Anthropos

The art of the ethnic Nagas in north-east India is still enmeshed with the colonial portrayal of tribal life. What is enacted as tribal art by “insiders” has a quality of “staged authenticity,” while “outsiders” appraise the...

One of the actors in the field of Paraguayan indigenism is the Catholic Church. The article focuses on relations between the Catholic Church and indigenous peoples in reference to the Declaration of Barbados I (1971). The Declaration, as well as the...

With this case study of a French Catholic missionary in Tonkin, as north Vietnam was called during colonial times, I wish to illustrate how individual agency might find ways of expression in spite of severe hierarchical clashes. Put differently, I...

Based on long years’ ethnographic fieldwork among the Ongee and Jarawa tribal groups of the Andaman Islands, this article seeks to understand the responses of both communities to state-imposed regimes of horticultural or plantation work in their...

This article focuses on the apotropaic function and meaning of the erect phallus. The simultaneous experience of fear or anxiety and the attainment of a (non-sexual) erection may have led to the attribution of apotropaic properties to the penis....