RADHIKA GOVINDRAJAN. Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2018
Anthropology Matters
OLIVIA ANGÉ, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2018
Anthropology Matters
Editorial
Anthropology Matters
MIKKEL BILLE, Being Bedouin Around Petra: Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Anthropology Matters
Provoking Film/Complicating Hierarchy
In 2014 and 2017, I accompanied the filmmakers Philipp Hartmann, Danilo Carvalho, and Helena Wittmann to the Sertão in the northeast of Brazil. In this desert-like region we gathered the material for Virar mar (2020), an experimental documentary…
Through Prisms
This article deals with the production process of the film PRISM. Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based filmmaker Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based filmmaker Eléonore Yaméogo from Burkina Faso to collaborate. Our s…
A Collaborative Filming Method with Characters and Crew
This article aims to reflect on the challenges of participatory film projects. The text analyses the method applied in the making of the short film Ghetto PSA. The main character is Jacob, a young man who arrived alone in Italy from French Guine…
The Voice of the Sierra Nevada
Pondering on the power of cultural preconceptions, this article examines the tension between self-representation and ‘representation from the outside’. Using the indigenous filmmaking practices of the Arhuaco community from Colombia as a case st…
Never Silent Sights.
I share in this paper experiences and insights from my fieldwork in a local ethnic artist’s and media producer’s network in South-Mexico. As an attempt at transcultural collaboration, I took part in a nude photoshoot for a local photographer, as…
Shared Video Work and Shared Writing
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
Image as a Weapon:
In this article, we will explore a relationship between Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and Sophia Pinheiro through image and filmmaking. A videography of a poetic encounter between two women, one indigenous and other non-indigenous, using visual a…
Introduction
This special issue follows Walter Mignolo´s call for epistemic disobedience and combines it with MacDougall´s work on transcultural cinema. The films and texts of this special issue support our hypothesis that more equally balanced modes of comm…
Can Ethnographic Filmmaking Truly Be Shared?
Collaborative ethnographic filmmaking has been celebrated as a practice that ethically challenges the traditional relationship between the observing researcher and the observed Other. At the same time, the collaborative mode raises the question …
Shared Video Work and Shared Writing
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
IJAPS New Look & Section
IJAPS is pleased to make two important announcements: First, our website has been updated with a new banner and logo design that better reflects who we are and what our journal is about. Second, today we officially launch a new section titled Perspectives, which aims to capture significant views and voices about Asia Pacific in the … Continue reading
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Monetizing Amateurs. Artistic Critique, New Online Record Production and Neoliberal Conjuncture
This article examines an emerging academic discourse of new online record production. It represents amateur musicians and producers – with access to new digital production and communication tools – as entrepreneurial, aspiring professionals. The articl…
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Cultural Politics of Trust in the Dengvaxia Controversy
Vaccine hesitancy refers to the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite vaccine availability. At its very core lies the problem of trust. Yet, there is very little research on the role of trust in vaccine hesitancy, particularly…
Hospitality and the ethico-political
What is hospitality? Who is it addressed to? Hospitality aims at welcoming those who arrive; it demands giving space and time and sharing our own resources with others. In view of the current global migration crisis and in the midst of the social debat…
A lack of meaning?
This article explores the ‘lack of meaning’ in contemporary society as a consequence of Western dualist thought paradigms and ontologies, via Gilles Deleuze’s concept of ‘reactive nihilism’ following the colloquial murder of God. The article then explo…
Bound to hospitality
Church asylum, a practice aimed at assisting migrants with precarious residence statuses, has been enacted in Finland particularly since the 2010s. As a result of migrants’ insecure residency, their capacities of action are often restricted. They…
A mind of care
This article approaches issues arising out of being in the middle of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland in March 2020, both from the point of view of the lived experience of caring for people in our conference setting, and through analy…
Orthodox Christianity and gender through a religion-as-lived perspective
Book review of Kupari, Helena, and Elina Vuola (eds.), 2020. Orthodox Christianity and Gender. Dynamics of Tradition, Culture and Lived Practice.Routledge Studies in Religion (London & New York: Routledge). Open access publication: https://doi…
In praise of In Praise of Risk
Review of Anne Dufourmantelle’s In Praise of Risk, trans. with an introduction by Steven Miller (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019).
Beyond formal spaces
This text offers some reflections that stem from my participation in the NSU Winter Symposium ‘Feminism and Hospitality: Religious and critical perspectives in dialogue with a secular age’, held in Turku, Finland, 5–7 March 2020. Drawing from my previo…
Reflection on the reflective ethics of charity
This article is a reflection on the NSU Winter Symposium of March 2020, entitled ‘Feminism and Hospitality: Religious and Critical Perspectives in dialogue with a Secular Age’. It contends with moral judgments which regard charity as an act of alienati…