu languages are notoriously “verby” (Nurse 2008, 21), referring to the highly agglutinative nature of the inflected verb, whose complexities have sparked extensive research. Now that Bantu verbal morphology is much better understood, the…
Southern Bantu languages have extensive auxiliary inventories with functions that sometimes go beyond typical tense/aspect/mood/polarity meanings. This article examines areal semantic patterns of auxiliaries in 16 Southern Bantu varieties, i…
Auxiliary constructions in Southern Bantu exhibit a feature in which two or more auxiliaries appear alongside a single lexical verb. We term this construction ‘auxiliary stacking’. The goal of the paper is to outline the phenomenon of auxili…
The Kagulu auxiliary verb ng’hali appears in a variety of auxiliary verb constructions and has several phonological realizations (ng’hali, kali, and ng’hati). Unlike other auxiliary verbs in the language, ng’hali occurs with limited morpholo…
Northwestern Bantu (NWB) languages differ from Eastern/Southwestern Bantu languages in that their verb forms are more often analytic, with pre-stem inflectional material appearing in a complex that may be unbound from the main verb. This has…