Helsingin yliopisto - Research Series in Anthropology

Tutkimuksessa ‘Someone to welcome you home’: Infertility, medicines and the Sukuma-Nyamwezi, tarkastellaan tansanialaisen sukuma-nyamwezi yhteisön kulttuurin muutosta ja tämän muutoksen seurausta erityisesti naisten hedelmättömyyttä koskevien kulttuuristen käytänteiden kautta.

In this dissertation ’Someone to welcome you home: infertility, medicines and the Sukuma-Nyamwezi’, I look into the cultural change among the Sukuma-Nyamwezi of Tanzania and into the consequences of this change especially through the cultural practices connected to female infertility.

The Chapayekas are clown figures who represent Judas and the Roman soldiers in the Easter ritual of the Yaquis in Sonora, Mexico. They wear masks that portray foreigners, animals, mythological beings, and even figures from television and movies.

Domesticated Violence offers an ethnographic account of violence against women in Finland and argues that the reproduction of gendered ideologies and practices sustain stereotypical notions about gender violence.

Since World War II, human rights have engaged people around the world like perhaps no other discourse. In Finland their embrace represents a shift from ideological homogeneity to pluralism and openness. Education in human rights is understood to hold a key role in empowering individuals to become free and equal members of their societies. Yet little empirical scholarship exists on how these goals are met in practice.

Marching to Zion is an ethnographic analysis of Spiritual Baptists in Tobago. It describes how their visions, dreams, and Spiritual journeys reproduce a fascinating cosmology, and how this cosmology is materialised and transformed in a wide variety of rituals.