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Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde

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This article discusses how the politics of morality in the early 20th-century South India, in its gendered nation-building exercise, reified a distinction between sacred/profane by using devadasis’ bodies as material objects in the public sphere....

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Baden-Baden 2019

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Volume 114 (2019), Issue 2

This article contains a contextualized translation of the first part of the diary written by Fr. Martín Gusinde SVD, a German missionary and ethnographer, during his third trip to Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922). As such, it forms a part of the series...

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The aim of the article is to present how Rāmacharaka’s vision of yoga fits with the initial stage of yoga adaptation in Poland. The focus lays on the fact how elements of Rāmacharaka’s yoga were used by Wincenty Lutosławski in his system of...

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This study analyzes the factors of installation of villages and encampments around the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (DRC) and the impact of this issue on its management. Among the factors that determine this phenomenon, the study revealed those of a...

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Ethnography and historical disciplines report on different kinds of folk or premodern societies’ ideas and superstitions regarding shadows that are not to find among the collective representations of modern, industrial societies. Shadows were seen...

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Castor, N. Fadeke: Spiritual Citizenship. Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 228 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6895-3. Price: $ 24.95

Cepek, Michael L.: Life in Oil. Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. 286 pp. ISBN 978-14773-1508-8. Price: $ 27.95

Colonial Material Collections and Representations of Devadasi Bodies in the Public Sphere in the Early 20th-Century South India

Diario del tercer viaje de Martín Gusinde a Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922)

Domdey, Jana, Gesine Drews-Sylla und Justyna Gołąbek (Hrsg.): AnOther Africa? (Post-)Koloniale Afrikaimaginationen im russischen, polnischen und deutschen Kontext. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. 409 pp. ISBN 978-3-8253-6616-2. (Akademiekonferenzen, 23) Preis: € 48,00

Epple, Susanne (ed.): The State of Status Groups in Ethiopia. Minorities between Marginalization and Integration. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2018. 283 pp. ISBN 978-3-496-01587-1. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 132) Price: € 49,00

Escobar, Arturo: Designs for the Pluriverse. Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-7105-2. Price: $ 26.95

Estalella, Adolfo, and Tomás Sánchez Criado (eds.): Experimental Collaborations. Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. 217 pp. ISBN 978-1-78533-853-3. (EASA Series, 34) Price: $ 110.00

Farriss, Nancy: Tongues of Fire. Language and Evangelization in Colonial Mexico. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 409 pp. ISBN 978-0-19088410-9. Price: £ 64.00

Fleischer, Friederike: Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand. Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. 178 pp. ISBN 978-1-78533-655-3. (Asian Anthropology, 8) Price: $ 110.00

Framing the Debate

From Rāmacharaka’s “Standard of the Normal Man” to Lutosławski’s Strategy of National Revival

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Gestion de la Réserve de Biosphère de Yangambi en République Démocratique du Congo à l’épreuve des dynamiques d’installation des villages et campements (1939–2015)

Ghosts or Absence of Light? The Understanding of Shadows

Gill, Lyndon K.: Erotic Islands. Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6870-0. Price: $ 26.95

Grimm, Carmen: Der Wert der Alten. Multiple Wissensmodelle und Praktiken der Repräsentation in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit Deutschland/Peru. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2018. 341 pp. ISBN 978-3-64313906-1. (Comparative Anthropological Studies in Society, Cosmology, and Politics, 12) Preis: € 39,90

Groes, Christian, and Nadine T. Fernandez (eds.): Intimate Mobilities. Sexual Economies, Marriage, and Migration in a Disparate World. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. 238 pp. ISBN 978-1-78533-860-1. (Worlds in Motion, 3) Price: $ 120.00

Hall, Stuart (with Bill Schwarz): Familiar Stranger. A Life between Two Islands. London: Allen Lane, 2017. 302 pp. ISBN 978-0-241-28999-0. Price: £ 25.00

Hamdy, Sherine, and Coleman Nye: Lissa. A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution. (Illustrated by Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 302 pp. ISBN 978-1-4875-9347-6. Price: $ 24.95

Heintze, Beatrix: Ein preußischer Major im Herzen Afrikas. Alexander v. Mechows Expeditionstagebuch (1880–1881) und sein Projekt einer ersten deutschen Kolonie. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 2018. 357 pp. ISBN 978-3-496-01604-5. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, 133). Preis: € 49,00

Hickel, Jason, and Naomi Haynes (eds.): Hierarchy and Value. Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. 157 pp. ISBN 978-1-78533-996-7. Price: $ 95.00

Hinton, Alexander Laban: The Justice Facade. Trials of Transition in Cambodia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 282 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-882095-6. Price: £ 24.99

Huber, Vitus: Die Konquistadoren. Cortés, Pizarro und die Eroberung Amerikas. München: C. H. Beck, 2019. 128 pp. ISBN 978-3-406-73429-8. Preis: € 9,95

Højbjerg, Christian K., Jacqueline Knörr, and William P. Murphy (eds.): Politics and Policies in Upper Guinea Coast Societies. Change and Continuity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 342 pp. ISBN 978-1-349-95012-6. Price: € 123,04

Kaul, Adam, and Jonathan Skinner (eds.): Leisure and Death. An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2018. 313 pp. ISBN 978-1-60732-728-8. Price: $ 36.95

Kistler, S. Ashley (ed.): Faces of Resistance. Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2018. 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-81731987-8. Price: $ 54.95

Kofahl, Daniel und Sebastian Schellhaas (Hrsg.): Kulinarische Ethnologie. Beiträge zur Wissenschaft von eigenen, fremden und globalisierten Ernährungskulturen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2018. 317 pp. ISBN 978-3-8376-3539-3. Preis: € 34,99