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Deicide in Ch’orti’ Maya Myth and Ritual
Among the Ch’orti’ Maya, turkeys are associated with ritual sacrifice and deicide. In this study, I discuss the intimate links between the turkey and...
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Assuming Power in New Forms: Learning to Feel ‘With the Other’ in Decolonial Research
The chapter aims to contribute to the important endeavour of decolonising Disaster Risk Studies, and more broadly, Development Studies, by focusing...
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Blood Tribute, Earth Offerings, and the Formative Origins of Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica has long been identified with a range of ritualized practices or ritual diversity centered on both animal and human sacrifices. In...
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Ritual Human Sacrifice Among the Tarascans of West Mexico
This chapter reports on evidence of large-scale ritual violence recovered at Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, the Postclassic (1300–1522 A.D.) Tarascan civic...
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The Myth of the Willing Human Sacrificial Victim: The Complex Nature of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Ceremonialism
Mesoamerican scholarship is a collaborative effort that consistently delivers fresh theoretical interpretations based on new findings, but on...
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Indigenous Sacrifice in the Christian Language Among the Communities of the Northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico
Traditions of human sacrifice among the peoples of the Northern Mixteca survived the Spanish Conquest. The Postclassic period’s emphasis on warrior...
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Science, Society, and Darwin’s Idealization
It was a Monday, 25 May 2020. One more Monday, similar to previous ones, as many people were instructed to remain at home because of the Covid-19...
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Transforming Kanak Knowledge to Teach Students and Train Teachers in New Caledonia
The reconfiguration of New Caledonian schools and curricula seems to be essential in times of complex political and environmental changes. It should...
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Waste Level Rise? Scales, Spaces and Policies of Waste in New Caledonia
New Caledonia is known as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. However, it began develo** its environmental policies and improving operational...
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Kanak Cultural Heritage on Colonised and Damaged Lands
This chapter – co-authored by two Kanak knowledge holders (a clan chief and a singer-songwriter) and two European researchers (from political science...
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“Fortunately, I Have My Field”: Changes and Permanencies in Kanak Family Farming
In this chapter, we examine the main transformations that have marked Kanak family farming and describe in particular the ways that monetarisation...
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Han Solo and Professor Moriarty—What Interviewing Soldiers Taught Me About Heroism
In interviews with Danish combat soldiers, deployed to AfghanistanAfghanistan, I learned that the term “hero” can also be used in a negative sense,...
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Between Heroization and Victimization. Assessing Empirical Evidence of Representations of Veterans in a Pre- and Post-heroic Era
Although the underlying reasons for veteranVeterans-hero and veteranVeterans-victim relationships have been theoretically and empirically examined,...
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The Morale Component of the Russia–Ukraine War
TheRussia Ukraine War 2022 Russia–Ukraine WarJapan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) raisesPrime Minister Shigeru Yoshida (1878-1967) fundamental questions...
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Testing the Strength of Conviviality: Love, Intermarriage and Solidarity in Times of Crisis
This chapter sheds light on the strength of conviviality in Burgaz and explores the dynamics between conviviality, toleration and intolerance by...
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Conviviality as Performance of Pluralism and Living with Difference: Sociable Sociality and Labour of Peace
This chapter turns the attention from the collective embodiment of diversity to the individual performance of pluralism as “living with difference”...
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Bringing Reality to Society and Science
One of the most accurate, balanced, non-idealized summaries about Darwin, and about the confusion that often plagues both the scientific literature...
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Introduction: Geographical Understanding and “Listening” in New Caledonia-Kanaky
This chapter is an introduction to “Geographies of New Caledonia-Kanaky”, edited by Matthias Kowasch and Simon Batterbury. The archipelago is a...
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The Citizenship Dilemma in Decolonising New Caledonia
A “citizenship of New Caledonia” has proven to be one of the most significant yet polarising aspects of the 1998 Nouméa Accord. Citizenship of New...
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Land Reform, Conflict and Local Development on “Grande Terre”
New Caledonia-Kanaky has operated customary and European models of land tenure in parallel for almost 170 years, since the early days of colonisation...