The Value of Common Bracken Revisited

Based on a walking ethnography, this photo essay employs sensory ethnography to explore multispecies relationality in steljniki, plots of land traditionally used for grazing and the harvesting of common bracken. Through work in subsistence-based extens…

Errata 48 (3)

In Volume 48, Issue 3 of Suomen Antropologi, we published a Lectio Praecursoria by Ioana Țîștea, entitled ‘Creolising Nordic Migration Research: Entangled Knowledges, Migratisations, and Reflexivities’. In the lectio, Țîștea was drawing direct attentio…

Through the Eyes of an Anthropologist

On a cold December evening, in the thick cloud of cigarette smoke and clatter of the cocktail shaker, two women, Suvi Rautio and He Beili tell stories of what it means to see through the eyes of an anthropologist. Speaking to a crowded room of seventy …

Towards More-Than-Human Negotiation

Scholars from all disciplines are becoming increasingly conscious of the co-dependence between humans and more-than-humans. This special collection engages these debates, guided by a question both practical and theoretical: What makes good relationship…

Editorial Note: On Hope

Lately, our daily news is engulfed with billowing clouds of despair as democracy slips away and is replaced with emboldened form of authoritarianism. We live in dark times. Global disasters are multiplying with no end in sight. Powerful institutions ge…

(Re-)Learning to Relate to the More-Than-Human

The lack of concerted action by the majority of the population in the face of the global ecological catastrophe compels us to ponder the deeper cause of inaction: a troubled relationship with the more-than-human world. Redressing this relationship and …

ROUÉ Marie & Douglas NAKASHIMA (dir.), 2024. Coproduction entre savoirs autochtones et sciences. Faire face au changement global

Souvent, le cœur des livres s’expose dans leur épigraphe. Celle qui introduit cet ouvrage est empreinte de la gravité des mots d’Albert Camus lors de la réception de son prix Nobel de littérature, en 1957 : « Chaque génération, sans doute, se croit vouée à refaire le monde. La mienne sait pourtant qu’elle ne le refera pas. Mais sa tâche est peut-être plus grande. Elle consiste à empêcher que le monde se défasse. » Gravité, donc. Mais sans fatalisme. En effet, c’est aussi un objectif[…]


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Exploring the Roots of Humanity: A Journey Through Folklore from Around the World

Folklore is the ancient collective consciousness of a people – serving as a mirror of their traditions, customs, beliefs, and aspirations. This powerful tool is essential to understanding societies across the globe and through the ages. In this blog post, we journey across continents, exploring a variety of folklore topics that shape humanity. Europe: Ireland’s […]

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