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{"title":"Migration, Marriage Rituals and Contemporary Cosmopolitanism in Urban Zambia","authors":"Jan Ketil Simonsen","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2271674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2271674","url":null,"abstract":"Different types of rituals to contract marriage have developed in urban Zambia that combine customary girl’s initiation and marriage rituals with novel forms of ritual performances. The participants bring into being in symbolic forms different ‘tribes’ and traditions, which they compare, contrast, and connect. They construe a virtual reality of multiplicity of traditions; categories for interaction on which actual relations may be formed. These ritual practices are analysed within perspectives on cosmopolitanism as processes of meaning-making and is an attempt to connect pluralist perspectives on cosmopolitanism as relations between diverse cultures with universalist perspectives that search for forms of interaction between humans that do not entail prior classifications such as tribe, nation, or class.","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136262078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Embodying the Call: ‘Call Narratives’ and the Importance of Encouragement for Progressive Mennonite Pastors","authors":"Christa Mylin","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2271671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2271671","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"17 06","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Difference, Indigeneity and Ethnoclass Convergence","authors":"Antonio A. R. Ioris","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2271672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2271672","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an analysis of the politico-economic and ethnic-social basis of difference, paying special attention to the anti-difference violence suffered by indigenous peoples and the concrete experience of the Gurani-Kaiowa in Brazil. Ethnic-social differences and commonalities are here examined through a social sciences reinterpretation of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. In this magistral book, Hegel problematises and gradually resolves many questions about human perception, the shortcomings of reason, and the incremental evolution of reason that can only happen through mediation and interaction. The unique features of each social group can consequently expand into ethnoclass commonalities shared with other, unique populations. That is particularly relevant to understand the many pressures to reduce the Guarani-Kaiowa to an indeterminate proletarian condition (generic members of the working class or the peasantry), which has nonetheless revitalised their sense of indigeneity. The Guarani-Kaiowa are different from other segments of the working class, but the more they see, and are seen, as different, the more immersed they become in the subalternity of the rest of the dispossessed population. The identification of the indigenous population as both members of the working class and of unique ethnical groups has major political consequences (the negation of the negation) in terms of poor-poor alliances that can challenge politico-economic trends and, particularly, the illegitimate concessions to agribusiness farmers.","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135111336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engaged Social Anthropology and Indigenous Land Claims in Malaysia","authors":"Rusaslina Idrus","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2257898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2257898","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe use of litigation has become an important strategy for customary land claims for the Orang Asli, the aboriginal people of Peninsular Malaysia. Increasing displacement from their customary territories, and having exhausted other official avenues, the Orang Asli are resorting to legal measures to protect their rights. Several landmark cases in the Malaysian courts favouring Orang Asli rights have given the Indigenous People hope in the legal system. However, lawsuits are risky, require an enormous amount of time and resources, and take a toll on the communities and others involved in the process. Relying on the court process risks reifying state power, reinscribing unequal power dynamics, and reinforcing essentialised notions of indigenous ‘culture’ and ‘tradition’. In this article, I draw upon my long-term research on Orang Asli activism and my experience serving as an expert witness in several Orang Asli customary land claims to discuss the limits and possibilities of social anthropological knowledge in the legal arena. Focusing on the Malaysian context, I reflect upon the challenges of speaking across different fields, translating social anthropological research into a form legible to the legal process, and the dilemma of being complicit in reifying hierarchies of knowledge. I consider how social anthropologists in their cultural expertise role might use the legal space to centre Indigenous knowledge, and challenge the more static understanding of indigenous culture and tradition.KEYWORDS: Expert witnesscultural expertisecultural translationcustomary land claimscustomary territory AcknowledgementsI extend my sincere thanks to Dr. James Rose, Dr. Miriam Shakow, Dr. Yogeswaran Subramaniam, Mr. Hon Kai Ping and Mr. Saha Deva A. Arunasalam for their expertise and valuable comments. I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers and the journal editors for their insightful feedback, which significantly improved this article. My appreciation also goes to the legal counsels, judicial authorities, and the Bar Council Committee on Orang Asli Rights. I am indebted to the Orang Asli villagers who generously shared their time, space, and insights, and to whom I am grateful for their kind hospitality throughout my inquiries. Thank you to the Gender Studies Programme and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti Malaya for their institutional support that made this work possible.