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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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Artificial general intelligence, whether in the form of chatbots, robots, or biohybrid entities, will transform human life and the lives of other entities with which it interacts daily, challenging cultural boundaries ontologically. While many...
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Throughout the last seven decades the First Nations of the Northwest Coast, Canada, have been involved in an art-driven process of identity re-definition and socio-cultural transformation. Following the artistic revival of the 1970s, many other...
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Missionary texts written in the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica contain important information regarding the encounter of the Hispano-Christian culture and the local indigenous cultures in colonial times. Among these documents, confessionals...
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In the language of the traditional inhabitants of these lands, itaipú means “stone that rings, stone that sings.” For the Avá Guaraní settlements that disappeared under the waters of Lake Itaipú, and also for the communities that absorbed...
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The estate of the German captain and trader Otto Kessler, who lived on the Marshall Islands from 1886 and often visited the neighboring Gilbert Islands (now Kiribati), contains several books in the Gilbertese language. In addition to dictionaries...
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Faced with the general reluctance to consider the political dimension of ritual, we propose here an unprecedented village ethnographic description of Javanese ritual initiation in hamlets of the Gunung Kidul region. This initiation actively...
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Although references to cows, milk, curd and clarified butter, are abundant in ancient Khmer epigraphy, OECD/FAO records show no carryover into the contemporary Cambodian diet, where dairy consumption is extremely low. This paper explores various...
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Widely regarded as the most lethal of all the big cats, the Royal Bengal tiger of the Sundarbans kills more humans than any other tiger in the world. The Sundarbans is the only mangrove forest in the world to have tigers and covers southern areas of...
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The aim of this article is to provide an overview of work of Christian missionaries in the Tamil territory of India, from the 17th to the 19th centuries, with a special emphasis on their linguistic research. The scope is limited to grammars composed...
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