Book Review: Women in Solitary: Inside South Africa’s Female Resistance to Apartheid by Shanthini Naidoo
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
AMIOTTE-SUCHET Laurent, 2021. Frères de douleur. Récit d’un ethnologue en pèlerinage à Lourdes.
Pour ceux qui s’intéressent à l’ethnographie du catholicisme, les travaux de Laurent Amiotte-Suchet constituent une approche originale et une source d’inspiration par la variété des thèmes qu’il aborde : des pèlerinages mariaux jusqu’au vieillissement dans les couvents et monastères, en passant par l’exorcisme. Dans son dernier ouvrage, l’anthropologue français parcourt et résume une décennie d’observations sur le site des sanctuaires de Lourdes, où il s’est rendu à plusieurs reprises d’abord comme[…]
“Cuando crezca, quiero ser fotógrafo”: caminos de la producción audiovisual de Kamikia Kisêdjê
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
“Quando eu crescer, quero ser um fotógrafo”: caminhos da produção audiovisual de Kamikia Kisêdjê
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Ticuna Ceramics amidst the Expansion of Illicit Coca: Rendering New Relations
In Ticuna communities across Amazonia, ceramics are useful objects employed for cooking and storage. Their practical importance, however, does not describe the extent of their significance. In the following article, we consider Ticuna ceramics and …
Camaraderie, mentorship, and manhood: Contemporary Indigenous identities among the A’uwẽ (Xavante) of Central Brazil
Rites of passage and associated social processes and configurations can foster a sense of shared purpose, fraternity, and dedication to community through common experiences of group trials and commitment. A’uwẽ (Xavante) age organization entails th…
Movements in C minor: Vocal Soundscapes in Eastern Amazonia (Araweté)
This article examines the capture of forest spirits through music in the Anĩ pihi speech-songs of the Araweté, a small Amerindian society in Eastern Amazonia, Brazil. The Anĩ pihi are unique in their combination of spoken and sung forms, in which s…
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Konverze k islámu a formování identity českých muslimek
The present study aims to bring the reader closer to the process of religious conversion to Islam, following the example of several Czech women who have decided to embrace Islam as their faith. Based on long-term field research and obtaining qualitativ…
Obraz moslimskej ženy v slovenských audiovizuálnych médiách
The study presents the results of research carried out as part of my master’s thesis, which I defended in May 2021. The text is divided into three thematic areas: veiling, the position of women in marriage, and polygamy. I map the attitude of individua…
Nemecký etnografický výskum huncokárskeho obyvateľstva: Analýza a špecifiká
This study is devoted to the special features of the ethnographic research of German speaking lumberjacks – “huncokars” – which took place from the 1920s to the 1940s and was conducted by researchers working in German and Sudeten German ethnographic or…
Podoba a úskalí terénního výzkumu v prostředí radikálních krajně pravicových uskupení
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Zpráva ze Studentské antropologické konference v Plzni (11. listopadu 2022)
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Paruka: Kulturní domény dragu
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Call for Papers: CFP for special issue: "Emergenc(i)es" (submissions due 1 June 2023)
In this special issue of SITES, due for publication in December 2023, we invite submissions on the theme of “Emergenc(i)es.” We are interested in submissions that raise and address qusetions around varied emergent forms, including methodologies and res…
The History of Dictatorship: Custom, Authority, and Power in Precolonial and Colonial Uganda
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Intervening in the enduring debate on the origins of the African state, this article examines the processes of producing custom in the Ugandan societies of precolonial Bunyoro and colonial Toro to trace the development …
Book Review: Nomades de Mauritanie by Himpan, Brigitte, and Himpan-Sabatier, Diane
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
IJAPS Vol. 19, No. 1
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1.
All articles in this latest issue can be accessed via this link.
We take this opportunity to thank our contributors, reviewer…
Book Review: Nigeria and World War II, Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict by Korieh, Chima J
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Islamic Narratives in Ukraine: Analyzing Communicative Dynamics
The significance of Islamic marketing for Ukrainians is determined by its influence on consumers of informational and industrial products in a non-Muslim country. The objects of our research are semantic components of the Islamic narrative in Ukraine. …
Review of Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach by A. Lynn Bolles, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Bernard C. Perley, and Keri Vacanti Brondo
Review of Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach by A. Lynn Bolles, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Bernard C. Perley, and Keri Vacanti Brondo
Neoliberalism and the Opportunodemic
It would be far too unkind to suggest that academics and journalists have presented the COVID-19 pandemic in isolation from its broader economic context. However, it would be less unkind to suggest that its location in a triptych of major cr…
The role of religion in health promotion
The starting point of this article is a debate that took place in Denmark in 2021, when the Danish Health Authority together with Islamic organizations produced a pamphlet on Covid-19 vaccination which contained answers to religious questions Muslims m…
Making Sense of a Pandemic through Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Value of Medical Anthropology
It is difficult to describe the experience of living through the COVID-19 global pandemic while simultaneously teaching anthropology and sociology courses to undergraduates. My students and I experienced together not just the fear of sickness and death…