Parallelism in Verbal Art and Performance: An Introduction
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Igbo cultural practices: Changing, dying or dead?
The Igbos are known to be very adventurous, but as advantageous as this may seem, such movements have affected some Igbo cultural practices. Culture is not only a person’s social behaviour or heritage but also their identity. A big problem arises when …
Book Review: Marian Devotion among the Roma in Slovakia
Zachar Podolinská, Tatiana. 2021. Marian Devotion among the Roma in Slovakia: A Post-modern Religious Response to Marginality. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 166 pages.
Book Review: Competing Ideologies in Greek Culture, Ancient and Modern
Håland, Evy Johanne. 2019. Competing Ideologies in Greek Culture, Ancient and Modern. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 477 pages.
A Concern for the Invisible: Dwelling with Sensitive Horses and Vanishing Graves in Mongolia
Dwelling well, for the Dörvöd herders with whom I have interacted over the years, involves getting a few things right about the invisible. On the one hand, they need to navigate spaces that are teeming with ‘things’ that not everybody can see…
How to Defeat a Demon: The Function of the Oirat Folk Narrative about Burning the Female Devil
The paper introduces the results of a case study that attempts to uncover the functions and probable genesis of a group of satirical tales told by the Mongolian peoples. Based on the example of one of the stories, about Argachi, a Til Ulenspi…
Cat Spirits in North-western China: Worship Practices, Origin, and External Relations
This paper examines the cult of cat spirits in north-western China and their veneration by the Han Chinese, Tibetans, and Monguors. These spirits are revered as family spirits and guardians of wealth and property, but possess resentful and&nb…
Seeking an ‘Ideal Place’ in a Nuosu Origin Epic
The Book of Origins (hnewo tepyy) is a major ritual text of the Nuosu, a subgroup of the official Yi (Yizu) ethnic group of southwest China. The narrative, existing in both written and oral variants, is part of a living tradition, especially …
Death beyond Death: Jian Spirits in Chinese Popular Belief
This article examines the origins and development of notions about jian spirits, beings into which, according to Chinese folk tradition, the souls of the dead transform after their demise. An analysis of the few available references to jian i…
The Cult of the Chinese God Guan Yu in the Studies of Russian Sinologists: Fieldwork Observations, Approaches, Methodology
The paper explores materials, methods and approaches used by Russian sinologists to define and analyse the cult of Guan Yu (also known as Guan-gong, Guandi, etc.), a popular god of the Chinese pantheon, revered by Daoists, Buddhists and …
New Religious Teachings and Narrative Baojuan in the Late 19th Century: The Example of the Complete Recension of the Scroll of Mulian
Most baojuan (precious scrolls), predominantly religious-oriented prosimetric texts in the vernacular language, in the late period of their development (late 19th–early 20th centuries) lost connection with heterodox religious teachings. Notwi…
The Saint Euplus Miracle in China: The Local Version of a Motif Complex
A Eurasian motif complex built around the illusion of a flood was described by Artёm Koz’min in 2011 under the preliminary name of the Saint Euplus Miracle. Subsequently, this discovery proved to be productive in the understanding of the …
Preface to the Special Issue: The Divine, the Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East Asia: The Devine, the Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East Asia
Preface to the Special Issue: The Devine, the Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East AsiaPreface to the Special Issue: The Devine, the Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East Asia
‘Ecosystems’ and ‘Mind Viruses’ in Folklore Research: Does Folkloristics Need Memetics?
The paper deals with applicability of the ‘memetic approach’ and ‘epidemiology of culture’ in present day folklore research. These theoretical models could be supplemented by certain ideas and hypotheses borrowed from actor-network theory and…
Chamada para dossiê: Ampliação dos horizontes da compreensão antropológica: etnografias com “alteridades desconfortáveis”
Editores/as de organização Ana María Forero Angel (am.forero260@uniandes.edu.co)Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Los Andes (Colômbia) Marco J. Martínez-Moreno (akkmjm@gmail.com)Programa de […]
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I. Introduction
The controversial notion of decolonization dominates present-day media, and gives rise to various mobilizations in global contexts that are sometimes very different: Black Lives Matter protests, debates over the restitution…
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I. Introduction
La notion controversée de décolonisation occupe l’actualité médiatique et suscite diverses mobilisations dans des contextes parfois fort différents : manifestations Black Lives Matter, débats sur la restitution d’artefacts …
Hybrid Identities of Development Studies in Tanzania
This article addresses identities, hierarchies of knowledge and power relations in academia in postcolonial settings, in the context of development studies in Tanzania. Based on literatures on organizational identity and postcolonial hybridity, …
La décolonisation de l’enseignement universitaire à l’épreuve du colonialisme d’occupation
De plus en plus de mouvements étudiants ont dénoncé le fait que les universités perpétuent la colonialité, et exigé le démantèlement de l’eurocentrisme au cœur de l’enseignement supérieur. Les universités ont répondu de manières diverses à ces m…
Attempts to Decolonize Knowledge Production in Museum Practice
In the last decades, the pressure on museums, especially on ethnological museums in the global North, has increased considerably. They are criticized for reproducing neo-colonial power relations and knowledge orders through common representation…
Equitable Partnerships for Education: A Myth or a Panacea
This article addresses partnerships in the fields of refugee education and education in emergencies research. We use the framework of political reflexivity to critically engage with our experiences as researchers from the Global South working on…
Une anthropologue noire dans l’étau d’un partenariat en Afrique subsaharienne
Cet article porte sur le vécu de relations de partenariat par une femme, noire, anthropologue, citoyenne française, née en Afrique subsaharienne et travaillant à l’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), une institution française, his…
Décoloniser les pédagogies universitaires au Canada et au Sénégal
Le mouvement de décolonisation au sein des institutions universitaires du continent africain s’est traduit au Sénégal par le recrutement d’un personnel africain et par un effort constant dans la confection des curricula. Qu’en est-il ailleurs, a…
Les partenariats scientifiques à l’épreuve de la question décoloniale : une expérience France-Mali
I. Introduction
La production de connaissance dans l’univers académique est de plus en plus présentée par diverses institutions comme le résultat de “collaborations” entre chercheur·e·s de différents pays ou disciplines, du Nord et du Sud….
Gérald Gaillard, Françoise Héritier, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 208
Book review of Gérald Gaillard, Françoise Héritier, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 208.