Volume 117 (2022), Edition 2

Anthropologists have claimed that no society known historically, and no contemporary society for which we have ethnographic information, has lacked a system of religious beliefs. But not all scholars have agreed with this claim of universality, and...

The article analyses the permanent exhibition of the Missiemuseum of the Societas Verbi Divini (SVD) in Steyl, which has remained largely unchanged since 1931, thus allowing a unique examination of historical exhibition practices. Going beyond...

The purpose of this article is to document the vocabulary, practices, and ancestral knowledge of Tapiete women in relation to reproductive processes (menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum). The research attempts to understand aspects...

Based on an ethnographic case study, we describe the family experiences and the access to formal education of 30 Paraguayan women to show how these factors influence their labor insertion at the Paraná Tri-Border Area. We will start by reviewing...

The article addresses the issue of pregnancy termination in the Tzotzil and Tzeltal communities of the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The analysis of norms, practices and meanings related to pregnancy termination is based on the compilation of...

The outburst of antiracist protests in the USA in 2020 demonstrates how deeply this society’s present-day problems are rooted in its past. From this perspective, a study of the cultural memory of the time of the Civil War and the abolition of...

This article paves the way for a possible theorization of business creation in a context characterized by witchcraft. Indeed, this article proposes a construction of the conceptual whole that underpins representations of the association between...

Focusing on monuments, their purpose, and their relationship with the populations, this text highlights some aspects of Cameroon’s history that were factors in the process of creation of monuments. The author provides a classification of the...

Drawing on corpora from West Africa and Iceland, the article presents a fieldwork-based comparative exploration of ‘things that place names do’. Treating toponyms as performative elements of culture, we have observed striking parallels as well...

There are many different views on what role language plays in ethnic identification. This article is focused on the given issue based on the sample of the Cuban minority living in Slovakia. The topic is analyzed on a sample of Cubans living in the...

This article foregrounds an unofficial, “dark” strand of shamanic revival, which lies at the interstices of local inspirational religion and the state’s law in a Siberian periphery. Focusing on consultations concerned with ritual healing and...

As an important branch of applied anthropology, business anthropology has developed well in China in the recent past. This has attracted the attention of not only the academic society but also of industrial and commercial circles. This article...

Ultimate value is rarely fully realized as people have to maintain a balance between values in their everyday life. Robbins (2015) notes, however, that it may be perfectly exemplified through ritual. In this paper, I want to show that the perfect...