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Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
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Anthropology and the Image of the World
It is widely held that a new image of the world—a colour photograph of the planet Earth rising beyond the shadow of the moon, as captured by a pair of American astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission of 1968—was one of the most influential force…
Ecological Threats and New Promises of Sustainability for the 21st Century
Scientific research and public debate on biodiversity loss (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), climate change (IPCC 2007), and other environmental issues have led to a renewed discussion of what needs to be done about the place of humans…
Engaging with the Environment in the Industrialized Russian North
This article deals with the complexity of relations of urban dwellers with the natural environment. It explores a rich variety of practices in engaging with non-built environments developed by the population of mining cities in the Murmansk…
Interesting New Publications
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Latin American Feminism: Challenges for Global Justice Movements (May 2nd 2011, Helsinki).
The seminar was dedicated to examining the types of transformations that have recently taken place in feminism in Latin America and in the global justice movements, as well as envisioning possible future processes and shifts in relation to …
Planning for People—anthropologists in dialogue with planning scholars: A new demand for anthropological expertise? (May 3rd 2011, Helsinki)
Why would anthropologists pay attention to planning research? The symposium, ‘Planning for People’, held in Helsinki on May 3rd 2011 demonstrated that there are many reasons. Most obviously, anthropologists have to deal more and more with t…
Gisa Weszkalnys. Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany
GISA W ESZKALNYS. Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010. Pp. 214. ISBN: 978-1-84545-723-5.
Sharam Khosravi. Illegal Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders .
KHOSRAVI, SHARAM. Illegal Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 176. ISBN: 978-0-230-23079-8.
Review essay. David Harvey: Social Justice and the City and Susan Fainstein: The Just City .
HARVEY, DAVID. Social Justice and the City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009 (Revised Edition). Pp. 354. ISBN: 978-0-8203-3403-5. FAINSTEIN, SUSAN. The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 224. ISBN: 978-080144655…
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.6 No.1
Published: December 1995.
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.6 No.1
Published: December 1995.
Growing Social Structure: An Empirical Multiagent Excursion into Kinship in Rural North-West Frontier Province
Kinship is an essential factor in human social life. Many years of research devoted to develop a better understanding of kinship bear witness to this fact. Important advances were made on conceptual, modeling and empirical grounds. Computational social…
Demographic Regulators in Small-Scale World-Systems
This paper presents a simulation of world-systems theory’s iteration model of early human societies. The polities modeled are composed of sedentary foragers and/or simple horticulturalists that rely upon basic subsistence technologies and display low l…
Costume Cinema and Materiality: Telling the Story of Marie Antoinette through Dress
In ’Costume Cinema and Materiality: Telling the Story of Marie Antoinette through Dress’ a materiality-based approach for analysing film narratives through costumes is examined. Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette (2006) serves as the empirical start…
Fashion, Market and Materiality Along the Seams of Clothing
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Culture Unbound Vol. 3 Editorial
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Materialised Ideals: Sizes and Beauty
Today’s clothing industry is based on a system where clothes are made in ready-to-wear sizes and meant to fit most people. Studies have pointed out that consumers are discontent with the use of these systems: size designations are not accurate enough t…
Retail and Fashion – A Happy Marriage?: The Making of a Fashion Industry Research Design
Fashion and retail ought to be a happy marriage. Yet several entrepreneurs in the field of fashion speak of a climate that is difficult to penetrate because of economic and cultural factors. For example, the chain store concept is an expression of the …
Catwalking the Nation: Challenges and Possibilities in the Case of the Danish Fashion Industry
This article discusses the mobilization of the nation for fashion, based on how the relationship between fashion and nation unfolds in the case of fashion design practice and the fashion industry in Denmark. The otherwise globalized fashion industry is…
The Fastskin Revolution: From Human Fish to Swimming Androids
The story of fastskin swimsuits reflects some of the challenges facing the impact of technology in postmodern culture. Introduced in 1999 and ratified for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, fastskin swimsuits were touted as revolutionising competitive swim…
As Fast as Possible Rather Than Well Protected: Experiences of Football Clothes
With Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological view that human beings ’take in’ the world and experience themselves as subjects through their bodies as a starting point, players in both men’s and women’s teams, kit men, purchasing managers, sporting dir…
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The Invisible Turn to the Future: Commemorative Culture in Contemporary Shanghai
After decades of fierce political struggles in the Mao era, the People’s Republic of China has strived economically under the open-door policy since the end of the 1970s. However, the still firm national monuments that weathered the social vicissitudes…
Production, Creative Firms and Urban Space in Shanghai
This paper examines the firms in Shanghai’s official “Creative Industry Clusters (CICs)”. It aims to contribute to the creative city debate by unveiling the relationships between the production of new economy firms and the reconstruction of urban space…