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Reveling in the Richness of Folklore: A Journey Through Ageless Narratives

Aubrey Morris Published: 2025-06-17 Categories: English

Folklore, the term coined by a British anthropologist, William Thoms, in 1846, is the embodiment of stories passed down through generations, reflecting cultural traditions, beliefs, and historical accounts. These narratives, often steeped in the supernatural but tethered to human experience, provide a wealth of shared understanding about the human condition. Let’s delve into this intriguing […]

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Against Image Positivism: The Potentials for Play as a Mode of Health Research

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-15 Categories: English

Images are increasingly used in health research as a complement to discursive methods, to elicit more and different types of knowledge and experience from participants. The use of image-based research, such as drawing and photography, then, …

Beyond Voice

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-13 Categories: English

Special Section Introduction

Psychiatric Care as an Other-than-Human Entanglement: Anthropological Reflections on Forest Therapy

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-13 Categories: English

What can we learn about the therapeutic landscapes of in-patient psychiatric care by focusing on the invisible, the seemingly unimportant? To explore how mental affliction and caregiving acts are connected to other-than-human dimensions and …

MAT Editorial

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-12 Categories: English

Editorial for the Spring issue, 2025.

Thinking Through Voice with a Somali (Love Doctor) Poet

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-12 Categories: English

During research on love songs and political poetry in Somaliland, one of my closest interlocutors has been a poet named Weedhsame who describes his work as arising from a duty to ‘give voice to the voiceless’. Collaborating with a musician a…

Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.41 No.1

HRČAK - met Published: 2025-06-10 Categories: Croatian · English · Multilingual

Published: June 2025.

Normative Language and Judgements of Cognition: A Methodological Reflection on Difficult Sign Language Interactions

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-10 Categories: English

In this article, I investigate the case of a deaf woman, Silivia, who lived in western Uganda. Silivia did not use standardised sign language and was commonly considered to be ‘mad.’ However, some of her interlocutors disagreed, arguing that…

Silence as Presence

Iza Kavedzija Published: 2025-06-10 Categories: English

‘Giving voice’ can be an empowering metaphor for the process of creating space for another’s perspective, allowing for their experience to be noted and attended to. Yet it is also a metaphor that relies on a particular form of articulation. …

Of Ethnographic (Mis)Translations on a Ward

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-10 Categories: English

In this Field Note, I take the opportunity to reflect on some of the concrete dilemmas that I was faced with in trying to negotiate, secure and maintain access to my field-site. These reflections derive from my engagement with infectious dis…

The Intriguing World of Folklore: A Tapestry of Tales

Aubrey Morris Published: 2025-06-09 Categories: English

Folklore, the age-old tradition of storytelling, boasts an intriguing tapestry of tales, transporting us to different worlds and timeframes through myth, legend, and superstition. This article will explore various aspects of folklore and their everlasting relevance in our modern setting. Understanding Folklore Folklore is a cultural manifestation passed down through generations, either by word of […]

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Book Review of Benjamin Neimark. 2023. Hottest of the Hotspots: The rise of eco-precarious conservation labor in Madagascar

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-06-07 Categories: English · Spanish

Reckless Local and Ill-Fated Stranger: Reimagining Vietnamese National Sentiment during COVID-19

MAT Editorial Collective Published: 2025-06-05 Categories: English

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam, the media has meticulously covered disease prevention and reported on infection cases. This article will explore the current and shifting gender relations of Vietnam’s state and societ…

Review of Gustav Cederlöf. 2023. The low-carbon contradiction: Energy transition, geopolitics, and the infrastructural state in Cuba

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-06-01 Categories: English · Spanish

Whose habitat? Exploring human-tiger conflict in the riskscapes of the Indian Sundarbans

Journal of Political Ecology Article Feed Published: 2025-06-01 Categories: English · Spanish

The Indian Sundarbans, the world’s largest littoral mangrove stretch, draws attention in scientific discourses, being an ecosystem vulnerable to global climate change and a biodiversity hotspot governed under institutionalized protected area management…

Reveling in the Richness of Folklore: A Journey Through Ageless Narratives

Against Image Positivism: The Potentials for Play as a Mode of Health Research

Beyond Voice

Psychiatric Care as an Other-than-Human Entanglement: Anthropological Reflections on Forest Therapy

MAT Editorial

Thinking Through Voice with a Somali (Love Doctor) Poet

Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.41 No.1

Normative Language and Judgements of Cognition: A Methodological Reflection on Difficult Sign Language Interactions

Silence as Presence

Of Ethnographic (Mis)Translations on a Ward

The Intriguing World of Folklore: A Tapestry of Tales

Book Review of Benjamin Neimark. 2023. Hottest of the Hotspots: The rise of eco-precarious conservation labor in Madagascar

Reckless Local and Ill-Fated Stranger: Reimagining Vietnamese National Sentiment during COVID-19

Review of Gustav Cederlöf. 2023. The low-carbon contradiction: Energy transition, geopolitics, and the infrastructural state in Cuba

Whose habitat? Exploring human-tiger conflict in the riskscapes of the Indian Sundarbans

“I Just Came Here to Muddle Along”

Spatial Shrinking in the Russian Northeast

From “Interesting Incident” to “Emergency”

Book Reviews

Editorial

Anthropologies in/of the Black Mediterranean

‘The Border across my Womb’

Being Indian, Becoming German

Practising the Future against Perception

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