#ethnology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ethnology, aggregated by home.social.
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been a while since my last thread on south amerindian ethnology/anthropology. let's pick the next one based on my recent articles:
edit: I always forget hashtags #anthropology #ethnology #ethnography
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Researcher Position – #ERC project “Romani Family in an Age of War” (RAW)
📍Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague/Brno
Funded ERC research post on Romani #kinship, #war, #mobility, and #EthnographicResearch with #Roma communities affected by the Yugoslav Wars. A remarkable project led by an outstanding team of my amazing colleagues!
Deadline: 16/06/2026
#AcademicJob #Anthropology #Ethnology #RomaniStudies #MigrationStudies #Balkan
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (EOI)
📍University of Aberdeen, UK
EOI for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships (2026–27). Open to early career researchers (PhD awarded 2024–2027) in #music, #film #visualculture, #folklore, and #ethnology, including interdisciplinary projects.
Deadline: 08/06/2026
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/postdoctoral-fellowships/
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"#Museums have been apologizing for the overlap of their #ethnology collections with the subjects of #colonialOccupation, yet many still struggle to articulate a clear mission." - Susan Tallman
The Plunderers’ Dilemma
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/12/18/the-plunderers-dilemma-museums-susan-tallman/
https://archive.ph/vNr6x#InHumboldtsShadow #TheMagnificentBoat #patrimony #theftOfPatrimony #colonialism #colonialViolence #books @bookstodon
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Echoes of Traditional Music in Central Eastern Europe in Times of War and Peace
A special issue of the Czech Ethnological Journal „Český lid“ (in English) focusing on #ethnomusicology:
Exploring how traditional music and dance shape identities, politics, and heritage in Slavic-speaking countries, in wartime and peacetime contexts.
Deadline: 31/12/2025
#MusicResearch #Heritage #SoundStudies #Musicology #Ethnology
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A re-recording Margaret Fay Shaw’s 1955 broadcast “Folksongs of South Uist”. In 2015, Canna Collection archivist Fiona J Mackenzie re-recorded Shaw’s exact words & married them with the original archive song audio. The pictures in the video are part of the Canna Photographic Collection, all of them (apart from the ones of herself) taken by Margaret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ7mMOyT8Gs
#Scottish #literature #music #song #folklore #Hebrides #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #ethnology #photography
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Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) was born #OTD, 9 Nov. She gave up a privileged upbringing & classical music training in 1920s New York to help build the first proper archive of traditional Hebridean song & folklore
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rmks
#Scottish #literature #music #song #folklore #Hebrides #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #ethnology #photography
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Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist Halloween
Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film – via the National Trust for Scotland
https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidhche-shamhna-a-south-uist-halloween
#Scottish #Halloween #Hebrides #folklore #tradition #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Samhain #culturalstudies #ethnology #photography
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Open-Access Scientific Game-Theory Paper Shows Religion Worth a Damn
Fear of supernatural PUNISHMENT can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05734-7?ref=404media.co -
For over a century, real people from Africa, Asia, and the Pacific were captured and exhibited in “human zoos” across Europe and America — displayed as animals for entertainment, not education.
#HumanZoos #DarkHistory #Colonialism #Racism #TrueHistory #SaartjieBaartman #Ethnology #HumanRights#Storytelling#DidYouKnow#HistoryFacts#DocumentaryShort#WeirdHistory
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Medieval Artefacts Discovered in Canadian Thrift Shop
A small thrift shop in Chilliwack, British Columbia, has become the unlikely source of a remarkable medieval mystery. Eleven rings and two medallions, believed to date from the Middle Ages, were purchased for just $30 before being donated to Simon Fraser University (SFU) for study.
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/09/medieval-artefacts-discovered-in-canadian-thrift-shop/
Archeology at PG:
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**Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin**
"_Bäck’s case illustrates not only how European anatomists often wrote accounts of skin colour which best showcased their medical skills but also how the production of racial pseudoscience became increasingly driven by the authoritative rise of empiricism, the expansion of the slave trade, and the Enlightenment’s fascination with human differences._"
Roy-Di Piazza, V. (2025) ‘Abraham Bäck, Scarcity, and the Racial Anatomy of Skin’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25101039.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Ethnology #Race #EarlyModern #Enlightenment #Europe
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Second day of the #EuropeanArchaeologyDays #JEarchéo #JEA2025 i'll be live tooting the lecture about #indigo production in Okinawa by Yukari Ōwan. although we do excavate old indigo jars in archaeological context, the lecture is more ethnologically focused, so i'll use the hashtag #yanbaruindigo to keep the #archaeology hashtag clean (i already clustered it yesterday with my historical path pictures…). mute #yanbaruindigo if you don't like #ethnology 😁
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Group living (Evolutionary biology 🧬)
In ethology and evolutionary biology, group living is defined as individuals of the same species, maintaining spatial proximity with one another over time with mechanisms of social attraction. Solitary life in animals is considered to be the ancestral state of living; and group living has thus evolved independently in many species of animals. Therefore, species that...
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This 1884 #Ethnology study on the "Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona" by John Gregory Bourke, here in a reproduction edition of 1962, details the customs of the #Hopi nation and is interesting for #historians of #NativeAmericanCulture & 19th c #AmericanStudies scholars
https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=111231418
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https://www.taeclaos.org/
"The Traditional Arts and #Ethnology Centre (TAEC) is an engaging, culturally rich learning centre located in the heart of Luang Prabang, #Lao PDR. "
#LaosVia @mariemini
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🆕 Parabéns ao Gonçalo de Carvalho Amaro que, mesmo a terminar 2024, foi nomeado novo director do Museu Nacional de Etnologia! 👏👏👏
https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/goncalo-amaro-museu-nacional-etnologia/
#Histodons #Ethnology #Museology #Museums #Etnologia #Museologia #Museus
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Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life by Timothy L. Gall, 2e, 2009
This work focuses on the traditions, living conditions, food, language, religions, and recreation of over 500 of the world's major culture groups. Entries emphasize how people live today.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#reference
#encyclopedia
#culture
#traditions
#DailyLife
#ethnology
