bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
TYRPLAGERI?
Authors: Rifbjerg Klaus
Published: September 2021

Klaus Rifbjerg: Tor(o)menting

Written as “reflections on the strange sport

of bull-fighting by a relatively civilised Dåne”,

the article begins by discussing the unavoidably

heated character of arguments,

used by any reasonable person against cruelty

to animals. Therefore it would be impossible

to defend bull-fighting if it did not, as its

core, have other meanings, albeit meanings

hard to grasp. At least one has to notice the

subtle aesthetic aspects - the stylistic variations

of movements, the improvisations exploitable

under an invariable observation of

very strict mies, etc. - that combine to make

the fight between man and beast into a very

serious ritual of life and death. If one can’t

appreciate this playing on forms inside

forms, one will never get close to the symbolic

content of one man’s playful slaughter of

the prototypical animal of natural power: allowing

us vicariously to experience a ritual

escape from what we most dreadfully fear,

the death in death.
MASSER AF GRUNDE TIL USIKKER SEX: En undersøgelse af gode forklaringer
Authors: Dahl Anders
Published: September 2021

Anders Dahl: Plenty of Reasons for Unsafe

Sex. An Investigation of Good Explanations

Information campaigns on HIV/AIDS have

been running for more than ten years, but

still it is difficult to demonstrate any changes

in the sexual behaviour of the Danish

population, except in regard of men who

have sex with men. Analyses of dialogues of

telephone counselling at the AIDS Hotline in

Copenhagen give insights into the explanations

that counselling-seeking persons

themselves give conceming their unsafe

sexual behaviour. It appears that safe sex is

generally considered easy and simple, and

therefore instances of unsafe sexual behaviour

come to be regarded as “slips” and

not as a pattem of behaviour. Choices of

sexual behaviour are not determined by

knowledge alone, but also by culturally informed

personal experience and the context

of the sexual act. The article points towards a

new strategy in future HIV/AIDS-related

work, putting greater emphasis on dialogue

with people with risk behaviour, e.g. in

connection with HIV-testing. The use of the

data collected at the hotline demonstrates

new paths in the difficult field of sex research.

Also, it appears from the data that the

study of the so-called risk groups for HIV is

probably not the most useful way to reach an

understanding of sexual risk taking, as reasons

for unsafe sex transcend such groups.
HVOR GÅR CHOLOS HEN, NÅR DE GÅR UD? Folklore og identitet blandt storbymigranter i Peru
Authors: Pærregaard Karsten
Published: September 2021

Karsten Pærregaard: Where do Cholos go

when They Leave? Folklore and Identity

among Urban Migrants in Peru

An important term in the description of

Peru’s ethnic groups is cholo, a category

indicating urban migrants trying to distance

themselves from their Andean past and

obtain recognition as citizens in the country’s

major cities. Conventionally, cholo has been

considered a transitional status for Peru’s

indigenous population which wants to cast

off its Indian identity and become westemized.

This article argues against such a notion

and suggests that cholofication is a

permanent identity for the majority of Peru’s

rural and urban population. The article draws

on material gathered among migrants whose

origins are in a village in the Southern

highland and analyzes how the migrants use

folklore festivals and parades to change the

negative image the surrounding society

holds of them as cholos. The article concludes

that only when all those regarded as

cholos recognize their status as such and

replace the negative import of the term with a

more positive content, will a new identity be

visible and cholo lose its former meaning in

social and theoretical discourse.
FYSIKKENS ERKENDELSESLÆRE OG MENNESKE-KULTURERNE: Med efterskrift af Jørgen Kalckar
Authors: Bohr Niels , Kalckar Jørgen
Published: September 2021

Niels Bohr: Physics’ Epistemology and

Human Cultures

The article is a reprint of the talk given by the

famous physicist when he addressed the

International Congress of Anthropology and

Ethnology at Kronborg, Elsinore, in August

Niels Bohr’s new theory of quantum

physics gave rise to the concept of

complementarity, and the Elsinore leeture

was the first occasion on which he publically

debated questions regarding evolution and

the mutual interplay of cultures. The topic

derives from Bohr’s reflections on the

complementarity of instinet and reason.

Furthermore, these thoughts were related to

the issue of nature versus nurture, on which

Bohr unambiguously sided with the latter.

The Elsinore leeture is more provocative and

a little less taetful than Bohr’s usual style,

and might be considered as a reaction to

racist ideology so prevalent in the 1930s. It is

worth noting, however, that these issues are

being debated in the 1990s. The wider

relevance of the concept of complementarity

and its applicability to disciplines outside the

natural Sciences occupied Bohr throughout

his life.
TALIBAN I AFGHANISTAN
Authors: Olesen Asta
Published: September 2021

Asta Olesen: Taliban in Afghanistan

In October 1994 the Taliban religious militia

emerged as a new force on the Afghan war

scene, and during the following three years

they have brought more than 2/3 of the

country under their control. The Taliban,

originating from the religious schools of

NWFP of Pakistan, brought relative peace to

the areas under their control, but through

their victory over the competing mujahedin

commanders they also gave birth to one of

the most religiously conservative regimes in

the world. In spite of denying women any

role in public life, closing giris’ schools,

banning music, TV and photography in

general, punishing men for trimming their

beards, the Taliban’s success to a large extent

depends on their relatively high support

among the population. The explanation shall

be sought in their ethnic/tribal origin, their

extreme puritanism which originated in the

tribal code of the Pashtuns rather than in

Islam - and in the anarchy which has reigned

in Afghanistan, particularly after the fail of

the pro-communist PDPA regime in 1992.