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Sagong bin Tasi & Ors v. Kerajaan Negeri Selangor & Ors [2002] 2 MLJ 591.2 The 2018 election saw a change in government for the first time since Malaysia’s independence in 1957.3 Some examples, Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Hal Ehwal Ehwal Orang Asli & Anor v Mohamad Bin Nohing (Batin Kampung Bukit Rok) & Ors and another appeal [2015] 6 MLJ 527 (Court of Appeal, Malaysia), Yebet bt Saman & Ors v Foong Kwai Long & Ors [2015] 2 MLJ 498 (Court of Appeal, Malaysia), Eddy Salim & Ors v Isk","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136012977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Addressing Cultural Difference in Indigenous Copyright Cases","authors":"Riccardo Mazzola","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2264519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2264519","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article presents and discusses two different ways through which the Ganalbingu people (Australia) addressed cultural differences in the normative conceptualisation of artworks in a judicial setting. The analysis focuses on linguistic conduct held by the plaintiffs, their representatives, and expert witnesses in two cases discussed before the Australian Federal Court (Northern Territory): Bulun Bulun v Nejlam Pty Ltd (1989) and Bulun Bulun v R & T Textiles Pty Ltd (1998). In both cases, Ganalbingu artist Johnny Bulun Bulun lamented a violation of his copyright in two paintings. This article mostly relies on affidavits and judicial documentation, and aims to show and attempts to explain the existence of two opposed tendencies in the judicial narrative on copyright law: namely, an enforced (attempt to) assimilation of Ganalbingu culture to the Western legal categories of (intellectual) property and copyright law, however simultaneously 'insisting on difference', that is emphasising the fundamental distinctions between Ganalbingu and Western normative conception of artworks. The article particularly enlightens the impact on the Ganalbingu judicial narrative of anthropological accounts rendered through affidavits, especially in one of the two cases in which Bulun Bulun was involved. After investigating the nature and function of those accounts, it concludes that several factors can explain the seemingly ambivalent nature of Ganalbingu linguistic conduct, ranging from a ‘spurious’ nature of misappropriated artworks to forms of resistance to an unbalance of power potentially leading to unwanted colonisation.KEYWORDS: Traditional cultural expressionsintellectual propertycopyrightinterlegalityYolngu people Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 ‘Indigenous’ (and ‘Indigenous Australians’) is used here with the awareness of the existing debate on the appropriateness of this word to designate a wide variety of peoples and cultures around the world, but with no intention to comment on the said debate. Occasionally, the judicial documents quoted in this article refer to Indigenous Australians as ‘Aboriginal people’ and ‘Aborigines’.2 The same approach characterised former works of the author on the same topic (Mazzola Citation2018, 115–134; Citation2020). Some of those works quoted excerpts of affidavits also reported in this article. However, the present study offers a deeper analysis of the two cases in which Bulun Bulun was involved and additional materials. The main sources for the judicial documentation reproduced in this article are Colin Golvan’s website (section ‘Indigenous documents’) and the Indigenous Law Resources database of the Indigenous Law Centre (UNSW) and AustLII.3 Specifically: Colin Golvan (in 2016), Martin Hardie (in 2019), Frances and Howard Morphy (in 2016 and 2019).4 After the agreement, Milpurrurru continued the lawsuit lamenting that R & T Textiles’ conduct violated Gan","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135095259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women’s Active Engagement with the Sea Through Fishing in Fiji","authors":"Elodie Fache, Annette Breckwoldt","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2258452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2258452","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTFiji’s iTaukei (Indigenous) women contribute significantly to small-scale coastal fisheries, and are therefore integral to successful fisheries (co-)management, yet their role still remains underestimated. This paper explores an original pathway to highlight iTaukei women’s role in Fiji’s small-scale coastal fisheries; a pathway that, through a ‘dwelling perspective’, emphasises the socialities that are inseparable from this role. It is based on data collected during two distinct fieldwork periods, 2003–2004 and 2016–2018, in a village located on Gau, Fiji’s fifth biggest island, in Lomaiviti Province. An overview of the fishing practices of the iTaukei women living in this village shows that fishing can be seen as both a gender-differentiated and a more-than-human, dynamic field of sociality. Furthermore, we argue that fishing is these women’s main mode of active engagement with their marine environment, conceived as inseparable from land, and all its sentient constituents. This mode of engagement reflects the relational ontology inherent in the iTaukei all-encompassing concept of vanua, which includes a sense of environmental responsibility and stewardship. This mode of engagement and its ‘procurement’ dimension are adjusted over time through ‘friction’ with conservation regulations and ideas that are both internal and external to the fishing community. These conservation regulations and ideas are related to community-based marine resource initiatives, as well as to national fisheries management concerns and measures (including species-specific fishing