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Volume 120 (2025), Edition 2
Anthropos- Journal:
- Anthropos
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- 2025
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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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- 2942-3139
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- Nomos, Baden-Baden
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In anthropology and related cultural sciences, it is generally agreed that there are no peoples without religion. The value of the term religion as a generic term covering all forms of relating to superhuman beings should be called into question,...
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Rappaport (1999) saw the relationship between religion and language as one of reciprocal causation. As symbolic communication, language is a prerequisite for the existence of religion. But language makes it possible to lie, which undermines the...
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This paper engages in a philosophical inquiry within the domain of mythology, focusing on the universality of dragons. While endorsing Robert Blust’s rainbow-serpent theory about the origin of dragons, it argues that this theory is insufficient to...
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The incentive for the creation of art in deep prehistory might have been experiencing anxiety. The function of human anxiety is important for timely noticing and dealing with threats and, therefore, has obvious advantages for survival. Moreover,...
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The originality of the Na society lies in two points. The first one, which has attracted most scholarly attention, is the absence of fathers and husbands: children live with their mothers and maternal uncles and are raised by them. The existence of...
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Ethnographic field notes from south-eastern China, taken in the period of vanishing imperial rule and the early republic, describe a lunar New Year custom in which village people assembled to form sides that started fighting, including pelting one...
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This article concerns the presentation of Chile in the manuscript of Caspar Schmalkalden (1643). The main purpose of my study is twofold: first – to analyze the content, that is, Schmalkalden’s description of Chilean landscapes, towns and...
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The objective of this article is to analyze linguistic attitudes of Chedugun speakers who transmit the language as L1 in the community of Butalelbún, VIII Region of Bio-Bío. The data were collected during four güxamkawün (meetings) that were...
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The character and forms of communication within any speech community are diverse, reflecting human activity spheres in distinctive ways. Focusing on the social aspects of communicative practices provides a deeper understanding of language from the...
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In this article, I reconstruct the history of two indigenous groups drawing on documents scattered across different archives, as well as on conversations with their descendants living today in the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina. In particular, I...
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The processes of building up the meaning of an island is established from countless narratives intertwined according to each observer and his approach tools. As it is a complex natural and cultural phenomenon that evokes an interpretive process so...
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Issues of race and memory in America are closely connected. Racial categories and racialized thinking are primarily integrated into the American culture through collective memory, and any conversation concerning race issues inevitably becomes a...
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Assimilation, as an imperial ideology, became the bedrock of France’s colonial policy in the wake of the 1789 Revolution. Its republican ideals filled the discourse of its supporters who engaged in self-congratulatory advertising of France’s...
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This article is about anthropological autography, which is defined as writing about oneself by oneself, with a view to understanding human beings and not necessarily social facts. The author differentiates autography from auto-ethnography and from...
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The article discusses the limits and possibilities of feminist ethnography with three central objectives. First, we address the relationship between scientific objectivity, androcentrism and the epistemological constitution of the relationship...
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