Oswaldo Estrada y Laura Alicino (eds.), “Documentar la realidad. Cruce de géneros y fronteras en América Latina”, Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2025, 320 pp.
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Corpachadas y chaku. Ritualidad medioambiental y cosmopolítica en Laguna Blanca, Argentina andina
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Speculative Pachamama: Spectral Politics Beyond Life and Fertility
Through an ethnography of culinary offerings dedicated to Earth-Beings, this essay explores the speculative thought of Andean herders in Jujuy (NW Argentina) as they reflect on their relations with Pachamama and the “modern” rituals of politicians and …
Chamanesy psicodeliaandina: (en)cantos comunitarios en untexto de Mónica Ojeda
En un contexto de desencanto global, crisis ecológica y agotamiento neoliberal, las narrativas contemporáneas deben repensar formas de habitar el mundo más allá de la catástrofe ambiental. Este ensayo ofrece un acercamiento preliminar y especulativo a …
Sacralizando el territorio entre montaña y estepa: prácticas religiosas y cuidado ambiental en la Patagonia del sur rionegrino
El escrito indaga en la relacionalidad ambiental ejercida por una población de la estepa patagónica argentina. Es un caso con prácticas productivas que los trasladan entre la estepa y la montaña por la trashumancia, que nuclea a la población que celebr…
La vida de las fiestas: ciclo ritual agrícola en una comunidad andina
El artículo analiza etnográficamente el ciclo ritual agrícola de la comunidad aymara de Socoroma en el norte de Chile. Se describen cinco festividades, Difuntos, Pachallampe, Carnavales, Cruces de Mayo y San Isidro, que estructuran el calendario festiv…
Tradición en movimiento: performatividad política en las fiestas Kayambi
Este artículo examina cómo las fiestas andinas, en especial en la comunidad Kayambi, funcionan como espacios de expresión política donde se negocian identidades y relaciones de poder. Desde un enfoque etnográfico, se analizan los efectos de la evangeli…
Coffee, Controversy, and Community in Salento, Italy
Among popular beverages associated with Puglia’s Salentine sub peninsula are coffee with ice and coffee with ice and almond lymph. The origin of the first is attributed to the patriarch of a family of coffee roasters in the city of Lecce who int…
Book Review: Africa’s Global Infrastructures – South–South Transformations in Practice by Hönke, Jana, Cezne, Eric, and Yang, Yifan
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Entering the Mind as a Way of Approaching God: Practicing Meditation and Being Muslim in Semarang, Indonesia
This article explores the ways in which Muslim meditation practitioners in Indonesia understand and utilize Buddhist meditative practice. Focusing on the narrative of one such practitioner, we draw out the little-known role that meditation plays in the…
Escape Capital
This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an expe…
About the Authors
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned a doctorate in French literature at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, 2017), where her dissertation examined comparative approaches to epic, with particular attention to French and Turkic traditions. In this context, she developed a specific interest […]
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Framing Dropout
This article examines dropout from therapeutic communities for addiction treatment through the lens of institutional escape. In conventional treatment research, dropout is framed as evidence of patients’ non-compliance, lack of motivation, o…
Overcoming ‘Distinctive Backwardness’
From 1920 through 1932, Soviet biomedical propaganda disseminated via Udmurt literature including through periodicals, novels, plays, and poetry aimed to instil sanitation values and advance modernisation. This propaganda targeted the Indig…
Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas in Ethnographic Research among the Far Right
This essay belongs to the essay series ‘The Anthropologist’s Toolkit: Reflections on Ethnographic Methodology’. In this series, authors peer into the anthropologist’s toolkit to reflect on what ethnographic methodology constitutes in all it…
The Climate of Comparison
This essay is based on the 2025 Westermarck Lecture, delivered at the 50th anniversary meetings of the Finnish Anthropological Society. My deepest thanks to the organisers, staff, and participants of that conference, including Sarah Green, …
Informal Currency Exchange among Chinese Students in a Siberian City in Times of Sanctions
Faced with limitations to transnational transactions, Chinese students in Russia engage in informal currency exchanges. Through fieldwork in a Siberian city, we discovered how, against the backdrop of sanctions, fluctuating official exchang…
Book Review
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Visions for the Future of West Greenlandic Regalia and Knowledge of Seal Skins
Since the earliest colonial encounters in Greenland, place-based Inuit knowledge of seal skin processing has been applied and regenerated within a web of regional, national, and global relations. These relations have not only affected metho…
Choosing the Path Towards a Collective Ethos
The winds are changing at Suomen antropologi: Journal of Finnish Anthropological Society! My service as editor-in-chief is coming to an end at the end of this year and I am proud to announce the appointment of the incoming editors-in-chief,…
Working with the Lights Off
This paper examines how a group of women’s rights activists in Iran who identify as Muslim represented themselves prior to the emergence of the 2022 Mahsa Movement, and why they were reluctant to adopt the labels ‘feminist’ or ‘Islamic femi…
Comparison in a World of Resemblances, Flows and Proximities
Anthropologists compare – it is at the heart of what we do as we try and make sense of, describe and explain human social being in all its diversity. But the use of comparison extends far beyond anthropology. Indeed, it seems ubiquitous acr…
Environmentalities, subjectivities, and adaptation capacities in Costa Rican smallholder farms
This article explores how different forms of adaptation governance in Costa Rica shape subjectivities and adaptation capacities in smallholder farms. The country presently has a neoliberal-welfare state structure that stems from the progressive transit…
Green gold for the “future”: Fermented foodways, possibilities and doubts
The looming ecological crisis demands an urgent rethinking of possibilities within our surroundings. This article examines the practice of bamboo-shoot fermentation in India’s North-Eastern Region (NER) and explores its connections to sustainability, f…
Cuisiner la thèse
Cette contribution offre un regard heuristique et réflexif sur la préparation conjointe, en candidat libre et de manière autofinancée, de deux diplômes aux symboliques aussi fortes qu’apparemment opposées : un certificat d’aptitude professionnel…