Michał Buchowski (ed): Twilight Zone Anthropology: Voices from Poland
Buchowski Michał (ed.) 2019. Twilight Zone Anthropology: Voices from Poland. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 250 p. ISBN: 9781912385065 (hardback).
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Schielke, Samuli: Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States
Schielke, Samuli 2020. Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. 137 p. ISBN: 9789774169564 (paperback)
Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck, Anne Line Dalsgård, Mette Lind Kusk, Maria Nielsen, Cecilie Rubow and Mikkel Rytter (eds): Anthropology inside out. Fieldworkers taking notes
Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck, Anne Line Dalsgård, Mette Lind Kusk, Maria Nielsen, Cecilie Rubow and Mikkel Rytter (eds) 2020. Anthropology Inside Out: Fieldworkers Taking Notes. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 227 p. ISBN: 9781912385218 (pape…
The Word as an Icon
How do Russian Orthodox Christians frame their understanding of semiotic ideologies of worship? That is to say, how do worshippers interpret liturgical language ‘signs’ and how do these interpretations colour their views as to which language is ‘rig…
History, Place and Belonging on a Swedish-speaking Island in Finland
This article brings together the themes of identi cation, belonging, and community. Based on ethnographic research on a small island in Finland with a majority of Swedish-speakers, it provides a distinctive approach to the research on the minority, …
Lectio Praecursoria: “This is a good place”: Tsimihety place making, knowledge hierarchies and intensifying conservation efforts in rural northeastern Madagascar
This lectio introduces the thesis ‘This Is A Good Place’: Tsimihety place making, knowledge hierarchies and intensifying conservation efforts in rural northeastern Madagascar. The study is concerned with the rapid rearrangement of nature and the intens…
Editor’s Note
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
The intimate body of agency
Subjectivity, forms of subjectivation, domination, forms of resistance and other analogous concepts are at the heart of a vibrant debate, that runs through anthropology and social sciences since many years. This introduction aims to rethink some issues…
The novelties, starting with the Table of contents
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Apocalypse and history: Transcendental foundation of the human
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
“How dare you?” Thefts of life amid melancholy, inaction and inducive prophecies
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
La fine del mondo: A “phantom book” finally resolved in value
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Simona Taliani, Il tempo della disobbedienza: Per un’antropologia della parentela nella migrazione, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2019, pp. 207
Book review of Simona Taliani, Il tempo della disobbedienza: Per un’antropologia della parentela nella migrazione, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2019, pp. 207.
L’alimentation des Peuls du Sénégal
Cet article porte sur l’alimentation des populations peules du Sénégal, plus précisément sur deux groupes de femmes : l’un vivant dans la zone sylvo-pastorale du Ferlo (Nord Est du Sénégal) et l’autre issu du Ferlo et installé dans la capitale d…
Epidemiological risk and health policies: An interview with Tullio Seppilli
In this interview, Tullio Seppilli points out the usefulness of the notion of health risk if aimed at reducing it with public interventions by improving living conditions and reducing social inequalities. Introducing the notion of health as a common go…
David Graeber: Anthropology, anarchy, activism
Forum in memory of David Graeber. Contributions by Patrícia Alves de Matos, Stefano Boni, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Alessandro Deiana, Nika Dubrovsky.
Book Review. Review Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture
Dajko, Nathalie and Shana Walton, eds. 2019. Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Book Review. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed
Amanik, Allan and Kami Fletcher. 2020. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 288 pages.
Disarmed by Drama Methodology
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
The Prince’s Wings: Possible Origin of the Tale Type and Its Early Chinese Variants
The article aims to clarify the relations between the early versions of tale type ATU 575. Examining the range of Chinese accounts concerning various wooden birds, the author concludes that two groups can be distinguished. The first consists of st…
The Ecological Insight of the Bunga’ Lalang Rice Farming Tradition in Luwu Society, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
The ecological insights of local farming traditions have the potential to be adapted to modern agricultural practices. The article presents an exploration of the ecological insights of the bunga’ lalang rice farming tradition in the Luwu society, South…
“Kox Kwai Kauv Kox Kwai”: Ecopoetic Symbolisation in Pgaz K’Nyau Oral Poetry
This article presents the transcription, translation, and annotation of an original performance of hta, a traditional form of oral poetry in Sgaw, the language of the Pgaz K’Nyau (Karen) people of northern Thailand. This performance was recorded d…
Death by Poisoning: Cautionary Narratives and Inter-Ethnic Accusations in Contemporary Sikkim
The Sikkimese are a multi-ethnic community in a Himalayan sub-region in India. Even though the majority of the population is Hindu and Nepalese, the minority Buddhist and Bhutia/Lepcha communities are very strong. Death by poisoning is a common occurre…
Of Barrenness and Witchcraft: The Songs of the Legi Women’s Association
Witchcraft and barrenness are two critical issues that African women have had to grapple with since precolonial times. Therefore, the focus of attention in this paper is the songs of the Legi voluntary association among the Ịjọ of Nigeria’s oil-rich Ni…
The Sealed Grave and Burial Rituals in the Context of Revenants in Ukrainian Belief
The article sets the goal of describing the Ukrainian ritual of the sealed grave and its relation to revenants, or the unquiet dead, based both on the author’s fieldwork and ethnographic collections of the turn of the 20th century. The meaning of …