Anthropos

The ceremony of “Pohxuhew,” celebrated in Jacaltenango and thus thanking for the first harvest of beans, involves elaboration, playing, and subsequent breaking of clay flutes, which only briefly has been mentioned by La Farge and Byers (1931)....

Among the Sèmè, a little-known society in the Voltaic area, some men receive at home a couple of bush spirits through which they get access to divination. They form groups of followers of the spirits. The rite implemented borrows its fabric from...

This article considers what an unstudied collection of Vietnamese handicraft owned by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History reveals about its collecting culture and, conversely, what the collecting culture discloses about the...

In his critique of sociobiology, Marshall Sahlins relies heavily on Evans-Pritchard’s best-known publications on the Nuer. He maintains that Nuer sociality is most accurately analyzed as “culture,” not “biology.” This dichotomy is the...