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ORDEN I KLASSIFIKATIONEN: Om repræsentationen og udbredelsen af religiøs viden
Authors: Højbjerg Christian Kordt 
Published: September 2021

Christian Kordt Højbjerg: The Order of
Classification. On the Representation and
Distribution of Religions Knowledge
The purpose of the article is to present and
discuss the apparent contradiction between
differentiated cognition and cultural
consensus with regard to the religious
category sale among the Loma people in
Guinea and Liberia. Opposing traditional
classificatory approaches to cultural
knowledge in anthropology, it is argued that
the complex religious category is more
adequately rendered through a cognitive and
distributive approach. The first part of the
article identifies three different, although
frequently coexisting mechanisms of distribution
and acquisition of sale knowledge,
which are labeled respectively continuous
(semantic memory), discontinuous (episodic
memory), and esoteric (secret knowledge
acquisition). In the second part, an analysis
of a sacrificial ritual leads to the conclusion
that the sale category is an awkward
classificatory case, which helps to build
cognitive bridges between separate domains
of reality. This general cognitive quality of
the sale category serves to apprehend sale as
a collectively shared representation,
irrespective of its multi-vocality and
differentiated cognition.
ADSKILT, FORBUNDET, FORENET: Totemistisk praksis på Rossel Island
Authors: Liep John 
Published: September 2021

John Liep: Separated, Linked, and
United: Totemic Practice on Rossel Island
Matrilineal clans on Rossel Island, Papua
New Guinea have so-called “linked totems”
of bird, plant and fish as well as a fourth
totem which is an individual snake,
crocodile or dugong. Further investigation
disclosed that these emblems and sacred
animals are both used to distinguish clans
and subclans and to unite linked subclans of
different clans. Further, individual geographical
features of subclan territories mark
out territorial as well as symbolic
possessions that are likewise used to “think”
separation as well as unification of social
groups. A minor point of the discussion is
that totems serve as vehicles of metaphor as
Levi-Strauss emphasized, but also as
metonyms which he underplayed. A second,
and major, point is that territorial categories
and relations which we tend to regard as
“economic” may also be part of a totemic
symbolic practice.
MATACOMYTER
Authors: Westman Bror 
Published: September 2021

Bror Westman: Mataco Myths
Taking a point of departure in Levi-Strauss’
concept of the myth as movement in
different ways, the article deals with Mataco
myths as they have been recorded by Niels
Fock during his field work among the
Mataco of Gran Chaco in the northern part of
Argentina between 1958 and 1962. The form
of this body of myths is seen as one of
variation and movement, and the contents
are understood as dealing with becoming a
human being, a cultural being. The figures
Sipilak, the culture hero, and Tokuah, the
bungler, play important roles in the myths.
They incamate different principles, rule over
different domains, create different
phenomena, and act in different ways. Also
the elements fire, water, air, and earth are
dealt with in the myths. The universe of the
myths is static, moving however between
different levels, and the identities of the
figures of the myths change. The myths are
variations of each other and tell about the
sensuous sides of life. The myths deal with
concrete, tangible experience.
„VI ISLAMISTER.. Distinktion og drama i islamisk aktivisme
Authors: Christiansen Connie Carøe 
Published: September 2021

