Swedishness on Stage

Globalization, stagflation and economic uncertainty challenged the Swedish welfare model during the 1980s, driving renegotiations of state-market relations domestically as well as re-conceptualizations of Sweden’s place in the world internationally. Th…

‘New Gustavians’

The early 1990s saw Sweden severely hit by financial crisis, electoral upheaval and a swift reorientation within political elites resulting in an application to join the European Union (EU). Focusing on the Swedish blockbuster exhibition project Le Sol…

Pipe Dreams of the Nouveaux Riches

World expos are occasions for the type of rhetorical display known as “epideictic,” and as such, they provide glimpses into how a nation wants to be seen at a particular point in time. In this article, I probe into Norway’s pavilion at the 1992 expo in…

Stories of Siblinghood

This article analyzes newspaper representations of Nordic neighboring countries at the 1994 winter Olympics. Held in Lillehammer, Norway, the games constituted an enormous sporting success for the Norwegians, while neighboring Finland and Sweden fared …

Possessed by a slave, not slavery

The present paper is divided into three large steps around the themes of spirit possession and the historical imagination of slavery in Cuba. These three steps reflect both ethnographic dimensions of these themes and broader theoretical approaches towa…

Reentierro de cuerpos humanos en el cementerio salitrero Lagunas (Región de Tarapacá, Norte de Chile). Una propuesta ética en el contexto de impacto ambiental

El hallazgo fortuito de restos humanos asociados a una ex oficina salitrera en el norte de Chile requirió el desarrollo de un plan de trabajo interdisciplinario para su tratamiento y disposición final. Este artículo explicita los criterios de intervenc…

Desafíos para la antropología de la salud: Repensando un abordaje teórico-metodológico para la formación, la investigación y la acción

En este artículo se reflexiona sobre la Antropología de la Salud, entendida como un campo de convergencia entre las ciencias sociales y las ciencias biomédicas, para dar cuenta de sus posibilidades y desafíos en la disciplina de la salud pública. Se pr…