bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
RADIKAL FORTOLKNING: Humanistisk teori ved årtusindskiftet
Authors: Hastrup Kirsten 
Published: September 2021

The renaissance view of humans as ffee and
responsible agents is the starting point for
this article that seeks to delineate the task of
the humanities today, at an age which has had
to accept the fail of Objectivism. The time is
marked by a switch from seeing the task of
science in general as one of clarifying what is
already there, in nature, to seeing it as a kind
of radical interpretation that adds its own
layer of understanding, and thereby of
reality, to the object. The conclusion is that
the object of study for the human Sciences
cannot and should not be seen in naturalistic
terms; instead we have to work with fluid
objects and ontologies that seriously
question the disciplinary boundaries
established in the nineteenth century.
LYKKELIGST AT HVILE PÅ...
Authors: Knudsen Anne 
Published: September 2021

This article assesses the perennial and
perhaps unquenchable thirst for the
anecdotal in anthropological research and
reflection. Our informants, who may not give
us long interviews or life histories, tell us,
nevertheless, rich anecdotes in everyday
conversations. Their choices of anecdotes
become our key indices. Ruth Benedict and
E.E. Evans-Pritchard are the article’s chief
cases. The social function of memory is
significant, and the article urges paying
attention to etymologies, especially of the
word “anecdote”, which literally means
“unpublished” and alludes to the secretive
that cannot be kept secret. The anecdote
becomes public but maintains its intimacy.
Both the telling and the told enter into the
pictorial, illustrative summation. The
iconographic method of art and literary
historians is akin to ethnographic method.
By recognizing and cultivating this kinship,
we become betler craftsmen in anthropology.
Vividness is inherent in theory.
NOGLE TANKER OMKRING FLYTNING
Authors: Ramløv Kirsten 
Published: September 2021

The process of moving objects or belongings
from one place to another very often implies
the necessity of selection. This article deals
with two very different situations of moving.
The first one concerns the complete removal
of objects from the Ethnographic Collection
during the rebuilding of the National
Museum in Copenhagen in the early 1990’s
and the subsequent reorganisation
of them in
the new permanent exhibitions. The second
situation is an ordinary change of address.
In the museum situation, the necessity
of selection did not occur until decisions
were made as to which objects were to be
displayed in order to reflect cultural themes
of the region in question. In the situation
of the change of address, the selecting
process started immediately. Because of the
representative and communicative potentials
of objects, considerations of identity usually
accompanied the choices, whether, as in
the first case, the identity of the objects
concerned a cultural universe, or, as in the
second case, was connected with a person.
TINGENE SLADRER: En ganske uvidenskabelig tur gennem danskernes trang til kollektiv individualisme
Authors: Hansen Jørn Duus 
Published: September 2021

In our modern life we are surrounded by
thousands of objects. In between them they
form innumerable and complex patterns
by which one person distinguishes himself
or herself from an other with respect to
objects, food, clothes, the home, cars. This
is how separate ethnies, territories or clubs
are formed, with more or less identical
collections of objects. It seems as if we wish
to be in a region (“them and us”) and at the
same time be independent beings within the
region (“you and me”). We all are something
owing to our objects. Or is it the other way
around? Are our objects something owing
to the other objects they are combined
with? We might have chosen them, but,
nevertheless, they seem to chose each other!
And might it not be that the objects can
change their connotation, simply by being
moved into another region or territory ? It is
particular modern things which distinguish
the region of modern life from the region of
traditional, folk life. There are objects which
distinguish one modern space from another.
I am speaking about faint nuances, but they
are obvious to the user and the viewer. Social
individualism is far more widespread than
authentic originality individualism. Among
the younger members of the population,
an ironic sense of originality is emerging,
where very popular, folk things suddenly
are considered original by being combined
in new and very unfolklike fashions. Is this
to be understood as a protest against the
canons of elitist judgements? Or is it simply
to be understood as a desire to rediscover the
traditional folk ways?
FELTARBEJDETS FORPLIGTELSER: Deltagelse og kritik blandt sateré-mawé-immigranter i Manaus, Brasilien
Authors: Groes-Green Christian 
Published: September 2021

