Anthropos

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Volume 114 (2019), Edition 2

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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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ISSN-Print: 0257-9774
ISSN-Online: 2942-3139
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
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The ceremony of “Pohxuhew,” celebrated in Jacaltenango and thus thanking for the first harvest of beans, involves elaboration, playing, and subsequent breaking of clay flutes, which only briefly has been mentioned by La Farge and Byers (1931)....

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The German ethnologist Curt Unckel Nimuendajú (1883-1945), who had immigrated to Brazil in 1903, moved his permanent residence to Belém in 1913, where he established professional contacts with the Goeldi Museum. Between 1915 and 1919, he survived...

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This article contains a contextualized translation of the first part of the diary written by Fr. Martín Gusinde SVD, a German missionary and ethnographer, during his third trip to Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922). As such, it forms a part of the series...

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Indigenous religious organizations in southern Togo represent organized means of professionalizing and legitimating indigenous religious specialists that provide ritual services such as healing to congregations and communities. Drawing upon...

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This study analyzes the factors of installation of villages and encampments around the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (DRC) and the impact of this issue on its management. Among the factors that determine this phenomenon, the study revealed those of a...

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The aim of the article is to present how Rāmacharaka’s vision of yoga fits with the initial stage of yoga adaptation in Poland. The focus lays on the fact how elements of Rāmacharaka’s yoga were used by Wincenty Lutosławski in his system of...

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Ethnography and historical disciplines report on different kinds of folk or premodern societies’ ideas and superstitions regarding shadows that are not to find among the collective representations of modern, industrial societies. Shadows were seen...

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This article analyzes the biosocial origins of gossip by pointing to its significant social and evolutionary functions. Along with the problems of defining it, the article deals with gossip’s bad reputation and analyzes sociocultural functions of...

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Using the example of the “Missions-ethnographis⁠che Museum” in St Gabriel (Mödling, today Maria Enzersdorf, near Vienna) as a case study, this article looks at the phenomenon of European mission museums and argues that the museum in St...

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This article discusses how the politics of morality in the early 20th-century South India, in its gendered nation-building exercise, reified a distinction between sacred/profane by using devadasis’ bodies as material objects in the public sphere....

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La celebración del “Pohxuhew” en Jacaltenango, Guatemala

An Episode from the Beginnings of Anthropology in the Amazon

Diario del tercer viaje de Martín Gusinde a Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922)

The Legitimation and Professionalization of Ritual Service in South Togo

Marrying the “Bush Spirits-Parents”

Gestion de la Réserve de Biosphère de Yangambi en République Démocratique du Congo à l’épreuve des dynamiques d’installation des villages et campements (1939–2015)

The Many Dimensions of a Kuni Folktale

From Rāmacharaka’s “Standard of the Normal Man” to Lutosławski’s Strategy of National Revival

Nuer Sociality and Current Kinship Controversy

Ghosts or Absence of Light? The Understanding of Shadows

Small Talk Grooming

Framing the Debate

Tracing the Biographies of Objects and Lives

The “Missions-ethnographische Museum” of St Gabriel as an Example for European Mission Museums

Colonial Material Collections and Representations of Devadasi Bodies in the Public Sphere in the Early 20th-Century South India

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