After Sacrifice: Deeds and words for protection and cure

The article examines how ritual, particularly ritual healing, becomes transnational and how the change impacts on its efficacy. It is based on a multi-sited ethnography with the objective of tracing the shifting status of ideas and practices of efficacy in multiple sites that cross-cut the local / global dichotomy. Fieldwork (2011–2012, 2014) started in three Gengbe-speaking villages along the river Mono between Togo and Benin, which shared Vodon and Catholic ritual belief. The ethnographic itinerary continued to the cities of Lome and Cotonou and ended up in Helsinki among diasporic Pentecostal West African people. The argument is that ritual transforms into multiple practices en route and, in order to keep and protect its efficacy, a variety of transnational practices and new cultural meanings are attached to it, especially to the role and the meaning of sacrifice. Drawing on her fieldwork the author argues that for the persons and communities for whom the sacrificial rituals are performed, the experiential significance of the ‘original’ blood sacrifice does not disappear

After Sacrifice : Deeds and words for protection and cure

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Nainen ja alkoholi - kenen ongelma?

Summary : Women and alcohol - whose problem?

Automaatio ja alkoholin käyttö : pohdiskelua hoitoonohjauksen taustamuuttujista

Summary : Automation and job-based alcoholism programs

Automaatio ja alkoholin käyttö : pohdiskeluja hoitoonohjauksen taustamuuttujista

Summary: Automation and Job-Based Alcoholism Programs

Guest Editor's Introduction : Vulnerability and Inquiring into Relationality

This introduction provides an analytical back ground for the notion of vulnerability as it is currently perceived mainly in social sciences, ethics, philosophy, queer studies and governmentality. Used both as descriptive and normative term, vulnerability, along with resilience and policy management, has acquired political dimensions, which are distant from those given by the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas. In present day social and political discussions vulnerability has gained enormous popularity and seems to be a genuine 'sticky concept', an adhesive cluster of heterogeneous conceptual elements.Peer reviewe

Interview with Tanya Luhrmann

Professor Tanya Luhrmann visited Finland in September 2016 as the keynote speaker of the conference ‘Wild or Domesticated: Uncanny in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives to Mind’ organized by the Academy of Finland Project ‘Mind and Other’. As one of the founders of the anthropology of mind, Professor Luhrmann has made a remarkable contribution to the creation of this significant field of research. In addition to her contribution to anthropological theory, she has opened several avenues for interdisciplinary collaboration with philosophy, theology and, currently, with cognitive science. Professor Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Focusing her research work on the edge of experience and at the cultural borderlines of what is considered real and true, she has worked in several fields: among homeless psychotic women and with people who hear voices or have unusual sensory experiences, as well as on modern psychiatry. She uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the mind, the phenomenology of experience, and the way they are shaped by cross-cultural ideas about intersubjectivity, persons, and science. Marja-Liisa Honkasalo had a unique opportunity to conduct an interview with Professor Luhrmann during her stay at the University of Stanford, which we publish here. During the interview Professor Luhrmann discussed themes and unique interests that have informed her research career.Peer reviewe

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Mielenterveys, hallinta ja ihmisoikeudet

Arvioitu teos: Karoliina Ahonen: Suomalainen mielenterveyspolitiikka. Julkisen vallan ohjaus mielenterveyden häiriöön sairastuneiden ihmisoikeuksien turvaamiseksi. Helsingin yliopisto 2020. 284 s. http://urn.fi/URN: ISBN:978-951-51-5671-6