Anthropos is the international journal of anthropology and linguistics, founded in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt, missonary and member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). Its main purpose is the study of human societies in their cultural dimension. In honor of Wilhelm Schmidt‘s legacy, the cultivation of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, and religious studies remain an essential component oft he Anthropos Institute – the organizational carrier of the journal.
This work discloses a fifty-page manuscript containing a vocabulary of the extinct Haush language, documented by Martin Gusinde during his first trip to Tierra del Fuego (1918–1919). The article presents a first analysis of the document, in which...
Covid-19 has exacerbated racial discrimination and the exclusion of minorities around the globe. In particular, Chinese migrant communities found themselves confronted with racist attacks that forced them to react against their usual convictions....
The Siekopái ritual specialists (yajé unkukë), through the consumption of yajé, gain access to the invisible world, where they experience the reception of various gifts. It is a vital experience that, in many cases, exceeds both their own...
Research on the characteristics of the archaeological complex of the upper Upano river basin (Morona Santiago Province, Ecuadorian Amazon) has emphasized a priori the concept of “city,” leading to the assumption of an apocalyptic collapse of the...
Gender inequality is a social reality observed today in Manggarai, Eastern Indonesia. Multiple studies have suggested that patriarchy is the root cause of such inequality. These studies also determined that the patriarchal system – dominative,...
The present article aims to describe the Meriah ritual of the colonial times and the contemporary Kedu festival. First, it deals with the Meriah ritual, a human sacrifice which is believed to have taken place until the colonial government began to...
Presenting a historical ethnography of the supernatural landscape of two Icelandic farms in the early decades of the twentieth century, this article aims to contribute to ongoing debates about how “belief” is created and reinforced, specifically...
In the anthropological literature there are few cases of an ethnographic analysis of the phenomenon of death in transnational contexts, despite the fact that several anthropological empirical investigations have given attention to death in this...
In the widest sense, assisted reproduction is a manifestation of the redefinition of relations between nature, culture, science, technology, and society. More specifically, it has destabilized the naturalistic model of conception and the natural...
Ethical non-monogamy (ENM), an umbrella term for several alternative forms of relationships, is apparently of increasing interest to many people. This study tries to find out characteristics of ENM-individuals and to understand their motivations and...
Carol Delaney has repeatedly argued that a “monogenic” theory of procreation, whereby women are held to be mere receptacles of semen in coitus, the fetus being attributed solely to the male contribution, is the sole theory of reproduction in the...
The anthropological approach to the study of humankind is a well-established perspective in itself and yet one would find debates around the scientific nature of the discipline brewing every now and then, either at the global level or in the...