Nachruf auf Hermann Amborn (1933–2024)
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Placenames and belonging: the Case of Kibra’s Nubians, Kenya
Approximately 25,000 Nubians live in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, which they consider their ancestral home. As descendants of African soldiers in Britain’s colonial armies, they have faced marginalization and de facto statelessness. Joh Sarre’s diss…
The workshop at home. Making sense of craft as a social practice among Tuareg artisans in Niger
This article draws on my dissertation on Tuareg craftsmanship in Niger as a social practice, which was published under the title ‘Die Unbeständigkeit der Dinge: Handwerk, Familie und Mobilität bei den Tuareg in Niger’ (The Impermanence of Things: Craft…
Of Slumbering, Patient Objects Awaiting our Arrival (Or Maybe Return)
It is my honour, as a German scholar and historian of Pacific-German connections, to send the collection of insights, thoughts and hopes edited by Safua Akeli Amaama and Philipp Schorch onwards and to wish it well. For a conclusion would mark the essay…
From Objects to Measina: Reanimating the Sāmoan Collection at the Übersee-Museum Bremen in Cooperation with the National University of Samoa
The last few years have seen increasing calls for German institutions to change their approach to collections from colonial contexts. Concomitantly, pressure has been put on museums to digitize and open up collections to new audiences, which has been f…
Tofiga: Place and Belonging in Samoan Architecture
The Samoan world opens with the notion of nu‘u tofi, in which every person is assigned a place or position that resonates with culture, polity, citizenship and governance. Tofi (or tofiga) places Samoans according to their ancestral connections within …
Fa‘asāmoa Forever – The Sacred Circle. The Politics of Encompassment and Consensus
This article examines the remarkable permanence of fa‘asāmoa, Sāmoan custom, throughout the upheavals of history. The strength of this permanence lies in a particular configuration of what brings the community together at meetings when an important dec…
Sāmoa at Large: The Sacred Circle and Travelling Fale and Measina
In the essay ‘Our sea of islands’, Epeli Hau‘ofa (1994:151–3) influentially argued for ‘what may be called “world enlargement” carried out by tens of thousands of ordinary Pacific Islanders right across the ocean.’ Hau‘ofa further stressed that ‘there …
Call for Papers – Shortcuts
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Pérez, Miguel: The Right to Dignity. Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile
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Whitehouse, Harvey: Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
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Loyen, Ulrich van: Nachkriegsschamanismus. Beiträge zu einer Kultur der Niederlage
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Kuidas leida parim ja soodsaim kiirlaen Eestis
1. Võrdle erinevaid pakkujaid ja tingimusi Kõige tõhusam viis leida soodne kiirlaen on võrrelda erinevaid laenuandjaid. Kasuta usaldusväärseid võrdlusportaale, mis pakuvad ajakohast teavet ja aitavad sul leida sobivaima pakkumise. Näiteks: https://kiirlaen.ee/https://laen.eu/kiirlaen/ 2. Pööra tähelepanu KKM-ile Krediidi kulukuse määr (KKM) annab selge ülevaate laenu tegelikust maksumusest, arvestades kõiki tasusid ja intresse. Mida madalam on KKM, seda […]
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CAES Vol. 11, № 3
Editor’s foreword Articles Comparing Ainu kinship terms with their Sino-Tibetan counterparts (Part I) Alexander Akulov, Tresi Nonno Abstract Ainu kinship terms “father”, “mother”, “elder brother”, “elder sister”, “younger brother”, and “younger sister” have clearly seen Sino-Tibetan counterparts. Late Jōmon Ainu (LJA) *miti “father” ~ Khoibu mit “father”; LJA *ʔona “father” ~ Galo `honam “nurture”. LJA *ʔunu […]
Land Worth Fighting For? Seeing Through the St. Louis Gateway Arch
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History-Making: The Communist Party of Thailand’s Attempt to Shape Hmong and Lua Narratives
Armed conflict between the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and the military of Thailand in northern Thai-land began in mid-1967. By the end of the 1960s, there were a number of CPT stronghold bases in the remote uplands of Northern Thailand. Large nu…
La perspectiva de gènere en investigacions sobre inseguretat alimentària: pertinències i desafiaments
La inseguretat alimentària (InSAN) passa quan hi ha manca en l’accés a aliments suficients, innocus i nutritius amb la finalitat de cobrir les necessitats energètiques diàries, ha estat objecte de múltiples aproximacions, en què s’han identificat difer…
"L’alimentació és un dret, no un privilegi" ("Essen ist ein Recht – kein Privileg"): La lluita contra la inseguretat alimentària urbana a través de l’acció directa en una Küfa vienesa
En el context de la política prefigurativa, una pregunta clau és: Com podem viure en solidaritat i donar-nos suport mútuament de manera interdependent sense crear dependència? Certes accions anarquistes proporcionen un model per a un tipus de societat …
La qüestió alimentària en una ciutat intermèdia de l’Argentina durant el govern de Milei: un estudi de cas sobre la inseguretat alimentària i les intervencions comunitàries i estatals a Tandil (2024)
Aquest article analitza la qüestió alimentària a Tandil durant el 2024, en un context d’ajust fiscal, desmantellament de polítiques públiques i crisi socioeconòmica agreujada per la inflació, que va suposar una major precarització de la vida. Mitjançan…
Brossa a les xarxes: Percepcions de la contaminació entre els pescadors d’arrossegament de Barcelona
La contaminació per plàstics i altres residus a la costa de Barcelona reflecteix una interacció complexa entre processos humans i no humans, connectant dinàmiques socials, econòmiques i ecològiques a diferents escales. Aquest fenomen ha transformat la …
City of sanctuary: Exploring multispecies democracy in a post-growth food future
This article grapples with two pressing problems endemic to capitalist agriculture: the exploitation of nonhuman animals and the enclosure of the agricultural commons. How might a post-growth food transition support animal liberation and restore access…
Review of Esther Sánchez-Pardo & María Porras Sánchez (eds.). 2024. Myth and environmentalism: Arts of resilience for a damaged planet
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Review of Kallis G., Paulson, S., D’Alisa, G. & Demaria, F. 2020. The case for degrowth.