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Ein Umdenken hinsichtlich des Nahrungskonsums ist unausweichlich. Speiseinsekten können als Nahrungsquelle zukünftig einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten. Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Phänomen Ekel und beleuchtet die Verbindung zur Nahrung im Generellen und Insekten im Speziellen.

Wie am Institut für Volkskunde und Kulturanthropologie in Hamburg Alltagsforschung durchgeführt wird, um in einer von Dynamiken geprägten Welt wissenschaftliche Forschung zu betreiben und zukunftstaugliches Wissen zu produzieren, wird in diesem Band aus den verschiedenen Blickwinkeln von (heutigen und ehemaligen) Forscher*innen aller Qualifikationsstufen des Hamburgischen Instituts für Volkskunde/Kulturanthropologie vorgestellt. Sie berühren Fragen danach, welches Wissen gebraucht wird, welche Möglichkeiten der Wissensproduktion sich eröffnen und welche Perspektiven dazu entwickelt werden. Dabei wird das Potenzial der Alltagsforschung in den Fokus gerückt. Thematisiert wird aber auch, was empirisch arbeitende Kulturforscher*innen besonders ausrüstet, um heute und in Zukunft die Gesellschaft und ihren Alltag mitgestalten zu können. Die Beiträge werfen mannigfaltige Schlaglichter auf das Institut und geben einen Überblick über eine Bandbreite an Ansätzen und Zielen in Forschung, Lehre und Studium.

Majuli is an island situated mid-stream in the river Brahmaputra, in India's northeastern state of Assam. The island is bounded by the river Subansiri - a tributary of the river Brahmaputra - on the northwest, the Kherkatiasuti - a spill channel of the river Brahmaputra - in the northeast and the main Brahmaputra river to the south and southwest. The river usually brings floods every year. Inhabitants suffer badly as a consequence of widespread severe bank erosion, which causes serious damage to residential blocks, paddy fields, grazing land and open areas. More than half of the island has eroded over the last 100 years. The government's role in terms of protection measures does not seem to be e ffective in controlling floods and stopping erosion. With land disappearing, there is a progressive loss of the traditional means of livelihood of the island's people, leading to their displacement. During times of erosion, inhabitants off er their prayers to the river Brahmaputra to stop rapid destruction and protect them from catastrophe. A section of the population has set up a congregational worship of the river Brahmaputra, which is performed on the riverbank every year before the monsoon begins. The islanders' relationship with the river is aff ectionate but also filled with hatred, depending on the activity of the river. This paper analyses the beliefs and narratives of the inhabitants of Majuli associated with the river Brahmaputra.

International audience ; For anthropologists as well as for historians, law practices and their discursive productions provide a way of studying interactions and decisions in a variety of domains of social and political life—from social and family relationships to issues such as criminality, environmental protection, natural resource management, religious practices, or human rights. The following studies deal with such issues by using the "lens of the law" as a vantage point over society, giving access to sometimes intimate situations otherwise difficult to document for an observer, as well as a filter through which social issues have to be shaped when evolving into court cases. Thus studying how law is used by people and how it impacts their lives is all the more important as, despite delays, poor facilities, and widespread corruption, courts often represent the main if not the only hope for many to redress their grievances. As a consequence the Courts are bustling with an activity that testifies to the vital role they play in society as sites of power that affect every aspect of life therein.

International audience ; For anthropologists as well as for historians, law practices and their discursive productions provide a way of studying interactions and decisions in a variety of domains of social and political life—from social and family relationships to issues such as criminality, environmental protection, natural resource management, religious practices, or human rights. The following studies deal with such issues by using the "lens of the law" as a vantage point over society, giving access to sometimes intimate situations otherwise difficult to document for an observer, as well as a filter through which social issues have to be shaped when evolving into court cases. Thus studying how law is used by people and how it impacts their lives is all the more important as, despite delays, poor facilities, and widespread corruption, courts often represent the main if not the only hope for many to redress their grievances. As a consequence the Courts are bustling with an activity that testifies to the vital role they play in society as sites of power that affect every aspect of life therein.

IDRF fellows discuss Alex Nading's book Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement, based on his International Dissertation Research Fellowship research on waste management and disease ecologies in urban Nicaragua.

International audience ; For anthropologists as well as for historians, law practices and their discursive productions provide a way of studying interactions and decisions in a variety of domains of social and political life—from social and family relationships to issues such as criminality, environmental protection, natural resource management, religious practices, or human rights. The following studies deal with such issues by using the "lens of the law" as a vantage point over society, giving access to sometimes intimate situations otherwise difficult to document for an observer, as well as a filter through which social issues have to be shaped when evolving into court cases. Thus studying how law is used by people and how it impacts their lives is all the more important as, despite delays, poor facilities, and widespread corruption, courts often represent the main if not the only hope for many to redress their grievances. As a consequence the Courts are bustling with an activity that testifies to the vital role they play in society as sites of power that affect every aspect of life therein.

In various personality models, such as the Big Five, a consistent higher order general factor of personality (GFP) can be identified. One view in the literature is that the GFP reflects general social effectiveness. Most GFP studies, however, have been conducted in Western, educated, industrialized, and rich democracies (WEIRD). Therefore, to address the question of the universality of the GFP, we test whether the GFP can also be identified in a preliterate indigenous sample of Tsimane by using self-reports, spouse reports, and interviewer ratings. In the Tsimane, a viable GFP could be identified and the intercorrelations between personality traits were significantly stronger than in samples from industrial countries. The GFP correlated with the ratings of social engagement. In addition, self and spouse ratings of the GFP overlapped. Overall, the findings are in line with the notion that the GFP is a human universal and a substantive personality factor reflecting social effectiveness.

