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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]

open access: yes, 2004
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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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to Medical Anthropology from the Region of former Yugoslavia

open access: yesSvetovi
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

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2020
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
doaj   +1 more source

On account of doomsday

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 159-170, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

‘Life circle’ of anthropology: from positivist ambitions to the recognition of multiparadigmality

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2014
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
doaj  

A Report on the International Symposium Hands-on Ethnographies: The Production and Meaning of (Contemporary) Handicrafts 2025

open access: yesSvetovi
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
doaj   +1 more source

AI as guru or conjurer?

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 136-141, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Mission: Agnes C. L. Donohugh, early apostle for ethnography

open access: yes, 2017
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]

open access: yes, 2019
© 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://
A Pais   +17 more
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