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Ethnos 

Routledge
About: Ethnos is an academic journal published by Routledge. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Kinship & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0014-1844. Over the lifetime, 1638 publications have been published receiving 21713 citations.


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01 Mar 2006-Ethnos
TL;DR: In this paper, a world-in-formation ontology is proposed, in which beings do not propel themselves across a ready-made world but rather issue forth through a world in-formation along the lines of their relationships.
Abstract: Animism is often described as the imputation of life to inert objects. Such imputation is more typical of people in western societies who dream of fi nding life on other planets than of indigenous peoples to whom the label of animism has classically been applied. These peoples are united not in their beliefs but in a way of being that is alive and open to a world in continuous birth. In this animic ontology, beings do not propel themselves across a ready-made world but rather issue forth through a world-in-formation, along the lines of their relationships. To its inhabitants this weather-world, embracing both sky and earth, is a source of astonishment but not surprise. Re-animating the 'western' tradition of thought means recovering the sense of astonishment banished from offi cial science.

474 citations

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28 Feb 2008-Ethnos
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the social and experiential consequences of chronic crisis and investigate how it challenges and furthers our analytic apparatus, instead of placing crisis in context, they argue that we need to see crisis as context, as a terrain of action and meaning.
Abstract: Crisis is normally conceived of as an isolated period of time in which our lives are shattered. It defines the loss of balance and the inability to control the exterior forces influencing our possibilities and choices. The phenomenon is seen as a temporary disorder, a momentary malformation in the flow of things. Yet, for a great many people around the world crisis is endemic rather than episodic and cannot be delineated as an aberrant moment of chaos or a period of decisive change. For the structurally violated, socially marginalised and poor, the world is not characterised by balance, peace or prosperity but by the ever-present possibility of conflict, poverty and disorder. In this introductory article I examine the social and experiential consequences of chronic crisis and investigate how it challenges and furthers our analytic apparatus. Instead of placing crisis in context I argue that we need to see crisis as context – as a terrain of action and meaning – thereby opening up the field to eth...

316 citations

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01 Jan 2003-Ethnos
TL;DR: The authors argued that if we are to succeed in investigating risk contextually, without ending up in a relativistic muddle which merely acknowledges myriads of diverse risk perceptions, it is necessary to problematize the assumed simplistic cultural nature of risk.
Abstract: In risk research, culture has been used mainly as a 'black box' of unknowns into which 'irregularities' of risk perceptions that could not be otherwise accounted for can be referred. In social anthropology it has been taken for granted that what is to be considered a 'risk' depends entirely on cultural settings and assumptions; risks are culturally defined and selected. This article takes a critical stance towards any such simplistic ideas about risk and culture. Culture is approached from a perspective of cognitive theory and is hence understood as shared schemata that define categories, relationships and contexts, making it possible to process meanings and order information. It is argued that if we are to succeed in investigating risk contextually, without ending up in a relativistic muddle which merely acknowledges myriads of diverse risk perceptions, it is necessary to problematize the assumed simplistic cultural nature of risk.

264 citations

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26 May 2016-Ethnos
TL;DR: The Anthropocene is emerging as an inescapable word for the current moment as mentioned in this paper, and it has been widely used as a metaphor for the future of the human race and its relationships with nature.
Abstract: Love it or hate it, the Anthropocene is emerging as an inescapable word for (and of) the current moment. Popularized by Eugene Stoermer and Paul Crutzen, Anthropocene names an age in which human in...

256 citations

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31 Aug 2007-Ethnos
TL;DR: The authors argue that a model of cultures as structured by values can help explain why cultural domains differ in this way and that the study of situations of radical cultural change reveals this with great clarity, as they show with data from Papua New Guinea.
Abstract: Two broad trends mark the emerging anthropology of morality. One, following Durkheim, sees all routine, normative social action as moral. The other, in direct opposition to this, defines an action as moral only when actors understand themselves to perform it on the basis of free choices they have made. I argue that both approaches capture aspects of the social experience of morality. In light of this, a key question becomes how to explain why in any given society some cultural domains are dominated by Durkheimian moralities of reproduction while others encourage people to construe moral action in terms of freedom and choice. I argue that a model of cultures as structured by values can help us explain why cultural domains differ in this way and that the study of situations of radical cultural change reveals this with great clarity, as I show with data from Papua New Guinea.

200 citations

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