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Within the field of anthropology, there is a comprehensive linguistic sub-discipline which deals with issues from semiotics and linguistics to identity and intangible cultural heritage. This special volume of AJEC emerged from our desire to explore that sub-discipline in a European context. From our perspective, it appears that many anthropologists in and of Europe engage with a variety of questions within the sub-discipline. However, these anthropologists are not necessarily located in anthropology departments. Furthermore, their expertise is not necessarily profiled in anthropological journals. This is in sharp contrast with the U.S.A. where the significance of language in the field of anthropology is more clearly defined and profiled.

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This paper embarks on the epistemological debate on native anthropology and examines the complexities inherent in the process of production of ethnographic knowledge in the post-accession Europe. The author first addresses the questions of reflexivity in anthropology. In relation to this, the paper discusses the interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on researcher's positionality in the field of the study and situatedness of knowledge claims. Subsequently, the author demonstrates how their own status as a native anthropologist was played out in their ethnographic fieldwork among Polish migrants in Belfast. To this end, the author examines their positionality in the field, pointing to intricacies of the insider/outsider status. Next, the paper focuses on the dialectics at work in carrying out an ethnographic study among the members of the same ethnic group, but away from home. It indicates potential disadvantages and advantages deriving from such a situation.

Cover Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones -- Contents -- "A Time Like No Other": Th e Impact of the Great War on European Anthropology -- Adapting to Wartime: Th e Anthropological Sciences in Europe -- Continuity and Change in British Anthropology, 1914-1919 -- Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform -- Wartime Folklore: Italian Anthropology and the First World War -- Science behind the Lines: Th e Eff ects of World War I on Anthropology in Germany -- Laboratory Conditions: German-Speaking Volkskunde and the Great War -- "Betwixt and Between": Physical Anthropology in Bulgaria and Serbia until the End of the First World War -- Constructing a War Zone: Austrian Ethnography in the Balkans -- Swords into Souvenirs: Bosnian Arts and Crafts under Habsburg Administration -- The Experience of Borders: Montenegrin Tribesmen at War -- Austro-Hungarian Volkskunde at War: Scientists on Ethnographic Mission in World War I -- Studying the Enemy: Anthropological Research in Prisoner-of-War Camps -- Large-Scale Anthropological Surveys in Austria-Hungary, 1871-1918 -- Jews among the Peoples: Visual Archives in German Prison Camps during the Great War -- Captive Voices: Phonographic Recordings in the German and Austrian Prisoner-of-War Camps of World War I -- AfterMath: Anthropological Data from Prisoner-of-War Camps -- Ethnographic Films from Prisoner-of-War Camps and the Aesthetics of Early Cinema -- Afterword -- After the Great War: National Reconfi gurations of Anthropology in Late Colonial Times -- List of Contributors -- Name Index.

In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and conditions in the societies in which they live. Returning to key case studies in Asia, Africa and Western Europe, to explore each major domain of Islamic religious and social life, Bowen also considers the theoretical advances in social anthropology that have come out of the study of Islam. A New Anthropology of Islam is essential reading for all those interested in the study of Islam and for those following new developments in the discipline of anthropology

The paper presents an outline of the relationship between anthropology and
demography, sometimes depicted as "long, tortured, often ambivalent, and
sometimes passionate." Although early anthropologists (primarily British
social anthropologists) routinely made use of demographic data, especially in
their studies of kinship, the two disciplines gradually drifted away from
each other. The re-approachment took place from 1960s, and the last fifteen
years saw more intensive cooperation and more insights about possible mutual
benefits that could be achieved through combining of methodologies and
revision of some theoretical assumptions, primarily through anthropological
demography. As summarized by Laura Bernardi and Inge Hutter, "Anthropological
demography is a specialty within demography that uses anthropological theory
and methods to provide a better understanding of demographic phenomena in
current and past populations. Its genesis and ongoing growth lies at the
intersection of demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their
efforts to understand population processes: mainly fertility, migration, and
mortality. Both disciplines share a common research subject, namely human
populations, and they focus on mutually complementary aspects" (2007: 541).
In the first part of the paper, the author presents some general
considerations, like the one that "demography is one of the best understood
and predictable parts of human behavior, even if demographers still find
themselves unable to predict accurately when parameters will change in
interesting ways, such as the ?the baby boom? or the shift to later
childbeanng in the 1970s and 1980s North America" (Howell, 1986: 219). Nancy
Howell also noted the importance of demographic anthropology, because, in her
words "if we knew, reliably, the birth and death probability schedules of
particular populations, we would know a great deal about their size, age
composition, growth rate. And with just a little more information we would
know a great deal more such as household and family composition, economic
organization, social problems, and something of the political structure. It
we knew the schedules for populations in general and could correlate the
schedules with the causes, genetic or environmental, that produce them, we
would know a great deal about the possible range of human social structure"
(Howell, 1986: 219). In the second part of the paper, the author discusses
several examples of interplay between anthropology and demography. One of
them is Patrick Heady?s study of the shift in ritual patterns, which combines
elements of some "classical" anthropological topics (Mauss?s theory of gift
exchange and L?vi-Strauss?s concept of kinship) with his own field research
in the Carnian Alps. "By marrying and raising children, parents participate
in a system of gift-exchange in which the gifts in question are human lives,
and the parties to the exchange are the kinship groups recognized in the
society concerned. Fertility reflects the attitudes of prospective parents to
their place in the existing system of reproductive exchange, and the
relationships of cooperation and authority which it implies - as well as
their confidence in the system?s continuing viability. It is shown that this
view is compatible with earlier ideas about self-regulating population
systems - and that changing economic circumstances are an important source of
discrepancy between existing exchange systems and the attitudes and
expectations of prospective parents" (Heady, 2007: 465). The paper concludes
with the discussion of the directions in which relationship between these two
disciplines can proceed. Some of the epistemological issues are mentioned, as
well as a need to apply different theoretical perspectives to better
understand demographic behavior (especially in Europe) and to better
understand certain cultural components that shape this behavior. In order to
achieve this, most of the scholars whose works are discussed in this paper
emphasize "the need for a holistic approach to data collection and the added
value of triangulating quantitative and qualitative analyses" (Bernardi,
Hutter, 2007: 541).

