Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Lists of wonders have circulated for millennia. Over and over, such inventories of spectacular man made constructions have been rewritten, re-edited and reimagi-ned. Both the wonders and the lists of wonders, preferably of the seven, have had a profoun…
This article discusses copies within the field of art museums by way of mapping strategies for copy practices. This mapping leans heavily towards parts of the wri-tings of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004). Against the backdrop of this theoretical premise, t…
Paintings in museums might occasionally be replaced by a photoprint mimicking the original. This article is an investigation of what constitutes a good reproduction of an artwork (oil painting) that is meant to be displayed. The article discusses what …
Copies are defined by their relation to an original. The understanding and evaluation of this relationship has been changing over time. A main argument of this article is that originals and copies are phenomena with no “natural” or essential meaning ou…
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Published: April 2017.
Published: April 2017.
Extended deadline for manuscript submission: October 30, 2017 Send manuscripts at compaso@compaso.eu For our Winter 2017 issue, we invite research articles and notes that explore how we are being aged from outside the contours of our bodies, through the presence and absence of interaction with others, in materially and technologically organized activities, by living in […]
Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen: Redaksjonelt
Gunnar M. Sørbø: Kriser og kriger – er det bruk for oss nå?
Ada I. Engebrigtsen: Kampen om mobilitet og sted
Ingjerd Hoëm: «Hva er en krise?»
Finn Sivert Nie…
This paper introduces the interdisciplinary field of Critical Future Studies (CFS). CFS investigates the scope and constraints within public culture for imagining and debating different potential futures. It interrogates imagined futures founded – ofte…
Get PDF: McCartney, Patrick. 2017. Politics beyond the Yoga Mat: Yoga Fundamentalism and the ‘Vedic Way of Life’. Global Ethnographic. Patrick McCartney Visiting Fellow, Australian National University psdmccartney@gmail.com Abstract This article…
Get PDF: McCartney, Patrick. 2017. Politics beyond the Yoga Mat: Yoga Fundamentalism and the ‘Vedic Way of Life’. Global Ethnographic. Patrick McCartney Visiting Fellow, Australian National University psdmccartney@gmail.com Abstract This article…
While overhunting and climate change have been the major hypotheses to explain the late-Pleistocene New World megafaunal extinctions, the role of introduced disease has only received brief attention. Here, we review pre-Columbian diseases endemic t…
While overhunting and climate change have been the major hypotheses to explain the late-Pleistocene New World megafaunal extinctions, the role of introduced disease has only received brief attention. Here, we review pre-Columbian diseases endemic t…
With the emergence of the neologism ‘intangible cultural heritage’ in 2003 and the adoption of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Law of the People’sRepublic of China in 2011 various popular religious practices in China which used to be consi…
Prayers in Christianity are often considered to be a theological or pastoral topic; while social scientific studies generally tend to reduce them, like prayers in other religious contexts, to the status of psychological responses bringing c…
Economic exchange in the Zangskar valley (in the high Indian Himalayas) was a tightly integrated element of the social and political network of this Buddhist–Muslim society . Accordingly people of the lower stratum could not take part in th…
This article looks at religious diversity among late imperial and modern Chinese elites; by contrast with most of the existing literature, which looks at correlations between social class and religiosity, this article adds the dimension of …
This paper aims at reopening the debate regarding ‘religious diversity’ in religious studies. A review of (recent or ancient) literature demonstrates that we have not finished with the complexity of the issue of ‘diversity’, whether in acad…
Izdano: prosinca 2016.
Izdano: prosinca 2016.
Kjersti Larsen, Jan Ketil Simonsen: Redaksjonelt
Arne Aleksej Perminow: Kopier av internasjonal betydning – Nasjonal trolldomskunst ved Universitetets Etnografisk Museum ved inngangen til det 20. århundre
Marte Emilie Sandvik Haalan…
Published: December 2016.
Published: December 2016.
Guest Editor: Emanuel Socaciu, University of Bucharest Extended deadline for manuscript submission: June 15th, 2017 Send manuscripts at compaso@compaso.eu *** We invite research articles and notes that explore the interplay of science and daily life, the role of new technologies in scientific knowledge, the just-emerging and the strongly-persistent practice of science making and reporting, as […]