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Unravelling future in displacement: Legality as an existential condition History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Veronica Ferreri
In January 2015, Lebanon introduced a visa regime for Syrians, provoking havoc and panic among those already displaced in the country as a result of the war in Syria. This paper examines Syrians’ a...
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Questions of conscience in a confessional state: From ‘Freedom of conscience’ to ‘Objections of conscience’ in Malta History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Jean Paul Baldacchino
While there is an ample body of literature in the anthropology of moralities there is a surprising dearth of research on conscience per se. In Malta over the last ten years there has been a prolife...
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Conversations about ‘History’ History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Michael Lambek
Published in History and Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘A laboratory habit of mind’: Exhibit making and nineteenth century experimental anthropology at the United States National Museum History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Gwyneira Isaac
Published in History and Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A book forum on Scott Maclochlainn The copy generic (University of Chicago Press, 2022) History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Charles H. P. Zuckerman, Naveeda Khan, Swayam Bagaria, Ethiraj Dattatreyan, Matthew Engelke, Ilana Gershorn, Janet McIntosh, Alyssa Paredes, Gustav Peebles, Scott MacLochlinn
Published in History and Anthropology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Temporalities, anachronism and politics in stories of the Conquest of the Americas History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Peter Wade
Focusing on humorous cartoons about the Conquest published between 1945 and 1970 in an Argentinian popular comic magazine and on a Colombian educational and politically militant comic-book narrativ...
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Present/absent futures: waiting in the aftermath of a defeated revolution History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Charlotte Al-Khalili
This article explores time and temporality in the wake of the defeat of the Syrian 2011 revolution. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Syrian revolutionaries in Gaziantep, Turkey; it argues that...
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Syrian futures: Percolation, temporality and historical experience in the plural History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Andreas Bandak
A key ambition of this introduction is to bring the question of temporality to the centre of anthropological engagements with Syria and the diverse legacies of the past thirteen years of upheaval. ...
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Material historicity: Rethinking objects through the mis/recognition of a Catholic saint History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Alanna Cant
Based on ethnographic research in Santa Cruz Mixtepec, Mexico, this article investigates a local debate about the identity of a historic statue of a saint. It shows that historical and object biogr...
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Hyper-familiarity in profound uncertainty: how Syrian youth in Jordan work towards non-existent futures History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Birgitte Stampe Holst, Anders Hastrup
Through an ethnographic and interview-based account of the visions Syrian youth in Amman, Jordan, hold of and for the future, this article explores the coexistence of the perception that ‘there is ...
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Time against race: Aesthetic ‘merit’ and histories worth preserving on an American frontier History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Jennifer Cearns
This article examines the appetite for historic preservation in Miami within broader colonialist and moralising discourses of ‘civilising’ the wilderness and of aesthetic ‘merit’ that go back to th...
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To the future guests of Lesvos: Hospitality and history among Syrian refugees in Greece History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Maria Kastrinou, Hannah Knoerk
Syrian refugees in 2015 in Greece found themselves suspended between a tragedy they had just escaped, and the hope of safety in Europe. While their clothes were still wet from the sea, they were lo...
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Uncertain futures: Memory, performance and temporality among Syrian Sufis History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Paulo G. Pinto
This article analyzes how two Sufi communities in Aleppo which were deeply impacted by revolution and war in Syria were able to recreate themselves in new contexts, producing new temporalities and ...
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From uncanny to sensible pasts: Temporal reorderings in Syrian documentaries History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Christine Crone, Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
While the physical battle over Syria has receded, a critical battle that remains is the battle of the narrative. This battle is at once highly public and political, while it also intervenes in deep...
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On the nature of tradition: The Japanese notion of furusato and a historical quest for place History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Ricardo Santos Alexandre
The notion of ‘tradition' still haunts anthropological discourse as something to be addressed with great scepticism and suspicion. Anthropologists are usually among the first to highlight the suppo...
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Documents, education, and aesthetics: Exploring processes of subjectification among community health workers in Peru History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Kaja Skoftedalen
This article examines the processes of subjectification involving community health workers in the Peruvian Andes. Community health worker programmes keep education at the core, striving to provide ...
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Generative exhaustions: Thresholds of long-term uncertainty and stink bug infestation in Georgia’s contested borderland History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Görkem Aydemir-Kundakcı
Displaced Georgians from the Gali region of the de facto Georgia–Abkhazia borderland have constructed mobile lives by navigating a decades-long conflict and its turbulent landscapes. For the people...
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Practising (for) revolution: street mobilizations in Athens as political performatives History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Maria Kenti Kranidioti
The controversial district of Exarcheia in Athens has a long and turbulent history shaped by dissidence, persecution and marginalization that can be traced back to the Greek Civil war of 1946–1949....
