Anthropos

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...