Current studies of human poverty and
suffering seem to lack reflexivity on the
kinds of alternatives or solutions that
might be found in the local context of
study. By reference to experiences from
fieldwork among indigenous Sateré-Mawé
immigrants in Manaus, Brazil it is illustrated
how “participation” as an anthropological
method is more than a tool for collecting
ethno-graphic data. It is a practice like any
other, involving social obligations towards
our informants and a necessary engagement
in the field of study. As an inseparable
part of the production of anthropological
know-ledge this engagement should be
more explicitly addressed and reflected
in anthropological writing and in the very
idea of the anthropological project. If
this engagement is properly reflected and
addressed, a constructive anthropological
critique might evolve that points to viable
solutions to the social problems and sufferings
encountered. Re-inscribing “participation”
in the anthropological project as fundamental
to any knowledge might also remind us that
fieldwork, like any other social engagement,
is fraught with social obligations that do
not vanish with theoretical distance and
abstraction.
NÅR „PENGE“ ER ANDET OG MERE END PENGE: Røde fjerruller på Reef Øerne
Authors: Pinholdt Jens 
Published: September 2021

Until the middle of the 20th century red feather rolls were an important and highly
visible aspect of social life in the the Northern Santa Cruz Islands comprising Nendö,
Reef Islands and Duff Islands. These rolls, commonly but misleadingly known and
referred to as “red feather money” even in anthropological literature, by the 1970s had
nearly gone out of use and by the 1990s they had disappeared. In this historical
reconstruction the red feather rolls are viewed in their heyday in their regional as well
as their local social context. The ethnographic knowledge behind the reconstruction is
based on all the available sources of the precolonial and colonial periods, the major
anthropological analyses of the 1960s and the 1970s and my own fieldwork data
established after 1973. The anthropological analysis of the material takes guidance
from Maurice Godelier (1978) who points out that valuables in primitive society often
have a dual character, they are both commodities and gifts; and from Kajsa Ekholm
(1978) who states that power relations in tribal societies are largely established,
consolidated and maintained through the control of valuables. Red feather rolls played
an important part in the regional trading system connecting the Northern Santa Cruz
Islands. This peculiar form of valuable was only produced in the rich central island of
Nendö from where it was taken to the more marginal islands as part of the inter-island
trading, usually in exchange of women. The big trading canoes were only built in the
Duff Islands and had to be for paid in red feather rolls. They were owned and sailed by
the leading big-men in the Western Reef Islands who accordingly were able to exercise
considerable control over the influx and the flow internally of the feather rolls. Feather
rolls were indispensable in the gift-exchanges accompanying all major social ceremonies
and events such as bridewealth, compensations and life-cycle ceremonies. So a generous
local big-man could use his feather rolls for the benefit of his relatives and favoured
friends who were in need of it, and at the same time he would make them into his loyal
supporters. In this social system, control of the unique valuable was the major road to
respect and influence, even to power, for the big-man. The red feather rolls were part
of an intricate local social order which depended for its reproduction on the regional
trading system. But all this had to disappear when market economy based on western
money, Christian influence, and colonial control took over. The regional trading system
collapsed; the red feather rolls lost their significance and the big-men the base of their
power.
Fratrædelsesforelæsning: ANTROPOLOGISKE DILEMMAER: Mellem kulturradikalisme og venstreorientalisme
Authors: Liep John 
Published: September 2021

