Introduction / Issue 37: Automated Images
InVisible Culture
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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
Lectio praecursoria
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…
Lectio præcursoria
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…
Lectio praecursoria
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…
Encounter
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…
Lectio Præcursoria
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…
Justifying Meritocracy
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…
Rural Murle Age-Set Men Tackling Elites in South Sudan
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…
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…
Producing Human Life or Protecting Wildlife?
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…
Editorial Note
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.
Book Reviews
Journal Name: The Cambridge Journal of AnthropologyVolume: 42Issue: 2Pages: 136-144