Editorial
Editorial número 11
Coneixements situats, interseccionalitat i continent africà: una reflexió necessària.
En els darrers anys, la interseccionalitat pren força a l’espai públic. No obstant això, poques vegades es vincula amb les epistemologies africanes. Tampoc no se’n parla de l’enllaç entre elles quan s’exposen els estereotips racials/sexuals que impacte…
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Covid-19: Medicine and Colonialism, Past and Present
This essay begins in the past, with the hope of developing a different way of thinking through the transformations of the present. Many commentators and media outlets have referred to the era of the Covid-19 pandemic as ‘unprecedented’, but …
Revolutionaries as Political Women
The purpose of studying women’s participation in radical movements, as the classical study We Were Making History notes, is ‘an attempt to broaden the history of that struggle by recovering the subjective experience of women, to capture wome…
At the Intersection of Instrumentalism, Understanding, and Critique
This special issue showcases four analyses of lived citizenship in Uganda – a country previously known as a donor darling but, recently, better known for its steady slide towards authoritarian rule (Ssentongo 2021, Tapscott 2021, Wilkins et. al. 2021, …
Exploring Obutyamye as Material Citizenship in Busoga Subregion, Uganda
This article explores how being a citizen is inexorably bound up with the resources individuals own and deploy to support livelihoods in the rural locations of postcolonial states. Drawing on the works of Kabeer (2006) and Baglioni (2016), the article …
Women’s Multifaceted Citizenship
This article analyses manifestations of women’s citizenship in diverse spaces of everyday participation in the rural districts of Kiboga and Namutumba in Uganda. Building on citizenship studies scholarship, we propose the notion of multifaceted citizen…
NGO Legitimacy as a Continuous Negotiation Process
The article draws on and contributes to debates on the legitimacy of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engaged in development, defining organizational legitimacy as a social construct that is continually negotiated in relationships with diverse aud…
Tiny Citizenship, Twisted Politics, and Christian Love in a Ugandan Church Choir
In 1977, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Janani Luwum, was killed under orders from President Idi Amin following his public criticism of Amin’s reign of terror. This article offers an ethnographic case study of a choir named in Luwum’s honour t…
Ikkemuslimsk islam i retssagen mellem Sherin Khankan og Naser Khader
Essays udgivet af Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies er ikke fagfællebedømt.
Regulations in flux
When it comes to sharia regulations – or the question of Islamic norms more broadly – there are few areas which are of more direct relevance for the daily life of Muslims than the question of what to eat. For meat to be halal, several Isla…
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Boganmeldelse
Blinde vinkler – om mænd, ære og social kontrol
Essays udgivet af Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies er ikke fagfællebedømt.
Sihr (Sorcery) in Sweden
This article describes the principles of sihr (sorcery) from an Islamic perspective, starting with discussion of how to become a sorcerer and how to perform sorcery with the help of satanic djinns and amulets. Then, ruqya, practices for countering sorc…
Preface to the Special Issue “Hybrid Beliefs and Identities”
Preface to the Special Issue “Hybrid Beliefs and Identities”
35th Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference in Reykjavik
The 35th Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference, titled RE:22, was held from June 13th to 16th, 2022 was held in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Book Review: Faith, Doubt and Knowledge in Religious Thinking
Book review: Pócs, Éva and Bea Vidacs, eds. 2020. Faith, Doubt and Knowledge in Religious Thinking. Budapest: Balassi Kiadó. 409 pages.
Hybridity in a Western Siberian Bear Ceremony
Hybridity is often discussed in connection with the postcolonial condition. The cultural revival of the Khanty bear ceremony in Western Siberia could be a perfect example. It is on one hand a key representation of local Indigenous ontology an…
Finno-Ugric Indigenous Knowledge, Hybridity and Co-Creation in Research: The Komi Case
The aim of this article is to explore the effect of hybridity in the Komi hunters’ knowledge system as well as the potential for mutual understanding in dialogue between ethnographers and their Indigenous partners. I discuss how the hunters exploit pri…
Curating a Sense for the Past: Echo of the Urals Review
Exhibition review. Echo of the Urals is the Estonian National Museum’s permanent exhibition, dedicated to Finno-Ugric indigenous peoples and their cultures.
Book Review: New Studies of Folk Religiosity in Poland
Book review: Stachowiak, Andrzej. 2021. Miejsca święte na Pomorzu. Pruszcz Gdański; Słupsk:Wydawnictwo Jasne. 278 pages.
The Problematic Vernacular
Although many disciplines dropped the use of “vernacular” in the 21st century because of the term’s connotations of primitivism, classism, and marginalization arising from 19th-century colonialism, the term has risen in usage among folklorist…
Buying a God in Paris: Cultural Hybridity in the Thinking of Yuri Vella, Forest Nenets Intellectual
This paper analyses highly creative and hybrid practices which tie the Indigenous Siberian, European Christian and Soviet worlds in unexpected ways. Reflecting on the Forest Nenets reindeer herder, poet and intellectual Yuri Vella’s understanding of th…
“The Beach Is Closed, but Not to Us”: Pandemic Experience and Social Boundaries in Rural Okinawa
This article offers an anthropological and ethnographic perspective on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected and shaped rural community social behaviour in Kayo village during Japan’s first official state of emergency, April 7th to May 6th, 2020…