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Of sensory infractions and anthropomorphism across Asian urban histories History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Kelvin E. Y. Low
The paper explores how urban dwellers lived in Asian cities between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and what cultural and/or everyday practices and routines they engaged in. What happens wh...
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Film cultures of conquest and domesticity: The family films of Silvino Santos and Agesilau de Araújo (1927-1929) History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Sofia Sampaio
The article analyses Silvino Santos’s Filmogramas, a collection of hitherto neglected domestic films the Portuguese-Brazilian filmmaker (1886-1970) made in the late 1920s while accompanying his emp...
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Excremental mobilities and minimal technopolitics: Toilets, race, and expulsion in Tanzania History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Joshua Grace
Centreing an everyday form of human expulsion – defecation – this article demonstrates that toilets produced colonial racial orders in colonial Tanzania through the different excremental mobilities...
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Cocoa and compliance: How exemptions made mass expulsion in Ghana History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Nana Osei Quarshie
‘Mass expulsion’ was rarely so ‘mass’ in its application. It was often enforced through exceptions as much as the rule, through the ad-hoc actions of individual citizens and migrants, as much as by...
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The travelled landscape of Benjamin Harrison and the imagined eolithic world of the Kentish Weald History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Angela Muthana, Roy Ellen
This paper seeks to show the relationship between the travelled landscape of the late nineteenth century Kentish Weald, the survey and collecting expeditions of Benjamin Harrison and his associates...
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Charting a Malay-Islamic past: An emerging transnational geography of meaning and the consolidation of an exclusivist identity in Malaysia History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Sumit K. Mandal
This article examines an emerging historical narrative that invokes an exclusivist Malay-Islamic identity in Malaysia through a sacred geography centred on Aceh in Indonesia. The examination is loc...
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Beyond Idi Amin: urban militarization, Africanization and materiality in Kampalans’ experiences of expulsion History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Benjamin Twagira
This article explores the role that material things, such as space, buildings, and all kinds of commodities, played in how Kampalans experienced the expulsion of the Asians under Idi Amin in early ...
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Expulsions: Knowledge, temporality, and materiality in Africa History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Tasha Rijke-Epstein, Edgar Taylor
Expulsions remake knowledge and experience of time, space and the body. However, they have largely been studied and theorized through histories of Europe or within contemporary global racial capita...
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‘A twenty-four hour job’. Hildred and Clifford Geertz’s first foray into the field and the scholarly persona of the ethnographer History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Matteo Bortolini
The paper details how, during the 'Modjokuto Project' of 1952–1954, Hildred and Clifford Geertz embodied in their decisions and actions the ‘Malinowskian palimpsest’ of the lonely ethnographer, thu...
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St Adalbert as a stranger-king: The heroization and estrangement of a holy man in the Middle Ages History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Wojtek Jezierski
There was no holy king in Poland during the Middle Ages. Although the Piast polity belonged to the North-eastern European periphery (East-Central Europe and Scandinavia), where essentially all post...
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Thriving in modernity: Crisis and mimesis in the life-experiences of Padre Pio and Ernesto De Martino History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Rosario Forlenza
This article examines the life experience of and the enduring devotion for Padre Pio (1887–1968) – a Capuchin friar and the most popular saint of twenty-first century Catholicism – through the work...
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An archaeology of interruption: Expulsion and hiatus in Southern Africa’s long past History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Rachel King
The long career of hiatus – as a heuristic and archaeological reality – in southern Africa’s past demonstrates how episodes of interruption (which differs from rupture) offer insight into expulsion...
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Expelled from public memory: Cato Manor and the segregation of memory in South Africa History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Thomas Blom Hansen
Expulsions of populations from ancestral land were a cornerstone of apartheid rule and urban planning. This article explores the multiple layers of expulsions of both African and Indian populations...
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The rise and demise of Ashkenazi cuisine in Israel/Palestine: The marginalization of the foodways of a hegemonic ethnicity History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Rafi Grosglik, Nir Avieli
Food plays a central role in the construction of national and ethnic identities. This article examines the marginalization of Ashkenazi (Jews of European descent) cuisine in Israel/Palestine, despi...
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Field archaeology and foreign assistance during the decade of development in Iran and Turkey History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Kyle Olson, Christina Luke
During the 1960s, the scope of field archaeology in the Middle East transformed dramatically, driven by foreign aid funded dam-led regional development projects. The paradigm of river-basin salvage...