The article concludes that the Taliban

success contains the seeds of its eventual

failure.
Angelique Haugerud: The Culture of Politics in Modem Kenya.
Authors: Frederiksen Bodil Folke
Published: September 2021

Anmeldes af Bodil Folke Frederiksen.
L. R. Hiatt: Arguments about Aborigines. Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology.
Authors: Liep John
Published: September 2021

Australia and the Evolution of Social Anthropology.

Anmeldes af John Liep.
MÅLTIDER SOM FAMILIE-SKABELSE OG FRISÆTTELSE
Authors: Iversen Trine , Holm Lotte
Published: September 2021

Trine Iversen & Lotte Holm: Meals and

the Making of Family - and

Individualisation

In this article we discuss the role of meals in

family life. In the sociological literature on

food and eating the issue of meals is

integrated in discussions of family life,

social communities and socialisation of

children and adolescents. In this empirically

based article we focus on a group of Danish

adults’ considerations about meals. On this

basis we wish somewhat to modify the

assumption which is implicit in the literature,

as well as in public debate; namely, that the

daily family meal is the foundation for

integration of the individual household

members into a group, i.e. that it is the basis

for the making of the family. Our material

shows that the family meal is indeed an ideal

that adults strive to realise. However, adults

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are ambigious in this endeavour, as they are

very considerate about adolescents’ social

activities outside the home. In faet we find

that adults contribute to the process of

individualisation which occurs during the

teenage period, by accomodating mealtimes

or accepting non-attendance at meals. The

project of making the family appears to be an

adult project, to which the adolescents are

not expected to contribute. Rather, adults

acknowledge the need and desire of

adolescents to liberale themselves from the

household unit.
SULT, APPETIT OG MÆTHED: Mellem biologi og kultur
Authors: Kristensen Søren Tange
Published: September 2021

Søren Tange Kristensen: Hunger,

Appetite and Satiety: Between Biology

and Culture

The number of people developing overweight

and obesity is inereasing, as is the

prevalence of eating disorders and weight

preoccupation. These tendencies can be

considered as expressing a polarisation of

eating habits in modern societies, where lack

of control or exaggerated Control over eating

are still more common phenomena. At the

same time, the tendencies may be seen as the

result of a more general ambivalence in

relation to food, which influences the

experience of appetite and its regulating

effeet on food consumption. So far,

regulation of appetite has primarily been

examined by nutritional scientists on a

physiological level. However, the subjective

experience of hunger, appetite, and satiety

can also be seen as constituted and regulated

on the individual and social level. The aim of

the article is to show how appetite can be

seen as a central research subject, both as the

locus where food consumption is bodily

regulated and as the nexus where biology,

social rules, and cultural meanings meet and

are negotiated by the individual.
OPFINDELSEN AF ALKOHOLISME
Authors: Orbe Dan
Published: September 2021

Dan Orbe: The Invention of Alcoholism

All societies are known to use intoxicants,

and alcohol is the most widely used

substance of them all. However, no direct

connection between the physical effects of

alcohol on the human organism and the

intoxicated behaviour of the users can be

established. Instead, the cultural context of

alcohol use seems to influence not only the

intoxicated behaviour, but also the problems

various societies experience with regard to

alcohol. Likewise, the definitions and

explanations of such problems appear to be

relative to certain cultures and to certain

periods of time. One such explanation

regards the excessive use of alcohol as a

disease which either develops as a result of

the use of alcohol over a long period of time

or as a combination of alcohol use and

certain unknown - perhaps hereditary -

factors in certain predisposed individuals.

The article describes how the

problematisation of excessive alcohol use

through this type of explanations has

developed since the late 18th century as part

of a process in which natural science

gradually redefined the understanding of

human behaviour, and societal changes in

North America and Europe created new

moral and ethical standards
ALKOHOL I GRØNLAND: Problemorienteret forskning og lokal drikkekultur
Authors: Sørensen Bo Wagner
Published: September 2021

Bo Wagner Sørensen: Alcohol in

Greenland: Problem-oriented Research

and Local Drinking Culture

The article sums up the main literature on

alcohol in Greenland, showing its markedly

problem-oriented approach. Drinking in

general is read as a sign of the time - i.e., as a

symptom that something has gone wrong in

Greenlandic society. More specifically, the

literature seems informed by the idea that

Greenlanders are a people in transition, that

they are trapped in between the so-called

traditional society and a modem lifestyle and

as such ridden by “acculturative stress”.

Alcohol, according to this perspective, may

have a function of reducing anxiety.

Interestingly, the explanatory framework is

roughly the same in research dating back to

the early 1960s as in the recent research from

the late 1990s, even if Greenland has

changed in important ways during this time

spån. In contrast to the general approach, I

focus empirically on male drinking sessions,

showing how they centre around beer

drinking, and sometimes on getting drunk.

