Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.28 No.1
Published: December 2016.
Category: English
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…
Facebooking Religion and the Technologization of the Religious Discourse: A Case Study of a Botswana-based Prophetic Church
Technologization of discourse is generally conceptualized as a process of influencing people’s way of thinking through the use of certain linguistic strategies. In this process, power is exercised through the use of linguistic strategies tha…
Jewish, Christian and Islamic in the English Wikipedia
In order to study how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are represented in Wikipedia, I use corpus linguistics tools to extract the adjective noun collocates of the adjectives Jewish, Christian, and Islamic from the 2013 English Wikipedia in …
Morality and Religion as factors in Age Rating Computer and Video Games: ESRA, the Iranian Games Age Rating System
ESRA, the Entertainment Software Rating Association, is the name of Iran’s computer games age rating system introduced in 2008 by its video game association IRCG. This new rating system is based on what this country deems as social, psycholo…
Pilgrim or Tourist? Modelling Two Types of Travel Bloggers
The typological distinction between pilgrims and tourists has often been drawn in tourism studies. This article aims at complementing this debate by applying computational techniques to analyse discourses in a corpus of blogs from the Dutch …
23 | 2016 – Faire et défaire les territoires dans la Turquie contemporaine
Dire et faire le territoire en Turquie : entre idéologie unitariste et obsession de la rente [Full text]
Ségolène Débarre and Jean-François Pérouse
Manufacturing and Dismantling Territories in Turkey : Between U…
Responding to Modern Flooding: Old English Place-Names as a Repository of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Place-names are used to communicate Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) by all indigenous, aboriginal and First Nations people. Here and for the first time, English place-names are examined through a TEK lens. Specifically, place-names formed in…
Responding to Modern Flooding: Old English Place-Names as a Repository of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Place-names are used to communicate Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) by all indigenous, aboriginal and First Nations people. Here and for the first time, English place-names are examined through a TEK lens. Specifically, place-names formed in…
Street Protests and Affects on YouTube Investigating DIY Videos of Violent Street Protests as an Archive of Affect and Event Desire
This article argues that YouTube, as a platform for sharing DIY videos, is an useful resource for understanding the role of affective processes before, during and after protest events. As a case study the article investigates the documentation on YouTu…
Reframing Cultural Diplomacy: The Instrumentalization of Culture under the Soft Power Theory
Although cultural diplomacy has grown in importance in recent years, there is no consensus on its definition. Cultural diplomacy is commonly framed in terms of soft power: the capacity of persuasion and attraction that allows the state to construct heg…
Music, Memory, and Affect Attunement: Connecting Kurdish Diaspora in Stockholm
This article takes its point of departure in Maurice Halbwachs’ notion of collective memory, adding the distinction made by Jan Assmann between communicative and cultural memory, and Alfred Schütz’s notion of communication, understood here as the sonor…
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.32 No.2
Published: August 2016.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.32 No.2
Published: August 2016.
Fish Names Variability Traces the Geo-Historical Dynamics of Moroccan Fishermen Communities
Fish vernacular names in Morocco needs a structuring system. Though used widely, these names are highly variable and do not necessarily meet trade requirements. The 138 species considered in this study have 691 vernacular names and the vernacular n…
Learning to Survive Ecological Risks among the Sidama of Southwestern Ethiopia
Sidama farmers rely on rain-fed agriculture and experience a highly variable natural environment. Recurrent drought, erratic rainfall, and crop and livestock loss are common in mid and lowland areas, but local people are not passive victims of the …
What Enhancement Techniques Suggest about the Good Death
The contemporary increase in life expectancy in Western countries has led to an intensified focus on good ageing processes as a way to manage ageing populations. We argue that while qualifications of the ageing process such as active and healthy ageing…
Culture and Conservation: Beyond Anthropocentrism
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Dualism and Pluralism in Pueblo Kinship and Ritual Systems
How do kinship and ritual systems articulate with patterns of social organization? Among the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona, social organization has been described as conforming to two opposing patterns. Among the Eastern Pueblos of the Rio Grand…
The Study of Kinship Systems and Terminologies in Russia and the Soviet Union
The paper traces the origin of kinship studies as a subdiscipline of ethnography in Russia and the former Soviet Union. It identifies three long-term trends in the study of kinship (typological, ethnosociological and ethnocultural) in the region and…
Back to Kinship II: A General Introduction
The two failed orientations to kinship, nurture and fitness, are transcended as this collection of original kinship work moves forward, building on the rich theoretical and ethnographic past of kinship study to a reinvigorated future of new data, recon…
Ethnological Problems and the Production of Archaeological Kinship Research
Ethnology traditionally guides most research on kinship practices. However, diachronic hypotheses are inadequately tested when using synchronic and normative information from limited periods of ethnological observations. Archaeological kinship analysis…