Introduction to the Special Issue: Giving in Somali Diaspora Humanitarianism in Africa
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Noorte Üritused ja Sport Eestis: Täpne Ilmaprognoos on Edu Võti
Uuri, kuidas täpsed ilmaprognoosid mõjutavad noorte sportimisvõimalusi Eestis. Olulised nipid ja info, et olla valmis igaks väljasõiduks ja laagriks.
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Uuri Kõik, mida pead teadma raadio teel juhitavatest mudelitest uudis
Raadio teel juhitavad mudelid, tuntud ka kui RC-mudelid, pakuvad mitmeid võimalusi ja naudinguid nii lastele kui ka täiskasvanutele. Need mudelid hõlmavad erinevaid sõidukeid, sealhulgas autosid, laevu ja lennukeid. Käesolevas artiklis uurime RC-mudelite maailma, nende eeliseid ja puudusi ning anname näpunäiteid sobiva mudeli valimiseks. Mis on raadio teel juhitavad mudelid? Raadio teel juhitavad mudelid on mänguasjad […]
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Elephant taking the lion’s share: Political ecology of elephant conservation and human-elephant conflict in Eastern India
This article explores the more-than-human political ecology of human-elephant conflict in North Bengal, India, by emphasizing Asian elephants’ (Elephas maximus) agency within a complex conservation landscape. Through a combination of ethnographic field…
Working Relations
This paper offers a concept of working relations as a complement and extension to existing theories of maintenance, care and repair. Building on the cases of an umbrella, a tractor and a pond, it advances seven propositions that might guide and inform …
The Changing Meanings of Repair in Post-Soviet Estonia : From Necessity to Resistance
Repair in the post-Soviet context shows a specific historicity, linked with Soviet consumer culture, that has caused the Soviet socioeconomic system be characterised as a ‘repair society’. People’s experiences and their narratives of the lively repair …
Notes and Reviews: “I Still Believe that One Picture Can Tell More Than Many Written Pages”: Interview with Mihály Hoppál
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Editorial to the Special Issue: Repair : Towards A Vernacular Sustainability
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Book Review: Theory, Tradition and Teaching: The Significance of Concept Work
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“Now It Got a New Life”: On Reuse as a Technology of Transformation
This article sets out to explore how reuse is enacted in a Swedish-language Face-book group called Reuse More. In this forum, people are encouraged to post photos and descriptions of what they have reused and how, share with and inspire others to be cr…
The Revitalisation of Cultural Heritage and Traditional Crafts : Lessons Learned from a Master Thatcher
Gamlegård farm at the Kulturens Östarp open-air museum, the von Echstedtska Manor farm at Värmland’s Museum, and Oktorpsgården farm at the Skansen open-air museum are three disparate farmhouses scattered across southern Sweden whose histories have very…
Domestic Building Repair as a Learning Process
This article examines how domestic building repair is represented as a site of experiential learning in Finnish interior design magazines. Situated within heritage studies, the analysis explores how lifestyle media portray the relationships between peo…
Mending Knowledge: Community Transmission and Its Challenges in Formal Education
This paper examines how community-driven mending knowledge travels across time and into contemporary schooling, and what conditions allow it to persist. We pair a concise historical backdrop through a timeline called “How Mending Survives”, with a prac…
Matters of Time and Space : Towards Sustainability in Everyday Life
This article critically examines dominant sustainability narratives that prioritise technological innovation, market-based solutions and individual behaviour while often neglecting the socio-economic structures driving overconsumption. Drawing on quali…
#Byggnadsvård : Mobilising Alternative Narratives of Building Care
Old buildings are imbued with problems and possibilities shaped by their material condition. This article unfolds around material stories circulating on Insta-gram with the hashtag #byggnadsvård, using the Swedish concept byggnadsvård (‘building care’)…
“Nothing is simple”. An ethnographic theory and its history
This lecture was given on April 16th, 2026, at St Andrews University, as the 2nd Peter Gow Memorial Lecture. Its aim is not only to pay tribute to a great anthropologist who died prematurely, but also to explore a fundamental aspect of his work. Na…
A pedra da aldeia: reativações waiwai entre a antropologia e a arqueologia de longa duração
O artigo analisa um episódio ocorrido na comunidade waiwai do Jatapuzinho, na Terra Indígena Trombetas-Mapuera, envolvendo o encontro do professor Renato Kanhera Waiwai com um antigo Pote de Pedra encontrado às margens do rio Jatapuzinho durante um…
El amor en los tiempos del caucho. Pactos matrimoniales y trabajo coercitivo entre awajún y patrones en la Amazonía peruana
Este trabajo presenta un análisis etnohistórico de los cambios en la jefatura awajún del Alto Marañón a inicios del siglo XX, centrándose en sus relaciones de dependencia, poder y trabajo forzoso con los comerciantes mestizos, en su mayoría patrone…
“Ese dia que se va el patron an hecho fiesta”.* Historicities of successful resistance against hacienda bosses among the Kukama (Peru, 1933-1945)
This paper analyzes two cases of resistance by Kukama workers within the debt slavery system of habilitación in the Peruvian Amazon during the first half of the twentieth century. It discusses the similarities and differences between the two cases,…
Making noise through law: Indigenous legal mobilisation against a power plant in “French” Guiana
In so-called “French” Guiana, or Guyane, the Kali’na village of Atopo Wipi has fought for years against a hydrogen power plant being built on their land. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2024 in Guyane and Western Europe…
On the brink of silence: ethnographic perspectives on hunting and forest life among the Awa Guajá in Eastern Amazonia
The central theme of this article basically resides in the relationship established by indigenous peoples between their hunting practices and the forest. Indigenous ways of connecting ‘hunting’ and ‘forest’ necessarily pass through other modes of k…
Between the root and the stem: on women-plant relations, predation and familiarisation among the Awajún (Upper Amazonas, Peru)
What to do with the problem of predation? This is not only a conundrum for anthropologists working in what has become known as animist societies. The gardening activities of the Awajún people of northern Peru’s high jungle are modelled on the teach…
Making kinship with plants and the multiple meanings of care in Amazonian Indigenous gardens
This paper focuses on the bonds of kinship and care between humans, cultivated plants, and other-than-human beings in Indigenous gardens, myths, rituals, and shamanism, across Lowland South America. Drawing on Krahô ethnography and a review of ethn…
Territorialization-from-below: Community-rooted strategies towards public authority in Kamoethway, Myanmar
This article analyses territorialization ‘from-above’ and ‘from-below’ in Kamoethway, Tanintharyi Region in relation to the public authorities of the Karen National Union (KNU) and changing Myanmar governments. Fieldwork in Karen villages of the Kamoet…
“Several things have to come together”: The liminality of solar energy development in San Luis Valley, Colorado
As the aquifers beneath the San Luis Valley hit new lows, farmers and ranchers in this agricultural hub of southern Colorado are being encouraged to fallow their fields. With water scarcity as a push factor and renewable energy mandates as a pull facto…