On Institutional Pluralization and the Political Genealogies of Post-Yugoslav Islam
Journal Name: Religion and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 151-167
Post-war Blood
Journal Name: Religion and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 130-150
Book Reviews
Journal Name: Religion and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 171-196
Commentary on “Siting Pluralism”
Journal Name: Religion and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 168-170
Contemporary Megaprojects
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 1-8
Unbuilt and Unfinished
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 9-28
Biomimicry as a Meta-Resource and Megaproject
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 29-47
The Urban Politics of Mega-Events
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 48-62
Mega-Plantations in Southeast Asia
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 63-82
What Makes a Megaproject?
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 101-121
Becoming an Agricultural Growth Corridor
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 83-100
(Un)seen Seas
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 141-157
Remaking Oceans Governance
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 122-140
Book Reviews
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 178-189
Home and Away
Journal Name: Environment and SocietyVolume: 10Issue: 1Pages: 158-177
Counter Narratives
In recent years, Peruvian social anthropology has seen a rising production of audio-visual and artistic works within the discipline, ranging from written analyses that incorporate arts and crafts (Bernedo 2011; González 2011; Ulfe 2014; Del Pino…
Guto and Graça
It may be tautological to claim that ethnographic films are a form of storytelling; one that combines concomitance and linearity between images and words to show and tell particular stories. However, drawing on Guto and Graça, a 9-minute film on…
Visual Anthropology From Latin America: An Introduction
The idea of Latin America as an unified geopolitical entity has been called into question (Mignolo 2005), exposing claims for a specific aesthetics and epistemological modality as romantic fetishism in face of the diverse histories of economic, …
The Cinematic Spell in an Island of Uncertainty
I arrived in the island of Chiloé with the idea of making a fictional film about the 1880 Chilean State trial against a powerful organisation of sorcerers. Based on the experiences and encounters that emerged from my attempt to develop the film …
Elaborate Versionings: Characteristics of Emergent Performance in Three Print/Oral/ Aural Poets
Literary studies regards the “poetry reading” as a marginal phenomenon. By resituating the published poems of Amiri Baraka, Kamau Brathwaite, and Cecilia Vicuña in performance contexts, this essay proposes that each reading has the dimensions of an emergent performance, with distinguishable oral dynamics. The poet-performers break through into performativity by means of elaboration and versioning. […]
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Performance and Text in the Italian Carolingian Tradition
The Italian chivalric-epic tradition is based primarily on medieval Carolingian lore from France. Oral and written manifestations of this tradition influenced and enriched each other across the centuries. This essay explores the dialectic between oral and written Carolingian epic in Italy. It focuses on the medieval cantari poems and on the Sicilian cunto, which was […]
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“Whistlin’ Towards the Devil’s House”: Poetic Transformations and Natural Metaphysics in an Appalachian Folktale Performance
The late Ray Hicks of Beech Mountain, North Carolina was an acclaimed master of the traditional storytelling art. Yet little has been written that conveys the poetic dimensions of his tellings, nor their striking liberties within traditional molds. This study centers on a performance of one of Hicks’s signature tales, “Wicked John and the Devil.” […]
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La construcción y “destrucción” del imaginario religioso en el taekwondo. Un análisis antropológico
La expansión de las artes marciales procedentes de Asia Oriental por todo el mundo ha estado asociada a la idea de vincularlas con las religiones de estos lugares. Así se construyó un imaginario religioso en torno a ellas, que ha sido transmitido y ret…
Mirando al cielo. El ritual de la plantada y tala del chopo en las fiestas mayores de Vallfogona de Balaguer (Lleida)
En la investigación se pretende describir, analizar y reflexionar desde una perspectiva social, cultural y antropológica la plantada y tala del chopo en las dos fiestas mayores de Vallfogona de Balaguer (Lleida). Lleva realizándose desde hace más de un…
Análisis de un entorno ferroviario en la provincia de Jaén. Una propuesta de recuperación de un paisaje deteriorado desde un enfoque cultural
En el presente artículo se analiza un paisaje ferroviario deteriorado ubicado en la provincia de Jaén. A partir de lo observado se realiza una concreta propuesta de recuperación de ese entorno. Tanto el análisis como la propuesta de mejora del paisaje …