The men involved are motivated, however,

not primarily by the beer itself, but by the

sense of community created during the

sessions. The drinking sessions are not

unproblematic as they may conflict with

family obligations, and they also seem to

confirm the idea underlying the dominant

discourse on gender that men, in contrast to

their female counterparts, are irresponsible,

immature and even problem-ridden. The

overall aim of the article is to point to new

ways of going about alcohol research in

Greenland in order to counter a one-sided

problem-oriented approach that focuses on

social anomie.
ÅNDELIG FØDE
Authors: Laugesen Peter
Published: September 2021

Man kan altid diskutere, hvem det egentlig er, der brovter her, mens Clifford Brown

puster Smoke Gets in Your Eyes gennem trompeten, men den tredelte strofe, hvoraf huskeren

har glemt midterstykket, har selvfølgelig en funktion i digtets fortælling.
GRØNLANDSK SØNNEOFFER Eller: Riflen med den forfuskede inskription
Authors: Pedersen Kenneth , Sørensen Bo Wagner
Published: September 2021

Eller: Riflen med den forfuskede inskription
Steen Folke & Neil Webster (red.): Den Ny Verden 2. Indien - 50 år. Fremskridt og fattigdom
Authors: Bundgaard Helle
Published: September 2021

Anmeldes af Helle Bundgaard
MOD EN TEORI OM ANEKDOTEN
Authors: Schwartz Jonathan
Published: September 2021

eller kunsten at presse citronen
Margot Badran: Feminists, Islam and Nation. Gender and the Making of Modem Egypt
Authors: Rasmussen Anne Margrethe
Published: September 2021

Gender and the Making of Modem Egypt

Anmeldes af Anne Margrethe Rasmussen
Evelyn Blackwood & Saskia E. Wieringa (eds.): Female Desires. Samesex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures
Authors: Mørck Yvonne
Published: September 2021

Samesex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures.

Anmeldes af Yvonne Mørck
Peter Hervik (red.): Den generende forskellighed. Danske svar på den stigende multikulturalisme
Authors: Sampson Steven
Published: September 2021

Danske svar på den stigende multikulturalisme.

Anmeldes af Steven Sampson
Margaretha Jarvinen & Margareta Bertilsson: Socialkonstruktivisme. Bidrag til en kritisk diskussion
Authors: Pedersen Mikkel Venborg
Published: September 2021

Bidrag til en kritisk diskussion

Anmeldes af Mikkel Venborg Pedersen
Robin Law (ed.): From Slave Trade to ‘Legitimate ’ Commerce. The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-century West Africa
Authors: Gausset Quentin
Published: September 2021

The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-century West Africa

Anmeldes af Quentin Gausset
Tom Nauerby: No Nation Is an Island. Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands
Authors: Pedersen Bent
Published: September 2021

Language, Culture, and National Identity in the Faroe Islands.

Anmeldes af Bent Pedersen
Eric Venbrux: A Death in the Tiwi Islands. Conflict, Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Authors: Christensen Pia Monrad
Published: September 2021

Conflict, Ritual and Social Life in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Anmeldes af Pia Monrad Christensen
MENNESKELIG HANDLING: Illusionen som dramatisk grundvilkår
Authors: Hastrup Kirsten
Published: September 2021

Taking the point of departure in the world of

Shakespeare and his players, it is argued that

illusion has nothing to do with deception or

delusion. Rather it is seen as a suspense of

form, a waiting for the fulfilment of the plot.

This view is extended to the social world in

general, where an illusion of wholeness and

plot is also a precondition for action: without

a sense of context, no one can act adequately.

Players of Shakespeare are double agents, in

that they have to act as both actor and

character; again, it is argued that human

agency is always a kind of double agency,

requiring an awareness of both one’s own

practical skills and the entire social drama in

which one participates. In short, both on and

off stage, acting in character means abiding

to an over-all illusion about a whole that is

but suspended form.
NÔ-TEATER SOM SCENISK VIRKELIGHED OG LITTERÆRT BLÆNDVÆRK
Authors: Flindt Willie
Published: September 2021

This article deals with the traditional

Japanese Nô theatre focusing on the relation

between illusion and reality. Three nô plays

are retold: Tôru deals with the mortal

obsession of an imitated landscape, Genji

kuyô with fiction as delusion, and Kantan

with a magic pillow as instrument of

revelation. The notion of the material world

as an illusion together with the concrete and

physical staging are analysed as an interplay

between scenic illusion and reality.
KORREKT OPTRÆDEN: Performative aspekter af politi og politiarbejde
Authors: Kvist Camilla , Holmberg Lars
Published: September 2021

Critical researchers in contemporary police

studies argue that the celebrated role of the

police as “crime fighters” is but an illusion.

But such criticism disregards the symbolic

dimensions of police work. This article presents

an analysis of different kinds of police

performances and shows how officers use

performative strategies, both in order to meet

the public‘s expectations of them, and in order

to make their own working conditions

controllable, predictable, and in tune with

their idea of what constitutes “real police

work”. Even though this concept may be said

to be more of an illusion than a reality, it provides

the framework for most police work.

