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Lynteris, Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Reprises: Seeing like an author: early Bakhtin for anthropologists
How would the anthropology of the 1990’s have been different if anthropologists understood what it meant to be a writing subject describing Others the way that Bakhtin did? These questions are undercurrents in this essay, as I summarize what early Bakh…
Editor’s note
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
“God is my bosom buddy”: experiencing faith and the role of ethnicity in Roma and Kaale missionizing among Roma in Estonia and Latvia
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork materials in the form of participant observation and interviews and looks at the mission encounter between the Kaale (Finnish Roma) missionaries and the traditionally Lutheran, Russian Orthodox or Catholic R…
Phantom rebellion: performing the state in a Montenegrin village and beyond
The article is centred around an event in Njeguši, a small village in Montenegro, whereby a group of people tried to honour their ancestor by inauguration of a small church and a commemorative building. Unexpectedly, the event was forbidden, the police…
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 03/2020
Ada I. Engebrigtsen, Peter I. Crawford, Halvard Vike, Elisabeth L’orange Fürst: Redaksjonelt
Halvard Vike, Elisabeth L’orange Fürst: Forskningsetikk og forskningens frihet: utfordringer for antropologifaget
Lise Lundh: Personvernreg…
Sometimes, You Have to Laugh: A Review of Nicola Tyson ‘Sense of Self’ at Petzel Gallery
September 2 – October 3, 202035 E 67th Street Written by Peter Murphy, University of Rochester Stepping into Petzel Gallery on the Upper East Side, I felt beside myself. Months had passed since I last visited a gallery; would I remember how to be…
CAES Vol. 6, № 3
Think pieces: Substrate lexis of Kildin Sami interpreted through languages belonging to the Western branch of the Ainu-Minoan stock: some notes on the language of Paja ul deˀŋ Alexander Akulov In Kildin Sami there are about 30 words which have no convincing Finno-Ugric/Uralic (or any other) etymologies. 8 of them can be interpreted through languages […]
Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981
Reviewed by Stella Gatto, Independent Researcher Klara Kemp-Welch, Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019. 480 pages. The theory of “Six Degrees of Separation” (or perhaps more humorously known…
23 | 2020 – Unique Identification in India: Aadhaar, Biometrics and Technology-Mediated Identities
Grappling with Aadhaar: Biometrics, Social Identity and the Indian State [Full text]
Silvia Masiero and S. Shakthi
Chasing Rights in Delhi: Social Movements and the National Food Security Act [F…
Book Review
Rice, Stephen K. and Michael D. Maltz, eds. 2018. Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork. Cham: Springer.
Editorial: Security and Morality: Critical Anthropological Perspectives
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Why Anthropology Matters matters
Anthropology Matters
Erratum: A “we” intercessor: when ethnography is also magic
Resumo Relacionar os processos demenciais ao tornar-se louco ou ser outra pessoa, estar possuído, foi algo que encontrei em cenas e relatos de meu material de campo. É numa tentativa de compreender o que está em jogo nesse “devir outro” que faço um diá…
Alzheimer’s disease and shamanism: (im)possible dialogues
Resumo Relacionar os processos demenciais ao tornar-se louco ou ser outra pessoa, estar possuído, foi algo que encontrei em cenas e relatos de meu material de campo. É numa tentativa de compreender o que está em jogo nesse “devir outro” que faço um diá…
Anthropology of madness: from the paradigms of exclusion and social inclusion to the neokraepelian rearmament
Resumen El objetivo del artículo ha sido investigar los paradigmas, significaciones y formas de abordar la locura que han caracterizado el modo de pensar contemporáneo en términos de exclusión, inclusión e “inclusión exclusiva”. Para ello se ha recurri…
In defense of dignity: morals and emotions in transgender people’s demands for rights
Resumo Este artigo traz uma análise do modelo de petição inicial de requalificação civil de pessoas transexuais elaborado pelas funcionárias do Núcleo de Defesa da Diversidade Sexual e Direitos Homoafetivos da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Jan…
History “out of context”: artifacts of history among the comcaac of northern Mexico and amerindian records of conflict
Resumen Inspirada en Marilyn Strathern, el objetivo de este artículo es examinar las fricciones provocadas por el encuentro entre la obligación de construir un marco de referencia o contexto y las teorías pragmáticas de los comcaac o seris que residen …
Unpacking mediation: technologies and religious atmospheres
Resumo Neste artigo aponto para certos limites intrínsecos ao conceito de mediação, que tem dominado debates recentes sobre a relação entre religião e tecnologia na antropologia e além. Inspirado etnograficamente pelas técnicas e tecnologias de oração …
Bumps, numbness and fissures: On the daily stitching of imprisoned bodies
Resumo A proposta do texto é apresentar e discutir táticas de resistências corporais acionadas por pessoas presas em uma penitenciária feminina no esforço cotidiano de viver na/à prisão. Posto que o confinamento serve a políticas governamentais de cont…