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Anthropos

Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde
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“Anthropos” – the International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics, has been edited by Anthropos Institute (since 1962 in Sankt Augustin) since 1906 and (in recent years) published biannually. Originally relying on ethnographic contributions of Roman Catholic missionaries, the review evolved and today it is one of the most important anthropological reviews worldwide. It publishes articles on cultural as well as linguistic subjects in several languages, focusing on Cultural Anthropology, (Post-)Colonial Studies, Study of Religion and Linguistics.

For information on the editorial office, author guidelines and the peer review process of Anthropos please go to www.anthropos.nomos.de. 

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0257-9774
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2942-3139
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Nomos, Baden-Baden
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Englisch
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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....
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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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