The Work Behind the Words: Labour, Ethics and Care in Academic Publishing
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Ecological Restoration and Tree-Planting Efforts in the Ihorombe Grasslands of Southern Madagascar
To mitigate global climate change and diverse socio-ecological crises, ecological restoration (ER) has emerged as a solution to repair damaged and degraded environments and landscapes. ER’s primary strategy relies on planting trees, often i…
Knowing Familial Soils
In this autoethnographic essay, I trace and explore different ways of knowing soils through personal experiences and discussions between three generations (me, my father and my grandparents) who have lived and worked on a family farm in Cen…
Speaking and Singing Firmly: Beings (Un)related and (In)activated by Language in Amazonian Academic Research
Academic research results can serve diverse communities and individuals, whilst the research can itself transform researchers in multiple ways. In this article, I examine the significance of more-than-human beings in the process of becomin…
How to Milk a Yak: Embodied Learning with Yaks in Practice
This essay is based on an ethnographic study at a self-subsistence-oriented yak herding village in Tibet (Tibetan Autonomous Region, China). I demonstrate how the social-biophysical profile and the life history of the researcher influences …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Bantu languages are notoriously “verby” (Nurse 2008, 21), referring to the highly agglutinative nature of the inflected verb, whose complexities have sparked extensive research. Now that Bantu verbal morphology is much better understood, the…
Southern Bantu Auxiliary Functions and Their Distributions
Southern Bantu languages have extensive auxiliary inventories with functions that sometimes go beyond typical tense/aspect/mood/polarity meanings. This article examines areal semantic patterns of auxiliaries in 16 Southern Bantu varieties, i…
Auxiliary Stacking in Southern Bantu Languages
Auxiliary constructions in Southern Bantu exhibit a feature in which two or more auxiliaries appear alongside a single lexical verb. We term this construction ‘auxiliary stacking’. The goal of the paper is to outline the phenomenon of auxili…
On the Morphology, Interpretation, and Development of the Kagulu Auxiliary ng’hali
The Kagulu auxiliary verb ng’hali appears in a variety of auxiliary verb constructions and has several phonological realizations (ng’hali, kali, and ng’hati). Unlike other auxiliary verbs in the language, ng’hali occurs with limited morpholo…
Auxiliaries and Analyticity in Northwestern Bantu
Northwestern Bantu (NWB) languages differ from Eastern/Southwestern Bantu languages in that their verb forms are more often analytic, with pre-stem inflectional material appearing in a complex that may be unbound from the main verb. This has…
Dedicated Auxiliaries in Tswana (Bantu S31)
This article discusses the subclass of Tswana auxiliaries that cannot be analysed as resulting from the grammaticalization of regular forms of verbs also used predicatively in the present state of the language. It describes the general chara…
The Pragmatic Functions of the Auxiliary Verbs za ‘come’ and ya ‘go’ in isiXhosa
This study focuses on the syntactic and pragmatic functions of the isiXhosa auxiliary verbs za ‘come’ and ya ‘go’ when followed by subjunctive or past consecutive lexical verbs. Analysis of the auxiliaries’ occurrence in a 60,000-word databa…
BE Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Kihehe
Kihehe (G62) has a rich inventory of auxiliary constructions (> 120) grounded in different forms of be: copula -li and -ʋa ‘be’. This paper addresses those constructions in which the auxiliary is marked for one of three pasts – hodiernal,…
Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ
Gĩkũyũ (E.51) exhibits several verbs that can be used both as lexical verbs and as auxiliary verbs. We compare the lexical and auxiliary usages of four verbs and show that all auxiliary verb usages display uniform restrictions concerning val…
The Development of Negative ‘have’ Auxiliaries in the Bantu Languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi
This paper studies the grammaticalization of possessive predicates into negative auxiliaries expressing main clause negation in the Bantu languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi River region. Drawing on a convenience sample of languages fr…
Permeable river-worlds: Emergent caring politics along the Dílar and Monachil rivers in southern Spain
This article draws on conversations and ethnographic observations with activists in Granada, Andalusia, as they learn to respond ‘otherwise’ to the socioecological challenges of the Dílar and Monachil rivers. They inhabit the disorienting space opened …
Customary-State Authority Contestation in Forest Governance: Mechanisms, Sustainability, and Local Community Welfare in Aceh
Forests are central to ecological sustainability and local livelihoods, yet forest governance in Aceh is characterized by persistent contestation between customary institutions, such as Imuem Mukim, Geuchik/Reje, and the Aceh/Gayo Customary Councils o…
Lithium supply chain metabolism, a conflict-based analysis
This article examines the impacts of the energy transition industry from an environmental justice perspective, proposing to understand supply chain metabolism through environmental conflicts and enhancing socio-metabolic analysis. By revisiting the con…
Protected: An Ecology of World Models:
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Book Review: Chris Marker: Early Film Writings
InVisible Culture
Kvaliteetne Eesti maitseelamused ja kohalik köök täna
Eesti köök pakub mitmekesiseid ja maitsvaid toite, mis on juurdunud kohalikes traditsioonides. Looduslikud koostisosad ja traditsioonilised retseptid loovad unikaalse maitseelamuse. Uurime lähemalt, kuidas Eesti köök on arenenud ja mida see pakub tänapäeval. Kohalikud toorained Eesti toidutootmine põhineb kohalikel toorainetel. Piimatooted, liha ja köögiviljad on igapäevaelus tavalised. Põllumajad ja talud pakuvad värskeid ja kvaliteetseid tooteid. Näiteks, […]
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Review of Michale Dove. 2024. Hearsay is not excluded: A history of natural history
MARIANI Léo, 2024. Devenir hétéronomes. Sur la pluralité des mondes
Il arrive parfois que l’on fouille au fond d’une librairie à la recherche d’un livre qui nous semblait jusque-là indispensable et que la main, mue par sa propre curiosité, en saisisse un autre. Peut-être parce que troublé par le titre ou par la quatrième de couverture, on quitte alors le magasin avec ce nouvel ouvrage sans être pour autant trop certain de la raison de cette acquisition.
C’est ainsi que j’ai découvert Devenir hétéronomes. Sur la pluralité des mondes, intrigué par un[…]
MARIANI Léo, 2024. Devenir hétéronomes. Sur la pluralité des mondes
Il arrive parfois que l’on fouille au fond d’une librairie à la recherche d’un livre qui nous semblait jusque-là indispensable et que la main, mue par sa propre curiosité, en saisisse un autre. Peut-être parce que troublé par le titre ou par la quatrième de couverture, on quitte alors le magasin avec ce nouvel ouvrage sans être pour autant trop certain de la raison de cette acquisition.
C’est ainsi que j’ai découvert Devenir hétéronomes. Sur la pluralité des mondes, intrigué par un[…]
Book Review: Rijal, S. (2024). Defending Traditional Islam in Indonesia: The Resurgence of Hadhrami Preachers.
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