An Amazonianist and his history
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
The editorial team of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnosemiotics (CAES) accepts articles for publication in CAES Vol. 9, No. 3, which is going to be published in the middle of September 2023. The deadline for submission of materials is A…
Review of Applying Anthropology to General Education: Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century. Jennifer R. Weis and Hillary J. Haldane, eds.
Review of Applying Anthropology to General Education: Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century. Jennifer R. Weis and Hillary J. Haldane, eds.
CAES Vol. 9, № 2
Think pieces The etymology of the hydronym Okhta Alexander Akulov Okhta [ohta] is a river in the southern part of the Karelian Isthmus. This hydronym is generally supposed to have originated from Uralic languages, however, really it has no trustworthy Uralic etymology. The hydronym can be explained through the language of the people who lived […]
Sustainability as a Symbolic Resource at the Local Level, and Its Strategic Uses: A Study in Northern Italy
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“[She] was very eager for men and hated living alone”: Supernatural Women who Pose a Threat to Men in Icelandic Legends
This article examines the ways in which various supernatural women who pose threats to men are presented in the Icelandic folk legend collections from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on narratives dealing with both female …
Common Grounds: Life and Ethnography on the Möbius Strip
This snapshot is a reflection on the nature of mobile ethnographic research where the ethnographer herself is a (hyper)mobile subject, with multiple, at times conflicted, belongings. It explores the role of wavering intimacies in establishing new relat…
How to Write Things: Fiction, Anthropology and Foreignness in Berlin
Why can the anthropologist be a writer but not an author? This essay reflects on the possibility of conveying anthropological knowledge through creative writing while reconsidering ethnographical authorship and its audience. The research material is a …
Negotiating Tradition Archives in a Community Setting: Sounds of Silence and the Question of Credibility
Following the digitization of archival records of ethnographic work conducted among Yemeni Jews in the early 1970s, we presented these findings to the same community at the same location, fifty years later. In this renegotiation, our interlocutors radi…
Sustainability as a Symbolic Resource at the Local Level, and Its Strategic Uses: A Study in Northern Italy
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The Political as the Personal: Postmemory among Descendants of Polish Migrants in Sweden
This article analyses interviews with descendants of Polish migrants in Sweden using the lens of postmemory. The aim is to show how they narrated growing up with parents and grandparents who recalled traumatic experiences of the occupation of Poland du…
“[She] was very eager for men and hated living alone”: Supernatural Women who Pose a Threat to Men in Icelandic Legends
This article examines the ways in which various supernatural women who pose threats to men are presented in the Icelandic folk legend collections from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on narratives dealing with both female …
Common Grounds: Life and Ethnography on the Möbius Strip
This snapshot is a reflection on the nature of mobile ethnographic research where the ethnographer herself is a (hyper)mobile subject, with multiple, at times conflicted, belongings. It explores the role of wavering intimacies in establishing new relat…
Temporal Patterning and “Degrees of Orality” in Occitan and French Oral Narrative
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):91-122 Introduction This article explores tense usage and tense-switching in the temporal structuring of Occitan and French oral narratives, drawing on theoretical frameworks in linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as perspectives from anthropology and folklore studies.1 It forms part of a larger project, ExpressioNarration, financed by a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship, incorporating […]
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Type-Token Ratio and Entropy as Measures to Characterize a Forgery of Oral-Formulaic Epics
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):37-62 The Queen’s Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts (Rukopisy královédvorský a zelenohorský, together abbreviated “RKZ” in Czech) present an unusually successful case of literary forgery. These pseudo-medieval Czech manuscripts, presenting folk lyrics, ballads, and epic songs seemingly recorded in the late-thirteenth and in the ninth to tenth centuries, respectively, were taken by […]
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Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt. Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji), ~2,500 Years Ago
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):63-90 Introduction Over the past two decades, it has become clear that culturally grounded stories, once uncritically dismissed as myth or legend, often contain information suggesting that they are informed by observations of memorable events, such as coastal inundation, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and meteorite falls (Nunn and Reid 2016; Nunn 2014; Masse […]
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“It Has Not Yet Become Pacified”
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):3-36 The Mahābhārata and Ramāyaṇa present us with eight primary and embedded narratives in which an archer (usually a royal member of the kṣatriya, or warrior, class) causes the unintended death of a person in animal form while hunting, and for which the killer generally pays an offspring-related penalty with profound and […]
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Editor’s Column
This latest issue of Oral Tradition arrives somewhat later than the editors had hoped. It took us some time to regroup after producing our last volume, a monumental special issue on the oral traditions of religious communities in the Iranian-speaking world. We hope, however, that the wait will prove to have been worth it, since […]
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About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 36, Number 1 Taniela Bolea Born and bred in Ravitaki Village on the main island of Kadavu, Taniela Bolea graduated in management studies and rose to become the founding publisher of Fiji’s Daily Post newspaper. He was later appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Fiji Audio Visual Commission and today remains interested in […]
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Beyond Toxic Masculinity: Reading and Writing Men in Post-Apartheid Namibia
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Over the past few years, the term ‘toxic masculinity’ has entered public debate in Namibia as a way to describe apparently problematic forms of masculine behaviour, particularly in the light of high levels of gender-bas…
The Indigenous Struggle against ‘New’ Extractivism in the Peruvian Amazon
At the root of much of the deforestation, land rights violations, human rights abuses and ultimately the continuation of unequal, neocolonial North-South relations are the two-fold phenomena of global market pressures for extractivism and mass producti…
Belonging and Agrarian Labour Exchanges in Zimbabwe: Navigating Between Communal Areas and Fast Track Villagised Settlements
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article examines the nature of labour exchange between A1 farmers with people in communal areas of origin based on kinship and friendship relations. While agrarian labour in Zimbabwe has attracted considerable inte…
The Weightless State: PowerPoint and the Everyday Work of Making Senegal Matter
Cultural Anthropology
Circulating Objects, Changing Scales: Circular Cambodian Worlds and Economies
Cultural Anthropology
The Promise of Fog Capture: Ground-Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru
Cultural Anthropology