Just in: "Science et voyages", a french magazine dedicated to voyages and ethnography; a first edition of "Tristes tropiques", the masterpiece of Lévi-Strauss and a bunch of editions of the magazine "Bibliothèque illustrée des voyages autour du monde", late XIX century. #books #ethnography #antique #Trip
Viele der historischen Gebäude im Freilichtmuseum tragen Strohdächer. Die dicken Schichten aus Schilf oder Stroh isolieren gut und halten erstaunlich lange, wenn sie regelmäßig gepflegt werden. Solche Dächer finden sich in vielen Teilen Osteuropas, nicht nur in Rumänien.
26.03.2026, #travel #Romania #Transylvania #Sibiu #ASTRAMuseum #OpenAirMuseum #museum #CulturalHeritage #architecture #ethnography #traditional #rural #ThatchedRoof #craftsmanship [4]
Die historischen Mühlen bilden einen der eindrucksvollsten Schwerpunkte der Sammlung des ASTRA-Museums. Über 40 Anlagen, darunter Wind-, Wasser- und sogar Ölmühlen, zeigen die technische Vielfalt ländlicher Produktion. Viele stammen aus dem 18. und 19. Jhd und wurden hier originalgetreu wieder aufgebaut. Besonders spannend ist, wie stark sich Bauweise und Mechanik je nach Region unterscheiden.
26.03.2026, #travel #Romania #Transylvania #Sibiu #ASTRAMuseum #OpenAirMuseum #museum #CulturalHeritage #architecture #ethnography #mill #windmill #watermill #traditional #rural [4]
Das ASTRA-Museum, südlich der Stadt Sibiu, liegt in einem weitläufigen Waldgebiet und gehört zu den größten Freilichtmuseen Europas. Gegründet wurde es 1963, um traditionelle Technik und ländliche Architektur aus ganz Rumänien zu bewahren. Zwischen Seen und Wegen entsteht ein ruhiger Überblick über regionale Bauweisen und Handwerk.
26.03.2026, #travel #Romania #Transylvania #Sibiu #ASTRAMuseum #OpenAirMuseum #museum #CulturalHeritage #architecture #ethnography #rural [4]

The spring issue part of Suomen antropologi 50 (1) includes:

Articles

Reclaiming "Normal Life": Everyday Resistance by Gen Z in Iran
Majid Imani
175-200

A Panpsychist Theory of Shamanism
Olof Ohlson
201-221

Essays

I Don’t ‘Like’ Malinowski, I Cite Malinowski
Matti Eräsaari
222-229

Knowing Familial Soils
Saana Hokkanen
230-237

Research reports

Kawen Adat: The Traditional Marriage Ritual of the Dayak Indigenous People of Indonesia
Nikodemus Niko, Efriani Efriani, Francis N. Reginio
238-249

Ecological Restoration and Tree-Planting Efforts in the Ihorombe Grasslands of Southern Madagascar
Jenni Mölkänen, Tellu Loikkanen, Matthieu Pierre, Fitiavana Tanjona ny Rindra, Marketta Vuola
250-261

Conference reports

The ‘Vitality of Water: Rethinking Modernist Hydropolitics and Ontologies’ International Symposium 27-28 May 2025, Tampere University
Iuliia Gataulina, Ismaël Maazaz
262-267

Lectiones præcursoriæ

Lectio præcursoria–Rescue and Exchange: Tracing Sprouts of Viable Living in the Field of Help and Care in Finland
Arvi Pihlman
268-273

Book reviews

Book review: Tammisto, Tuomas. 2024. Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier.
Susanne Kuehling
274-275

#anthropology #ethnography #Iran #resistance #GenZ #shamanism #ritual #Indonesia #Madagascar
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The Special Issue guest edited by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Minna Opas includes:

Introduction:
(Un)relating and (un)learning with more-than-humans during ethnographic practice
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Minna Opas

Articles:
Co-responding with a Parrot in Amazonia: Cosmopolitical Engagements and Ethnography eng
Taynã Tagliati
20-42

Speaking and Singing Firmly: Beings (Un)related and (In)activated by Language in Amazonian Academic Research
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
43-66

Forest Cosmo-politics and the Agency of Plants: A Case Study from the Asháninka People in Peruvian Amazonia.
Monika Kujawska
67-89

Microbes and Fieldwork: Reflections Toward a (Micro)Biosocial Anthropology
Beth A. Conklin
90-113

With-nessing bacteria
Elina Oinas, Katriina Huttunen
114-133

Soul Loss in the Forest of Symbols: Transformational Bodies, Avá-Guaraní Acoustemology, and Magical Mediating Methodological Instruments
Eric Michael Kelley
134-156

Special Issue essays

The Stool: A Place for Listening to Ancestral Knowledge
Silvio Sanches Barreto Bará
157-166

How to Milk a Yak: Embodied Learning with Yaks in Practice
Siran Liang
167-174

#anthropology #multispecies #morethanhuman #ethnography
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#Anthropologists of the #Fediverse, I'm looking for a good book about an ethnographic research. I'm looking for something engaging that can give me an idea on how you write a good ethnography, as I'm struggling to properly organise the narrative on my own research.
Something inspiring and engaging will do, cultural/social anthropology is what I'm mostly interested in.
Suggest your favourite books in the reply.

#Anthro #Ethnography #Books #BookRecommendation #Advice #Academia @academicchatter

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

Updated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet—the 20th an...

I love this small corner of the “José Blanco” ethnographic museum.

#rural #museum #Museums #ethnography #ethnographic