Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Although the COVID-19 pandemic created challenges for faculty and students alike, it was also a catalyst for new collaborations. Our faculty-student project capitalized on what the pandemic publicly exposed: the fact that human health and culture are i…
Within the literature on ‘rushing rituals’ at institutions of higher education, there is a dominant focus on the creation of cohesion or communitas (Turner 1969) between students. This focus causes these rituals to be treated analytically as disjointed…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
This lectio summarizes a PhD study of the public activities of East Javanese regional councillors. Analysing the communication of these politicians, the thesis focuses on the ways they authorize their status as representatives of their constituency. Th…
Roberts, Les 2020 (2018). Spatial Anthropology: Excursions in Liminal Space. London: Rowman & Littlefield. 318 p. ISBN: 9781786606372 (hardback); ISBN: 9781786615978 (paperback); ISBN: 9781786606389 (E-book).
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Islamforskning i Sverige är liksom på andra håll i hög grad samtidsorienterad. Samtidigt finns intressant historiskt material som rör islam och muslimer i Sverige under historisk tid. Denna artikel behandlar några av de muslimer som kom att leva i Sver…
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We invite articles, research notes, essays and book reviews that discuss how public discourses on vaccination are shaped and structured at the intersection of scientific rationalities, social institutions, cultural imaginaries, and political ideologies. We welcome texts from multiple disciplines and genres. Deadline for manuscript submissions: July 27th, 2021 Send manuscripts at compaso@compaso.eu. Public discourses on […]
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This article deals with the professional identity of military chaplains, formed by two institutions, the army and the church. The work is based on the theoretical grounding of the sociology of professions, role conflicts, spiritual service and the mili…
The aim of the study is to describe the possibilities of Greek social life in Brno and the activities of Greek organizations in the research area. The study examines the position of these organizations in the Greek community and asks to what extent the…
The article represents the content analysis of the work of the Czech ethnographer Václav Marek from two points of view. The first one is the textual analysis of the thematic topics of his ethnographic work. The other is the image analysis, namely the e…
This paper examines the settlements of the Huncokars, German-speaking woodmen in the Little Carpathians, as evidenced by the cartographic materials of the 18 th and 19 th century. The first part of the study focusses on the description of the surveyed …
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This paper focuses on expected communicative behaviours during asymmetrical interactional events among Ghanaians, with special reference to Ewes and Akans. Drawing on the ethnopragmatic techniques of semantic explication and cultural scripts, it demons…
O artigo apresenta apontamentos que auxiliam a compreender como tem acontecido o ensino da história e cultura afro-brasileira nas escolas, tendo como referência uma escola estadual de ensino médio localizada em Vitória, no Espírito Santo. Faremos uma b…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.