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Medicinal rule and the interdependent duality of power between ntemi (chief) and ngole (queen): A historical ethnographic work on Sukuma chiefdom Busiya History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Paulien Broens
By employing a historical ethnographic method in approaching Sukuma chiefdoms as spaces of medicinal rule, this article argues that the basis of the functioning and the prevalent well-being of thes...
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Meditation matters: The politics and networks of yoga and spiritual reform between Indonesia, India and the West, 1900s–1970s History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Marieke Bloembergen
Starting from sites of yogic and Buddhist learning connecting Indonesia and India this article explores the politics, practices, transformation, dissemination and uses of knowledge on yoga and medi...
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(Un)Earthing violence: Ecologies of remembering, forgetting and reckoning History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Eray Çaylı, Erol Sağlam
This article and the special issue it introduces contribute to existing debates on forgetting, remembering, and reckoning with past violence by bringing them up to date with violence's materially a...
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Nationalism and knowledge: Othering and the disciplin(e)ing of anthropology in India History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Irfan Ahmad
This essay is about how Indian anthropology-sociology has historically theorized Islam and Muslims. In it, I demonstrate how anthropologists’ discourse on Islam and the majoritarian Hindu discourse...
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Austria’s post-colonial present: Missing memorialization of colonial violence History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Sophie Schasiepen
This article situates Austria in wider discussions around the repercussions of colonial violence on a global scale. It focusses on the ways in which anthropological disciplines fashioned specific i...
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Finding Zion: Spectral intimacy and state indeterminacy at an erased American cemetery History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Michael Vine
In 2018, a previously erased African American cemetery was dramatically rediscovered in Tampa, Florida. The rediscovery was accompanied by multiple acts of remembrance: archaeologists set about con...
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Remembering through possessed treasures? Landscapes and memories of societal violence in contemporary Turkey History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-03 Erol Sağlam
May narratives of treasures be interrelated to remembrances of past societal violence? Attending to imaginations of and hunts for treasures across seemingly natural interfaces, this article explore...
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Introduction. Unsettling encounters: Sites, knowledge exchange, and the making of religion in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Marieke Bloembergen, David Kloos
This article introduces a special issue on practices of religious and scholarly knowledge exchange in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. In both regions, the makings of religion have been informed b...
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African archives in the Caribbean: the Yoruba tradition, cultural experts, and the unmaking of religious knowledge in twentieth-century Trinidad History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Dianne M. Stewart
Attending to how religious custodians, colonial agents, and scholars have exchanged knowledge across sites in Africa and the Caribbean during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article ra...
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Graduate attributes, state policy, and Islamic preaching in Indonesia History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Julian Millie
The development of state institutions for the management and administration of Islam has enriched the range of Islamic authorities in Indonesia, with distinctive effects for public Islam. The artic...
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Siting Islamic feminism: The Indonesian Congress of Women Islamic Scholars and the challenge of challenging patriarchal authority History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 David Kloos, Nor Ismah
This article takes the first ever Indonesian Congress of Women Islamic Scholars (Kongres Ulama Perempuan Indonesia, KUPI), and its methodology for formulating religious opinions, as an entry point ...
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Walls of resistance: Underground memories and political violence in Colombia History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Patrick Naef
In this article, I examine ‘underground memories’ to demonstrate how they serve as resources for resistance in the margins of Colombia. I focus on their relations with the urban fabric, looking at ...
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No place like home for metalworkers: Household-based metal production at Early Bronze Age Çukuriçi Höyük and beyond History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Sabina Cveček
This article questions the cross-cultural ethnographic insight of metalworking as a male craft, commonly performed in male spaces (workshops) away from female members of society, through the analys...
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The land of forgetting: silence and resonance in Chile’s histories of political violence History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Diana Espírito Santo
In this paper I explore two approaches to what lies ‘unearthed’ in Chile’s recent violent histories. In the first instance, I explore the effort towards the obfuscation or intertitialization of kno...
