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Call for papers

Alexander Akulov Published: Categories: English

Dear Colleagues!
The CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 9, № 2 that is going to be published in late May – early June 2023. The deadline for submission of papers is May 22, 2023.

InVisible Culture has a new home.

Wade Keye Published: Categories: English

Visit our new site at https://www.invisibleculturejournal.com/ In the 25 years since InVisible Culture was founded, the online journal has taken a few different forms. In 2012 IVC moved from its original website to WordPress. In 2022 we moved to a new …

CAES Vol. 9, № 1

Alexander Akulov Published: Categories: English

Think pieces: On the etymology of the hydronym Oredezh Alexander Akulov The hydronym Oredezh has neither Uralic nor Indo-European etymology, but can be explained through the language of the people who lived in the region in the Neolithic period. Those people spoke a language that was a juncture between Yeniseian languages, Caucasian languages, Hattic, and […]

In Our Time We Had Few Vaccines: Grandparenting as Support and Strategy towards the Immunisation of Children below the Age of Five in Ibadan, Nigeria

Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale, Folakemi Anjolaoluwa Amodu, Olukemi Kehinde Amodu Published: Categories: English

The institution of grandparenthood holds an important cultural role as a significant socializing agent for younger generations. Decisions on the care and well-being of new entrants to the family are affected primarily by the views of grandparents. Gran…

Death and beyond

Maija Butters Published: Categories: English

Based on extensive ethnography, this article investigates how contemporary Finnish hospice patients talk – or remain silent – about their own approaching death, and the imageries relating to death and the possible afterlife. I explore how the thought o…

Until death do us part?

Jakob Wirén Published: Categories: English

In life, identity is based on many things. In death, people tend to be identified more on the basis of religion: separate cemeteries for Jews, Buddhists and the Plymouth Brethren, separate quarters for Muslims, Yezidis, Bahá’í and Orthodox Christians. …

Critical-feminist studies of funerals

Karin Jarnkvist Published: Categories: English

This article aims to show how critical-feminist studies can improve research on funerals by contributing to a more complex understanding of ritualization and how it can be explored. The article discusses central issues within critical-feminist theory i…

Forest burials in Denmark

Margit Warburg Published: Categories: English

Burial in the forest is a recent, non-confessional alternative to the established cemeteries owned and run by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark. Danish forest burials fulfil common criteria for non-religion and they are an example of instituti…

Pandemic funerals in Norway

Carsten Schuerhoff Published: Categories: English

During the Covid-19 pandemic, funerals have been conducted consistently in Norway, but, of course, the ceremonies were subject to rules and regulations, while digitization was on the increase. Against the background of already ongoing discussions, both…

Deathscapes in Finnish funerals during Covid-19

Auli Vähäkangas Published: Categories: English

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted and reshaped experiences of bodily disposal and memorialization around the world. One key characteristic of almost all religious practices and traditions is the centrality of face-to-face gatherings (Baker et al. 202…

Singing Wives and Oligarch Patrons

Ingrid M. Tolstad Published: Categories: English

Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork on Swedo-Russian musical collaborations, this article explores the link between popular music and the conspicuous consumption of Russia’s wealthy elite. Presenting two specific cases, one following a…