Ethnographic Postcards: Porch small talk
Suvi Rautio’s writer’s block developed over the years, making it difficult to narrate close relationships with her fieldwork interlocutors.
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Ethnographic Postcards: The Mean Girl
It’s important to remain impartial when conducting ethnography. A mean girl at an after-school club challenged my role as a researcher.
Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykänen as trickster
Matti Nykänen, a famous Finnish ski jumper, passed away in February. He was both a superior athlete and a very troubled man – increasingly so over the years. This contradiction makes both him and the finnish public discourse following his death relevant subjects for anthropological analysis.
Finnish Independence Day and the magic of touch
Independence Day celebrations are part of many nation states’ repertoires. Among the wide variety of rituals performed on these days around the world, one of…
