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Anthropologists often talk about ‘encounters,’ but what do they actually mean? This term—‘encounter’—shows up everywhere across ethnographic writing and practice, but is itself rarely defined or discussed. ‘Ethnographies of encounters,’ too, are increa…

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…

The theoretical aim of this paper is to articulate a novel analytical framework that makes sense of our interlocutors’ apparently conflicting claims about the reality of meritocracy in China. The theoretical argument is rooted in ethnographic fieldwork…

The Murle age system is often presented in a negative light in the South Sudan conflict reporting, which links age-set activities to communal violence, cattle rustling, and the abduction of women and children. Such assessments by outsiders overlook the…

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…

A series of biodiversity conservation campaign since 1980s and the establishment of Siberut National Park on Siberut Island (West Sumatra, Indonesia) have seriously unsettled the relationship between the Mentawai and forest as well as between the Menta…

It gives me great pleasure to present a new issue of Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. This issue contains four peer-reviewed articles, an essay, and four research reports.

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…

Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 42Issue: 2Pages: 114-135

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: 66-87

Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 42Issue: 2Pages: 65-82

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: 47-65

Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 42Issue: 2Pages: 83-96

Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 3Pages: 103-118

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: 25-46

Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 42Issue: 2Pages: 47-64

Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 3Pages: 119-125

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: 1-24

Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 42Issue: 2Pages: 31-46

Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 3Pages: 71-88

Journal Name: Anthropological Journal of European CulturesVolume: 33Issue: 2Pages: v-vi

Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 42Issue: 2Pages: 15-30

Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 3Pages: 89-102

Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 42Issue: 2Pages: 1-14