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Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives
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Omaggio a Mario Galzigna (1944-2020), a cinque anni dalla sua scomparsa
Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives
Alimentation et migrations : le cas des ouvriers et ouvrières yougoslaves à Belfort-Montbéliard, années 1960-2020
Après l’accord bilatéral du 25 janvier 1965 entre les gouvernements français et yougoslave, les entreprises de Belfort-Montbéliard, et en premier lieu Peugeot, intensifient leurs recrutements en Yougoslavie. Lors des examens d’embauche, les crit…
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Existing through Liminality: The Case of Northern Cyprus
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Ce numéro problématise le rapport au terrain en Turquie, en montrant comment celui-ci (re)configure les recherches et la posture du chercheur ou de la chercheuse en retour. Il aborde la recherche en train de se faire en Turquie en ta…
Re-Claiming the Past by Re-Living in the Present: The ≠Khomani San Living Museum and the Restoration of Dignity in the Southern Kalahari
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article critiques dominant development frameworks by examining the ≠Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari, who despite winning one of South Africa’s largest post-Apartheid land claims, remain marginalised and impove…
Wholes and Parts
This article recuperates an overlooked history of a photographic archive created in 1965 to document the cultural diversity of the Portuguese colonies for an ethnological museum in Lisbon during the concluding decades of the country’s last colonial reg…
Soomaaliniimo as Strength: Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis in the Somali-Ugandan Community of Kisenyi
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Uganda has been home to a myriad of communities of Somali origin for over a century. Pioneering Somali-Ugandans can trace their arrival to the early days of the colonial administration. A second wave of Somalis migrated…
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Forest, Folk, and Fiction: Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man as a Site for Ecoculture among the Nagas
Forests are one of the most commonly recurring settings of folktales and oratures. In the popular imagination, forests are often seen as the site of the unknown, the non-human, enchanting and, mystifying, however, in the northeastern cultures of India,…
Negotiating with Tides and Tigers: Life on the Boundaries of Bangladesh’s Flooded Forest
The Sundarbans, which stretches from the Bay of Bengal over parts of India and Bangladesh, is the largest mangrove forest in the world, constantly in flux due to the erosion and cyclones that can drastically reshape the land. This article explores how …
Money and Wealth in Qing Texts on Fox Spirits
This study analyses the rules of circulation of money (and wealth in general) in Qing-era (1644–1911) Chinese texts on the supernatural. It is based on the popular collections of stories by writers Pu Songling, Ji Yun and Yuan Mei.Ever since the 19th c…
Beyond Coming of Age: The Genderless Hero in Ukrainian Wonder Tale ATU 312D
The article aims to unsettle the meaning of gender assignment for Ukrainian variants of the dragonslayer wonder tale of ATU 312D, “Kotyhoroshko”, which is represented by a child hero through a post-structural deconstruction on four levels: language, jo…
Deconstructing Narratives of Belonging and Otherness Among Steppe Ukraine Villagers: Place, Space, Language, and Historical Consciousness
The image of Steppe Ukraine as a historical region has mainly been constructed based on narratives originating from urban centres that are often perceived as alien to this territory and people. Being one of the most industrial and urbanised parts of Uk…
‘More Inclined to Pity than Love’: Matthias Alexander Castrén’s Published Letters about the Nenets
This article reads Finnish linguist and ethnographer Matthias Alexander Castrén’s published letters as travel writing influenced both by imperialist discourses and the tradition of Finnish travel writing. The article examines the letter formulae and th…
Editorial Impressions: Rural Rebellion and Reclaiming Dreams
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Filling the Humanitarian Gap and a Plural Perspective on Humanitarianism
Communitarian socio-cultural practices ‘from below’ that involve the sharing of material and non-material items play a vital role in the lives of refugees. However, these support practices are rarely discussed, documented, or acknowledged fo…
From a Kingdom to a Commonwealth
This article examines the historical trajectory of Denkyira, a once-dominant Akan kingdom in Ghana. It challenges the prevailing narrative that the legacy of Denkyira ended with its defeat by Asante in 1701. Despite its significance as a pre…
Pitch Reset in Akan Subordinate Clauses
This study explores how lexical tone interacts with intonation in Akan, focusing on pitch reset as a prosodic cue in complex declaratives. Pitch reset – an upward shift in fundamental frequency (f0) following declination – has been documente…
The Workroom: The Vernacular Practice and Theorising of a Religious Group in Contemporary Northeast China
This article investigates a religious group in contemporary northeast China. The group is formed by ritual experts and adherents of a traditional folk belief in animal spirits. The group runs as an institution providing aid to those who need psychologi…
Heritage, Heirs and Performative Competence
Cultural heritage is traces from the past that are ascribed meaning in the present. This basic tenet of current heritage theory is often followed by a call for more democratic heritage processes and the inclusion of more diverse values. The article poi…
Tropes about Vikings and the Viking Age in State-funded Museums in Contemporary Scandinavia
The popularity of the Vikings and the Viking Age in Scandinavian history cultures never seems to fade. As a projection surface for meaning-making needs in the present, the Viking Age constantly finds new ways to mirror the present, thus voicing new h…
Per una antropologia de la mirada: etnografia, representació i construcció de dades audiovisuals
Aquest article proposa una reflexió teòrica i metodològica sobre el paper de la imatge en la recerca antropològica. Publicatper primera vegada a Revista de Dialectología y TradicionesPopulares (CSIC, 1998), el text reflexiona sobre el paper de la imatg…
Antropologies de la mirada: Perspectives contemporànies sobre la imatge
En aquesta introducció presentem el monogràfic Antropologies de la mirada: perspectives contemporànies sobre la imatge, que explora la relació entre antropologia i visualitat. Des dels inicis positivistes de la fotografia com a instrument d’objectivaci…
Investigar con arte y poesía
Investigar con arte y poesíaEva Marxen y Luis Felipe González Gutiérrez (2023)(Vol. 240023). Editorial Gedisa.171 p.ISBN 978-84-19406-47-7