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From the time that A. R. Radcliffe-Brown provided the first detailed description in 1926, the Rainbow Serpent culture complex has been regarded, either explicitly or implicitly, as the exclusive domain of Aboriginal Australia. An extensive survey of...

If it goes without saying that music is an art of time, we rarely question the way in which music participates in the perception of time. In the Tanjung Bunga peninsula (island of Flores, Indonesia), populated by ten thousand farmers, agrarian work...

Memories of the so-called Arab slave trade are quite vivid in Tanzania. Those Tanzanians whose ancestors were enslaved or belonged to communities affected by the slave trade, as well as carriers of the oral history still tell about it. We present...

Found in many parts of insular Southeast Asia and the adjacent mainland, a widespread complex of taboos concerns actions that are believed to result in a disastrous storm and, sometimes, petrification of offenders. The most typical offenses involve...

The purpose of the present study is to bridge ontological pluralism which regards the native’s discourse as a clue for philosophical speculation and a naturalistic approach which tries to connect anthropology to the natural sciences, and to...

This article examines how laws (kalaka), the institution of the mediator, and a moral and social code (kundude) contribute, through a common ethics, to maintaining social cohesion in Tubu Teda society. It shows that the analytical concept of...

This article looks at some cases of legal contestation in three African countries (Mali, Senegal, and Nigeria) where Muslim religious authorities/institutions brought challenges to constitutional-legislative proposals in the national arena, seen by...

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young dissidents and affiliates to opposition networks in Cairo after the 2011 revolution, this article shows the relationship of multiple influence factors involved in coping. It documents the conflicts of...

“Our aim is to create a climate of peace and freedom in our towns and villages. This goes against the birth of a jihadist movement that advocates the obligation to respect another form of Islam. We say no to this and we want our parents who reside...

El artículo introduce y contextualiza la publicación y traducción de una parte del diario o bitácora del tercer viaje de Martin Gusinde a Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922). El texto forma parte de una serie de publicaciones (Palma 2018a, 2018b, 2019,...