Anthropos

In Ghana, how families and communities across different ethnic groups deal with the dead and the departed has remained unchanged for the past three decades. Presently, however, changes are observable in the increased number of mortuaries, funeral...

The ideologically contrasting occupation of two full professorships in ethnology in Berlin and Leipzig during the short phase of direct Soviet occupation in the context of the manifesting Cold War leads into a jungle-like interwoven academic...

This article problematizes the notion of amateur ethnographers (and ethnography) accordant with the new interest in exploring the margins of institutions of knowledge and the networks between established professionals and other actors linked to...

This article presents an anthropological study with a feminist focus on the unpaid care work done by older people in the district of Peñalolén (Metropolitan Region, Chile). Thirty-two qualitative interviews were conducted with men and women aged...

This study analyses the Relación de la salud, sitio y disposición de Valladolid, written in 1605 during the residence of the monarchy’s court in this city (1601-1606). This document, which consists of three parts, is written in an epidemic...