Anthropos

This article seeks to set out a case of colonial intervention aiming to remodel the social order within colonies through social engineering, which would lead to the invention – or perhaps the reinvention – of traditions. The focus of attention...

Using Philippe Descola’s treatment of the culture-nature dichotomy as a starting point, I argue that indigenous conceptions of the relationship between culture and nature are bound up with conceptions of time, space, and, particularly, gender. All...

This article deals with the ethnolinguistic aspects of personal names in Uzbek and German. The author argues that the personal naming practices of the two languages compared represent their different evolutionary stages. Whereas personal names in...