Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.32 No.3
Published: December 2016.
Category: English
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.32 No.3
Published: December 2016.
Call for Papers: Science – Something Old, Something New, Something Blue
Guest Editor: Emanuel Socaciu, University of Bucharest Extended deadline for manuscript submission: June 15th, 2017 Send manuscripts at compaso@compaso.eu *** We invite research articles and notes that explore the interplay of science and daily life, the role of new technologies in scientific knowledge, the just-emerging and the strongly-persistent practice of science making and reporting, as […]
Decolonising the Rainbow Flag
The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic center. Through three case studies in the global North and South, held together by a multi-ethnographic approach, as well as a c…
(Un-)veiling the west: Burkini-gate, Princess Hijab and dressing as struggle for postsecular integration
The ban of the burkini in the summer of 2016 in France is the latest stage in a long political history, where the French depreciation or fear of the veil, and of Islam, has come to play a more significant role since the end of the cold war. Unveiling f…
Negotiating identities through the ‘cultural practice’ of labia elongation among urban Shona women and men in contemporary Zimbabwe
Dominant Eurocentric discourses on African traditional cultural practices linked to sexuality construct these practices as retrogressive for women in these localities. These discourses take the form of women and sexual rights promoted by some women act…
The rainbow flag as friction: transnational imagined communities of belonging among Pakistani LGBTQ activists
This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the transnational ‘rainbow’ space plays for community building for LGBTQ ac…
Rainbows of Resistance: LGBTQ Pride Parades Contesting Space in Post-Conflict Belfast
The article seeks to demonstrate how marchers in the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade strategically contest and reclaim heteronormative public spaces in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There is an exploration of participants adapting transnational symbolic represe…
The Performative Force of Cultural Products: Subject Positions and Desires Emerging From Engagement with the Manga Boys’ Love and Yaoi
This article deals with questions about the performative power of cultural products that travel the world. The Japanese manga genre Boys’ Love and Yaoi has gained a broad readership outside of Japan during recent decades. This has cultivated an image o…
The Gift and the Centipede
This paper addresses the similarity between behavioural economics and social anthropology with respect to approaches on repeated reciprocity. The case at hand is the application of the Centipede game to Marcel Mauss’s concept of the Gift. In a Centiped…
The Brazilian Hawaii: Surf Culture, Tourism, and the Construction of Place
Get PDF: Palmer, Christian. 2017. The Brazilian Hawaii: Surf Culture, Tourism, and the Construction of Place. Global Ethnographic. Christian Palmer Windward Community College ctpalmer@hawaii.edu Abstract This article describes how ideas of Hawai…
The Brazilian Hawaii: Surf Culture, Tourism, and the Construction of Place
Get PDF: Palmer, Christian. 2017. The Brazilian Hawaii: Surf Culture, Tourism, and the Construction of Place. Global Ethnographic. Christian Palmer Windward Community College ctpalmer@hawaii.edu Abstract This article describes how ideas of Hawai…
Cultural products in flux: an introduction
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Journal of Ecological Anthropology
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Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Aposematism: An Alternative Hypothesis on How We Discover Medicinal Organisms
The most widely accepted theories as to how primates select medicinal organisms are based on smelling-tasting bitter, and most of the times toxic, plants (Etkin & Ross, 1982; Johns, 1990). In primates, however, the senses of smell and taste are not…
Aposematism: An Alternative Hypothesis on How We Discover Medicinal Organisms
The most widely accepted theories as to how primates select medicinal organisms are based on smelling-tasting bitter, and most of the times toxic, plants (Etkin & Ross, 1982; Johns, 1990). In primates, however, the senses of smell and taste are not…
15 | 2017 – Sociology of India’s Economic Elites
Introduction. Towards a Sociology of India’s Economic Elite: Beyond the Neo-Orientalist and Managerialist Perspectives [Full text]
Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet
The Hindu Undivided Family …
15 | 2017 – Sociology of India’s Economic Elites
Introduction. Towards a Sociology of India’s Economic Elite: Beyond the Neo-Orientalist and Managerialist Perspectives [Full text]
Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet
The Hindu Undivided Family …
GLOBAL ECONOMIC DYNAMICS OF THE FORTHCOMING YEARS: A FORECAST
The paper analyzes the current state of the world economy and offers a short-term forecast of its development. Our analysis of log-periodic oscillations in the DJIA dynamics suggests that in the second half of 2017 the United States and other more deve…
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.28 No.1
Published: December 2016.
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.28 No.1
Published: December 2016.
“And the Word Became Network”: An Analysis of the Circulation of the “Catholic” in Online Communicational Networks
Within the process of mediatization, the Catholic Church and society in general produce new modes of communication on the internet, in which there is a widespread network of relationships between symbols, beliefs, and practices linked to Cat…
Algorithmic Absolution: The Case of Catholic Confessional Apps
This article explores the Catholic ritual of confession as practiced through the use of mobile apps. Confession is a surprisingly persistent social form and in this article I begin by contextualising the relationship between society, confess…
The Design of Educational Materials for Teaching the Most Common Religions to Students in their Final Year of Primary School: A Cross-Curricular Approach of Religious Studies and Music, Through the Use of Augmented Reality
The aim of this research is to establish whether teaching approaches based on the use of Augmented Reality (AR) facilitate deeper and more engaging learning. The religions of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and their sacred musics we…