Zpráva z 2. konference Alternativní spiritualita (17.–18. října 2024)
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Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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Ideas, practices and rituals associated with death are a classic area of study in the social sciences and humanities. The anthropology of death, as a specific sub-discipline of anthropology, examines how individuals and societies around the world respo…
This article is a symmetrical ethnography of globalisation in progress. From a material-semiotic, localised perspective, I focus on the until recently isolated Indian region of Zanskar. I explore the ways in which new actors – the Zanskar Highway, new …
This article explores how Czech women navigate polyamory, a relationship style in which loving multiple partners is acceptable. It examines how women in these relationships understand their experiences and how polyamory shapes their self-identities. It…
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The text deals with the ideological world of Catholicism. A review of the current state of research has shown that we lack an adequate understanding of the phenomenon in which a particular parish priest occupies two mutually contradictory noetic positi…
The study deals with the coaching methods of Anatoly Tarasov and Vladimir Kostka. Both of them helped their countries to build world-class hockey teams by a personal approach, which dominated world hockey for more than two decades. This paper focuses o…
The study focuses on the purification of public space as an accompanying phenomenon of its revitalization. As a result of purification, it is argued, public space is sterilized and its quality and heterogeneity are reduced. The aim of this paper is to …
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This study is devoted to the special features of the ethnographic research of German speaking lumberjacks – “huncokars” – which took place from the 1920s to the 1940s and was conducted by researchers working in German and Sudeten German ethnographic or…
The study presents the results of research carried out as part of my master’s thesis, which I defended in May 2021. The text is divided into three thematic areas: veiling, the position of women in marriage, and polygamy. I map the attitude of individua…
The present study aims to bring the reader closer to the process of religious conversion to Islam, following the example of several Czech women who have decided to embrace Islam as their faith. Based on long-term field research and obtaining qualitativ…
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