Front Matter
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
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Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Aposematism: An Alternative Hypothesis on How We Discover Medicinal Organisms
The most widely accepted theories as to how primates select medicinal organisms are based on smelling-tasting bitter, and most of the times toxic, plants (Etkin & Ross, 1982; Johns, 1990). In primates, however, the senses of smell and taste are not…
Aposematism: An Alternative Hypothesis on How We Discover Medicinal Organisms
The most widely accepted theories as to how primates select medicinal organisms are based on smelling-tasting bitter, and most of the times toxic, plants (Etkin & Ross, 1982; Johns, 1990). In primates, however, the senses of smell and taste are not…
15 | 2017 – Sociology of India’s Economic Elites
Introduction. Towards a Sociology of India’s Economic Elite: Beyond the Neo-Orientalist and Managerialist Perspectives [Full text]
Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet
The Hindu Undivided Family …
15 | 2017 – Sociology of India’s Economic Elites
Introduction. Towards a Sociology of India’s Economic Elite: Beyond the Neo-Orientalist and Managerialist Perspectives [Full text]
Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet
The Hindu Undivided Family …
12 | 2017 – Jahresausgabe 2017
Editorial [Volltext]
Anne Beutter, Moritz Klenk und Stefan Schröder
Kryptozoologie als Legitimationsstrategie im Kreationismus [Volltext]
Fabian Thunig
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GLOBAL ECONOMIC DYNAMICS OF THE FORTHCOMING YEARS: A FORECAST
The paper analyzes the current state of the world economy and offers a short-term forecast of its development. Our analysis of log-periodic oscillations in the DJIA dynamics suggests that in the second half of 2017 the United States and other more deve…
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.28 No.1
Published: December 2016.
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.28 No.1
Published: December 2016.
Algorithmic Absolution: The Case of Catholic Confessional Apps
This article explores the Catholic ritual of confession as practiced through the use of mobile apps. Confession is a surprisingly persistent social form and in this article I begin by contextualising the relationship between society, confess…
“And the Word Became Network”: An Analysis of the Circulation of the “Catholic” in Online Communicational Networks
Within the process of mediatization, the Catholic Church and society in general produce new modes of communication on the internet, in which there is a widespread network of relationships between symbols, beliefs, and practices linked to Cat…
Pilgrim or Tourist? Modelling Two Types of Travel Bloggers
The typological distinction between pilgrims and tourists has often been drawn in tourism studies. This article aims at complementing this debate by applying computational techniques to analyse discourses in a corpus of blogs from the Dutch …
Morality and Religion as factors in Age Rating Computer and Video Games: ESRA, the Iranian Games Age Rating System
ESRA, the Entertainment Software Rating Association, is the name of Iran’s computer games age rating system introduced in 2008 by its video game association IRCG. This new rating system is based on what this country deems as social, psycholo…
Jewish, Christian and Islamic in the English Wikipedia
In order to study how Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are represented in Wikipedia, I use corpus linguistics tools to extract the adjective noun collocates of the adjectives Jewish, Christian, and Islamic from the 2013 English Wikipedia in …
Facebooking Religion and the Technologization of the Religious Discourse: A Case Study of a Botswana-based Prophetic Church
Technologization of discourse is generally conceptualized as a process of influencing people’s way of thinking through the use of certain linguistic strategies. In this process, power is exercised through the use of linguistic strategies tha…
The Design of Educational Materials for Teaching the Most Common Religions to Students in their Final Year of Primary School: A Cross-Curricular Approach of Religious Studies and Music, Through the Use of Augmented Reality
The aim of this research is to establish whether teaching approaches based on the use of Augmented Reality (AR) facilitate deeper and more engaging learning. The religions of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and their sacred musics we…
23 | 2016 – Faire et défaire les territoires dans la Turquie contemporaine
Dire et faire le territoire en Turquie : entre idéologie unitariste et obsession de la rente [Full text]
Ségolène Débarre and Jean-François Pérouse
Manufacturing and Dismantling Territories in Turkey : Between U…
Responding to Modern Flooding: Old English Place-Names as a Repository of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Place-names are used to communicate Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) by all indigenous, aboriginal and First Nations people. Here and for the first time, English place-names are examined through a TEK lens. Specifically, place-names formed in…
Responding to Modern Flooding: Old English Place-Names as a Repository of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Place-names are used to communicate Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) by all indigenous, aboriginal and First Nations people. Here and for the first time, English place-names are examined through a TEK lens. Specifically, place-names formed in…
Music, Memory, and Affect Attunement: Connecting Kurdish Diaspora in Stockholm
This article takes its point of departure in Maurice Halbwachs’ notion of collective memory, adding the distinction made by Jan Assmann between communicative and cultural memory, and Alfred Schütz’s notion of communication, understood here as the sonor…
Reframing Cultural Diplomacy: The Instrumentalization of Culture under the Soft Power Theory
Although cultural diplomacy has grown in importance in recent years, there is no consensus on its definition. Cultural diplomacy is commonly framed in terms of soft power: the capacity of persuasion and attraction that allows the state to construct heg…
Street Protests and Affects on YouTube Investigating DIY Videos of Violent Street Protests as an Archive of Affect and Event Desire
This article argues that YouTube, as a platform for sharing DIY videos, is an useful resource for understanding the role of affective processes before, during and after protest events. As a case study the article investigates the documentation on YouTu…
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.32 No.2
Published: August 2016.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.32 No.2
Published: August 2016.