Police officers and citizens share the belief

that the police can and do in fact fight crime,

and this shared belief makes it possible for

the police to maintain what could be termed

their performative efficiency.
DET FREMMEDE HJEM: Bosniske flygtninges illusioner om hjemlandet
Authors: Stefansson Anders Holm
Published: September 2021

This article explores a range of illusions

about refugee return, both from the

perspective of political institutions and

refugees themselves. The political repatriation

discourse in Western European

host countries is based upon illusory conceptions

of people’s rootedness in specific

territories and of return as an unproblematic

re-establishment of the preflight conditions.

Whereas refugee diasporas widely share this

nostalgic celebration of the “return to the

past”, for Bosnian refugees in Denmark the

idealization of their homeland and “the myth

of return”, rather than leading to the actual

return to the country of origin, serve as a

source of meaning, hope for normality, and

community in exile. For the refugees who,

voluntarily or involuntarily, do return to

Bosnia-Hercegovina “home-coming” is an

experience of disillusionment due to various

war-related transformations of the Bosnian

society, difficult socio-economic conditions

found upon return, and discrimination and

resentment from the remaining population.

The returnees feel like strangers in their own

country, and this in turn gives rise to longing

for emigration and romanticized images of

their past refugee life abroad.
Thomas Schweizer & Douglas R. White: Kinship, Networks and Exchange.
Authors: Liep John
Published: September 2021

Anmeldes af John Liep
DUFTEN AF DANSKHED
Authors: Katz Joel
Published: September 2021

The scent of Danishness is attempted at being discerned. In doing so, the term "culture scent set" as an analytical concept is coined. It is defined as the specific conglomerate of aromatic elements in a culture: racial scents (contingent upon body hair, fatty skin tissues, type of hair, and diet), clothing textiles, building materials, aromas used in the home and the surrounding natural environment. Recent changes in the Danish language regarding "scent" are discussed semiotically as representations of changes in attitudes concerning olfaction, especially a growing conscious awareness of fragrance in defining Danishness. Lastly, the con-temporary scent of Danishness is decribed as a dynamic expression of certain basic yet ever-changing culture-bound essences.
Enquete: Betragtninger om danskhed og jantelov
Authors: Krause-Jensen Jakob
Published: September 2021

Enquete: Betragtninger om danskhed og jantelov
Göran Aijmer & Jon Abbink (eds.): Meanings of Violence: A Cross Cultural Perspective.
Authors: Sørensen Birgitte Refslund
Published: September 2021

Anmeldes af Birgitte Refslund Sørensen
AF UPRAKTISKE GRUNDE: Om samlinger blandt danske musikfans
Authors: Vaaben Nana
Published: September 2021

The article is a study of music fans and

primarily concerns the objects collected by

these people. Two main arguments run through

the analysis. First of all, the collections are

considered as results of a human eagerness to

categorize and systematize, and, as such, one

can see this accountn as an exemplification

of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ thought in a modern

Western setting: Things are not known

because they are relevant – they become

relevant because they are known; as soon

as a possible acquisition is discovered by

a fan, comes the urge to obtain it. Such

conclusions, more-over, are much in line

with Baudrillard’s writings on collections,

in which system-atisation and striving for

completing a known series are the basic

motives for collecting. There are things,

however, which are difficult to explain by

reference to the urge for completeness, for

example, those things which have previously

been used, or merely touched, by a particular

singer. The second and prominent part of the

article’s argument explores, therefore, other

theo-retical possiblities for understanding the

music fans’ collections. Classical theories of

magic and theories of play and frames are

combined to show how fans seek to gain

allegorical control – not of themselves, as

is suggested by Baudrillard – but of a social

relation that has been bodily felt through

listening to music. The fans and collectors

define their use of symbols in ways that

resemble the classical anthropologies of

magical practice within a frame of play.

Furthemore, an analysis of autographs will

show that, while allegorical micro universes

and the rules and systems within them are

much valued by fans, many also seek to

obtain proof that the felt relation to a given

singer actually exists outside the frame of

play. The autograph can thereby be considered

a gift, and the cultural rules guiding

the interpretation of this gift are not confined

to a universe of play. The autographs are

interpreted according to well-established

cultural ideas of gifts as expressions of

emotions. One regards the autograph as a gift

and, especially, as a veritable sign that the fan

exists in the conscious world of the singer. It

is argued that, for the music fan, collecting

is not merely an attempt to gain control of

the self through striving for completeness,

but an attempt to gain control of a particular

social relation which is difficult to handle,

making it necessary to jump back and forth

between play and “reality” and between the

corresponding ways of using symbols within

these different contexts.
Enquete: Sovietski collection
Authors: Linde-Laursen Anders
Published: September 2021

Sovietski collection
Enquete: Grænser for samling?
Authors: Christensen Merete Kjær
Published: September 2021

Grænser for samling?
FIKSE OG TRIKSE, ORDNE OG MIKSE! Etnografisk Kongosamling i tre epoker
Authors: Wæhle Esben
Published: September 2021

