An interview with Terhi Utriainen
An interview with Terhi Utriainen by Linda Woodhead.
Category: English
Between art and ritual
This article analyses the short performances of Drag Sethlas at the yearly Gran Canaria Drag Queen Contest in Spain (2017–20) from the perspective of religious studies and gender studies, following on from an earlier article in which this case was expl…
Rituals and ritualization
This issue of Approaching Religion is dedicated to Terhi Utriainen, Professor of the Study of Religions at the University of Helsinki. It is published on the 7 November 2022, Terhi’s sixtieth birthday, and contains reflections and research articles wri…
Out of many modes and motivations
This article explores a sequence of events, a combination of Orthodox Christian village and chapel festivals, associated processions and a cross-border procession, through the theoretical concept of ritualisation. The sequence of events takes place ann…
Religious practice among Finnish converts to Orthodox Christianity
In this study, I discuss the devotional lives of Finns who have joined the Orthodox Church of Finland as adults. The analysis is based on interviews conducted with 29 converts to Orthodoxy. My specific focus is the interplay of interiority and exterior…
Praying with Blathmac
The mid-eighth-century Old Irish text known as the poems of Blathmac is a long devotional composition meditating on the mystery of Christ’s cross and its significance for salvation history. Since the discovery and subsequent publication of the text nea…
Book Review: Africa and Sustainable Global Value Chains by Regina Frei, Sherwat Ibrahim and Temidayo Akenroye
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Review Time and its Object
This is a book review
Anclas para Sueños Silvestres. Una Conversación con Eduardo Kohn
Following the Spanish publication of the book How Forests Think. Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human, Eduardo Kohn (Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Affiliated Researcher at FLACSO in Ecuador) re…
Traditional Peoples and Biodiversity in Brazil: Editors’ Reply to Discussants
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Brief responses to the commentaries on Traditional Peoples and Biodiversity in Brazil, from the quilombola point of view
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The Right to Exist
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Isolamento Como Declaração de Recusa: Políticas Indígenas Contra A Violência do Estado Brasileiro
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Isolation As A Statement of Refusal: Indigenous Policies Against The Violence of The Brazilian State
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Just Recognition and Biocultural Rights
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Povos da terra and originary rights
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Politics as War: The Ideology of the Attack on Indigenous Territorial Rights
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Territorial Rights in Brazil: Chronic Difficulties and New Approaches to Sustaining Traditional Landscapes
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Brazilian Indigenous Peoples: Territories, Legal Rights and The Obstacles of Structural and Institutional Racism
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The Judicialization of Indigenous Territories in Brazil: Judicial Power and the Obstacles to Demarcation
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Writing and Drawing: Knowledge of “Traditional Indigenous Midwives”
This paper aims to discuss the construction of the “traditional indigenous midwife” category in the context of public health policies on pregnancy, labor and childbirth care in Roraima, Brazil. Based on statements given by indigenous women and men …
Community Health Workers in Central-Southern Amazonia: An Ethnographic Account of the Munduruku People of Kwatá Laranjal Indigenous Land
We describe the range of different positions assumed by Community Health Workers (CHW) employed to work among the Mundurucu in order to analyze their emergence as new actors in the social field of indigenous health and the implications of CHW parti…
Health Agents on The Move: Yanomami Agency and The Struggle For Wellbeing
This paper examines the sanitary and sociopolitical impact of the work of a Yanomami Health Agent in the Upper Ocamo area of the Venezuelan Amazonas State, and its relationship with the national health system, and argues that these build up into an…
Gendered Geographies of Care: Women as Health Workers in an Indigenous Health Project in the Peruvian Amazon
This article examines how women as primary gatekeepers for well being became involved as health promoters in a local indigenous health care project in the Amazonian region of Madre de Dios, Peru. Here, I provide a case study of the processes and tr…
Indigenous Health Agents in Amazonia: Creative Intermediations and a Poiesis of Care
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America