This lecture is in three main parts. The first describes the author’s background in a
provincial middle class family and the leftish values he absorbed from what is now
called “cultural radicalism”. His discontent with his life in urban, capitalist society led
him to study anthropology in the belief that “natural” societies of “happiness” could be
found far out in the world. The second part briefly characterizes cultural radicalism as
a field of progressive intellectual movements in Denmark from the 1920s that fought
for the liberation of women, sexuality and the education of children. Danish cultural
radicals took an interest in anthropology already during the 30s, when Malinowski’s
discovery of free sex in the Trobriands was celebrated, and throughout the 1950s when
books by Benedict and Mead on cultural relativity and child training were translated.
With the great expansion of the middle class from the 50s the ideas of cultural radicalism
deeply changed modern Danish cultural values and institutions. The third part is a
critique of what I call “left-wing orientalism”. Cultural relativism was used as a cultural
critique of our own society in order to call for reforms. In left-wing orientalism this
stance is petrified so that only our society is “wrong” while all the “others” must not be
criticized. I discuss three examples of this in anthropology: the general uncritical
acceptance of the policies of indigenous movements; the post-colonial “retrospective
retouching” of unseemly earlier practices such as cannibalism and, finally, the readiness
of anthropologists in Denmark to put the blame for ethnic tensions in the country on
the Danes only and their reluctance to take a critical stance to the patriarchal suppression
of women and its religious legitimation that young immigrants now themselves speak
out against.
SHAMANEN, JOMFRUEN OG SKATTEVÆSENET: Portræt af en mirakelmager fra det sydlige Chile
Authors: Kristensen Dorthe Brogaard 
Published: September 2021

This article presents the case of the shaman José Karipan, who is considered one
of the most powerful and popular shamans in southern Chile. The article explores
the success of his practice as a healer, by analyzing the relationship between healing,
identity and the socio-economic and political context of Southern Chile. It is
argued that shamanistic medical practice is so popular among patients in Southern
Chile due to its sensitivity to their historical past and socio-political reality. The
shaman’s practice and figure build upon symbols and aspects of his social environment;
the shaman is Roman Catholic and claims to receive his healing power
from the Virgin of Carmen, the national saint of Chile. Furthermore, he is publicly
known for a conflict with the local taxation authorities, who accuse him of
failing to claim tax for his income as a healer. These factors serve to challenge
the logic of the Chilean state but also show how the shaman’s personal practices
are embedded inside the logic of the state, and draw upon national symbols as
a source of power.
KALD OG DRØMMESTOF: Parcelhusets værdier
Authors: Sjørslev Inger 
Published: September 2021

The values attached to privately owned single-family houses in Denmark are
analyzed as social processes that join private and public in a mode which Max
Weber’s concept of vocation can illuminate. The house represents ethics and
moral values linked with economics and ideas about investment in the future.
Practices aimed at improving and maintaining the house interact with the dominant
moral of society. At the same time, the house is a locus of dreams and consumption.
Applying Weber’s concept of vocation and Collin Campbell’s ideas about
a romantic ethic related to consumption and day- dreaming, the article interprets
practices surrounding the house, with the conclusion that the house is embedded
in a set of contradictory forces consisting of dream material and wider social,
moral obligations.
Keywords: Housing, values, materiality, ethics.
NÅR HJEMME ER UDE: Betydningen og skabelsen af hjem i naturen blandt homesteadere i Oregon, USA
Authors: Jakobsen Gry Skrædderdal 
Published: September 2021

Based on fi eldwork among homesteaders in the US Pacifi c Northwest, this article
explores particular ways in which home is created and sustained in the light
of the homesteaders’ ideals of becoming one with nature. The article focuses on
how construction of houses is guided by such ideals and shows how the merging
of home and nature is also taking place at a mundane level in social interaction.
When building a house the homesteaders are seeking to discard standard urban
ideas about which materials to use and how to furnish houses. In a long debate
about how to deal with the fact that rats have entered the common kitchen, naturalisation
and humanisation of both people and animals are employed in order
to create a common ground. In sum the article argues that the homesteaders’
practises are serving both their effort to stand out from “mainstream” or “suburban”
America as part of an ideological project to establish alternative ways of
living, and that they also express a more existential struggle to create spaces of
harmony and personal control in a modern world characterised by consumerism
and globalisation.
Keywords: Nature, U.S.A., alternative life styles, home.
EN NY POLITISK ANTROPOLOGI FOR SYDASIEN
Authors: Nielsen Kenneth 
Published: September 2021