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On stone tools and the ‘prehistoric’: The value of Tasmanian Aboriginality at the Smithsonian History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Christopher D. Berk
ABSTRACT This article examines the meaning of Indigenous objects in cultural institutions. The 2019 research at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History out of which it emerged started with the one Tasmanian Aboriginal item in the online database, a single stone tool, and ended with the more than 230 Tasmanian stone implements in the collection. In approaching the ‘museum as method’ (Thomas
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Gaming empire: Confidence tricksters and the reinvention of self in the 1930s History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 David Kneas
ABSTRACT Cyril von Baumann was an imposter. Throughout the 1920s, he pretended to be a medical doctor in the United States. As his deception was increasingly uncovered, Baumann reinvented himself as a ‘noted explorer’ of South America. Returning to the U.S. from various expeditions in the 1930s, Baumann plied the national media with fantastic tales of adventure and discovery. This paper explores Baumann’s
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Settling land, unsettling people: Living with and contesting land, social change and grand schemes in rural central Jordan History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Frederick Wojnarowski
ABSTRACT In this article I consider how changing legal and social conceptions of land usage and ownership in rural central Jordan offer ethnographic purchase on broad questions of historical change and political economy. Yet equally, I show how this topic shows the limitations of such broad questions, and how reducing local processes into them can obscure historically contingent but enduring practices
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Public monuments, palliative solutions? Political geographies of memory in Goa, India History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Prakruti Ramesh
ABSTRACT This article examines some of the compromises that emerge in the process of converting colonial-era material culture into ‘heritage’ claiming to foreground a critical postcolonial consciousness. Prompted by recent controversies about statuary celebrating figures who engaged in colonial exploitation and slavery, I look at how frictions inherited from the colonial period are projected onto colonialism’s
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From peasant to housewife. Feminine roles and agriculturaltraining in Franco's Spain History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Ana Cabana Iglesia, Elena Freire Paz, Tamara López Fernández
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to outline the ideal that the Franco dictatorship pursued for the case of rural women and analyze its evolution during the almost forty years that the dictatorship lasted. For this purpose, we have analyzed the official curricula of the female agrarian training schools, where the women who were to be ‘models’ for the peasant women were trained. The press and reports
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Beyond state absence - clientelised statehood in a Colombian conflict region History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Philipp Naucke
ABSTRACT This article is an anthropological contribution to the historiography of the rural township of San José de Apartadó and the region of Urabá. The aim is to consider further concepts of statehood in Colombian conflict regions. Based on anthropological fieldwork and a critical rereading of historical literature, I reconstruct local and regional history from the perspective of the Urabá region
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Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Geoffrey F. Hughes
Wary of the ‘denial of coevalness’ associated with earlier anthropology, anthropologists at the turn of the millennium increasingly emphasized how sharing not just space but also time is constituti...
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Observing Adam’s children: Missionary ethnographers and the discovery of a new world of childhood History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Ran Segev
ABSTRACT One of the striking elements in proto-ethnographic literature is the attention given by colonial writers to child-rearing practices around the world. This article revisits the early modern “discovery of childhood” by analyzing case studies in which religious writers documented the experience of growing up in non-European societies. Taking examples from Spanish America and North Africa, I argue
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‘In and out of time’: Towards an anthropology of the mundane experiences of modern and capitalist time History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Danaé Leitenberg
ABSTRACT The Swiss Alps have been a tourist destination for the past two centuries, promising guests extraordinary holiday experiences and providing local populations with a means of subsistence. Based on field research in a Swiss German-speaking touristic village, this article discusses the mundane experiences of capitalist time in a wealthy yet uncertain context. By analyzing the temporal debates
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‘Ostracized by law’: The sociopolitical and juridical construction of the ‘criminal tribe’ in Colonial India History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Rahul Ashok Kamble, Ritesh Kumar, Arnab Roy Chowdhury
ABSTRACT The British enacted the Criminal Tribes Act in 1871 to control Indian society after the rebellion against colonial rule in 1857. By means of the Act, the British depicted entire communities and groups as hereditary criminals – without any substantive legal or incriminating evidence – using the concept of race, used in anthropology and anthropometry, and of caste. They termed the groups ‘tribes’
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Messy episodes: Indigenous countersigns in Ludwig Choris’s diary and ethnographic portraits of Aleut, Kamchadal and Chukchi (1822) History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Marie-Theres Federhofer
ABSTRACT Examining Ludwig York Choris’s diary, which was first published in 1999, and representations of Aleut, Kamchadal, and Chukchi people in his Voyage pittoresque autour du monde (Paris 1822), my article discusses methods of aesthetic and scientific visualization in an early nineteenth-century research expedition. The album was the outcome of Choris’s participation in the Russian circumnavigation
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Creating community: Burials, cooperation and exclusion in the Amhara eder (iddir) History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Svein Ege
ABSTRACT The eder, Ethiopian funeral association, has commonly been seen as a voluntary, mutual-aid association well suited for various development activities. I argue that the eder is of a different order, based on its power to ostracize. The local community is criss-crossed by individually managed relations of reciprocity, while the eder brought new elements of collective action. In this article
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From plantations to ghettos: The longue durée of Mauritius’s former slave population History and Anthropology (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Leo Couacaud
ABSTRACT Various uses have been made of Fernand Braudel’s concept of the longue durée. But the concept does not appear to have ever been used to explain how former African slave populations have become ghettoized. In this paper, I propose to use the concept of the longue durée to make sense of the manner in which a former African slave population in the southwest region of Mauritius has become ghettoized