Tributes for Ute Röschenthaler (1960–2024)
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Category: English
From Context-Free to Aggregate Universality: Life Skills Courses and The Making of Automated Therapy in Bengaluru, India
This paper uses life-skills training courses and an automated therapeutic self-help app from Bengaluru, India, as lenses through which to investigate universalizing processes of psychology and therapy and some of its frictions. How is psychological uni…
Population in Fragments: Inclusion, Risk, and the Anticipatory Universality of Postcolonial Genomics
In recent years, genomic medicine has invited critical attention for its potential to include diverse population groups and therefore expand the clinical relevance of global genome databases in diagnosing diseases. Population geneticists across the Glo…
Review of Laurie Parsons. 2023. Carbon colonialism: How rich countries export climate breakdown
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Chamada para dossiê: “Periferia é Periferia em qualquer lugar”: produção cultural em periferias urbanas
Editoras de organização Adriana FacinaPrograma de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Silvia CapanemaUniversité […]
Fly-Fishing With AI
InVisible Culture
Jess MacCormack
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Modeling Charisma: AI’s Fashion Mirror Stage
InVisible Culture
Abstraction as Resistance to Racialized Surveillance: The Intersections of Art, Technology, and Identity in the Age of Computer Vision
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Instagram and the Memed Self
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Introduction / Issue 37: Automated Images
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Announcement: Change in Publication Month
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L’ENNUI DES SYRTES OR THE BOREDOM OF EMPIRES
The paper presents the phenomenon of boredom in Julien Gracq’s novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The opposing shore). The book describes Orsenna, oligarchic city-state loosely based on Venetian republic and empire, which is in a state of phoney war with Farg…
Proverbs Attributed to Humans and Nonhumans in the Beja Language (Sudan)
The aim of this paper is to determine the social and discursive functions of Beja proverbs and the reasons why some of them are attributed to non-human enunciators. The discussion is based on oral texts of different genres (tales, poems, and…
The Poetics of Second Liberation
This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. The essay rereads the play, focusing on the concepts of ‘bad decolonization’,…
Gender within the Pursuit of Doctoral Education
This study investigates the challenges faced by female PhD students in the pursuit of their doctoral education in Zimbabwe. The study’s broad aim was to explore female PhD students’ experiences within their doctoral studies. The study sample…
Rethinking Language
The importance of language is consistently ignored within teacher training across Africa, with training designed based on the assumption that learners are fully competent in the medium of instruction (MOI). This causes widespread challenges and often m…
Politics of Race, Belonging and Community in Yeboyah’s music video ‘Elovena’
The Elovena maiden is, for some, one of the most important cultural symbols of the Finnish identity. This character has traditionally been portrayed as a blond, blue-eyed white woman and repeatedly used in artistic and commercial contexts. I…
Book Review: India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa by King Kenneth and Meera Venkatachalam
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Book Review: India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa by King Kenneth and Meera Venkatachalam
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Local Aspirants and Politicised Chieftaincy Disputes: Evidence from Northern Ghana
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Why do politicians intervene in some chieftaincy succession disputes but not others? The key actors and their motivations in these processes remain understudied. In this article I leverage a comparative analysis of two …
Local Aspirants and Politicised Chieftaincy Disputes: Evidence from Northern Ghana
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Why do politicians intervene in some chieftaincy succession disputes but not others? The key actors and their motivations in these processes remain understudied. In this article I leverage a comparative analysis of two …
Book Review of O’Regan, Michael (ed.) 2023. <em>Backpacking Culture and Mobilities: Independent and Nomadic Travel</em>. Bristol and Jackson: Channel View Publications. 299 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book Review of Mau, Steffen 2023. <em>Sorting Machines. The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century</em>. Cambridge: Polity Press. 174 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Promises of Development, Land Acquisition, and Dispossession
This article examines how the futures promised by the postcolonial state through various projects leave peasants sceptical about a new government project at the rural margin of India. Focusing on a car factory project undertaken in 2006 by the governme…