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Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Lectio Praecursoria: “This is a good place”: Tsimihety place making, knowledge hierarchies and intensifying conservation efforts in rural northeastern Madagascar
This lectio introduces the thesis ‘This Is A Good Place’: Tsimihety place making, knowledge hierarchies and intensifying conservation efforts in rural northeastern Madagascar. The study is concerned with the rapid rearrangement of nature and the intens…
History, Place and Belonging on a Swedish-speaking Island in Finland
This article brings together the themes of identi cation, belonging, and community. Based on ethnographic research on a small island in Finland with a majority of Swedish-speakers, it provides a distinctive approach to the research on the minority, …
The Word as an Icon
How do Russian Orthodox Christians frame their understanding of semiotic ideologies of worship? That is to say, how do worshippers interpret liturgical language ‘signs’ and how do these interpretations colour their views as to which language is ‘rig…
Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck, Anne Line Dalsgård, Mette Lind Kusk, Maria Nielsen, Cecilie Rubow and Mikkel Rytter (eds): Anthropology inside out. Fieldworkers taking notes
Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck, Anne Line Dalsgård, Mette Lind Kusk, Maria Nielsen, Cecilie Rubow and Mikkel Rytter (eds) 2020. Anthropology Inside Out: Fieldworkers Taking Notes. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 227 p. ISBN: 9781912385218 (pape…
Schielke, Samuli: Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States
Schielke, Samuli 2020. Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. 137 p. ISBN: 9789774169564 (paperback)
Michał Buchowski (ed): Twilight Zone Anthropology: Voices from Poland
Buchowski Michał (ed.) 2019. Twilight Zone Anthropology: Voices from Poland. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 250 p. ISBN: 9781912385065 (hardback).
La red social subyacente a los primeros tomos del Catálogo Monumental de España. Análisis de la correspondencia de Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez de 1894 a 1902
Universitas Humanística
Una metodología para modelar fenómenos culturales latentes: interés público en la red Razón Pública
Universitas Humanística
The cohesion of National and Cultural networks during periods of stress
Human beings tend to organize themselves in groups. These groups need to be robust to enable effective cooperation among individuals. According to some researchers (Ostrom, 1990; Suárez et al., 2011), a collective group identity based on shared cultur…
The Persistence of Early-Modern Metadata in Online Environments and the Endurance of Imperial Discourse
Universitas Humanística
The intimate body of agency
Subjectivity, forms of subjectivation, domination, forms of resistance and other analogous concepts are at the heart of a vibrant debate, that runs through anthropology and social sciences since many years. This introduction aims to rethink some issues…
La fine del mondo: A “phantom book” finally resolved in value
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
“How dare you?” Thefts of life amid melancholy, inaction and inducive prophecies
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Apocalypse and history: Transcendental foundation of the human
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
The novelties, starting with the Table of contents
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Simona Taliani, Il tempo della disobbedienza: Per un’antropologia della parentela nella migrazione, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2019, pp. 207
Book review of Simona Taliani, Il tempo della disobbedienza: Per un’antropologia della parentela nella migrazione, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2019, pp. 207.
L’alimentation des Peuls du Sénégal
Cet article porte sur l’alimentation des populations peules du Sénégal, plus précisément sur deux groupes de femmes : l’un vivant dans la zone sylvo-pastorale du Ferlo (Nord Est du Sénégal) et l’autre issu du Ferlo et installé dans la capitale d…
David Graeber: Anthropology, anarchy, activism
Forum in memory of David Graeber. Contributions by Patrícia Alves de Matos, Stefano Boni, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Alessandro Deiana, Nika Dubrovsky.
Epidemiological risk and health policies: An interview with Tullio Seppilli
In this interview, Tullio Seppilli points out the usefulness of the notion of health risk if aimed at reducing it with public interventions by improving living conditions and reducing social inequalities. Introducing the notion of health as a common go…
Book Review. Review Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture
Dajko, Nathalie and Shana Walton, eds. 2019. Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Book Review. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed
Amanik, Allan and Kami Fletcher. 2020. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 288 pages.
Disarmed by Drama Methodology
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
The Prince’s Wings: Possible Origin of the Tale Type and Its Early Chinese Variants
The article aims to clarify the relations between the early versions of tale type ATU 575. Examining the range of Chinese accounts concerning various wooden birds, the author concludes that two groups can be distinguished. The first consists of st…
The Ecological Insight of the Bunga’ Lalang Rice Farming Tradition in Luwu Society, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
The ecological insights of local farming traditions have the potential to be adapted to modern agricultural practices. The article presents an exploration of the ecological insights of the bunga’ lalang rice farming tradition in the Luwu society, South…