Chamada para dossiê: Black Brazilian Anthropology
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Templestay engaged Buddhism South Korea (un)happiness branding wellness tourism This article examines Templestay, a short-term retreat program held for laypersons at Buddhist monasteries, as a form of wellness tourism amid the prevailing social malaise…
Asian Ethnology
sacrificial text ritual performance ancestor worship keying device imperial metaphor Huizhou Through the lens of performance study, this article analyzes five sacrificial texts that are read or sung in ritual performances worshipping ancestors (and dei…
Asian Ethnology
Bhojpuri folksongs Hindi literature Anglo-Indian literature ethnography migration indentureship orality This article examines Bhojpuri folksongs that have migrated from north Indian villages to overseas locales, or that have migrated from oral traditio…
Bridging Research Praxes Across Pluralities of Knowledge
How can researchers working both within and external to academia in all disciplines and areas of research recognize knowledge produced in other spheres and engage more ethically and collaboratively with that knowledge and those who create and circulate…
« Se nutrimenter » pour dégraisser et gagner du muscle
Cet article s’intéresse aux relations entre un coach et son groupe de body-builders examinées à la suite d’une enquête ethnographique de longue durée dans une salle de musculation du Sud de la France. Les aspects alimentaires des régimes qui son…
‚Um Grande Instrumento de Partilha‘
This article is a multi-voiced report on an innovative method of teaching an introductory course on Amazonian ethnology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. This course foregrounds the vo…
Rewarding Citizen Participation in Exhibitions: A Questionnaire Surveying Museum Practices
The paper presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative study undertaken by a team of museum professionals and researchers based at the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (Mucem) in Marseilles, France, in 2020. The survey …
A Room for Reaching in at the Heart of the Museum: Rethinking Dialogical Curating
Museums often prioritize connecting with their audiences, but they may neglect the importance of providing internal spaces for staff to communicate openly. This article thinks through the first Prep Room project at the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde in …
Strategic Narcissism: A Lived Experience of ‘Decolonising’, Inclusion of and ‘Collaborations’ with Indigenous Researchers
Based on my lived experience, the current decolonizing turn towards increasing the inclusion of and collaborations with indigenous researchers is characterized by strategic narcissism. Collaborations are shaped by wishful thinking, ignoring our lived e…
‘We Don’t Want Another White Guy to Tell our Story!’
Collaboration with creator communities has become a new paradigm for ethnological museums. In this article, we discuss the possibilities and limits of cooperation with stakeholders from creator communities based on our experience of the last five years…
A Donkey for the White Visitor: Practices of Collecting (with) Forced Migrants
At a time when public and political opinion towards forced migration is negatively inclined, many museums in Europe are applying a collaborative approach to address the stories of forced migrants (Boersma 2023; Sergi 2021). Through participatory projec…
‘Indigenous Encyclopedias’: Displacements and the Repositioning of Logics, Voices and Narratives in the Relationship between Museums and Indigenous Groups (Brazil)
This article seeks to bring value to the claims of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil through ‘encyclopedias’, libraries or dictionaries, forms of expression that indicate respect for elders and ancestors. It is developed within the political context of a st…
Back to the Future of Humboldtian Museums
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Delgado Rosa, Frederico and Han F. Vermeulen (eds.): Ethnographers Before Mali- nowski. Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870–1922. EASA Book Series, 44
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Elke Mader Obituary (1954–2021)
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‘Collaborative Projects as Means to Transcend Western Epistemologies’
In the last three decades, museums and museological practices that are fundamentally based on Western knowledge systems have been strongly questioned by a collective that includes Indigenous Peoples, political activists, representatives of civil societ…
Strange, Stuart Earle: Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname. Series: Anthropological Horizons
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Dippel, Anne und Martin Warnke: Tiefen der Täuschung: Computersimulation und Wirklichkeitserzeugung
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Werthmann, Katja: City Life in Africa. Anthropological Insights
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Eckert, Julia M. (ed.): The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administration
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Beek, Jan, Thomas Bierschenk, Annalena Kolloch, and Bernd Meyer (eds.): Policing Race, Ethnicity and Culture. Ethnographic Perspectives Across Europe
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Women’s Views on the Legal Order of “Thieves-in-law” in Postsoviet Georgia
As the power and influence of the “thieves-in-law” in Georgia weakened in an offensive against them that began in 2006, their parallel legal system lost some of its legitimacy in the face of the state legal system. This article, based on an ethnographi…
The Law of the Outlaw
This article introduces the special issue through a review of Francophone and Anglo-Saxon legal anthropology traditions, before situating the law of the outlaw within these and outlining its potential contribution towards the development of a pragmatic…