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Travellerscapes : tourism research and transnational anthropology ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main [PDF]
Even though tourism has been recognised as an important field for transnational research today, there are few attempts to place tourism in the context of transnational theories or to think about transnationalism from the perspective of tourists.
Binder, Jana
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Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Introduction to Medical Anthropology from the Region of former Yugoslavia
The special issue before you is a product of decades of fragmented yet deeply collaborative work among scholars across the ex-Yugoslav space, the Balkans, and beyond. The texts gathered here represent only a small glimpse into the exciting, diverse, and
Uršula Lipovec Čebron +2 more
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Twenty-First-Century Reinvention of Carnival Rituals in Paris and Cherbourg
Carnival as a research object has been studied from a multiplicity of perspectives: folklore studies, European ethnology, social and cultural anthropology, history, sociology, etc.
Monika Salzbrunn
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Abstract In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil ...
Max Jack
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‘Life circle’ of anthropology: from positivist ambitions to the recognition of multiparadigmality
The article offers a brief historical overview of anthropology as a discipline consisting of several logically independent research traditions, and the evolutionary ethnology seems to be the first one chronologically. The author considers the competition
A E Kapishin
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On 23 May 2025, the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, hosted an international symposium entitled Hands-on Ethnographies: The Production and Meaning in (Contemporary) Handicrafts.
Tajda Jerkič
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Abstract This commentary examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes scholarly authorship through Fredrik Barth's figures of the guru and the conjurer. The guru instructs within moral and scholarly frameworks, while the conjurer mystifies through spectacle.
Jaap Timmer, Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Mission: Agnes C. L. Donohugh, early apostle for ethnography
In the spring of 1915, the Kennedy School of Missions at Hartford Theological Seminary, the leading graduate school for missionary training in the United States at this time, offered the first graduate-level course on ethnology ever to be taught in ...
Hartley, Benjamin L.
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The Concept of Culture in Critical Mathematics Education [PDF]
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of a chapter published in The Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://
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