About the Authors

Oral Tradition Volume 34 Dorian Jurić Dorian Jurić is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, folklorist, and railroad maintenance foreman whose research explores the political life of folklore in the Western Balkans. He has also recently become the Vice President of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Folklore Association. His writing, on topics ranging from oral traditions […]

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Orality and Social Memory in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):105-20 As any reader of Lolita knows, Vladimir Nabokov’s novel is characterized by the strong, central voice of its narrator, Humbert Humbert, opening as it does with one of the most famous apostrophes in literary history. Humbert lures readers in, seducing them with his confiding tone and the ornate register of his […]

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Learning to be Satisfied

Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):73-104 In memory of Barre Toelken “This is so, isn’t it?” —F. R. Leavis (1972:62) “Hane’ doo t’óó saad t’éí át’é jinóózį́į́’ át’éé da, t’áá bí be’iina’ haleeh.” —Rex Lee Jim (cited in Casaus 1996:10) Rough translation: “Stories (poems) are not just words to be thought about, they are to become life.” “[Poetry] […]

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CAES Vol. 6, № 4

Editor’s foreword Think pieces: Alexander Akulov Interpreting the proximity values of potsherds collections received by the Monte Carlo method Alexander Akulov If we are going to learn to what degree the collection of potsherds x belonging to the technocomplex X is close to the collection y belonging to the technocomplex Y, then the degree of […]

Asian Ethnology :: Phi Muangs

AE | Volumes | Asian Ethnology 79 (2) Khamti Forces of Place in Arunachal Pradesh Nicolas Lainé A text version of this article will be published in the future. In the meantime, please download the PDF version.

Introduction to the 2020 December Issue

As subject editor of the NJAS social sciences section, I am excited to welcome you to the Christmas issue of 2020. The social sciences section of the Nordic Journal of African Studies came into being in 2018, and since then we have, together with autho…

Pampa Iluga y las “chacras” de los ancestros (Tarapacá, norte de Chile): tensionando materialidades y ontologías desde la arqueología

Se presenta el sitio Iluga Túmulos de la región de Tarapacá, Chile. El sitio se localiza en Pampa Iluga, al sur del Cerro Unitas donde se dispone el geoglifo Gigante de Tarapacá y al oeste de la quebrada de Tarapacá. Se asocia a miles de hectáreas de c…

Al ritmo del sol, bajo la tutela de los ancestros. Performance ritual en la Peña del Medio durante el Tardío-Inca, Paicuqui (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Provincia de Catamarca)

Presentamos la interpretación sobre actores, tiempos, paisajes y corporalidad involucrados en celebraciones rituales desarrolladas en la “Peña del Medio” para el período Tardío-Inca en la localidad de Paicuqui, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca (Arge…

A Tale of Two Shitties

Based on 12 months of ethnographic data collection in an anal cancer prevention clinic, this article uses the extreme examples of patients involuntarily defecating through the anoscope during the procedure to highlight the relationship between the extr…