"Borracha de tatuaje"

El tatuaje se ha analizado como herramienta de resistencia, reivindicación y empoderamiento. El régimen de Franco (1939-1975) implicó una poderosa política corporal que moldeó profundamente las experiencias corporales de las mujeres española…

¿Salud intercultural en Chile?

Este articulo explora la medicina indígena, enfocándose en el Pueblo Mapuche. Destacando la importancia de entenderla como distinta de la medicina tradicional. Abordando la salud intercultural, mediante el Programa Especial de Salud y el Con…

Gabriel García Márquez

El presente texto buscar dar cuenta de la experiencia de infancia en el Caribe colombiano en la primera mitad del siglo XX a través de la memoria de Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), nuestro premio Nobel de Literatura, quien reconoce la in…

Editorial Note

It gives me great pleasure to present a new issue of Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. This issue contains four peer-reviewed articles, an essay, and four research reports.

Producing Human Life or Protecting Wildlife?

A series of biodiversity conservation campaign since 1980s and the establishment of Siberut National Park on Siberut Island (West Sumatra, Indonesia) have seriously unsettled the relationship between the Mentawai and forest as well as between the Menta…

Justifying Meritocracy

The theoretical aim of this paper is to articulate a novel analytical framework that makes sense of our interlocutors’ apparently conflicting claims about the reality of meritocracy in China. The theoretical argument is rooted in ethnographic fieldwork…

Lectio Præcursoria

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…

Encounter

Anthropologists often talk about ‘encounters,’ but what do they actually mean? This term—‘encounter’—shows up everywhere across ethnographic writing and practice, but is itself rarely defined or discussed. ‘Ethnographies of encounters,’ too, are increa…

Lectio praecursoria

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…

Lectio præcursoria

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…

Lectio praecursoria

A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…