Through the Eyes of an Anthropologist

On a cold December evening, in the thick cloud of cigarette smoke and clatter of the cocktail shaker, two women, Suvi Rautio and He Beili tell stories of what it means to see through the eyes of an anthropologist. Speaking to a crowded room of seventy …

Errata 48 (3)

In Volume 48, Issue 3 of Suomen Antropologi, we published a Lectio Praecursoria by Ioana Țîștea, entitled ‘Creolising Nordic Migration Research: Entangled Knowledges, Migratisations, and Reflexivities’. In the lectio, Țîștea was drawing direct attentio…

The Value of Common Bracken Revisited

Based on a walking ethnography, this photo essay employs sensory ethnography to explore multispecies relationality in steljniki, plots of land traditionally used for grazing and the harvesting of common bracken. Through work in subsistence-based extens…

Exploring the Roots of Humanity: A Journey Through Folklore from Around the World

Folklore is the ancient collective consciousness of a people – serving as a mirror of their traditions, customs, beliefs, and aspirations. This powerful tool is essential to understanding societies across the globe and through the ages. In this blog post, we journey across continents, exploring a variety of folklore topics that shape humanity. Europe: Ireland’s […]

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Living Legends: An Exploration into Varying Folklore

Welcome to an enchanting journey through the charming, harrowing, and captivating world of folklore. Whether it’s about breathtaking Kodama spirits from Japanese mythology or spine-chilling wendigos from Native American lore, every culture has a rich reserve of magical entities, origin tales, and mythical occurrences that continue to shape their identities. Scandinavian Folklore: The Allure of […]

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Scaling Feminist Activism

The continuous protests in the Islamic Republic of Iran since Jina Mahsi Amini’s death in the fall of 2022 are challenging common perceptions of resistance, and even revolution. Through looking at the politics of maneuvering of both exiled f…

Knowing Digital Governance from Below

This paper considers the question of what it is to ‘know’ digital governance through an experiential, bottom-up lens, and presents some empirical detail from recent fieldwork with feminist movement actors in northern India – both formally or…

Elogi de la “construcció densa”

Basant-me en el meu llibre The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty ([2023] 2025)3, presento una defensa en favor de la “construcció densa” com una aproximació racionalista que ens serveix per emmarcar i dur a terme l’etnografia. Impregnat per l’epist…