Review of Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste. 2024. More and more and more: An all-consuming history of energy
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Category: English
Reveling in the Richness of Folklore: A Journey Through Ageless Narratives
Folklore, the term coined by a British anthropologist, William Thoms, in 1846, is the embodiment of stories passed down through generations, reflecting cultural traditions, beliefs, and historical accounts. These narratives, often steeped in the supernatural but tethered to human experience, provide a wealth of shared understanding about the human condition. Let’s delve into this intriguing […]
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Against Image Positivism: The Potentials for Play as a Mode of Health Research
Images are increasingly used in health research as a complement to discursive methods, to elicit more and different types of knowledge and experience from participants. The use of image-based research, such as drawing and photography, then, …
Psychiatric Care as an Other-than-Human Entanglement: Anthropological Reflections on Forest Therapy
What can we learn about the therapeutic landscapes of in-patient psychiatric care by focusing on the invisible, the seemingly unimportant? To explore how mental affliction and caregiving acts are connected to other-than-human dimensions and …
Beyond Voice
Special Section Introduction
Thinking Through Voice with a Somali (Love Doctor) Poet
During research on love songs and political poetry in Somaliland, one of my closest interlocutors has been a poet named Weedhsame who describes his work as arising from a duty to ‘give voice to the voiceless’. Collaborating with a musician a…
MAT Editorial
Editorial for the Spring issue, 2025.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.41 No.1
Published: June 2025.
Of Ethnographic (Mis)Translations on a Ward
In this Field Note, I take the opportunity to reflect on some of the concrete dilemmas that I was faced with in trying to negotiate, secure and maintain access to my field-site. These reflections derive from my engagement with infectious dis…
Silence as Presence
‘Giving voice’ can be an empowering metaphor for the process of creating space for another’s perspective, allowing for their experience to be noted and attended to. Yet it is also a metaphor that relies on a particular form of articulation. …
Normative Language and Judgements of Cognition: A Methodological Reflection on Difficult Sign Language Interactions
In this article, I investigate the case of a deaf woman, Silivia, who lived in western Uganda. Silivia did not use standardised sign language and was commonly considered to be ‘mad.’ However, some of her interlocutors disagreed, arguing that…
The Intriguing World of Folklore: A Tapestry of Tales
Folklore, the age-old tradition of storytelling, boasts an intriguing tapestry of tales, transporting us to different worlds and timeframes through myth, legend, and superstition. This article will explore various aspects of folklore and their everlasting relevance in our modern setting. Understanding Folklore Folklore is a cultural manifestation passed down through generations, either by word of […]
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Book Review of Benjamin Neimark. 2023. Hottest of the Hotspots: The rise of eco-precarious conservation labor in Madagascar
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Reckless Local and Ill-Fated Stranger: Reimagining Vietnamese National Sentiment during COVID-19
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam, the media has meticulously covered disease prevention and reported on infection cases. This article will explore the current and shifting gender relations of Vietnam’s state and societ…
El malestar es otra cosa: Sobre la necesidad de ampliar nuestra noción de sufrimiento (2025). Ressenya del llibre de Javier Erro
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
Review of Gustav Cederlöf. 2023. The low-carbon contradiction: Energy transition, geopolitics, and the infrastructural state in Cuba
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Whose habitat? Exploring human-tiger conflict in the riskscapes of the Indian Sundarbans
The Indian Sundarbans, the world’s largest littoral mangrove stretch, draws attention in scientific discourses, being an ecosystem vulnerable to global climate change and a biodiversity hotspot governed under institutionalized protected area management…
Practising the Future against Perception
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: 51-65
Entangled Skinscapes
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 1-10
Being Indian, Becoming German
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: 34-50
Technopolitics, Poetic Infrastructures and Methodologies of Care
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: iv-x
‘The Border across my Womb’
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: 19-33
Anthropologies in/of the Black Mediterranean
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: 1-18
Afterword
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 69Issue: 2Pages: 151-161
Transsexual Surgery in Egypt or the Suspicion of Homosexuality
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 20Issue: 1Pages: 127-140