Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute articles

Recent articles from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

'An anthropological concept of the concept': reversibility among the Siberian Yukaghirs./Un <<concept anthropologique du concept>>: de la reversibilite chez les Yukaghirs de Siberie.
September 1, 2007... [W]hy should concepts not be... open to manipulation? Why should it not be a part of their use that the ambiguity of words, the logically illicit transformation of one concept into another (like a spirit appearing in diverse forms) is exploited to the full by the users of what...

Social change and agency among Kubo of Papua New Guinea./Changement social et agency chez les Kubos de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinee.
September 1, 2007... Our aims in this article are both empirical and theoretical. The empirical focus is with the role of agency in processes of social change among Kubo people who live in the interior lowlands of Papua New Guinea. In earlier papers we have described social change among Kubo through the years...

Agency, subordination, and change: a reply to Dwyer and Minnegal.(Comment)(Viewpoint essay)
September 1, 2007... I thank Dwyer and Minnegal (2007) for their ethnographic contribution concerning the Kubo of Papua New Guinea. In describing a situation they interpret as orthogonal to or at odds with my analysis of the nearby Gebusi, however, they mistake a difference of analytic stance as a...

A groundwork for West Indian cultural openness./Un travail de terrain sur l'ouverture culturelle dans les Caraibes.
September 1, 2007... For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. John 5: 4 Prologue Walk off the city street out of the glaring sun, through the...

Building bridges, common ground, and the role of the anthropologist./Passerelles, terrain d'entente et role de l'anthropologue.
September 1, 2007... Introduction: some late-onset anthropological naivety Rethinking the role of the anthropologist is by no means a new venture, but the issue seems still to be in a state of flux, and I think I have hit upon an approach worth airing in the pages of this journal. The angle arose quite...