Anthropos

Gender inequality is a social reality observed today in Manggarai, Eastern Indonesia. Multiple studies have suggested that patriarchy is the root cause of such inequality. These studies also determined that the patriarchal system – dominative,...

The present article aims to describe the Meriah ritual of the colonial times and the contemporary Kedu festival. First, it deals with the Meriah ritual, a human sacrifice which is believed to have taken place until the colonial government began to...

This work discloses a fifty-page manuscript containing a vocabulary of the extinct Haush language, documented by Martin Gusinde during his first trip to Tierra del Fuego (1918–1919). The article presents a first analysis of the document, in which...

“O Esplendor do Caos” (1998) is the book by Portuguese thinker Eduardo Lourenço (1923-2020) that I return to most often, and I suppose that no other work by the author of “O Labirinto da Saudade” (1978) will keep me busy as much over the...

This paper concerns the contemporary practices held in the village of Ochotnica Dolna, Poland, to commemorate the pacification that took place on 23 December 1944. Both the accounts provided by the residents of the village and their practices of...

In this article I ask how does movement infrastructural heritage emerge? What controversies and contrasting interests are associated with it? Might researching such conflicts shed light on the dynamics operating between societal and individual needs...