While doing fieldwork in the Democratic

Republic Congo (1982-83) the author

assembled a collection of objects from the Efe

(Mbuti Pygmy) and neighbouring Lese Dese

cultivators of the rain forest. This collection

was to contribute to the permanent African

exhibition of the Ethnographic Museum of

the University of Oslo, Norway. Secondly,

it was directed primarily at objects which

reflected the daily life of the inhabitants of

the area so as to contrast to the collections

of weapons, religious objects and emblems

of power made by Norwegians in the epoch

of the Congo Freestate and the early Belgian

Congo (1885-1918). If given the chance to

collect in this region again, the author would

delve into the fascinating and humorous

strategies applied by the bricoleurs of the

large cities of the Congo. The two existent

and the hypothetical collection may not

be so different after all. Seen in a historic

perspective, all collections attest to material

and social strategies for survival and to

strategies for making life beautiful and

pleasant. Congolese producers have had

various sources of inspiration and broad

frames of reference for their invention and

production of material culture.
DEN SIAMESISKE SAMLING I EBELTOFT
Authors: Funder Torkil
Published: September 2021

Rasmus Havmøller did the Siamese

Collection during the twenty years he was

a forester in Siam. In 1940, after returning

to his native Ebeltoft, Havmøller donated his

collection to the local museum. The objects

were displayed according to his wishes

and remain in much the same arrangement

today after a recent conservation of all 6-800

items. The article argues that the collection’s

musealogical interest is to be found in the

character of the presentation of the objects. In

three small rooms, filled to the brim, we meet

objects gathered by one person according to

his interests. Hunting trophies, specimens

in spirits, utensils, ceramics, stone tools

etc., mostly from Siam. The moment the

gathered objects left Siam they obtained a

quality of completion, became a whole, so to

speak, with no additions possible. This was

the number of statements or testimonies of

a foreign reality that chance and personality

had brought together: A true collection.

Accordingly, all objects are presented as

individuals of equal im-portance. Most are

provided with a factual, very brief text:

“Gold from Bang Sapan, northern Siam”,

“536 Gecco. Very common in houses, living

from insects. This specimen of medium

size”, “Fruit from the rain forest”. One meets

the objects as single and free individuals,

which speak only of themselves. Wider

contexts like Siam, or the ingenuity of the

biological world, or the life of an employee

during colonial times must be perceived

by the visitors themselves. This way of

presenting objects stands in great contrast to

many present day exhibitions. These often

consist of objects brought together from

many different sources in order to represent

an academic category which is common to

them. Such constructions hold numerous

rewards perhaps for communicating cultural

history, but in disregarding the original

context, setting, and aura of the participating

exhibits, they leave out important primary

information and remain useful, but artificial.

The object and its original background thus

may become a prisoner of the carefully lit and

coloured showcase in which it is displayed,

as well as becoming a hostage of the

educational, lengthy text that accompanies it.

To apply the simple, unconsciously adopted

principles of the 1940-displays in Ebeltoft –

one object, one text, simple appearance, no

sermons – to a modern exhibition is possible

of course, but it may meet with numerous

difficulties. Major limits are omitting what

is technically possible, and not narrating all

that one knows, reserving this knowledge

for the catalogue. Thus, the exhibit under

discussion allows the objects to appear as

they were while found, collected, and still

around us as parts of a whole, but basically

as particulars.
AT SAMLE ELLER IKKE AT SAMLE
Authors: Gilberg Rolf
Published: September 2021

Some people collect because they cannot

stop doing so; it is a kind of disease.

Other people collect because they have

been requested to do so. The pathological

collector collects more for the sport of it than

for the results. Therefore, the (p) collector

will make stringent rules for the sport, so

it will not be too easy for newcomers. But

collecting is not enough; the collection has

to be organized in a proper way. The result

of the requested (r) collection depends on the

collector’s background and understanding

of the matter at hand. The cultural, historic

value of a collection can be measured by the

amount of information that is added to the

objects in the collection. A collection with

little or no information on the objects has

really low value seen from a cultural, historic

point of view. But a p-collector may overlook

that fact as long as the objects fulfil the

collector’s criteria for making additions to

the collection.
KVARKER, LEPTONER OG DEN OVERFLØDIGE SAMLING: Jagten på en teori for alting – og ingenting
Authors: Paaske Jens
Published: September 2021

The article views collections as non-random

accumulations, i.e. objects with interrelations

and a well hidden, unifying theme.

In the greatest of all collections, referred to

loosely as the universe, such interrelations

make up the “laws of nature” of which we

have already unravelled so many. The theme

under which it was all put together, however,

has still to be revealed. After briefly outlining

the evolution in physics from Democritos’

atomic theory to the 19th century advent of

the periodic table of the elements, the article

continues with a descent into the finer details

of matter, ending up at the quarks and leptons

which constitute the matter particles of the

so-called standard model of elementary

particles. The collection of all matter hitherto

observed in the universe has repeatedly been

subjected to a reduction based on the rationale

that seemingly different objects are identified

merely as different manifestations of the

same object. A simpler, yet representative

collection is established once the emerging

structures of the collection at hand have

been properly resolved. It is the nature of

this sobering reductionist process which is

the topic in which the discussion draws upon

a selection of examples from the ancient, as

well as the more contemporary, history of

physics.
Den Ny Verden 32 (2) Kina – 50 år: Lavindkomstland og industrination.
Authors: Bunkenborg Mikkel
Published: September 2021

