Book Review: Rafael, V. L. (2022). The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte.
–
Editorial
–
Indonesian Government Intervention in the Management of Indonesian Migrant Workers’ Remittances: Is It Constitutionally Justified?
The latest law on the protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (IMWs), Law Number 18 of 2017 (Law 18/2017), obliges the Indonesian government to conduct economic protection through remittance management by involving certain institutions. Nonetheless, t…
The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Low-Income Individuals in Indonesia
Most governments claim that Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs benefit poor people. This study aims to analyze the impact of conditional cash transfers on low-income individuals in Indonesia. This study used consumption expenditures as a poverty …
Land Acquisition Under Land Law 2013: A Case Study of Vinh City, Nghe An Province
After implementing a comprehensive reform in 1986, Vietnam witnessed change in many aspects. One of these changes is that agricultural land has been converted into industrial and urban land. Increasing land demand, leading to land acquisition, is inevi…
Gender in Academic Journals: Experience from Indonesia
The literature on the gender gap in political science and international relations (IR) has increased significantly in the last couple of decades. However, little is known about how male and female scholars are publishing their works in non-Western-base…
Book Review: Undoing Coups. The African Union and Post-coup Intervention in Madagascar by Antonia Witt
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
From Crisis to Upward Mobility: Urban Informality in Fictions of Lagos and Johannesburg
Stories of the slum in African contexts often depict deprivation and dispossessed realities; the term ‘slum’ itself has been criticized for its emphasis on dystopic urban futures. The concept of subaltern urbanism, as outlined by Ananya Roy, goes beyon…
The Intimate Governance of Land in Northern Uganda
After war in northern Uganda, conflicts over land became pervasive. Families, clans and neighbours often relate through tensions and contradictions over customary land and how it is governed. This article discusses the changing gendered dynamics of the…
Matria in Contemporary Somali Literature in Italian: Mapping Articulations of Female Solidarity and Resistance
This article discusses Matria as a concept for mapping and interpreting the forms of solidarity between women in texts by contemporary postcolonial Somali writers in Italian. The article analyses the recurrent presence of pairs of female characters, wh…
Phonetic and Phonological Effects of Depressor Consonants in Malawian CiTonga
In this paper we show that certain consonants have the effect of depressing the tone on adjacent vowels in Malawian CiTonga, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Nkhata Bay. We argue that some of these effects are phonological, changing High vowels to Low…
Protected: Affidarsi
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Ethnographier les institutions totales
Appel à propositions de la revue ethnographiques.org Date limite de soumission : 12 septembre 2022
Coordination : Audrey Higelin (Sophiapol, Université Paris Nanterre) et Laurent Amiotte-Suchet (Haute école de santé Vaud, Lausanne).
Lorsqu’il élabore le concept d’institution totale, à la suite d’un terrain en hôpital psychiatrique au milieu des années 1950, Erving Goffman le circonscrit ainsi : « On peut définir une institution totale comme un lieu de résidence et de travail où un grand nombre[…]
Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia by Michael Cepek
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
The Kararaô of Central Brazil by Gustaaf Verswijver
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Club-Fighters of the Amazon: Warfare among the Kayapó Indians of Central Brazil by Gustaaf Verswijver
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Upriver: The Turbulent Life and Times of an Amazonian People by Michael F. Brown
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
A Walk to the River in Amazonia: Ordinary Reality for the Mehinaku Indians by Carla Stang
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano) by Directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Metaphoric Recursiveness and Ternary Ontology: Another Look at the Language and Worldview of the Yaminahua
My purpose in this paper is, first, to explore metaphorical recursiveness in Yaminahua, i.e. the latter’s folding of the common binary structure: {(x) things + (y) words} into the threefold scheme: (A) things + (B) external analogies + (C) internal…
Variations on Hunting and Care: Ownership, Kinship and Other Interspecific Relationships in the Eastern Amazon
This article is based on fieldwork among the Guajá people, a small indigenous group of Tupí-Guaraní speakers inhabiting the eastern portion of Brazil’s Amazon region. Aiming for an ethnographic definition of kinship, this article engages in issues …
The Villas Boas Brothers and Anthropologists
This paper describes the history of the Villas Boas brothers of Brazil and their role in establishing and administering the 26,000-square-kilometer Xingu Indigenous Park in the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso. Many anthropologists came to work in th…
Mismatches: Museums, Anthropology and Amazonia
Over the past decades, museums, particularly the large Euro-American ethnographic ones, have had trouble developing adequate presentations of Amazonian cultural productions. To some extent, this failure can be seen as a side effect of a more genera…
Visualizing a Post-Apocalypse: Notes on New Ayoreo Cinema
This essay describes one recent Ayoreo film and its production in order to reflect on the wider significance of lowland South American Indigenous cinema and analyses of it today. Informed by the authors’ roles in the collaborative editing of the fi…
Desire and the Work it Does: Alterity and Exogamy in a Kotiria Origin Myth from the Northwest Amazon of Brazil
In terms of the pan-Amazonian social paradigm that transforms affines into kin and assimilates them into the consanguineal unit, Eastern Tukanoans must be regarded as exceptional. This paper explores a foundation myth that allows us to better under…