Nordic Migration Research at a Crossroads
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Working-Class Migrants: Are they Motivated by Higher Social Wages and/or a Better Lifestyle?
The article uses the concepts of social wage and lifestyle migration to discuss the motivators of working-class migrants from Estonia to Nordic countries (Finland and Sweden). The present research challenges the long-standing tradition of de…
El cuerpo sacrificado
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…
The Stool: A Place for Listening to Ancestral Knowledge
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…
Soul Loss in the Forest of Symbols: Transformational Bodies, Avá-Guaraní Acoustemology, and Magical Mediating Methodological Instruments
“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…
Co-responding with a Parrot in Amazonia: Cosmopolitical Engagements and Ethnography
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…
Microbes and Fieldwork: Reflections Toward a (Micro)Biosocial Anthropology
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…
Reclaiming "Normal Life": Everyday Resistance by Gen Z in Iran
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…
Forest Cosmo-politics and the Agency of Plants: A Case Study from the Asháninka People in Peruvian Amazonia.
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…
(Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Book review: Tammisto, Tuomas. 2024. Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier.
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
Lectio præcursoria–Rescue and Exchange: Tracing Sprouts of Viable Living in the Field of Help and Care in Finland
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 …
Kawen Adat: The Traditional Marriage Ritual of the Dayak Indigenous People of Indonesia
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…
The ‘Vitality of Water: Rethinking Modernist Hydropolitics and Ontologies’ International Symposium
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
With-nessing bacteria
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 …
I Don’t ‘Like’ Malinowski, I Cite Malinowski
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…
A Panpsychist Theory of Shamanism
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…
The Work Behind the Words: Labour, Ethics and Care in Academic Publishing
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Ecological Restoration and Tree-Planting Efforts in the Ihorombe Grasslands of Southern Madagascar
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…
Knowing Familial Soils
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…
Speaking and Singing Firmly: Beings (Un)related and (In)activated by Language in Amazonian Academic Research
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…
How to Milk a Yak: Embodied Learning with Yaks in Practice
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 …
Introduction to the Special Issue
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 Auxiliary Functions and Their Distributions
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 Stacking in Southern Bantu Languages
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…