JONATHAN SPENCER: Anthropology, Politics and the State: Democracy and
Violence in South Asia. Cambridge: CUP 2007. ISBN 13:9780521777469 (pb).
Pris: £15.99
LUCIA MICHELUTTI: The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste
and Religion in India. London, New York & New Delhi: Routledge 2008. ISBN
978-0-415-46732-2 (hb). Pris: $95.
KRÆFTPATIENTERS BRUG AF REIKI-HEALING SOM MAGISK PRAKSIS
Authors: Boelsbjerg Hanne Bess 
Published: September 2021

Almost half the number of Danish cancer patients are involved in alternative or
complementary treatments while receiving conventional cancer treatment. reikihealing
is one of the alternative treatments they often seek out. It is a treatment that
has a spiritual and holistic approach to both the person and the illness, claiming to
transmit energy from the hands of the healer to the one being healed. This creates
a contradiction with the concurrent use of conventional treatment which rests on
a biomedical understanding of cause and effect. In this context, the use of reikihealing
can be regarded as a kind of magical practice by cancer patients, who
might not necessarily share the same underlying worldview as the reiki-healer. The
basis for this article is a qualitative study called ‘Reiki-healing as Experienced by
Cancer Patients’, undertaken at the University of Copenhagen and financed by the
Danish Cancer Foundation. Here the cancer patients reported their experiences
during reiki-healing and were asked to describe how they understood the treatment
and what effects it had for them. Most of them referred to the healer as a gifted
person who has the power to influence their minds and bodies or, notably, the
way they conceive of themselves. These statements support the interpretation of
reiki-healing as a magical practice, which is characterized by the placement of
a magical agency as one of the components of a ritual – in this case, the healer.
If the cancer patient shares the same holistic approach as the healer, the use of
reiki-healing can turn out to be a spiritual or religious coping strategy, which
helps the person to find meaning and support in times of crisis. In both examples,
reiki-healing is used as a magical practise because of the opportunity it offers
to influence the illness and life situation, which otherwise would be beyond the
reach of conventional medicine.
Keywords: Healing, reiki, religious coping, healing ritual, cancer
Ormehuller: Strejftog i militære fremtidsfore- stillinger
Authors: Kotnis Sita Ramchandra 
Published: September 2021

I amerikansk militærforskning optræder „fremtiden“ som et centralt begreb, som imidlertid anvendes på to meget forskellige måder. På den ene side refererer man til fremtiden som en tom, tidslig kategori i betydningen „uindtruffen temporalitet“. På den anden side tjener fremtiden også som et strategisk begreb, der, allerede indfoldet i en konkret nutidig praksis, eksplicit anvendes til at navigere i nutiden. For en antropologisk håndtering af denne dobbelte betydning af „fremtid“ synes der imidlertid at være behov for en mere operationel konceptualisering, der er egnet til at analysere modaliteterne i konkrete og pragmatiske militære „settings“ og kan bruges til at undersøge, hvordan fremtiden figurerer i samtiden. Gennem en læsning af henholdsvis Paul Virilios teorier om beskaffenheden af det hypermoderne og Donna Haraways brug af begreberne „metafor“, „kodning“ og „ormehul“ etablerer artiklen således en teoretisk forståelsesramme for studiet af, hvordan konstruktionen af „fremtiden“ indvirker på militærstrategisk forskningspraksis. Denne sættes efterfølgende i spil i forhold til USA’s mest spektakulære forskningsagentur, DARPA. Sita Ramchandra Kotnis: Worm Holes: Operations in Military Represen- tations of the Future The ‘future’ is a crucial concept within American military research. It can be employed, however, in two radically different ways. On the one hand, the future refers to an empty, temporal category in the sense of a time that ‘has not yet occurred’. On the other hand, the concept of the future serves in a strategic capacity, as a dimension that is already enrolled in a concrete, contemporary practice, explicitly used to navigate and negotiate the present. An anthropological handling of this dual significance, however, seems to require a more operational deployment of the future as a concept specifically suited for a pragmatic analysis of such modalities in concrete military settings. Through readings in Paul Virilio’s theories of hyper-modernity and Donna Haraway’s use of concepts such as metaphor, coding and worm hole, the article seeks to establish a theoretical framework for investigations into the construction of the future and their impact on strategic military research practice. Subsequently, this framework is tentatively brought to bear upon the most spectacular American research agency, DARPA, thereby outlining a possible analytical approach.Keywords: Future, military research, hypermodernity, technoscience, DARPA, worm holes
Kun et skelet tilbage: Objektivering, tid og sex et sted i Nordøstbrasilien
Authors: Dalsgaard Anne Line 
Published: September 2021

