‘Transdisciplinarity’: A Framework of Knowledge Production in North-South Partnerships?
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Positive ideologies ain’t enough! (Dis)junctions and paradoxes in minority language protection
In 2018, I conducted research on the application of protection measures for two minority language groups (Cimbrian and Mocheno) in Northern Italian schools. The study aimed at describing linguistic learning programs but it slowly turned into something …
Beyond the fingerprints: From biometric to genetics
Aside to the demographic screening, a deeper biosocial interest in India can be observed on the scale of groups and subpopulations. Several agencies (university consortia, departments of human forensic genetics), are pursuing the inspection of populati…
“It’s important to be good”: Anthropological reflection on linguistic dynamics and hospitality
This article proposes an ethnographic and anthropological reflection conducted in the context of a sociolinguistic investigation of the linguistic dynamics between locals and asylum seekers in the Aosta Valley. The analysis of language practices involv…
The Tunisian specificity: Political hegemony and the habitus of commitment in contemporary public Islam
I interpret the pursuit of an Islamic understanding of ideals such as democracy, pluralism and freedom, carried out by the Tunisian Islamic movements after the 2011 revolution, as part of a discursive tradition (Asad 1986) about the “Tunisian specifici…
Rwandan <em>gukuna</em> trouble: Femocracy, feminisms and critical anthropology
This article analyses the ritual gukuna (i.e. the elongation of the labia minora) in Rwanda and among the Rwandan diaspora in Italy. This practice – along with the kunyaza (male sexual technique) – is expected to increase sexual pleasure. When I starte…
Giuseppe Profeta, <em>L’acqua e il vaso nella vascolarità universale</em>, Ortona, Menabò, 2020, pp. 116
Book review of Giuseppe Profeta, L’acqua e il vaso nella vascolarità universale, Ortona, Menabò, 2020, pp. 116.
The path unfolds as you go: An anthropology for an other possible world
Review article of Anand Pandian, A Possible Anthropology. Methods for Uneasy Times. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2019, pp. 160; Tim Ingold, Antropologia. Ripensare il mondo, translated by Gaia Raimondi, edited by Matteo Meschiari, Meltemi,…
Ivan Severi, <em>Quick and dirty: Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale</em>, Firenze, editpress, 2019, pp. 308
Book review of Ivan Severi, Quick and dirty. Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale, Firenze, editpress, 2019, pp. 308.
Berardino Palumbo, <em>Piegare i santi: Inchini rituali e pratiche mafiose</em>, Bologna, Marietti, 2020, pp. 176
Book review of Berardino Palumbo, Piegare i santi. Inchini rituali e pratiche mafiose, Bologna, Marietti, 2020, pp. 176.
Un atto d’amore per l’Open Access
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
Giovanni Pizza, <em>L’antropologia di Gramsci: Corpo, natura, mutazione</em>, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182
Book review of Giovanni Pizza, L’antropologia di Gramsci. Corpo, natura, mutazione, Roma, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182.
Caterina Di Pasquale, <em>Antropologia della memoria: Il ricordo come fatto culturale</em>, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018, pp. 257
Book review of Caterina Di Pasquale, Antropologia della memoria. Il ricordo come fatto culturale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018, pp. 257.
Linking European and Southeast Asian Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production: Lessons Learnt by Doing Evaluation
This article aims to explore knowledge co-production through a critical (and self-critical) reflection of experiences with doing evaluation within the Fostering Multi-Lateral Knowledge Networks of Transdisciplinary Studies to Tackle Global Challeng…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editors team awaits for your papers for CAES Vol. 7, N 1 that is going to be published in late February 2021.
Norwegian Taxi Industry Through 2020
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Unraveling the Knot
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):45-72 Introduction Proverbs are storehouses of traditional wisdom and are highly valued in Africa. Among the Akan of Ghana, proverbs are used in everyday conversations, storytelling, ancestral and royal praise singing, and conflict resolution, among other contexts. Proverbs may be expressed through drumming, horn-blowing, and dance gestures, and they may be illustrated […]
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Editor’s Column
I am pleased to present to readers Oral Tradition Volume 34, comprising four essays that demonstrate, in the diversity of their topics and approaches, the broad reach of the study of orality and oral tradition. This volume brings together traditions from three continents—as well as, perhaps unexpectedly, the work of one of the twentieth century’s […]
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Back in the Foundation
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):3-441 On an 1820-21 trip into the fledgling Serbian Principality, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (hereafter “Vuk”), the language reformer, orthographer, folklorist, and ideological father of the modern Serbian state,2 collected the song “The Building of Skadar” (“Zidanje Skadra”) from the guslar (bard) Old Man (Starac) Raško3 at Prince Miloš Obrenović’s manor in Kragujevac.4 […]
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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.
The Intertextuality of Sgrung and the Question of Social Authority
AE | Volumes | Asian Ethnology 79 (2) Valentina Punzi A text version of this article will be published in the future. In the meantime, please download the PDF version.