bans). They give a supplemental dimension to women’s interactions and engagement with the sea and its sentient constituents, far from reducing those to a mere divide between ‘nature’ and society/sociality.KEYWORDS: FijifishingOceaniasmall-scale fisherieswomen AcknowledgementsThis article was co-written as part of the research project ‘A Sea of Connections: Contextualizing Fisheries in the South Pacific Region’ (SOCPacific; https://socpacific.net/), supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (under grant number ANR-17-FRAL-0001-01) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (under grant number 389654580). This work contributes to Future Earth Coasts, a Global Research Project of Future Earth.Our deepest thanks go to Joeli Veitayaki for generously providing us with ongoing support across the oceans, and to the people of Gau Island, Fiji, especially the people of Malawai who so warmly and generously welcomed us, worked with us through day and night, and shared with us their knowledge and critical perspectives.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Ethics Approval and Informed ConsentFor the 2016–2018 research period on which this paper is based, two human ethics applications were successively submitted to, and approved by, the Research Office of the USP, as confirmed by respective clearance letters from the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and ","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135816146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(Vaka)Vanua as Weakness, (Vaka)Vanua as Strength: Reflections on Fijian Sociality in Urban and Migrant Environments","authors":"Dominik Schieder, Sina Emde, Geir Henning Presterudstuen","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2247177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2247177","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTFiji Islander sociality has long been characterised by high levels of diversity as well as interwoven categories of (self-)inclusion and (self-)exclusion and is increasingly shaped by urbanism and transborder mobility. This article focuses on how Fijians in town and abroad constitute self and belonging between vanua, ‘land’, and vakavanua, ‘tradition’, on the one hand, and the urban and migrant life worlds they inhabit, on the other. Being conceptually framed as a discussion piece and drawing on ethnographic research in urban Fiji as well as among the Fiji diaspora in Japan and Australia, this article takes a cross-comparative approach. It sheds light on the ongoing engagement among Fijian professionals with (vaka)vanua despite its relative absence as a tangible factor in their daily lives. Focusing on the dynamic undercurrents of (vaka)vanua and its social and political meanings from the perspective of three different research trajectories and settings, the discussion reveals that being Fijian in today's world engenders new engagements with ‘land’ and ‘tradition’ in manifold and challenging ways.KEYWORDS: FijiFiji diasporasocialityurbanismmobility AcknowledgementsWe would like to express our gratitude to our interlocutors in Fiji, Australia and Japan who are too numerous to be mentioned by name. We thank the two anonymous reviewers for helpful suggestions.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For our discussion on (vaka)vanua we find anthropological approaches towards ‘sociality’ useful. While the popularity of this term has wavered in anthropology (Carrithers Citation1990; Long and Moore Citation2013a; Sillander, Herrmans and Lounela Citation2021; cf. Long and Moore Citation2013b; Long Citation2015 and Sillander Citation2021 for overviews), it has had a thorough grounding in the Anthropology of Oceania and, more particularly, scholarship on Melanesia (Hoëm and Roalkvam Citation2003; Strathern Citation1988). Sociality, in its broadest sense, is ‘the capacity for complex social behaviour’ (Carrithers Citation1990, 189) and ‘fundamentally dynamic and dialectical’ (Sillander Citation2021, 1). We follow Toren, who writes that sociality ‘denote[s] dynamic social processes in which any person is inevitably engaged, rather than a set of rules or customs or structures or even meanings that exists as a system independently of the individual who is to be socialized’ (Citation1996, 61-62, emphasis in original). Elsewhere, Long explains that what humans do and say as part of their agentive capacities illustrates ‘how any given human being can participate with others in the world in multiple ways (some circumscribed, and others less so), and very often in multiple ways at the same time’ (Long Citation2015, 854). This, as Long and Moore explain, is possible because ‘sociality is open to manipulation and transformation on the part of social actors’ (Long and Moore Citation2013b, 3). Discussing the wa","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136119360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Large-Scale Land Transformations and Changing Sociality among the Wampar in Papua New Guinea","authors":"T. Schwoerer","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2247174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2247174","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72858296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Life is Individual’: Outline of a Cosmopolitan Civility and its Anthropology","authors":"N. Rapport","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2236312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2236312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82259880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Death of Vernacular Cosmopolitanism","authors":"Daniel M. Knight","doi":"10.1080/00664677.2023.2218583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2023.2218583","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45505,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Forum","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75362987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}