Connie Carøe Christiansen: “We,
Islamists”. Distinetion and Drama in
Islamic Activism
In the town of Fes the Islamic activists have
now accepted Islamist as a term of selfdesignation.
In the continuous drama of a
rivalry between comrades and Islamists at
the university campus, the Islamists are
recreating themselves as Islamists. This
struggle, as well as other activities of the
Islamists, is reinforcing an objectifying
approach to the world. The social space of
the university is a polarized space where
both political groups are trying to obtain
visibility by various activities on the
campus, which in a sense can be regarded as
a stage. Their offer of a political standpoint,
however, is often rejected and the vast
majority of the Moroccan youth present
themselves as uninterested in politics. They
are in reality exeluded from formal political
participation. The ability to objectify may
act as support for the ascendent middle class
in Morocco where politics has been tumed
into an activity for elite families which are
allied with the powerful king, Hassan II. At
the university, however, political organizing
is something that is quite easily accomplished,
but at the same time it is monitored
and controlled by the police. The political
activities of the university students,
therefore, have little real effeet, which only
adds to the impression of them as
exaggerated, as if having a melodramatic
character. The Islamist, female students are
not involved in the physical confrontations
between comrades and brothers. Rather,
necessitated by stereotype ideas on the
Muslim woman as dumb and duil, they are
engaged in a struggle of distinction. In this
struggle they are implicitly distancing
themselves from their “ordinary Muslim”
sisters, the uneducated Muslim woman and
the female students who let the religion play
a minor part in their lives. This also involves
objectifying processes. The Islamist women
place impetus on the hijab but have also
realized that this device does not suffice as a
signal of commitment to the Islamist cause,
because anybody can wear a hijab, calling
for evemew devices of distinction. At doser
look, the Islamists may have more in
common with their secularist rivals than
might be expected if one judges from the
dramatic rivalry at the university. The
women at least seem to be more concemed
with distancing themselves from the
ordinary Muslim woman, in order to make it
possible to be recognized as being, at one
and the same time, a woman, a Muslim, and
an intellectual.
JØDER, ARABERE OG ARABISKE JØDER: Udviklinger inden for nationalitetsforståelse i Israel
Authors: Feldman Maia 
Published: September 2021

Maia Feldman: Jews, Arabs, and Arab
Jews. Developments within the Concept
of Nationality in Israel
The social development in Israel since the
1950s is an example of ho w groups of people
- in this case Jews of respectively European
and Middle Eastem origin - can experience
marked cultural and biological differences
between one another, and how in a relatively
short period of time, a powerful sense of
sameness can emerge. This process is
reflected in the Israeli concept of “nationality”
and has implied an essentialized
meaning of Jewishness and by implication of
“Arabs”. This article examines how the
perception of “Jews” and “Arabs” as two
essentially different “kinds” is expressed,
and in some cases opposed, by Israeli Jews
of Middle Eastem/Arab origins.
BØRN I VESTINDISKE FAMILIENETVÆRK: Fire livshistorier fra Nevis
Authors: Olwig Karen Fog 
Published: September 2021

Karen Fog Olwig: Children in West
Indian Family Networks: Four Life
Stories from Nevis
Caribbean people often leave their children
behind with relatives when they migrate. It is
well known that these children play an
important structural role as central linchpins
in networks of social and economic
exchange which take place between the
migrants and their family in the community
of origin. There is, however, little
knowledge of the ways in which children
themselves experience growing up in these
global family networks. This article
investigates the point of view of the children
by examining four life stories related by
young people, from the Leeward Island of
Nevis, whose migrant parents left them, as
small children, in the care of their
grandparents. At a more general level, these
life stories also shed light on the cultural
values associated with ideals of a good
family life among people for whom
population mobility and socio-economic
connectivity, on a global scale, have long
constituted a basic framework of existence.
ET VILDNIS AF TABUER: Jagten på en kulinarisk struktur
Authors: Liep John 
Published: September 2021

John Liep: A Wilderness of Taboos: The
Quest for a Culinary Structure
Recent anthropological research in
Melanesia has focused on the construction of
the person, theories of conception and
procreation, and flows of substances through
social relations and persons. There will often
be a correspondence between substances
such as sperm and biood, bodily parts such as
bone and flesh, and contrasting foods that are
gendered. An asymmetric constitution of the
person and a clear structuration of food
prestations between affinal sides may exist.
A study of these themes on Rossel Island,
Papua New Guinea yielded frustrating
results. No clear idea of contrasting, gendered
body aspects was found. Further, a large
number of food taboos for menstruating,
pregnant and lactating women was
distributed in clusters that were amenable to
various logics of interpretation without any
total structural logic appearing. This
negative result is explained by the absence of
any sustained practice of asymmetric
marriage and corresponding complementary
prestations between affines, which would
reproduce an ordering asymmetric structure
of the person and of the universe of foods.
FÆLLESSPISNING MIDT I JYLLAND: Når det drejer sig mere om spisning og drikning end om mad og drikke
Authors: Jenkins Richard P. 
Published: September 2021

