Interesting viewpoints on Laestadianism in Finland
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Category: English
Doctoral theses on Laestadius and the Laestadian movement 1937–2018
The scope of the review is all doctoral theses that exist on Laestadius and the Laestadian movement. A total of 31 doctoral theses on Laestadius and the Laestadian movment are included in this review.The Laestadian movement is an international on…
Care, longing, and control
This article analyses representations of Conservative Laestadianism in contemporary Finnish and Finnish-American popular culture. Drawing from political studies, religious studies and cultural studies, the article sheds light on the ways in which Conse…
Approaching Laestadianism
The aim of this thematic issue on research on the Laestadian movement is to dwell with and look back on how the research on Laestadius and the Laestadian movement has developed, but at the same time show the latest developments in this research. In ord…
A research history of Laestadianism in Norway
This article provides an overview and discusses the history of research on Laestadianism in Norway over the last 60 years. Research history earlier than 1960 and doctoral theses are discussed in this issue of Approaching Religion by Roald E. Kristianse…
Depictions of Laestadianism 1850–1950
The issue to be discussed here is how society’s views of the Laestadian revival has changed over the course of the revival movement’s first 100 years. The article claims that society’s emerging view of the revival is characterized by two different posi…
Approaching Laestadianism as an insider researcher
In this article, I discuss my experiences of being an insider researching Laestadianism. I present my research, noting the advantages and disadvantages, ending with a conclusion in which I refer to the discussion among anthropologists and ethnolog…
The Firstborn Laestadians and the sacraments
Firstborn Laestadians represent one branch of the Laestadian revival movement following the so-called Great Division of around the turn of the twentieth century. This article examines two concepts; ‘the priesthood of all believers’ and ‘the preacher’, …
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.35 No.3
Published: December 2019.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.35 No.3
Published: December 2019.
Compte rendu de Valentine Tibère et Vincent Marcilhac : Les goûts du chocolat dans le monde.
TIBERE V. & MARCILHAC V. (ed.) 2019. Les goûts du chocolat dans le monde. Paris : L’Harmattan, Coll. Questions alimentaires et gastronomiques, 274 p.
L’ouvrage rassemble des contributions issues du premier colloque international sur le…
Call for Papers: The socio-economic realities of post-industrial capitalism
We invite articles, research notes, essays and book reviews that discuss how social realities are structured, constructed and experienced under the logic of post-industrial capitalism. We welcome texts from multiple disciplines and genres. Deadline for manuscript submissions: August 17th, 2020 Send manuscripts at compaso@compaso.eu. Business models are not culturally neutral; instead, they significantly shape various […]
Article | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural …
2020-05-04 – Although precarity has always been a characteristic feature of artistic labour, many c…
Disassembling and Reassembling a Sports Talent – Culture …
2020-05-04 – Talent is hereby seen as a phenomenon that comes into being through actions, rather th…
The Mystification of Digital Technology in Norwegian Policies on Archives, Libraries and Museums: Digitalization as Policy Imperative
In this article, we investigate how digitalization has attained the role of policy imperative in the culture sector, and how the imperative is influencing contemporary policy discourses on archives, libraries and museums (ALM-organizations) in Norway. …
Living Precarious Lives? Time and Temporality in Visual Arts Careers
Although precarity has always been a characteristic feature of artistic labour, many critics now claim it is becoming more widespread and engrained. However, while the idea of precarity offers a good descriptor of the conditions of artistic labour, it …
“Social change plays out conflictively on the terrain of language”: interview with Monica Heller (University of Toronto professor)
Resumo Sofrimento, ansiedades e incertezas estão por toda a parte em face da pandemia de Covid-19. Tem sido uma experiência impactante, contudo cada vez mais comum. Nas últimas décadas, diferentes domínios de interesse, como aquele das emergências sani…
Microbiopolitics and sanitary regulation: disagreements between science and local knowledge in the production of artisanal cheese in Minas Gerais
Resumo Este artigo analisa a relação da produção de queijos artesanais em Minas Gerais com imposições da regulação sanitária, configuradas em instrumentos e mecanismos de biossegurança, conformados em mercados internacionais, que constroem uma imagem d…
COVID-19, biosecurity and anthropology
Resumo Sofrimento, ansiedades e incertezas estão por toda a parte em face da pandemia de Covid-19. Tem sido uma experiência impactante, contudo cada vez mais comum. Nas últimas décadas, diferentes domínios de interesse, como aquele das emergências sani…
Mobilization and predation: the war against invasive species from two perspectives
Resumo As lógicas de biossegurança contemporâneas se baseiam em um modelo de pensamento derivado da estratégia militar. Não obstante, que concepções sobre a natureza mesma da guerra perpassam as reações sociais à presença de ameaças biológicas, como es…
Reflections on killing. Ontological conflits over Cutaneus Leshimaniasis in Wajãpi Indigenous land
Resumo A partir de uma pesquisa sobre os padrões epidemiológicos de leishmaniose tegumentar americana na Terra Indígena Wajãpi (AP), tomo como ponto de partida as perspectivas de alguns Wajãpi e de cientistas para explorar aspectos das ontologias em di…
When biologists look at the animals: caatinga, ecology and zoology between life, work and death
Resumo Em diálogo com análises etnográficas sobre as relações humano-animal, este texto apresenta desdobramentos de um estudo que, por meio da observação da rotina de laboratórios de ciências biológicas e de entrevistas com biólogos, rastreou trabalhos…
Thanatopolitics and biosecurity: two regimes of governing life in Canine Visceral Leishmaniasis in Brazil
Resumo Apesar de ter sua legitimidade contestada nas últimas décadas por defensores de animais, juristas e veterinários que defendem o direito à vida e ao tratamento, assim como por pesquisadores da área da saúde que duvidam de sua eficácia, a “eutanás…
Can a pig speak? Disease, systems, and sacrifice in the Caribbean
Resumo Este artigo discute o massacre dos porcos crioulos que teve lugar na ilha de Espanhola, particularmente no Haiti, entre finais da década de 1970 e começo dos anos 1980. Combinando etnografia e análise historiográfica, discuto, primeiramente, a t…
Biosecurity and the ecologies of conservation. An anthropology of collecting practices among virus hunters and birdwatchers
Abstract This article describes prevention and preparedness as different techniques to conserve the past in order to anticipate the future. It relates the emergence of virology and ornithology to the places where samples are accumulated and classified….