Artiklen tager udgangspunkt i forfatterens nære kendskab til den unge kvinde Evinha, som bor i et lavindkomstområde i storbyen Recife i Nordøstbrasilien. Samtidig beskriver artiklen den ydmygelse, fattige borgere i Brasilien udsættes for, når deres familiemedlemmers knogler hældes i bendepotet efter halvandet års ophold i en unavngivet grav på den offentlige kirkegård. Artiklen sammenbinder Evinhas lyst til sex og seksuel objektivering med beskrivelsen af bendepotet i et dristigt argument om subjektets tilblivelse i blikket fra den anden og en eksistentiel balancering af oplevelser af objektivering. Argument bygger til dels på spekulation og kvalificerede gæt, for som forfatteren skriver, visse ting i livet lader sig sjældent italesætte, men må udledes af fortielser og antydninger. Anne Line Dalsgaard: Only a Skeleton left The article takes as its starting point the author’s close acquaintance to the young woman, Evinha, who lives in a low-income neighbourhood of Recife, Northeast Brazil. The article then describes the humiliation experienced by empoverished Brazilian citizens, whose relatives’ bones are thrown into the cemetery’s depository after one and a half year in an unnamed grave. The article connects Evinha’s desire for sex and sexual objectification with the description of the bone depository. This requires a bold argument that proposes the emergence of the subject in the gaze of the other and the existential balancing of the experiences of objectification. The argument is admittedly speculative and results from qualified guessing, since, as the author writes, certain things in life are difficult to put into words and can only be inferred from silences and hints. Keywords: Poverty, death, future, objectification, sex, Brazil
Klimaforandringer: Perspektiv og skala i studiet af det høje nord
Authors: Hastrup Kirsten 
Published: September 2021

Klima og klimaforandringer er blevet nye store temaer i antropologien, og det er påtrængende at stille kritiske spørgsmål til brugen af disse begreber, der synes at indeholde både konkret (lokalt) vejr og abstrakt (globalt) klima. Spørgsmålet er, hvordan man kan bruge „klimaet“ strategisk og produktivt i antropologiske analyser uden at gøre det til endnu en udefrakommende ulykke, der rammer klodens svage befolkninger. I artiklen argumenteres der for en nytænkning af skalabegrebet, som kan rumme både det „lokale“ og det „globale“, i og med at der er tale om et analytisk perspektiv snarere end et empirisk forhold. Herigennem åbnes der for en komparativ analyse af „klimaets“ infiltrering i det sociale og dets varierende forklaringsværdi. Artiklen trækker på forfatterens arbejde i Island og Grønland. Søgeord: klimaforandringer, skala, worlding, Island, Grønland English: Climate Explanations: Perspective and Scale in the Study of the High North“Climate” has entered into everyday parlance across the globe. In anthropology, “climate change” has opened up a new field of concern for vulnerable populations on the one hand and for the distinctiveness of the discipline on the other. In this article it is argued that while climate as such is a meteorological abstraction, it may also function as a strategic perspective, which allows for a comparison between ascribed values and dynamisms in social worlds. It is further shown how the implications of worldwide climate change open up for a new understanding of scale as an analytical rather than an empirical category. The substance draws from the author’s work in Northwest Greenland and in Iceland. Keywords: Climate change, scale, worlding, Iceland, Greenland