Richard P. Jenkins: Sociability in Mid-
Jutland: When Eating and Drinking is the
Point, rather than Food and Drink
This paper is based upon nearly a year’s field
research in a town in mid-westem Jutland,
Denmark. Ethnographic data is presented
about the range of occasions for eating and
drinking which are available to its
inhabitants: eating at home, meetings, annual
general meetings, parties and celebrations,
and public eating on demand and at need.
The argument is made that the social
occasions of eating and drinking are more
significant than the food and drink itself.
This is related to a complex of cultural values
concemed with sociability, consensus,
mutuality, communality and apparent
equality, which finds its widest expression in
the Danish welfare State. Developing
changes in the structure of private life and
households - and in the values just itemised
- are related to changes in the organisation of
eating and drinking. A more general
argument is also offered, about the need to
re-orient the study of food and drink towards
a processual study of eating and drinking.
EN MAGER HELGENINDES MAGT: Kvindelig mystik i middelalderen og feministiske genfortolkninger
Authors: Asher Judith 
Published: September 2021

Judith Asher: The Power of a Skinny
Saint: Fasting Practices of Medieval
Female Mystics and Feminist Rereadings
In connection to the current Western ideal of
a thin and disciplined female body, historical
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evidence has been sought of eating disorders
among women prior to medical diagnoses of
anorexia nervosa and bulimia. One of the
first well-documented instances of such
food-related body denial in Western history
is European medieval women saints, who in
the standard church hagiography have been
revered for the “miracle” of surviving on a
negligible intake of food, inedia miraculosa.
This relatively marginal phenomenon has
come to receive surprisingly broad attention;
the “holy anorexics” are now a standard
reference both in feminist scholarship and in
popular women’s literature. Contemporary
feminist interpretations of these saints tend
to encounter a fundamental ambiguity:
whether to pronounce the women mystics
victims of oppression or agents of liberation.
This article describes the self-imposed
starvation regime of medieval mystics with
reference to the idioms of eating and feeding
that informed their socio-historical context.
It then goes on to outline the interpretive
ambiguity current among feminist rereadings
and propose that this uncertainty
points to the inherently contradictory nature
of broad-based social gender definitions.
HERTUG HANS OG HANS TROFASTE RIDDERE og deres eksklusive togter til rusuniverset
Authors: Elmeland Karen 
Published: September 2021

Karen Elmeland: Hans the Duke, and His
Loyal Knights: Their Exclusive Journeys
to the World of Ecstasy
This article describes an observational study
performed during the project “Danish
Alcohol Culture - Ecstasy, Ritual and
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Regulation”. The aim of the study was to
describe the alcohol culture of the “beer
fratemity” gnaslguF. The focus was partly on
the analysis of the cultural norms and the
collective mechanisms of control
influencing the use of alcohol and ecstasy
among the members, partly on the analysis of
the ritual structures goveming and forming
the conviviality in different drinking
situations. The overall aim of the project was
to give a qualitative description of ecstasy as
a State of consciousness - a non-everyday
consciousness. In this article it is aigued that
ritual analysis can be of relevance to
understanding the ways in which Danes - and
others for that matter - drink. Following this
line of thinking, two ritual forms are
identified: a rite of passage and a rite of
fratemization. In both forms a four-stage
structure can be identified.
INTRODUKTION
Authors: Redaktionen TA 
Published: September 2021

Da redaktionen af Tidsskriftet Antropologi for snart mange måneder siden indså, at udgivelsen
af tidsskiftets 40. nummer ville falde sammen med overgangen til det gregorianske
år 2000 besluttede vi at udnævne denne tilfældighed til en anledning. En anledning -
ikke at forveksle med årsag - til at lave nærværende temanummer. Det er ment som en
tagen bestik af den antropologiske videnskab anno 2000, og som en spørgen om følgende:
Hvorfra er vi antropologer kommet, hvor langt er vi nået og - ikke mindst - hvor skal
vi hen? Hvad er vor erkendelsesteoretiske arv, hvilke dele af den vil vi vedgå os, og hvad
skal vi anvende den til i fremtiden?
Vi inviterede derfor en række forfattere til at deltage i en slags fagteoretisk statusopgørelse
og være med til at identificere konturerne af fremtidens antropologi. Konturer,
der så småt er ved at komme til syne, mens støvet fra 1980’emes og 1990’emes socialkonstruktivisme
og dekonstruktion af kernebegreber lægger sig. Og vi stoler ubeskedent
på, at der vil være mange læsere til et sådant temanummer, sultne efter et bud på en „postpostmodeme"
antropologi.
James Lockhart, C. M. Stafford Poole & Lisa Sousa: The Story of Guadalupe. Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei Tlamahuiçoltica of 1649; C. M. Stafford Poole: Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797
Authors: Canger Una 
Published: September 2021

