been a while since my last thread on south amerindian ethnology/anthropology. let's pick the next one based on my recent articles:
edit: I always forget hashtags #anthropology #ethnology #ethnography
| hunting and fraught relations with animals | |
| (the absence of) creation myths | |
| technodiversity as an anthropological concept | |
| can a river be a person? |
Researcher Position – #ERC project “Romani Family in an Age of War” (RAW)
📍Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague/Brno
Funded ERC research post on Romani #kinship, #war, #mobility, and #EthnographicResearch with #Roma communities affected by the Yugoslav Wars. A remarkable project led by an outstanding team of my amazing colleagues!
Deadline: 16/06/2026
#AcademicJob #Anthropology #Ethnology #RomaniStudies #MigrationStudies #Balkan
"In addition to my own #scholarship and #teaching on #Jewish #folklore, I also proudly serve as the co-chair of the #American Folklore Society’s #JewishFolklore and #Ethnology Section and as an associate editor of the #academic journal Jewish Folklore and Ethnology. My work, like that of my colleagues, depends on engagement with communities, with #archives, and with #scholars across borders.
It is precisely that kind of engagement that is now under threat.
Within #folkloristics, #ethnomusicology examines music as a form of cultural knowledge and expression, a way of understanding identity, history, and society. Recently, the group Music Scholars for #Palestine has pushed for the Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) to adopt a resolution aligned with the #Palestinian Campaign for the #Academic and #Cultural #Boycott of #Israel (#BDS)."
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-academic-boycotts-target-jewish-culture/
I'll actually give it a bit of context because it's quite interesting. This study's authors aimed to compare the role of non-conformity (creativity) vs conformity in adults' perception of children's intelligence across two cultures: U.S. and Vanuatu. In U.S. culture, non-conformity in the shape of creativity is highly valued: individuals are more likely to be deemed intelligent if, instead of copying others' actions with high fidelity, they develop new ways of accomplishing tasks. This is not the case across all cultures - I encourage you to read the introduction section of the cited article for more references. Here, adult participants were shown videos of an adult demonstrating how to perform a task, followed by two more videos: one with a child following exactly the same steps as the adult (conformity), and one with a child performing the task in a more liberal manner (non-conformity). When asked to decide which of the two children is smart, U.S. adults either selected the child exhibiting non-conformity, or showed no preference. Ni-Vanuatu adults on the other hand more often selected the child exhibiting conformity (i.e., imitating the adult perfectly). This study is one of many demonstrating that what we think of and praise as "intelligence", far from being universal, varies across cultures, reflecting different cultural values tied to distinct social organizations.
Clegg, J. M., Wen, Nicole. J., & Legare, C. H. (2017). Is non-conformity WEIRD? Cultural variation in adults’ beliefs about children’s competency and conformity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(3), 428‑441. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000275
#cognition #sociology #SocialScience #psychology #ethnology #education
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (EOI)
📍University of Aberdeen, UK
EOI for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships (2026–27). Open to early career researchers (PhD awarded 2024–2027) in #music, #film #visualculture, #folklore, and #ethnology, including interdisciplinary projects.
Deadline: 08/06/2026
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/postdoctoral-fellowships/
Золота колекція книг про євреїв
Золота колекція книг з історії, культурології, антропології та релігієзнавства про євреїв. Комплексна юдаїка.
https://spadok.org.ua/biblioteka/zolota-kolektsiya-knyg-pro-yevreyiv
#jews #judaica #juden #євреї #культура #culture #culturology #books #ethnology #етнологія
"#Museums have been apologizing for the overlap of their #ethnology collections with the subjects of #colonialOccupation, yet many still struggle to articulate a clear mission." - Susan Tallman
The Plunderers’ Dilemma
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/18/the-plunderers-dilemma-museums-susan-tallman/
https://archive.ph/vNr6x
#InHumboldtsShadow #TheMagnificentBoat #patrimony #theftOfPatrimony #colonialism #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon
Echoes of Traditional Music in Central Eastern Europe in Times of War and Peace
A special issue of the Czech Ethnological Journal „Český lid“ (in English) focusing on #ethnomusicology:
Exploring how traditional music and dance shape identities, politics, and heritage in Slavic-speaking countries, in wartime and peacetime contexts.
Deadline: 31/12/2025
#MusicResearch #Heritage #SoundStudies #Musicology #Ethnology
A re-recording Margaret Fay Shaw’s 1955 broadcast “Folksongs of South Uist”. In 2015, Canna Collection archivist Fiona J Mackenzie re-recorded Shaw’s exact words & married them with the original archive song audio. The pictures in the video are part of the Canna Photographic Collection, all of them (apart from the ones of herself) taken by Margaret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7mMOyT8Gs
#Scottish #literature #music #song #folklore #Hebrides #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #ethnology #photography
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Petr Nuska
דער קערפער פֿון השם
Claire Boilley
Sven
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Paria sans portefeuille
Assoc for Scottish Literature