Call for Papers: Issue 37: Automated Images
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Cultural dynamism in the jewelry and body-marking practices among the Igbo in Nigeria
The Igbo people are known for their entrepreneurial, itinerant, and adaptive tendencies, thus exemplifying the essence of cultural dynamism. This paper studies two aspects of Igbo dress culture, jewelry and body marking, to unravel the changes that occ…
Silencing the Voice: the fossil-fuelled Atlas Network’s Campaign against Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australia
Australians will soon vote in a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australia in its 1901 Constitution and establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament. A year ago, polling suggested the referendum proposal of the 2017 National Constitutional Conventio…
Worshipping Musically Online During Covid-19
The Covid-19-pandemic and resulting infection control measures drastically impacted the ability of Christian worshippers to gather and practice their faith. As a result, online solutions emerged as the primary option for maintaining religiou…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 9, № 4, that is going to be published in the second half of December 2023. The deadline for submission of papers is December 1.
“Let Me Come to Tell You”: Rethinking Gender, Colonialism, and Narratives of Modernity from the Northern Namibian Sound Archive
This contribution to the special issue develops an argument about time and gender in African history in relation to historical sound recordings. Revisiting a case study from the Namibian sound archive I demonstrate innovative methodological …
Shared Symbols, Different Symbolism? Blending Gender Categories in Northern Sotho Initiation Rock Art, Makgabeng, South Africa
This article explores the cultural significance of initiation rites among the Northern Sotho in South Africa, with a particular focus on the blending of symbolic gender motifs in rock art. Scholars on Northern Sotho rock art have associated …
“There Was No Change”: Kenyan Women, Temporality, and Decolonization
While Kenyan colonial subjects became citizens at independence, women were excluded from state resources, social services, and full political enfranchisement. This was neither the decolonizing future they had been promised nor the one they had envision…
“The Father is also the Sister”: A Non-binary Gendered History of Matrilineal Bantu Communities
Gender, as broadly construed by Bantu-speaking peoples, is not fixed in the same way that it is in the West. This kind of gender flexibility is counter to binary gender concepts which classify gender into two separate, opposite, and rigid fo…
Queer Femme Drag Futures
To document an inclusive and comprehensive queer history means to write about queer femininity and queer femmes. Depending on their perceived outward form, queer femmes are often the most hypervisible and overtly queer, yet at other juncture…
Carnival, Power, and Queer Joy: Chrono-normativity, Carnivalesque Transgressions, and the Spectacle of Gender in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (ca. 1950–1975)
This article is an exploratory study of the history of carnival as a popular festival in late colonial Lourenço Marques (contemporary Maputo), the capital of Mozambique. Drawing on archival sources and on oral history interviews, it explores…
Gender Time, Gendered Time: In Parts of Africa
Over the long term, Africans socially constructed time and gender through struggle and invention, the stuff of history. But to get at this broad salience we must toggle between scales of region and period, among different kinds of evidence, …
Introduction: Rethinking Time and Gender in African History
This special issue seeks to problematize the way that time and gender – and their relationship to each other – is conceptualized in prevailing historical narratives about African pasts. Often we take these notions for granted in our practices of resear…
Times Told, Lived, and Remembered: The Multitemporality of the Present in Yaawo Oral Histories of Gendered Power in Northern Mozambique
This article explores how multiple gendered times are brought to bear on the present in Yaawo oral history-telling about female leaders and gendered power in a more distant past. The dominant research narratives about gender and power in Afr…
Re-visiting ‘African Tradition’, Re-thinking Gender and Power: Learning from Fieldwork in Northern Mozambique
This article takes its point of departure in the author’s research experience in matrilineal northern Mozambique in the early 1980s as an employee of the National Women’s Organization, the OMM (Organização da Mulher Moçambicana). Confronted …
The Tide of Open Access
Editorial to the September issue of 2023.
Giving Birth in Silence
Jacinta, deaf from birth, chose to give birth to her own baby at home without her hearing aids. Fu-Yu assisted and took photos of the process. This is a Photo Essay about alternative possibilities to biomedical childbirth. We share our experience throu…
Screening Charity Recipients: Health Philanthropy, Medical Diagnosis, and Kidney Disease Prevention in Sri Lanka
Over the last several decades, epidemics of chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) have appeared in Mesoamerica, North Africa, and South Asia. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a CKDu-affected village in Sri Lanka, I explore…
| 2023 – Varia 2
L’European Journal of Turkish Studies republie, sous la forme de deux numéros « Varia », un ensemble d’articles parus « isolément » (stand-alone articles) au cours des dix premi…
37 | 2023 – Varia 2
L’European Journal of Turkish Studies republie, sous la forme de deux numéros « Varia », un ensemble d’articles parus « isolément » (stand-alone articles) au cours des dix premi…
The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness
Introduction to the Special Section ‘The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness’, guest edited by Sarah Hodges and Julia Hornberger.
Writing our Futures Possible: Inspirations from the Dementia Letter Project
Life with dementia urgently needs to be reimagined. The dominant social imaginary of dementia perpetuates a story in which people with dementia cannot have a life that is ‘good’. In this Position Piece we draw from eight letters written for the Dementi…
‘We Still Living’: The Digital Media and Fake-talk around COVID-19 in Tanzania
In Tanzania, as COVID-19 emerged and became a pandemic, many claims about the fakeness of virus-related news began to appear in the digital media. These claims, or what I refer to as ‘fake-talk’, served to expose and discredit ostensibly false informat…
Sub-standard or Sub-legal? Distribution, Pharma Dossiers, and Fake-talk in India
In this article, I look at Indian pharma ‘dossiers’—the bundles of paperwork that testify to pharmaceutical quality and adherence to regulatory standards—and how they illustrate a wider and ongoing shift from a paradigm of drug safety to one of drug se…
CAES Vol. 9, № 3
Editor’s foreword Think pieces Some refinements of the interpretation of the spell against samauna disease from the London Medical Papyrus Alexander Akulov In the London Medical papyrus there are two spells in the Kaftiw/Minoan language. The spell against samauna disease is a spell in the Kaftiw/Minoan language: this spell comes immediately after the spell that […]