Anmeldes af Una Canger
James Lockhart, C. M. Stafford Poole & Lisa Sousa (eds. & translators):
The Story of Guadalupe. Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei Tlamahuiçoltica of 1649. 122
C. M. Stafford Poole: Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Origins and Sources of
a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797.
J. F. WILLUMSENS „GAMLE SAMLING“: Vurderingens omskiftelighed og samlerens strategier
Authors: Rasmussen Mikael Bøgh 
Published: September 2021

From his early years until his death, the
Danish multi-talented artist, Jens Ferdinand
Willumsen (1863-1958), amassed a large
private collection of art and artifacts of all
kinds. Emulating his famous 19th century
predecessor, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Willumsen
bequeathed his collection in 1947 to the
Danish state together with a large portion
of his own substantial artistic production.
On that occasion he arranged a double
exhibition to show his own works and the
so-called “Old Collection”. The article deals
with the reception of the “Old Collection”
and the very severe critique that it met for
its supposed lack of quality. The article
describes the reactions and the subsequent
changes in attitude towards the collection.
Today the collection is recognized as one
that includes many important works of art.
The second part of the article is an attempt
to identify some of J. F. Willumsen’s reasons
for collecting: The artist collected things
which could inspire him. He tried with his
collection to create the impression of himself
as a particularly gifted “uomo universale”
who, through his artistic intuition, would find
a way to the old masters that was unknown
to the learned art historians. The “Old
Collection” was thus a means of displaying
his – not always acknowledged – genius.
Finally, its seems that the com-bination of
his own workshop-collection with an art
collection, installed together in a museum
dedicated to him alone, was a way of linking
himself with Thorvaldsen, who was during
the Golden Age of Danish painting the only
other Danish artist who had a museum of his
own, comprising both his own works and his
collection of other masterworks.
BIOGRAFISKE SAMLINGER: Subjektivitet, identitet og materielle livshistorier
Authors: Otto Lene 
Published: September 2021

The article is approaching the sensory and the
material, memory and private reminiscence,
objects and time from the perspective of
ethnology. It is an attempt to provide an
understanding of the relation between people
and objects in a biographical perspective. It
is argued that the act of keeping and saving is
a kind of technology of the self. Biographical
objects, because of their materiality and
sensory qualities constitute our picture of
our own past, stimulate remembering, store
information beyond individual experience,
and are instrumental to the formation of
consciousness and identity. Biographical
collections are the result of saving, not just
casual keeping of objects connected with
a person’s own life history. Thus, they are
material life stories.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: I hælene på jæger-samlere
Authors: Veber Hanne 
Published: September 2021

ERNEST S. BURCH, JR. & LINDA J. ELLANNA (eds.): Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer
Research. Oxford: Berg 1994. 534 sider. ISBN 0 85496 376 6. Pris: £19.95 (pb).
USIKKERHEDSSTRATEGIER: Psykiateres håndtering af terapeutiske krisesituationer med skizofrene patienter
Authors: Dupont Michael 
Published: September 2021

During the 1990’s, the social sciences have
increasingly focused on the structure and
function of scientific expert systems, and the
nature of expert reflexivity in these particular
settings. This article takes a similar focus
and presents data from interviews made
during an ethnographic fieldwork among
psychiatric psychotherapists. The therapists
worked with schizophrenic patients in a
Danish mental hospital. The article shows
some of the major scientific norms structuring
the course of daily clinical practice,
and highlights how the therapists cope
with situations in which they experience
uncertainties in the interaction with schizophrenic
patients. It is suggested that the therapists
deal with these difficulties in terms
of specific coping strategies, which seem to
neutralise, integrate or symbolise the uncertainties
in question. It is then discussed how
order and stability are maintained normatively
as well as strategically, and how norms
and practices are related to one another in
this particular environment of experts.
OM SANDALFØDDER OG MULIGHEDEN FOR FORANDRING
Authors: Dalsgård Anne Line 
Published: September 2021

