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Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society

How would the anthropology of the 1990’s have been different if anthropologists understood what it meant to be a writing subject describing Others the way that Bakhtin did? These questions are undercurrents in this essay, as I summarize what early Bakh…

Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society

This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork materials in the form of participant observation and interviews and looks at the mission encounter between the Kaale (Finnish Roma) missionaries and the traditionally Lutheran, Russian Orthodox or Catholic R…

The article is centred around an event in Njeguši, a small village in Montenegro, whereby a group of people tried to honour their ancestor by inauguration of a small church and a commemorative building. Unexpectedly, the event was forbidden, the police…

Grappling with Aadhaar: Biometrics, Social Identity and the Indian State [Full text]
Silvia Masiero and S. Shakthi

Chasing Rights in Delhi: Social Movements and the National Food Security Act [F…

Rice, Stephen K. and Michael D. Maltz, eds. 2018. Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork. Cham: Springer.

Journal of Extreme Anthropology

Anthropology Matters

One of the most productive loci for the analysis of the security – morality nexus is the making of security laws and norms which reveals the ways in which the social order is perceived to be under threat. This article argues for a critical examination …

The aim of this article is to shed some light on the situation that occurs when scholarly knowledge, once highly valued, is successively undermined, while elements of the same learning live on as attractive resources to other stakeholders. More accurately, the research question relates to the process that starts with many ethnologists who, over time, come to increasingly view formerly important materials as less relevant to their own academic issues.

As heatwaves, droughts, floods and other climate change catastrophes pile up, the decarbonization of the global economy has become the century’s signature political issue.

The future of energy independence promised by solar development is complicated by a legacy of political conflict and new relationships of dependence and inequality.

Using the example of the Bodo community in Ogoniland, where local youths operate refineries constructed with local materials and technology, I show that such refineries represent an emergent form of energy capture that transforms the creeks of the Niger Delta into islands of carbon sale and challenges state and corporate power.

This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2016–2019, examines methane extraction operations in Lake Kivu on the Rwanda/DRC border as a lens into understanding how energy futures in Africa are imagined and enacted within national projects of post-war reconstruction.

Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 64Issue: 3Pages: iv-v

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 29Issue: 2Pages: 102-107

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 29Issue: 2Pages: 97-101

Journal Name: Religion and SocietyVolume: 11Issue: 1Pages: vi-viii

Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 64Issue: 3Pages: 95-112

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 29Issue: 2Pages: 108-113