The Work Behind the Words: Labour, Ethics and Care in Academic Publishing
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
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A Panpsychist Theory of Shamanism
This paper develops a quadripartite panpsychist theory of shamanism(s). This fourpart framework revives and combines four theories: (i) mystical constructivism, (ii) role-taking theory, and (iii) mental imagery cultivation as a cultural pra…
I Don’t ‘Like’ Malinowski, I Cite Malinowski
The use of citation metrics has progressed to a point where a growing number of scholars are contemplating the possibility of using citation practices to enforce necessary changes on the academia – preferential citing practices, citation bo…
With-nessing bacteria
This article addresses more-than-humans in ethnography by focusing on embodied encounters during fieldwork with the help of concepts such as relationality, being with, and with-nessing microbes. Through an ethnographic study of a diarrhoea …
The ‘Vitality of Water: Rethinking Modernist Hydropolitics and Ontologies’ International Symposium
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Kawen Adat: The Traditional Marriage Ritual of the Dayak Indigenous People of Indonesia
The marriage ritual for the Dayak Benawan Indigenous people is a sacred ceremony that has been carried out for generations. Traditional rituals are simultaneously performed with the wedding party for three consecutive days and three consec…
Lectio præcursoria–Rescue and Exchange: Tracing Sprouts of Viable Living in the Field of Help and Care in Finland
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing …
Book review: Tammisto, Tuomas. 2024. Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier.
Tammisto, Tuomas. 2024. Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-29
(Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Forest Cosmo-politics and the Agency of Plants: A Case Study from the Asháninka People in Peruvian Amazonia.
For Amazonian Indigenous people, the forest plays a vital role in sustaining their subsistence; it also serves as the social arena for interactions between different classes of beings. This paper analyses forest cosmo-politics and the agenc…
Reclaiming "Normal Life": Everyday Resistance by Gen Z in Iran
This paper examines how Generation Z (Gen Z) bridges online and offline spaces to reclaim normal life. Drawing on the concepts of “quiet encroachment” and “everyday resistance”, I argue that resistance flows between online and offline realm…
Microbes and Fieldwork: Reflections Toward a (Micro)Biosocial Anthropology
Relations with microbes—especially the pathogens that cause infectious diseases–affect the methods and products of ethnographic field research in multiple ways, both corporeal and conceptual. In work with Indigenous people and their histori…
How to Milk a Yak: Embodied Learning with Yaks in Practice
This essay is based on an ethnographic study at a self-subsistence-oriented yak herding village in Tibet (Tibetan Autonomous Region, China). I demonstrate how the social-biophysical profile and the life history of the researcher influences …
Co-responding with a Parrot in Amazonia: Cosmopolitical Engagements and Ethnography
More-than-human beings consistently challenge ethnographic practices. However, ethnographic training has not consistently adopted such actors as irrefutable subjects of field research. In this article, I describe how the relationship betwee…
Speaking and Singing Firmly: Beings (Un)related and (In)activated by Language in Amazonian Academic Research
Academic research results can serve diverse communities and individuals, whilst the research can itself transform researchers in multiple ways. In this article, I examine the significance of more-than-human beings in the process of becomin…
Soul Loss in the Forest of Symbols: Transformational Bodies, Avá-Guaraní Acoustemology, and Magical Mediating Methodological Instruments
“Eric, you no longer have an Americano soul,” my Avá-Guaraní sister told me as my 2006-2007 fieldwork was ending. In 2005, her mother became my ritual sponsor in the naming/ensouling ritual, mitã karaí, identifying me as “Yvyrajú”, indicati…
Knowing Familial Soils
In this autoethnographic essay, I trace and explore different ways of knowing soils through personal experiences and discussions between three generations (me, my father and my grandparents) who have lived and worked on a family farm in Cen…
The Stool: A Place for Listening to Ancestral Knowledge
This article addresses the stool of thought from the perspective of a researcher from the Bará people of the Upper Negro River, an Eastern Tukanoan people situated in Northwestern Amazonia. Bará children are offered the stool, a being consi…
The Development of Negative ‘have’ Auxiliaries in the Bantu Languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi
This paper studies the grammaticalization of possessive predicates into negative auxiliaries expressing main clause negation in the Bantu languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi River region. Drawing on a convenience sample of languages fr…
Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ
Gĩkũyũ (E.51) exhibits several verbs that can be used both as lexical verbs and as auxiliary verbs. We compare the lexical and auxiliary usages of four verbs and show that all auxiliary verb usages display uniform restrictions concerning val…
BE Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Kihehe
Kihehe (G62) has a rich inventory of auxiliary constructions (> 120) grounded in different forms of be: copula -li and -ʋa ‘be’. This paper addresses those constructions in which the auxiliary is marked for one of three pasts – hodiernal,…
The Pragmatic Functions of the Auxiliary Verbs za ‘come’ and ya ‘go’ in isiXhosa
This study focuses on the syntactic and pragmatic functions of the isiXhosa auxiliary verbs za ‘come’ and ya ‘go’ when followed by subjunctive or past consecutive lexical verbs. Analysis of the auxiliaries’ occurrence in a 60,000-word databa…
Dedicated Auxiliaries in Tswana (Bantu S31)
This article discusses the subclass of Tswana auxiliaries that cannot be analysed as resulting from the grammaticalization of regular forms of verbs also used predicatively in the present state of the language. It describes the general chara…
Auxiliaries and Analyticity in Northwestern Bantu
Northwestern Bantu (NWB) languages differ from Eastern/Southwestern Bantu languages in that their verb forms are more often analytic, with pre-stem inflectional material appearing in a complex that may be unbound from the main verb. This has…
On the Morphology, Interpretation, and Development of the Kagulu Auxiliary ng’hali
The Kagulu auxiliary verb ng’hali appears in a variety of auxiliary verb constructions and has several phonological realizations (ng’hali, kali, and ng’hati). Unlike other auxiliary verbs in the language, ng’hali occurs with limited morpholo…