both the inferiority experienced by lowerclass
Brazilians and the particular role
of storytelling in the communication of
anthropological insights. The two aspects of
the article are related through the use of stories
(here defined as recounts of particularly
revealing moments during field-work) in the
description of a metaphorical relationship
between broad feet, poverty and second-class
citizenship. Brazil is a society penetrated by
social inequality in all aspects of daily life.
The media bombardment of advertisements
for products of all sorts increases the sense
of inferiority among the poor. Signs on the
body like grey, uncared-for skin and broad
feet due to sandal use are experienced as the
embodiment of ignorance and lack of selfcontrol.
The informant Sonia explains the
position as a “sandal foot” (pé de chinelo)
with her story about lack of recognition and
an often violent attitude towards lower-class
Brazilians in the sphere of consumption as
well as the health care system. In addition,
a particular situation is described, in which
the anthropologist witnesses a medical
doctor misread a poor woman’s attempt
to appear respectable. The anthropologist
feels her impotence and detachment as
an observer, while she dressed as a nurse
unwillingly participates in the humiliation
of the woman. This kind of experience, it is
argued, provides a broadened understanding
of human ex-perience, which may renew – in
the anthro-pologist as well as her reader – the
respect for the Other, crucial to any struggle
for rights on a formal, and in the common
sense, political level. The use of stories as
vehicles for this kind of understanding and,
more pragmatic-ally, for the anthropologist’s
viewpoint in a highly politicized debate
is justified by the particular capacity of
storytelling. Stories about moments during
fieldwork merge the “knower” and the
known, it is argued, and engage the reader’s
imagination and experience in the attempt to
follow the process of knowing. They may
therefore provide a richer understanding of
anthro-pological insights than descriptions
based on information and explanation alone.
Besides, stories are per definition positioned,
as there would be nothing to tell if nobody had
sensed, felt and thought anything. Therefore,
the telling of stories clearly engages the
reader in an interpretation of the relationship
between field, anthropologist and text. These
two aspects of storytelling, the transportation
of the reader to the field site by way of
imagination, and the demand on the reader’s
ability to interpret told situations, allow for
a reflection upon human conditioning and
the resulting plurality of perspectives. It also
allows the anthropologist to put forward her
perspective without postulating any superior
knowledge.
EN ANEKDOTISK ANMELDELSE
Authors: Schwartz Jonathan 
Published: September 2021

C. WRIGHT MILLS: Den sociologiske fantasi. (The Sociological Imagination. 1959)
Oversat af Tom Havemann, forord ved Michael Hviid Jacobsen. København: Hans Reitzels
Forlag 2002. 248 sider. ISBN 87-412-2462-0. Pris: 298,00 kr.
MUSIK FOR MISBRUGERE
Authors: Harsløf Olav 
Published: September 2021

The back entrance of the Copenhagen Central Station has for some decades been shelter
and meeting place for alcoholics, drug abusers and drug dealers, because this part of the
Central Station faces a part of the town which for more than a hundred years has
accommodated prostitution in general, and since the legalisation of selling pornographic
films and pictures in 1969 also shops and cinemas for that purpose. When hash and
narcotics entered the milieu of prostitution this part of town – called Istedgade kvarteret
(Isted Street Quarter) – became also domicile of junkies, drug dealers and prostitutes
dependent on narcotics. After a radical restoration of the Central Station in the 1990’s the
management wanted to get rid of the abusers in the back entrance. So did many travellers.
And as the police did not succeed they bought a music concept from the central station
in Hamburg, which had proved its efficiency there. By playing music from the period of
romanticism (about 1800-1860) from a loudspeaker they stressed the abusers so much
that they after a few days of persistence left the entrance hall. Now the question is: what
made them leave? – It is well known that music has been used for psychological purposes,
in super markets, in films, in wars and as means of torture. But why should music from
exactly that historical period affect the abusers? Most of the junkies and alcoholics are
not familiar with nor attracted to classical romanticism. They have through their whole
are anthropologists, who do not settle for surfaces, but insist on reflecting on their own
incorporated cultural learning processes.