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I DEN GODE SAGS TJENESTE? Om antropologi, stofbrugere og lodrette forbindelser
Authors: Jöhncke Steffen
Published: September 2021

A point of departure is taken in a study of

drug users’ experiences with methadone

treatment at four municipal institutions in

Copenhagen and, more particularly, in the

reactions to the study report within the Social

Services Department that commissioned the

study. Scepticism towards the report did not

concern the harsh criticisms which users

expressed, but the anthropologist’s attempt to

relate problems of treatment to a systematic

ambivalence about the therapeutic use of

methadone found in the attitudes of treatment

staff, administrators, local politicians, and

national health authorities. The description

of such vertical connections was considered

“irrelevant”. This point is taken into a broader

discussion of the position of ethnography in

policy studies and applied anthropology, in

terms of the local “politics of knowledge”

that each ethnographic study is part of. On

the one hand, applied anthropology must

involve social criticism to be worthwhile and

useful, on the other hand, more radical forms

of criticisms that incorporate a view of social

inequalities are not necessarily welcome.

This, of course, should be no surprise, it is

more problematic when social theory itself

seems to discourage such a broader view. An

article by Anthony Giddens about anthropological

theory is taken as an example of

the understanding that in order to inform and

improve policies, ethnography should adhere

to the production of knowledge about social

groups. Against this approach it is argued

that such knowledge does not guarantee good

policy in the eyes of the target groups. Rather

on the contrary: know-ledge about them is

equally a part of the conditions of possibility

of policing and control. On this background,

a critique is raised of the claims made in

ethnographies of drug users that they provide

more positive representations of this social

group: Ethnographies of drug users also help

maintain the view that it is indeed the users

who are in need of scrutiny, rather than the

social and political conditions – the vertical

connections – that shape their conditions of

life. Finally, it is argued that the engagement

of anthropologists in social critique and

action should be seen as a consequence of

their practical involvement in and knowledge

of people’s lives, rather than stemming

from any particular normative position within

anthropology as an academic discipline.
FRA ENGAGEMENT TIL HENSYNTAGEN
Authors: Spannow Karen Ellen
Published: September 2021

af Karen Ellen Spannow
Thomas Hylland Eriksen & Finn Sivert Nielsen: Til verdens ende og tilbake. Antropologiens historie
Authors: Veber Hanne
Published: September 2021

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Jeanne Openshaw: Seeking Bauls of Bengal
Authors: Madsen Stig Toft
Published: September 2021

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FORKLÆDTE PENGE: En diskussion af brugerbetaling i en gratis nicaraguansk folkeskole
Authors: Jørgensen Clara Rübner
Published: September 2021

On the basis of data collected during fieldwork in the city of León, Nicaragua, this

article discusses the paradox of many Nicaraguan parents describing their children’s

school as being free of charge despite the fact that they are frequently asked to pay for

it. The article shows that, in spite of the constitutional definition of education as free

and equal for all Nicaraguans, parents are often asked for economic contributions. By

analysing the values surrounding the school I suggest that values of responsibility and

solidarity influence the way that parents conceptualize their school expenditures and,

in relation to this, confirm the status of the school as free. Furthermore, the article

describes how Nicaraguan parents often compare the school to their home and describe

the relation between teacher and students by using family terms. Inspired by the theory

of the American sociologist James Carrier, I argue that this comparison, in addition to

the values of responsibility and solidarity, further influences the way Nicaraguan parents

and children experience their economic contributions. Finally, I argue that even though

the users of the school describe it as free of charge, it remains necessary to recognize

its economic aspects, since a lack of recognition can turn out to have important individual

and social consequences for the people involved, especially, for the most economically

marginalized families.
Review: MED LIVSFORMSTEORIEN PÅ ARBEJDE
Authors: Edling Nils
Published: September 2021

MED LIVSFORMSTEORIEN PÅ ARBEJDE
Steen Bergendorff: Europas udvikling. Skiftende livsbetingelser og individualisme
Authors: Høiris Ole
Published: September 2021

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Epeli Hau’ofa: Stillehavsfortællinger
Authors: Bergendorff Steen
Published: September 2021

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Peder Thorning: Som ringe i vandet … Noakhali-projektet og bistandsdebatten 1975-1995
Authors: Enemark Ditte Nissen
Published: September 2021

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TILLYKKE LÉVI-STRAUSS – OG TAK!
Authors: Fock Niels
Published: September 2021

Jeg vil i dag ikke tale om Lévi-Strauss som Hero! Hellere vil jeg snakke om ham

som min Hero, som den, der i min sidste studietid bragte lys og ånd til faget og

gjorde mig til antropolog, hvor jeg førhen blot havde været etnograf.
ENQUETE: Hjem er et andet sted
Authors: Søndergaard Morten
Published: September 2021

ENQUETE: Morten Søndergaard: Hjem er et andet sted
PÅ SIKKER GRUND: Genhusning efter tsunamien i Tamil Nadu
Authors: Hastrup Frida
Published: September 2021