This essay examines the anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe two decades after the end of the Cold War. It discusses how the ideology and political pressures of that era continue to influence and distort the discipline, hindering social science advances in the comparative study of empires and the development of cultures and social systems. The essay reviews a representative book in the field and uses it as a take-off point for examining the politicization and stagnation (or disintegration) of a discipline, which should be both a comparative and predictive science as well as a "humanities" subject that answers basic questions about how to improve human societies and define "development" and "progress." This review also offers a set of guidelines on how anthropology can be improved to refocus on meeting human intellectual and social aspirations.

1. Writing the history of Russian anthropology / Sergey Sokolovskiy -- 2. Female taboos and concepts of the unclean among the Nenets / Elena Liarskaya -- 3. "The wrong nationality" : ascribed identity in the 1930s Soviet Union / Albert Baiburin -- 4. The queue as narrative : a Soviet case study / Konstantin Bogdanov -- 5. "I didn't understand, but it was funny" : late Soviet festivals and their impact on children / Catriona Kelly, Svetlana Sirotinina -- 6. The practices of "privacy" in a South Russian village (a case study of Stepnoe, Krasnodar region) / Alexander Manuylov -- 7. Believers' letters as advertising : St. Xenia of Petersburg's "national reception centre" / Jeanne Kormina and Sergei Shtyrkov -- 8. "The yellow peril" as seen in contemporary church culture / Mariya Akhmetova -- 9. "Don't look at them, they're nasty" : photographs of funerals in Russian culture / Olga Boitsova -- 10. Historical Zaryadye as remembered by locals : cultural meanings of city spaces / Pavel Kupriyanov and Lyudmila Sadovnikova -- 11. Yerevan : memory and forgetting in the organisation of post-Soviet urban space / Levon Abrahamian.

This book presents major texts by Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser, a pioneering Mexican anthropologist, on the occasion of her 70th birthday. She is a leading researcher into indigenous peoples, an innovator in women's studies and a global scientific leader who has inspired the international research and policy communities. Throughout her distinguished career she has analysed ethnicism and indigenous peoples, women in migratory flows, cultural and social sustainability and intangible cultural heritage as social capital, placing these issues on the world agenda for research and policy. Several of the 12 major texts in this volume have been published since 1972 in the US, Europe, Latin America and India; some were first published in Spanish and are available in English for the first time. This anthology also includes recent unpublished texts on culture, development and international cultural policy delivered at high-level international meetings

Events and effects : intensive transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter -- The cartoon controversy : creating Muslims in a Danish setting / Anja Kublitz -- Values at work : ambivalent situations and human resource embarrassment / Jakob Krause-Jensen -- Figurations of the future : on the form and temporarily of protests among Left radical activists in Europe / Stine Krøijer -- Mimesis of the state : from natural disaster to urban citizenship on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique / Morten Nielsen.

Humans have been whining about being bombarded with too much information since the advent of clay tablets. The complaint in Ecclesiastes that "of making many books there is no end" resonated in the Renaissance, when the invention of the printing press flooded Western Europe with what an alarmed Erasmus called "swarms of new books." But the digital revolution - with its ever-growing horde of sensors, digital devices, corporate databases, and social media sites - has been a game-changer, with 90 percent of the data in the world today created in the last two years alone. In response, everyone from marketers to policymakers has begun embracing a loosely defined term for today's massive data sets and the challenges they present: Big Data. While today's information deluge has enabled governments to improve security and public services, it has also sowed fears that Big Data is just another euphemism for Big Brother. Adapted from the source document.