Review of Kyle Boggs. 2025. Recreational colonialism and the rhetorical landscapes of the outdoors
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CAES Vol. 11, № 4
Editor’s foreword Articles Comparing the main Ainu kinship terms with their Sino-Tibetan counterparts (Part II) Alexander Akulov, Tresi Nonno Ainu kinship terms “uncle”, “aunt”, “grandfather”, “grandmother”, “husband”, “wife” have clearly seen Sino-Tibetan counterparts. Late Jōmon Ainu (LJA) *ʔaca [*ʔatsa] “uncle” correlates with Balti ace· ”uncle (paternal)”, Sak acɨ́ “father’s brother” / “uncle”, Rengma achu ”uncle”, and Tsangla […]
(Non-)Knowledge, slow violence and latent conflicts over mine tailings in the Chilean Atacama region
The “slow violence” arising from mining tailings in Chile spreads cumulatively, slowly and invisibly over time and space. Even those affected are not necessarily aware of it. Toxic substances, which tailings contain in high concentrations, spread easil…
(Non-)Knowledge, slow violence and latent conflicts over mine tailings in the Chilean Atacama region
The “slow violence” arising from mining tailings in Chile spreads cumulatively, slowly and invisibly over time and space. Even those affected are not necessarily aware of it. Toxic substances, which tailings contain in high concentrations, spread easil…
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.41 No.2
Published: November 2025.
Coffee, Controversy, and Community in Salento, Italy
Among popular beverages associated with Puglia’s Salentine sub peninsula are coffee with ice and coffee with ice and almond lymph. The origin of the first is attributed to the patriarch of a family of coffee roasters in the city of Lecce who int…
Book Review: Africa’s Global Infrastructures – South–South Transformations in Practice by Hönke, Jana, Cezne, Eric, and Yang, Yifan
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Escape Capital
This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an expe…
About the Authors
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned a doctorate in French literature at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, 2017), where her dissertation examined comparative approaches to epic, with particular attention to French and Turkic traditions. In this context, she developed a specific interest […]
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Framing Dropout
This article examines dropout from therapeutic communities for addiction treatment through the lens of institutional escape. In conventional treatment research, dropout is framed as evidence of patients’ non-compliance, lack of motivation, o…
Working with the Lights Off
This paper examines how a group of women’s rights activists in Iran who identify as Muslim represented themselves prior to the emergence of the 2022 Mahsa Movement, and why they were reluctant to adopt the labels ‘feminist’ or ‘Islamic femi…
Choosing the Path Towards a Collective Ethos
The winds are changing at Suomen antropologi: Journal of Finnish Anthropological Society! My service as editor-in-chief is coming to an end at the end of this year and I am proud to announce the appointment of the incoming editors-in-chief,…
Visions for the Future of West Greenlandic Regalia and Knowledge of Seal Skins
Since the earliest colonial encounters in Greenland, place-based Inuit knowledge of seal skin processing has been applied and regenerated within a web of regional, national, and global relations. These relations have not only affected metho…
Book Review
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Informal Currency Exchange among Chinese Students in a Siberian City in Times of Sanctions
Faced with limitations to transnational transactions, Chinese students in Russia engage in informal currency exchanges. Through fieldwork in a Siberian city, we discovered how, against the backdrop of sanctions, fluctuating official exchang…
The Climate of Comparison
This essay is based on the 2025 Westermarck Lecture, delivered at the 50th anniversary meetings of the Finnish Anthropological Society. My deepest thanks to the organisers, staff, and participants of that conference, including Sarah Green, …
Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Ethnographic Research among the Far Right
This essay belongs to the essay series ‘The Anthropologist’s Toolkit: Reflections on Ethnographic Methodology’. In this series, authors peer into the anthropologist’s toolkit to reflect on what ethnographic methodology constitutes in all it…
Overcoming ‘Distinctive Backwardness’
From 1920 through 1932, Soviet biomedical propaganda disseminated via Udmurt literature including through periodicals, novels, plays, and poetry aimed to instil sanitation values and advance modernisation. This propaganda targeted the Indig…
Comparison in a World of Resemblances, Flows and Proximities
Anthropologists compare – it is at the heart of what we do as we try and make sense of, describe and explain human social being in all its diversity. But the use of comparison extends far beyond anthropology. Indeed, it seems ubiquitous acr…
Environmentalities, subjectivities, and adaptation capacities in Costa Rican smallholder farms
This article explores how different forms of adaptation governance in Costa Rica shape subjectivities and adaptation capacities in smallholder farms. The country presently has a neoliberal-welfare state structure that stems from the progressive transit…
Green gold for the “future”: Fermented foodways, possibilities and doubts
The looming ecological crisis demands an urgent rethinking of possibilities within our surroundings. This article examines the practice of bamboo-shoot fermentation in India’s North-Eastern Region (NER) and explores its connections to sustainability, f…
Cuisiner la thèse
Cette contribution offre un regard heuristique et réflexif sur la préparation conjointe, en candidat libre et de manière autofinancée, de deux diplômes aux symboliques aussi fortes qu’apparemment opposées : un certificat d’aptitude professionnel…
Des vaches et des hommes
Certaines maladies transmises via le lait de vache, comme la tuberculose et la diphtérie, suscitent l’inquiétude des médecins. Dans cet article nos questionnements sont à la croisée de la médecine humaine, de la médecine vétérinaire, de la micro…
“Get Yourself a Fire Body”
This article explores the intersections of clairvoyance, mediumship and gender in early-twentieth-century art through the case of the Finnish artist and occultist Meri Genetz (1885–1943). While esotericism has played a pivotal role in moder…
Esoteric Potentiality in Creating and Viewing Angel-themed Photographs
This article explores esoteric potentiality—the perceived possibility of accessing the otherworldly—through a hermeneutic framework that integrates artist intent, the photographic image and audience reception. The Finnish artist Hanne Kiive…