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Book Review: Voices of Weavers: Textile Cultures, Craftsmanship, and Identity in Contemporary Myanmar

Ave Matsin Published: 2022-06-08 Categories: English

Fink, Jella. 2020. Voices of Weavers: Textile Cultures, Craftsmanship, and Identity in Contemporary Myanmar. Munster; New York: Waxmann.

Staging and Performing Tradition in Kosova Restaurants

Arsim Canolli Published: 2022-06-08 Categories: English

In this essay, I describe and discuss the ways in which tradition is demonstrated, staged and understood in Kosova restaurants. After the 1999 war in Kosova, restaurants emerged as new places, privately public and publicly private, that display local a…

Delicious or Disgusting? The Winding Journey of Colostrum in Estonian Food Culture

Anu Järs Published: 2022-06-08 Categories: English

This article examines the changing meaning and status of colostrum in Estonian food culture, relying on data drawn from ethnographic archives and historical sources, cookbooks, and the media. From seasonal food consumed by both Estonian peasants and th…

Towards the Analysis of Tradition-based Projects of Locality: A Case Study from Rural Hungary

Ágnes Eitler Published: 2022-06-08 Categories: English

In this case study I offer an insight into the activity of an association for local traditions in a Hungarian village. In addition, I provide some general analytical frames for the examination of such tradition-based locality projects. The field o…

Indonesian Folk Narratives: On the Interstices of National Identity, National Values, and Character Education

Nita Novianti Published: 2022-06-08 Categories: English

Folklore has been linked to national identity formation. In this article, informed by Johann Gottfried Herder’s romantic nationalism and following Alan Dundes’s (1965) method of folklore studies, it is argued that Indonesia has historically followed th…

Towards Wider Framings: World-Systems Analysis and Folklore Studies

Jason Baird Jackson Published: 2022-06-08 Categories: English

This article situates folklore studies in relation to the approach to social research known as world-systems analysis. In doing so, the work also serves as an evocation of world-systems analysis of potential usefulness for the practice of folklore rese…

Editorial Impressions: On a Non-War

Art Leete Published: 2022-06-08 Categories: English

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Nancy Ameen Published: 2022-06-08 Categories: English

The applique , an ancient decorative expression from the early societies of Cusco, Peru

n International Journal of Modern Anthropologyn n Published: 2022-06-06 Categories: English

Keywords: Ceramics. Applique. Early settlement. Marcavalle. Cusco This article focuses on the study of the appliques found in the archaeological site of Marcavalle, an early settlement (1100 – 700 BCE) located at the Huatanay Valley in Cusco, Peru. For…

The Westernization of the African zombie in Nollywood Films

n International Journal of Modern Anthropologyn n Published: 2022-06-06 Categories: English

Keywords: Representation. Nollywood films. Zombies. Myths. Voodoo. The Living Dead. Westernization The Nigerian film industry (nicknamed Nollywood) has, over the years, embraced foreign influences as a form of newness and singularity. Many films produc…

Emergent complexity and political economy of the Houlouf polity in North Central Africa (1900 BCE-1800 CE)

n International Journal of Modern Anthropologyn n Published: 2022-06-06 Categories: English

Keywords: Emergent complexity; Political economy; Long-distance trade; Chadic polity; Central Africa; Chadian plain; Houlouf. Long-term socio-cultural change is a non-linear process involving demography, economy, culture, social organizations, symbols …

New Publication: Perspectives (May 2022)

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIA PACIFIC STUDIES Published: 2022-06-01 Categories: English

We are pleased to announce the latest publication of Perspectives that discusses Transnational Capitalism: East Asia and the World. This Perspectives publication features: Dal Yong Jin on Transnational Capitalism and the Korean Wave and Nellie Chu on Engendering Laoban: The Masculinisation of Bosshood and Uncertainty in Transnational Guangzhou, China. To visit the Editor-in-Chief’s editorial note and the respective Perspectives articles, please … Continue reading →

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