Anthropos

Assimilation, as an imperial ideology, became the bedrock of France’s colonial policy in the wake of the 1789 Revolution. Its republican ideals filled the discourse of its supporters who engaged in self-congratulatory advertising of France’s...

Issues of race and memory in America are closely connected. Racial categories and racialized thinking are primarily integrated into the American culture through collective memory, and any conversation concerning race issues inevitably becomes a...

In anthropology and related cultural sciences, it is generally agreed that there are no peoples without religion. The value of the term religion as a generic term covering all forms of relating to superhuman beings should be called into question,...

Ethnographic field notes from south-eastern China, taken in the period of vanishing imperial rule and the early republic, describe a lunar New Year custom in which village people assembled to form sides that started fighting, including pelting one...

The incentive for the creation of art in deep prehistory might have been experiencing anxiety. The function of human anxiety is important for timely noticing and dealing with threats and, therefore, has obvious advantages for survival. Moreover,...

This article is about anthropological autography, which is defined as writing about oneself by oneself, with a view to understanding human beings and not necessarily social facts. The author differentiates autography from auto-ethnography and from...

The originality of the Na society lies in two points. The first one, which has attracted most scholarly attention, is the absence of fathers and husbands: children live with their mothers and maternal uncles and are raised by them. The existence of...

The Minangkabau still preserve their matrilineal structures which are close-knit with Islam. The article contains relevant historic and ethnographic insights, explores social roles of males and females, and highlights the significance of adat and...

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...