This article explores the various meanings ascribed to destroyed, repaired and

newly constructed houses in the South Indian fi shing village of Tharangambadi

which was heavily affected by the tsunami disaster in December 2004. The article

focuses on re-housing both as implemented by authorities and as understood by

the survivors, thereby investigating divergent notions of danger and safety. The

overall argument is that re-housing as a spatial practice is a much more comprehensive

process than the mere shift of locality from a disaster-prone area to a

safe area. By looking at practices of re-housing and the ways in which both old

and new houses are engaged with and appropriated, it becomes clear that what is

at stake for the survivors in Tharangambadi is a general attempt at establishing

a sense of control over the physical surroundings, the trust in which was temporarily

ruined by the tsunami. The article shows how in a disaster-affected region

the sense of inhabiting a safe ground is dependent on something other and more

than solid walls.

Keywords: Catastrophy, security, hominess, materiality.
J. Normann Jørgensen & Pia Quist: Unges sprog
Authors: Tranekjær Louise
Published: September 2021

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„Den gode samfundsborger er buddhist!“: Medborgerskabsforståelser i singalesiske skoler, Sri Lanka
Authors: Sørensen Birgitte Refslund
Published: September 2021

Birgitte Refslund Sørensen: “The Good Citizen is a Buddhist!” Understandings of Citizenship in Singhalese Schools, Sri Lanka Schoolchildren in Sinhalese schools learn to perceive themselves and the surrounding world through a Buddhist lens. This article, which draws on essays written by schoolchildren (grades 6-12) from three different schools, demonstrates how the children apply Buddhist values in developing a social imaginary of the good citizen, and how they apply this understanding in their assessments of transformations in society. I argue that even when their Buddhist views stress values like discipline, moral conduct, social responsibility and compassion that promise to foster a peaceful society, the children’s strong commitment to Buddhism as a basis for being a good citizen could also be a source of conflict. This is so, because Buddhism enjoys a privileged position in the constitution of Sri Lanka, where Buddhist Sinhalese are the majority, and because it has been politicised and serves as the foundation of a strong Sinhalese ethno-nationalism. So even though none of the Sinhalese schoolchildren would speak negatively of other groups, I argue that the strong linkage they make between Buddhism and the good Srilankan citizen is nevertheless expressive of a hegemonic discourse, which defines cultural citizenship and which marginalises others in Sri Lanka today. Keywords: Buddhism, conflict, discipline, ethnicity, modernization, moral community.
Uddannelse og opposition: Marginalisering og manglende medborgerskab i den farvede township Manenberg
Authors: Waltorp Karen
Published: September 2021

Karen Waltorp: Education & Opposition. Marginalization and Lack of Citizenship in the Coloured Township of Manenberg Young and old alike speak of education as an ideal in the coloured township Manenberg in South Africa. In practice, though, 70 percent of the young men and women do not graduate from high school, and only a small number of those who do graduate study further. Education is a widely recognized form of “symbolic capital”, but among subcultures that are in opposition to the established community, education does not necessarily result as symbolic capital. The absence of a feeling of citizenship among young men and women acts to constrain them in their educational endeavours through subtle interplay of social, political and economic barriers in the specific South African complex of race, ethnicity and class. Through a juxtaposition of the concepts “street culture”, “counter-school culture” and “intimate culture” this article analyzes the dynamic of the specific opposition to education that exists in Manenberg, where alternative value systems are negotiated through social praxis. The alternative value systems of the local “intimate culture” and “street culture”, are not constructed in a vacuum, but reflect a specific historical oppression, categorization and a marginalized political and economic situation in the new South Africa. The lack of sense of citizenship across all generations and a “counter-school culture” among youth, originating in the “street culture” and “intimate culture”, create a dynamic that leaves limited space for maneuvering for young men and women. The article discusses this on the basis of two polar opposites: the young ex-gang member Desmond and the potential role model Mariam. Keywords: Education, opposition, marginalization, “counter-school culture”, “intimate culture”, South Africa.
English summaries
Authors: Redaktør TA
Published: September 2021

Intet resumé
Ole Højris: Antropologiens idéhistorie. 2500 års konstruktion af os selv og de fremmede. Acta Jutlandica, Humanistisk Serie 2010/1. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2010. 516 sider. ISBN 978-87-7934-5645 (hb). Pris: 398 kr.
Authors: Liep John
Published: September 2021

Intet resumé
Klima som sila. Lokale klimateorier i Diskobugten
Authors: Bjørst Lill Rastad
Published: September 2021

