Of Ice and Meteorites
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 1Pages: 46-63
Imagining Himalayan Glacial Futures
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 1Pages: 80-95
Chasing Rotten Ice
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 1Pages: 64-79
Book Reviews
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 1Pages: 96-112
Retracted: Le PKK, vecteur d’émancipation des femmes kurdes de Turquie ?
Les médias et les travaux universitaires ont porté un intérêt accru aux combattantes kurdes depuis les années 2000 sans toujours s’appuyer sur des données primaires. Afin de comprendre si cet engagement coïncide avec un processus d’émancipation,…
Religion: Memory and Innovation
The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a summer school and conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in June 2023, on the theme of “Religion: Memory and Innovation”. The event was organized jointly by the Polin Institute for …
The Kalevala and Finland’s Atlantean Past
Nationalistic interpretations of history were prevalent in Finland until the Second World War. A unifying past for Finns was sought in antiquity, often influenced by interpretations of the Kalevala, regarded as the Finnish national epic. The Kalevala a…
Mapping the Memories of “Living on Light”
In this article a case study of the phenomenon of “living on light” is presented. The interlocutor “Eva” shares her memories from the period when she did not eat material food. Actor-network theory (ANT) is adopted to analyse the interview. This method…
“My soul must live with the colour”
The article focuses on the transformative potential of colours described by Rudolf Steiner. Steiner’s colour definitions are approached through the aesthetics of religion, investigating religion as a sensory and mediated practice. The goal is to clarif…
Contexts of Altar Flowers
Flowers are placed on the altar in many Christian churches. However, while many other items on the altar have given rise to a vast body of theological research, this is not the case with altar flowers. In this article the author makes a constructive co…
Suppressed, Adopted and Invented Memories
The Gospel of John reflects several layers of social memory and theological creativity concerning Jesus’s death. In the early material, there seems to be a suppressed awareness of Jesus’s fate and an unwillingness to unfold it in narrative form – somet…
The Retrieved Altar Cross of the Luther Church Helsinki
The topic of this article is religious materiality in a Finnish, Lutheran setting. Reflecting on the altar cross of the Luther Church Helsinki – and more specifically the elevated role the cross played in the re-opening of the church in 2016 – the arti…
The Innovation of a Master Wonder-worker in the Character of Simon Peter
Simon Peter undergoes a considerable development from his first introduction in the Gospel of Mark to later narratives, where he gains remarkable miraculous abilities. In Mark, he witnesses Jesus performing numerous miracles without himself being named…
“Take Our Land” : Fronts, Fraud, and Fake Farmers in a City-to-Come
Cultural Anthropology
Volumes: The Politics of Calculation in Contemporary Peruvian Amazonia
Cultural Anthropology
On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad
Cultural Anthropology
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential: Disability Therapeutics after Zika in Bahia, Brazil
Cultural Anthropology
No Stone Unturned
Cultural Anthropology
Energetic Value Estimates of Wild and Domesticated Food Items Consumed by Congolese BaYaka Foragers
We present a dataset that systematically estimates the energetic value of wild and domesticated food resources collected and consumed by Congolese BaYaka foragers. This dataset is unique in that it accounts for everyday practices of food processing…
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Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.39 No.2
Published: December 2023.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.39 No.2
Published: December 2023.
Divine Mandates and Political Realities: Exploring Power, Religion, and Transition in the Gambia
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article analyses the role of religious symbolism and religiosity during The Gambia’s autocracy (1994–2017) and its democratic transition (2017–2023). Former autocratic ruler, Yahya Jammeh, exploited religious symbo…
Decolonial Dilemmas: The Deception of a “Global Knowledge Commonwealth” and the Tragedian Entrapment of an African Scholar
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. There are multiple initiatives and efforts to grant African scholars “global visibility” – as part of the decolonisation agenda. These efforts have included aiding and enabling African scholars to publish in journals of…
‘When they’re lying, and they say you’re lying, then there’s no hope’: Asylum-seeking, trauma, and the abusive state
This article explores the story of Sanwar, who fled Bangladesh following persecution for his sexuality, and spent five years struggling for asylum in the UK. Analysing our conversations together with his asylum paperwork, I show how trauma was apprehen…