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.
The search for the Yeti has a long history. Several expeditions tried to encounter the elusive creature and to reveal the mystery; they all failed. The one who did succeed was Fr. Franz Xaver Eichinger, missionary of the Society of the Divine Word...
The article shares the findings based on participant observation conducted during the 11th World Zoroastrian Congress as well as on the analysis of other resources linked to contemporary Zoroastrians. Paying attention to the internal differentiation...
An ethnographic study on the Indian city of Banaras, one of the “oldest continuously inhabited cities” of the world, helps us experiencing it as a multivocal, multilayered network of heritage, pilgrimage, and tourism that is either continually...
The Q’ero of the Peruvian Andes are suffering rapid changes in their environment due to climate change. This article puts forward the necessity of a cosmopolitical ethnography in order to understand how a specific society deals with climate...
This article analyses the perception as well the symbolic and political articulation that the Pankararé community - an indigenous group from the northeast of Brazil - has and produces of their own territory. In the struggle for cultural and...
Letting the St. George of the medieval legend stand for the Self (G) and the Dragon (D) for the Other (human and nonhuman), then a priori their relationship lends itself to three main models: the first, g < D, where the Other gives all and receives...
In the last two years there has been a proliferation of political documentaries by African filmmakers focussing on ongoing social movements, social unrest, and different forms of resistance. Though there is a tradition of documentary film making,...
The study examines metaphorical expressions in Igbo. It specifically analyzes the linguistic and cultural values, and beliefs in Igbo metaphors. The study adopted the Key Informant Interview method in data collection as well as introspection as a...
This article re-examines complexities of Indigeneity in relation to whiteness, focusing on how residents of northwestern Adelaide manipulated the Indigenous-white boundary. Existing racial categories were displaced on both sides, while retaining the...
As a result of James Cook's first circumnavigation of the world, a copper engraving based on a drawing of Sydney Parkinson depicting two Aborigines in an attacking pose was created. In this short article it will be shown that the so-called...
The present article addresses two issues that have preoccupied anthropological research on Pentecostal churches: context-sensitivity and radical globalism/antinationalism. The article seeks to qualify this dominant image of Pentecostals in...
By following the anthropological theoretical account and multi-methodological approach, we analyze sustainability as a cultural model that reveals individual and group experience and notions of development in a changing post-transitional context....
The article addresses missionary ethnographic collections, with a particular focus on Polish museums. It aims at presenting works and profiles of those museums, considering their origin and underlying concepts. The author discusses the contemporary...
This article revolves around the question why people in “Western” cultures grow dreadlocks based on observations on social media and participant observation. It addresses the issue of cultural appropriation and moves on looking at certain...
Esteemed sinologist, renowned scholar and professor, prolific author and editor, director of the Monumenta Serica Institute (MSI), Fr. Roman Malek, passed away in his native Poland on November 29, 2019. Father Malek was born on Oct. 3, 1951 in...
Das Buch von Gabriela Jurosz-Landa ist das Ergebnis einer Verbindung der Autorin, einer unabhängigen Ethnologin, mit den Quiché-Maya Guatemalas, die sich über ein Vierteljahrhundert entwickelt hat und schließlich im April 2015 zu ihrer...
The book under review is an important collection of essays on anthropological traditions in Europe. The subject of "European Anthropologies" has been on the agenda at least since the special issue of Ethnos on “The Shaping of National...