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Volume 121 (2026), Issue 1
Anthropos- Journal:
- Anthropos
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- 2026
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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.
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- 0257-9774
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- 2942-3139
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- Nomos, Baden-Baden
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- English
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Artificial general intelligence, whether in the form of chatbots, robots, or biohybrid entities, will transform human life and the lives of other entities with which it interacts daily, challenging cultural boundaries ontologically. While many...
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Throughout the last seven decades the First Nations of the Northwest Coast, Canada, have been involved in an art-driven process of identity re-definition and socio-cultural transformation. Following the artistic revival of the 1970s, many other...
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Missionary texts written in the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica contain important information regarding the encounter of the Hispano-Christian culture and the local indigenous cultures in colonial times. Among these documents, confessionals...
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In the language of the traditional inhabitants of these lands, itaipú means “stone that rings, stone that sings.” For the Avá Guaraní settlements that disappeared under the waters of Lake Itaipú, and also for the communities that absorbed...
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The estate of the German captain and trader Otto Kessler, who lived on the Marshall Islands from 1886 and often visited the neighboring Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati), contains several books in the Gilbertese language. In addition to dictionaries...
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Faced with the general reluctance to consider the political dimension of ritual, we propose here an unprecedented village ethnographic description of Javanese ritual initiation in hamlets of the Gunung Kidul region. This initiation actively...
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Although references to cows, milk, curd and clarified butter, are abundant in ancient Khmer epigraphy, OECD/FAO records show no carryover into the contemporary Cambodian diet, where dairy consumption is extremely low. This paper explores various...
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Widely regarded as the most lethal of all the big cats, the Royal Bengal tiger of the Sundarbans kills more humans than any other tiger in the world. The Sundarbans is the only mangrove forest in the world to have tigers and covers southern areas of...
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The aim of this article is to provide an overview of work of Christian missionaries in the Tamil territory of India, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, with a special emphasis on their linguistic research. The scope is limited to grammars composed...
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Death is the cessation of vital bodily functions in an organism. The precise definition of death and the exact time of transition from life to death is different according to culture, religion, and beliefs. To the Kukis, thi means death and Mithi...
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Food is not just limited in its scope as an essential requirement of human survival. Instead, it is a cultural constraint. The origin of different food cultures is related to the culture and environment niche of that particular society. The...
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The BBBP scheme failed to recognize the real cause of the perpetuation of gender discrimination. The quantitative indices targeted by this scheme can be considered as symptoms rather than causes. The real cause of gender discrimination and gender...
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The process of Islamization in various regions of Africa often leads to the transformation of customary religious beliefs. Among the Vai people, this process shares similarities with movements in other regions but also has unique characteristics....
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Religion and information communication technology (ICT) are pervading phenomena in contemporary society, including Nigeria. ICT has served as a venue for the display and interactions of diverse religious practices (George 2006). The history of...
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This article examines the practice of surrogacy, with a particular focus on the commodification of reproductive labor. Employing the critique of the political economy framework, the author analyzes transnational commercial surrogacy and its...
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The recent reissue of "Outlines of a Nuer Grammar" (Father J. P. Crazzolara) and "Nuer–English Dictionary" (Father J. Kiggen) by South Sudan Cultural Productions, LLC, restores to active circulation two foundational resources for the study of the...
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