Category: English

This essay seeks firstly to recover the history of contact between Laklãnõ indigenous people and the foreign and national fronts of territorial occupation that occurred in the southern region of Brazil. Afterwards, the most visible impacts that affect …

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.

Bronner, Simon J. 2019. The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 382 pages.

Report on Adult Educators’ Competence Training for the Development of Immigrant and Asylum Seeker Digital Entrepreneurship (EDUAIM)

Donatas Brandišauskas. 2017. Leaving Footprints in the Taiga: Luck, Rituals, and Ambivalence among the Orochen-Evenki. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.

The paper describes the features of the Simēk ritual (compare semik in Russian) in different ethnic and religious (Orthodox Christian, ‘pagan’, Muslim) and ethnic and territorial groups of Chuvash. The author shows the key role of Simēk in the structur…

Bandura art is a unique phenomenon of Ukrainian culture, inextricably linked with the history of the Ukrainian people. The study is dedicated to one of the most tragic periods in the history of bandura art, that of the 1920s–1940s, during which the Bol…

The article presents a study of the use of family humour in public comedy and the mutual influence of family humour and public humour on comedians’ performances and everyday life.  The interrelations between these domains lie at the level of …

Editorial

 What children count as their favourite things tell us not only about children but also about their social and cultural experiences. This study, based on the outcomes of a children’s drawing competition organised by the Estonian National Museum an…

This paper highlights the internal contradictions of museum institutions when they are influenced by neoliberal market-driven policies and new museology from the viewpoint of the museum-working researcher. Museums increasingly interface with the p…

This study describes the types of taboo words used by the Acehnese people in Aceh, Indonesia. Ten language informants in the district were interviewed for this qualitative study. The interviews were recorded and then transcribed prior to analysis. The …

This article will look at how domestic and sexual violence against women is presented in the Icelandic folk legend collections from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Gender-based violence is a subject relatively absent in Icelandic legend collect…

Journal of Business Anthropology

Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 15Issue: 2Pages: 91-103

Journal Name: SibiricaVolume: 19Issue: 3Pages: 60-78

Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 3Pages: 14-17