Editorial Impressions: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Magic of Uncertainty
Editorial
Welcomed and Unwanted: Uncertainty and Possession in a Manasā Cult (North Bengal and West Assam, India)
Manasā is a very important goddess of the eastern part of India, particularly for the lower castes of Bengal, West Assam, some districts of Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar. She is the main goddess for the majority of Rajbansis of North Bengal. The fluid bo…
Faces of Mongolian Fear: Demonological Beliefs, Narratives and Protective Measures in Contemporary Folk Religion
This article looks at the perceptions of fear and ‘the frightening’ in contemporary Mongolian demonology. In the article, I discuss beliefs concerning both human and supernatural – what is supposed to be frightening for humans and what is supposed to b…
Living with Reindeer Thirty Years after Socialism: Land Use and Large Reindeer Herding among the Evenki of Southeast Siberia
30 years after socialism many groups of Evenki reindeer herders failed to survive in the suboreal taiga of East Siberia. By making reference to two case studies from the northern part of the Zabaikal region and southern part of the Republic of Sakha, t…
Chuvash ‘Paganism’ at the Turn of the 21st Century: Traditional Rituals in the Religious Practice of Volga-Urals Chuvash Groups
Traditional rituals formed the basis of ethnic Chuvash culture, and are still relevant in today’s festive and ritual culture, primarily among Chuvash ‘pagan’ ethno-religious groups. Today among the unbaptised Chuvash there is, with varying degrees of p…
Migrant and Autochthonous Traditions within Udmurt Folksong (on the Example of the Siberian Udmurt)
This article investigates, for the first time, the local musical tradition of the Udmurt of Chainsk district (Tomsk oblast). The overwhelming majority of migrants in this region arrived from the Sharkan district of the Udmurt Republic, in Siberia, at t…
Book Review: Inward Looking: The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective
Book Review: Aleksandar G. Marinov. 2019. Inward Looking: The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective. Romani Studies 2. Oxford; New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
Travellers, Easter Witches and Cunning Folk: Regulators of Fortune and Misfortune in Ostrobothnian Folklore in Finland
This article is about the distinct groups that practised malevolent and benevolent witchcraft in Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia in late-modern Finland according to belief legends and memorates. Placing belief legends and memorates in Mary Douglas’ tripa…
II International Multidisciplinary Conference Mongols: Traditions and Modernity 2019
The second International Multidisciplinary Conference Mongols: Traditions and Modernity took place on September 11–13, 2019 at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), Moscow.
How the Udmurt Understand the World, and Man in It: Book Review
Book review: Tat’yana Vladykina. 2018. The Udmurt Folklore ‘Worldtext’: Forms, Symbols, Rituals. Izhevsk.
“Dance is My Dragon Point”: Spirituality among Professional Dancers
Abstract: Using bodylore concepts of kinesthetic empathy in conjunction with spirituality scholarship, this research works to demonstrate the blurred boundaries between secular and spiritual activity in a particular occupation. Despite the vast range a…
Microbial Intimacy
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 1-8
Experiencing Graduated Intimacies during Lockdown (Fengcheng)
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 9-19
Unexpected Intimacies
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 20-27
Constructing the Not-So-New Normal
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 28-32
Fearful Intimacies
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 33-39
On Money and Quarantine
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 45-48
Learning to Dwell with Micro-Organisms
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 40-44
Exposed Intimacies
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 63-67
Take My Breath Away
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 49-62
Porous Bodies
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 73-77
Familial Intimacy and the ‘Thing’ between Us
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 68-72
Songs of the Pandemic
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 82-86
Covidiots and the Clamour of the Virus-as-Question
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 78-81
Tourism and COVID-19
Journal Name: Anthropology in ActionVolume: 27Issue: 2Pages: 93-100