Call for papers

Dear Colleagues!
The CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 11, № 1, that is going to be published in late February – early March 2025. The deadline for submission of papers is February 17, 2025.

Espacio público y diversidad

En las sociedades europeas actualmente puede observarse una creciente participación de las confesiones religiosas minoritarias en el ámbito público. En el caso de España, una de las manifestaciones religiosas en el espacio público que ha cob…

Embarrassment and wild caught meat

In the initial COVID-19 pandemic, much speculation was made about what, exactly, Chinese appetites involved, and whether Chinese had a penchant for sourcing and consuming wild caught meat. Accusations abounded, principally (but not exclusively) …

CAES Vol. 10, № 4

Editor’s foreword  Articles Some advances in reading and understanding the Phaistos disc inscription Alexander Akulov Minoan is a close relative of Hattic, and so Hattic should be used as the key for deciphering the Phaistos disc. Now phonetic values of some previously illegible signs have been clarified: 01 – je, 21 – ne, 23 – […]

Regression als Aufbruch?

Wie stehen Zukunft und Aufbruch im Verhältnis zum Reaktionären und Regressiven? Welche räumlichen Formen nehmen rechte Zukunftsentwürfe an? Und welche Ambivalenzen treten in diesen Spannungsverhältnissen zutage? Diese Fragen trägt die hier initiierte D…

Greyness Is Aged, Bearded Is Adult

I explore how Yoruba people ascertain who is junior, who is senior, and the mark of equality beyond obvious age, as well as the social function of these distinctions in everyday life. The social ranking of people as either senior, junior or …

Seniority in Midwifery in Tanzania

Concepts of seniority and elderhood were important structuring elements in many societies of precolonial Africa and were connected with social status. This changed with the European colonization of Africa, and strongly affected traditional c…

“This Child Is This Small Only on His Age”

This paper examines the emic concepts pertaining to age in Ngəmba, a language spoken in the Western Region of Cameroon. It explores both the terminological concepts available in the language for talking about age and their usage in everyday …

Power and Age

Spencer (1965, 1988, 1993, 2003) theorizes two distinct strands in the life course of a Maasai male. The first strand is the building of a cattle herd and a family, and the second is developing involvement in the age class system. The second…

Augmented Authority

The paper describes changed elderhood in Sukuma-speaking villages in Tanzania through a combined situational and cultural analysis, starting with the traditional role of (re)generation and medicine in practices of greeting. Elderhood, I argu…

“I’m Bigger!”

Pre-school age children in European contexts are known to use labels like ‘big’ and ‘small’ to orient to age differences, very often to highlight differences in physical and social competence (Häll 2022). This research report explores Datoog…

Doing Being Senior/Junior

In this article, I will reconsider the naming and kinship relationships of the !Xun San in north-central Namibia from the perspective of child socialization. I will thereby deconstruct the naturalized view in which ‘relative age’ (a concept …