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Dear Colleagues!CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 10, № 3, that is going to be published in the second half of September 2024. The deadline for submission of papers is August 15, 2024.
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Affective Turn, or Return?
The ‘affective turn’ suggests that we pay attention to how affects create subjectivities, build communities, and shape new forms of politics in the making. It invites us to move beyond established humanities and social science paradigms and …
The Aftermath – What Future for African Studies (in Europe?). A View From Behind the Scenes of ECAS9
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. In the spring of 2023, the ninth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) took place in Cologne. Though not unexpected (or unusual) this event sparked critical comments and questions. As the organisers, we understa…
Working (around/within/against) prior appropriation: Diverse hydrosocial practices to secure water for rivers
Water scarcity in the Western US, through the lens of political ecology, can be understood as inextricably shaped by power dynamics, governance structures, and legal practices of resource allocation. Water allocation in the region is determined largely…
CAES Vol. 10, № 2
Articles Deciphering of the Lemnos Stele inscription Alexander Akulov The Lemos Stele is a funerary monument with an inscription in the Lemnian language, that is a juncture between Etruscan and Hurro-Urartian. The inscription of side A tells about Holaie’s grandson/nephew named Zia: Holaie-z(1) nafoth(2) Zia-zi(3) mara-z(4) maw(5). Sialkʰweiz(6) awiz(7) Ewistho(8) zeronaith(9) ziwai(10). Aker(11) tawar-zio(12) Wamala-si-al(13) […]
Towards Teaching a Humanistic Anatomy: Confronting Racism in Human Anatomy Courses
Historically, the study of human anatomy has had a very complex relationship with race and racism in the United States. Today, BIPOC students are disproportionately excluded from the health sciences, in part because anatomy courses play the role of “ga…
Energy colonialism
Energy colonialism is an essential, yet scarcely theorized concept for understanding how past, present and future energy systems are shaped by colonial or neocolonial power dynamics, imaginaries, discourses, and practices. These perspectives are import…
Drought, settler law, and the Los Angeles aqueduct: The shifting political ecology of water scarcity in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada
This article examines how drought intersects with long-standing issues of ecological degradation and social inequity caused by water extraction. I focus on the case of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and its ongoing impacts on communities and ecosystems in th…
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Two Oriental Images of Istanbul: Robbe-Grillet’s L’Immortelle and Erksan’s Time to Love [Full text]
Aslı Daldal
Çiftliks, Landed Elites, and Tax Allocation in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman V…
A música na tradição indígena wai wai
Este trabalho trata da história da música na tradição do povo indígena wai wai, um grupo de língua caribe da região guianense. A pesquisa se passa entre os Wai Wai do rio Mapuera (norte do Pará), tendo como foco os conhecimentos de anciãos e as mús…
Kita vai à Kwamalasamutu
No contexto de uma série de encontros entre pessoas zo’é e tiriyó na região da fronteira Brasil-Suriname, o presente artigo aborda a experiência de Kita, jovem zo’é que em 2010 viajou com alguns chefes e pastores tiriyó e permaneceu na aldeia Kwama…
A experiência e a moral de um mito
A partir da análise de um mito de um povo (Katxuyana) das Guianas e da família linguística Caribe, este artigo enfatiza a necessidade do relato etnográfico não se distanciar do contexto e da moral da narrativa indígena. O artigo não desmerece a ime…
Propagating conviviality: Waiwai cultural transformation of moral depravity
This essay considers the problematics of anthropological translations when its responsibility to the codes of its modernist subjectivity persuades us to defer judgment on interpretations made of indigenous semiotics of life. It begins with this ful…
Don’t come crying to my funeral
In this article, I describe a Makushi wake in Guyana, where an opposition was drawn between people in mourning and their perception of others who appeared to them to be much more like partygoers. This opposition in affective states was made evident…
Replication and growth in cassava cultivation and uxorilocal women’s relations among the Waiwai: a mother’s reckoning with death and social change
Through an ethnographic examination of the shared capacities of cassava and womanhood for what I term growth and replication, I argue that Waiwai sociality seeks to curtail the trajectory of life towards finite death through the intervening act of …
Women’s routes: gender, mobility, and knowledge among the Makushi of southern Guyana
Exploring the journeys of some Makushi women, this article highlights the relevance of gender in the question of (im)mobility and female engagements with the world as central to contemporary Makushi life. Departing from the understanding that the c…
Arqueologia e história indígena na perspectiva dos Wai Wai: um povo Caribe das Guianas
Este trabalho, inicialmente, apresenta uma breve discussão sobre as novas arqueologias indígenas, seu método e sua relação com os conhecimentos tradicionais. Com base na história oral dos Wai Wai, um povo caribe das Guianas, apresentamos as aldeias…
Povos indígenas nas Guianas: etnografias contemporâneas
Na introdução a este número especial da Tipití, dedicado a etnografias recentes realizadas junto a povos indígenas na Amazônia guianense, sobrevoamos as principais tradições antropológicas que posicionaram a região no centro dos debates da etnologi…
Indigenous Peoples in the Guianas: Contemporary Ethnographies
In the introduction to this special issue of Tipití, dedicated to recent ethnographies conducted among indigenous peoples in Guianese Amazonia, we offer an overview of the main anthropological traditions that have placed the region at the center of…
Chamada para dossiê: Indigenous Brazilian Anthropology
CoordenaçãoGersem Luciano Baniwa, Luiz Eloy TerenaCorpo Editorial de Vibrant A Revista Vibrant tem como política, desde o seu […]
Reports
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 141-145
Blocking the Exit
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 2Pages: 42-56
Connected Learning Communities
Journal Name: Learning and TeachingVolume: 17Issue: 2Pages: 1-26
Disfigured Commons
Journal Name: Social AnalysisVolume: 68Issue: 2Pages: 21-43
Islam as the Problem, Christianity as the Solution
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 86-103