In Austria, the Krampus has recently witnessed an unprecedented boom. Since the early 2000s, the number of troupes and organized events has skyrocketed. Most of these can be termed "invented traditions" in Hobsbawm's sense, as there are only a handful of places with a history of the practice from before the mid-twentieth century. Despite the vast differences between regions, young men in all of them dress up in masks that invoke associations with the devil or demons, wear long fur suits and roam the streets scaring and attacking onlookers with the switches they carry. Investigating contemporary Krampus practices in rural Austria, we argue that they serve as important sources of identity making, at the centre of which are relations between men and women, as well as between ethnic Austrians and immigrants. Through an engagement with anthropological discussions on identity, our article will suggest that the recent Krampus boom is indicative of new forms of white identity.

According to many Hindus, travelling to Assam, in North-East India, is dangerous. The Assamese woman might trap the male outsider, using her magic to transform him into a goat and turn him back into a man at night. Unable to leave, the man would become the sex-toy of his mistress. Fear is the emotion many Hindus once felt (and still feel) about remote Assam. Still, many set off on a pilgrimage to Assam's most famous temple - the Kāmākhyā temple in Guwahati. In many narratives, Assam, though frightening, is the source of occult knowledge for those who are prepared to cope with such awe-inspiring power. Through the analysis of several narratives about Assam, the paper advances a reflection on our notion of fear and shows how the latter is often tightly connected to attraction. The narratives are taken from several field visits by the author and her research focusing on the Kāmākhyā temple, as well as common stories from Hindu folklore. Together they explore a frightening picture of Assam. To make sense of these data, the paper evokes the notion of śakti and analyses the way Assamese women are depicted in the narratives under consideration.

The aim of this paper is twofold. It should point to the main directions in contemporary studies of the state as an idea and a set of institutional practices and to the ways in which the state can be theorized in the studies of European postsocialism. Anthropological studies of the changes in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall can be turned in the real laboratory for the studies of the state. Central characteristic of these changes is transformation of the state and political system. Anthropological studies of these processes are not merely an illustration of global processes, but an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary political processes in general. ; Ovaj tekst ima dvojak cilj: da ukaže na osnovne pravce u savremenim antropološkim proučavanjima države kao ideje i sistema institucionalnih praksi, i načine na koji je tako shvaćena država teoretizovana u istraživanjima evropskog postsocijalizma i bivše Jugoslavije. Antropološka proučavanja istočne Evrope i promena koje su se u Evropi desile od pada Berlinskog zida predstavljaju pravu laboratoriju za antropološka proučavanja države. Transformacija državnog i političkog sistema centralna je karakteristika ovih promena i uvidi koje su donela istraživanja istočne Evrope i bivše Jugoslavije nisu samo ilustracija globalnih političkih procesa, već značajan doprinos antropološkom razumevanju savremenih političkih procesa.

In this paper I discuss the work in Bangladesh's Ready-Made Garment industry by focussing on the work process itself, on the moralities surrounding it as well as the spatial and temporal structures framing it. My aim is to show how relations of authority, inequality, gender and class are made on the shop floors of the garment industry by managers, supervisors and the workers themselves and how this "making" is shaped by demands from global corporations, i.e. the ever faster and cheaper production of garments. These demands result in extraordinary intensive and long work-days and in the spatial arrangements allowing for the tight control of the workforce, which garment workers describe as "garment-time" and "garment-world". I will argue that these notions of the industry's distinct world and time indicates its distinctly non-local, global character.

The artisanal fisheries has great importance forthe Amazonian indigenous communities, as a form of subsistence, and for the cultural and tradition of these communities. In this study, we analyzed the fishery developed in four indigenous communities of the Mura people indigenous of the Lake Ayapuá Land,in the lower Purus River. The fishes were classified according to the composition and importance of the species in weight and number of individuals, structure and size of the individuals captured, and total weight of the catches, between October and December of 2008. The most commercialized species were the Aruanã (Osteoglossumbicirrhosum), the pescada (Plagioscionsquamosissimus), the "feras" or big catfish (dourada, Brachyplatystomarousseauxiiand the filhote Brachyplatystomafilamentosum) and the tucunaré (Cichlamonoculus). The most commonly consumed species were aruanã, tucunaré, piranha-caju (Pygocentrusnattereri) and acará-açu (Astronotuscrassipinni). Species such as tucunaré and pescada have catch sizes within the standards permitted by legislation. However, acará-açu, aruanã, tambaqui (Colossomamacropomum), surubim (Pseudoplatystomapunctifer), caparari (Pseudoplatystomatigrinum), filhote and dourada do not have the same legal standard. Most of the production (87%) was destined for commercialization with Fish buyer. Preventive and mitigating measures are proposed to ensure the permanence of fish stocks and consequently the sustainability of fishing and the maintenance of the local population.

Der Beitrag skizziert als Grundidee, die den Beiträgen in diesem Heft zugrunde liegen; wie informationelle Anreicherungen sich als Texturen über soziale Räume legen und deren Wahrnehmung und das Handeln in ihnen leiten. Die Augmented Realities können so als technische Realisierung und Fortsetzung einer lange bestehenden Praxis verstanden werden.