Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.33 No.1
Published: April 2017.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.33 No.1
Published: April 2017.
Call for Papers: Aging from beyond the skin
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 […]
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 01/2017
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…
Beyond Capitalist Realism – Why We Need Critical Future Studies
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…
Politics beyond the Yoga Mat: Yoga Fundamentalism and the ‘Vedic Way of Life’
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…
Politics beyond the Yoga Mat: Yoga Fundamentalism and the ‘Vedic Way of Life’
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…
Disease Introduction by Aboriginal Humans in North America and the Pleistocene Extinction
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…
Disease Introduction by Aboriginal Humans in North America and the Pleistocene Extinction
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…
Religious diversity and patrimonialization
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…
Becoming Christians
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…
Traditional and modern crossing process exchange in a Buddhist–Muslim society
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…
Diversity and elite religiosity in modern China
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 …
Comparing ‘religious diversities’
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…
Etnološka istraživanja, Vol. No.21
Izdano: prosinca 2016.
Etnološka istraživanja, No.21
Izdano: prosinca 2016.
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 03-04/2016
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…
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.32 No.3
Published: December 2016.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.32 No.3
Published: December 2016.
Call for Papers: Science – Something Old, Something New, Something Blue
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 […]
Negotiating identities through the ‘cultural practice’ of labia elongation among urban Shona women and men in contemporary Zimbabwe
Dominant Eurocentric discourses on African traditional cultural practices linked to sexuality construct these practices as retrogressive for women in these localities. These discourses take the form of women and sexual rights promoted by some women act…
(Un-)veiling the west: Burkini-gate, Princess Hijab and dressing as struggle for postsecular integration
The ban of the burkini in the summer of 2016 in France is the latest stage in a long political history, where the French depreciation or fear of the veil, and of Islam, has come to play a more significant role since the end of the cold war. Unveiling f…
Decolonising the Rainbow Flag
The aim of the article is to explore the location and the meaning given to the rainbow flag in places outside the hegemonic center. Through three case studies in the global North and South, held together by a multi-ethnographic approach, as well as a c…
The Performative Force of Cultural Products: Subject Positions and Desires Emerging From Engagement with the Manga Boys’ Love and Yaoi
This article deals with questions about the performative power of cultural products that travel the world. The Japanese manga genre Boys’ Love and Yaoi has gained a broad readership outside of Japan during recent decades. This has cultivated an image o…
Rainbows of Resistance: LGBTQ Pride Parades Contesting Space in Post-Conflict Belfast
The article seeks to demonstrate how marchers in the annual LGBTQ Pride Parade strategically contest and reclaim heteronormative public spaces in Belfast, Northern Ireland. There is an exploration of participants adapting transnational symbolic represe…