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 question is whether it is possible to include in the same category purely unilineal societies that bring an incoming husband only exceptionally and reluctantly, when there are only daughters, and those that allow free choice of heir. Of course,...
The purpose of the present study is to bridge ontological pluralism which regards the native’s discourse as a clue for philosophical speculation and a naturalistic approach which tries to connect anthropology to the natural sciences, and to...
This article looks at some cases of legal contestation in three African countries (Mali, Senegal, and Nigeria) where Muslim religious authorities/institutions brought challenges to constitutional-legislative proposals in the national arena, seen by...
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young dissidents and affiliates to opposition networks in Cairo after the 2011 revolution, this article shows the relationship of multiple influence factors involved in coping. It documents the conflicts of...
This article examines how laws (kalaka), the institution of the mediator, and a moral and social code (kundude) contribute, through a common ethics, to maintaining social cohesion in Tubu Teda society. It shows that the analytical concept of...
“Our aim is to create a climate of peace and freedom in our towns and villages. This goes against the birth of a jihadist movement that advocates the obligation to respect another form of Islam. We say no to this and we want our parents who reside...
The article discusses the practices of urban households to accept children from rural relatives in two cities participating in striving national economies in Kumasi, Ghana, and Gaborone, Botswana. With reference to gender studies the article takes...
Memories of the so-called Arab slave trade are quite vivid in Tanzania. Those Tanzanians whose ancestors were enslaved or belonged to communities affected by the slave trade, as well as carriers of the oral history still tell about it. We present...
In numerous publications about Central Africa one can find more or less precise information about “Lake Aquilunda.” The lake was first recorded on the map published in the 17th-century work by Pigafetta and Lopez titled “Relatione del reame...
Muslim reaction to Western education in India divided the country into two, a few welcoming it by opening a Western-based educational institute whereas others rejected it by founding a Muslim seminary. However, there was a middle way that was...
By applying the concept of a multicultural curriculum and approaches to it as advocated by James Banks, this paper critically analyses the presence and absence of a multicultural curriculum in Indian text books after NCF 2005 through the case study...
A communication from 1868 tells us that in the eastern Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu it was common for people to cremate their dead. Being a rather unusual practice in a Chinese environment, this particular custom is discussed here from...
Found in many parts of insular Southeast Asia and the adjacent mainland, a widespread complex of taboos concerns actions that are believed to result in a disastrous storm and, sometimes, petrification of offenders. The most typical offenses involve...
Narratives and beliefs from insular Southeast Asia depict the double birth of a child and a reptile: snake, monitor lizard, or crocodile. This article is the first systematic attempt to look at the reptile-twin phenomenon across the whole region....
Como hemos visto en la primera parte de este estudio (Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz 2023, en Anthropos 118/1), entre sus textos en lenguas indígenas, la Biblioteca Británica tiene dos volúmenes de manuscritos del Nuevo Testamento (NT) en...
Drawing on the definition of the communicative function of the letters written in Tupi by the Potiguara Indians in 1645 as an offer of surrender, the purpose of Pthis work is to analyze such documentation regarding it as a space for negotiation...
El artículo introduce y contextualiza la publicación y traducción de una parte del diario o bitácora del tercer viaje de Martin Gusinde a Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922). El texto forma parte de una serie de publicaciones (Palma 2018a, 2018b, 2019,...