Ud fra empirisk materiale diskuterer artiklen lokale klimateorier, det grønlandske begreb sila samt den grønlandske forsker H.C. Petersens lokalt accepterede klima- teori. De lokale fortolkninger af klimaets forandringer adskiller sig fra og sætter spørgsmålstegn ved de naturvidenskabelige klimateorier. Hvad der i vestlige klima- diskurser anses som en katastrofe, placeres i et helt andet agens- og risikolandskab i Diskobugten, hvor forfatteren har lavet sit etnografiske feltarbejde.Søgeord: klimaforandringer, Grønland, natur-kultur, politik, risiko, sila.English: Climate as Sila. Local Climate Theories from the Disko Bay AreaLocal climate theories are discussed on the basis of empirical material from Greenland and related to the Greenlandic concept of sila as well as the climate theories put forward by the Greenlandic researcher H.C Petersen. These theories differ from and question the climate theories promoted by the natural sciences. In the Disko Bay area, where the author conducted ethnographic fieldwork, the idea of catastrophe is especially placed in a landscape of risk and agency that is quite different from that found in Western climate discourses. Keywords: Climate change, Greenland, nature-culture, politics, risks, sila
LÁSZLÓ KÜRTI & PETER SKALNÍK (eds.): Postsocialist Europe. An- thropological Perspectives from Home. Oxford: Berghahn 2009. 336 sider. ISBN 978-1-84545-474-6. Pris: £ 50.
Authors: Borch Signe
Published: September 2021

Intet resumé
DEN TAVSE VENSTREFLØJSPOLITIK
Authors: Dyrberg Torben Bech
Published: September 2021

I de sidste par årtier har venstrefløjspolitik været præget af desorientering. Den

universalistiske kritik af kapitalisme og imperialisme er vigende og er blevet afløst

af multikulturalismens relativistiske kritik af modernitet og Vesten. I kølvandet på

disse tendenser har man kunnet iagttage en implicit alliance mellem venstrefløj og

islamister, i kraft af at de står over for samme fjende, dvs. systemet og en nationalistisk

højrefløj. Det er ven/fjende-skematikken, der strukturerer venstreorientering,

fordi det er den mest markante måde at dyrke sin modstandsidentitet på. Når det

er det, der tæller, bliver politiske værdier mindre vigtige, og det har indebåret, at

venstreorienterede har nedtonet kritikken af det, de plejede at se som reaktionært.

Resultatet har været udbredt tavshed, når fjendens fjender, inklusive undertrykte

religiøse/etniske minoriteter, siger og gør noget, man ellers ville kritisere. I tilgift

har det været magtpåliggende for venstrefløjen at gøre politiske modstandere

tavse ved at censurere ytringsfrihed, hvilket især har været tydeligt i forbindelse

med karikaturkrisen og diskussioner om racismeparagraffen. Tavshedens politik

– at være tavs og at gøre tavs – er blevet legitimeret ved at forskyde spørgsmålet

om ytringsfrihed fra en politisk ret til moralsk indlevelse, ved at moralisere og

antagonisere det politiske klima i godt/ondt, hvilket stigmatiserer fjenden, og ved

at gå ind for selvcensur (ytringspli) og føre retssager mod dem, der overskrider

grænserne for politisk korrekthed. Artiklen undersøger disse forhold ved at se

på, hvordan venstrefløjspersoner har argumenteret i offentlige medier. Det er

disse frem for akademiske tekster, der er genstandsfeltet, fordi det giver et bedre

indblik i, hvordan man orienterer sig, og dermed et bedre indblik i tendenser i

den politiske kultur.

Søgeord: karikaturkrisen, moralisere, racisme, tavshed, ven/fjende, venstrefløj
Tanker om tale, tab og det usagte: Samtaler om at miste mellem slægtninge til palæstinensiske martyrer og fanger i israelske fængsler
Authors: Segal Lotte Buch
Published: September 2021

Artiklen omhandler, hvad der fremhæves, udelades og måske endda forties i palæ- stinensiske kvinders samtaler om konsekvenserne af den israelsk-palæstinensiske konflikt. Samtalerne omhandler, hvordan dette opleves af enker eller mødre til mænd, der er døde eller fængslede i den palæstinensiske modstandskamp mod den israelske militære besættelse af Vestbredden. Artiklen er forankret i en række etnografiske feltarbejder på Vestbredden mellem 2004 og 2011. Den undersøger, hvordan følelser konfigureres og italesættes af palæstinensiske kvinder, der er slægtninge til de mænd, der ofte omtales som helte. Artiklens sigte er at kaste lys over, hvilke følelser der kan og ikke kan rummes i samtaler om tab, for derved at få indsigt i de former for affekt, der kun kan antydes i den fortsatte kamp for palæstinensisk selvstændighed. Søgeord: tab, sprog, intimitet, affekt This article investigates what is underlined, enunciated or perhaps left out of con- versations about the effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict upon social relations and intimacy in the occupied Palestinian territories. My emphasis is how this is experienced by Palestinian women who are widows and mothers of the so-called martyrs as well as wives of men who are incarcerated in Israel due to political activism. Ethnographically the article is anchored in a series of fieldworks between 2004 and 2011 carried out with an emphasis on the configuration of affect around the struggle for a Palestinian state and the human costs of that struggle. The analytical aim of the article, then, is to decipher the ways in which feelings of loss are verbalised and configured across personal and political spheres around the women who are related to the so-called heroic men, deceased or detained due to their political engagement. The objective is to elucidate the feelings that can be contained in talk about loss with the aim of a broader discussion of those forms of affect that necessarily have to remain unspoken in order to support the ongoing struggle for Palestinian statehood. Keywords: Loss, language, intimacy, affect