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The thesis introduced in this lectio praecursoria explores the everyday work, ideals and values of the Latvian organic food movement known as tiešā pirkšana (‘direct purchasing’), an initiative which aims to shorten the physical and symbolic distance b…

The lectio serves as an introduction to the thesis “Life and Abortion: The Post-Biopolitics of Reproductive Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia”, an ethnographic study of the ways the insecurities and vulnerabilities of informal abortion are prod…

In this paper a group of young people from Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, share their personal reflections and views on the ‘Faroese father’ in present-day society. The material from this qualitative study is used to examine and analyse th…

In this article, I compare two forms of Christian temproality in the Faroe Islands. In so doing, I problematize some of the ways in which the idea of history has been applied theoretically to studies of churches and congregations in the country. As a r…

Although the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for faculty and students alike, it was also a catalyst for new collaborations. Our faculty-student project capitalized on what the pandemic publicly exposed: the fact that human health and culture are i…

Within the literature on ‘rushing rituals’ at institutions of higher education, there is a dominant focus on the creation of cohesion or communitas (Turner 1969) between students. This focus causes these rituals to be treated analytically as disjointed…

Roberts, Les 2020 (2018). Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 318 p. ISBN: 9781786606372 (hardback); ISBN: 9781786615978 (paperback); ISBN: 9781786606389 (E-book).

This lectio summarizes a PhD study of the public activities of East Javanese regional councillors. Analysing the communication of these politicians, the thesis focuses on the ways they authorize their status as representatives of their constituency. Th…

Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society

This paper focuses on expected communicative behaviours during asymmetrical interactional events among Ghanaians, with special reference to Ewes and Akans. Drawing on the ethnopragmatic techniques of semantic explication and cultural scripts, it demons…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.

The Co-production of Space, Politics and Subjectivities in India’s Urban Peripheries [Full text]
Shubhra Gururani and Loraine Kennedy

Caste at the City’s Edge: Land Struggles in Peri-urban Benga…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.

There is a saying, ‘do not paint the devil on the wall’, which is commonly taken to mean that one should, for all intents and purposes, avoid portraying something in an overly negative or exaggerated way. The German origin of the proverb is even more i…

Journal Name: SibiricaVolume: 20Issue: 1Pages: 58-94

Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 65Issue: 1Pages: 23-43

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 30Issue: 1Pages: 123-133

Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 28Issue: 1Pages: 73-78

Journal Name: SibiricaVolume: 20Issue: 1Pages: 1-27