Matti Eräsaari
Biographic Data
| ID | 74025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matti Eräsaari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matti |
| FAMILY NAME | Eräsaari |
| SIGNATURE | ERÄSAARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7851-2685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
I Don’t ‘Like’ Malinowski, I Cite Malinowski
The use of citation metrics has progressed to a point where a growing number of scholars are contemplating the possibility of using citation practices to enforce necessary changes on the academia - preferential citing practices, citation boycotts, and the like. Yet the academic citation is not an alienable token without consequential characteristics. In this essay, I suggest some lessons from the history of economic anthropology that may help to …
A Snapshot of Helsinki Anthropology in Interesting Times
Sarah Green was invited by the editorial team of Suomen antropologi to write something for their Jubilee Edition about Finnish anthropology, perhaps about her experience as an outsider, having worked in anthropology departments for a couple of decades in the UK before coming to Helsinki in 2012. She gladly agreed to write a piece, but argued that she would find it difficult to compare UK and Finnish anthropologies. As a specialist on borders, loc…
Novelistic account, ethnographic accountability
Anthropology and Tax
From the perspective of individual taxpayers to international tax norm negotiators, the anthropologists in this collection explore how taxes shape our world: our social relationships and value regimes, how we exclude and include, the categories we think with, and the way we share with each other. A first of its kind, it presents an anthropological discussion about tax rooted in ethnographic work. It asks fundamental questions such as: what is tax…
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland
Worth the While presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth - what "else" can time be besides money? Time is a highly particular vehicle for different considerations of what is good or important, but it is also one which is deployed at different settings with surprisingly little consideration for the specificity of this particular a va…
The Dawn of Everything
The Dawn of Everything is a general-audience social science book with a mission. In a nutshell, the book argues against evolutionary accounts that view societal development as a trade-off involving increased social complexity, increased social control, and the loss of egalitarian ideals. Since Rousseau's Social Contract, Graeber and Wengrow argue, Western thought has followed a 'myth' which sees inequality and coercion as necessary byproducts of …
A Conversation with Marilyn Strathern
Professor Strathern recently delivered the 25th annual Westermarck Memorial Lecture in Helsinki: the lecture, titled 'Comparing Concerns', was published in issue 4/2009 of Suomen Antropologi. In the lecture Professor Strathern highlighted a number of unvoiced assumptions prevalent in the fields of organ, tissue and blood donations, through a comparison of contexts that are often considered incompatible. This is a perspective that has been dominan…
Forum
The year 2021 saw the open-access republication of Culture and History in the Pacific (ed. Jukka Siikala), an edited volume originally published by the Finnish Anthropological Society. Suomen antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society marks the occasion with this special book forum. For a number of years, Culture and History in the Pacific was known as a book that was particularly hard to find. Now, 30 years after the origina…
The Worth of the ‘While’
Taxation always involves an element of value quantification, since to tax is also to implement a measuring scale—a process that is usually taken for granted. But when it becomes necessary to determine the taxational value of abstract time or labor, it is also necessary to outline the principles upon which such value is established. This article discusses the conflicting views of the Finnish Tax Administration and the Helsinki Timebank, a local ex…
Commentary
Respectable Families and the Body Politic
Marking Indigeneity
Time and the other time
This article looks into the valuation of time in Fiji with particular emphasis on ‘Fiji time’, an idiom typically employed in reference to unpunctuality or relaxing. The article discusses Fiji time through four exemplars in order to illustrate the degree to which Fiji time is compatible with labour-based valuations of time
"Wasting time" the Veratan way
This article explores time as a vehicle of values in Fiji through an analysis of abundant nonworking time. The analysis centers on the Fijian chiefdom of Verata, where an appreciation of slowness, preparedness, relaxing, or even "time wasting" illustrates an alternative to abstract, labor-based valuation of time. The article employs a village-centric viewpoint from just outside Fiji's main metropolitan area, in Naloto village with a dispersed cit…
Living Kinship in the Pacific
Living Kinship in the Pacific is an edited volume comprising ten case studies, an introduction and a concluding essay. Each article presents an ethnographic case from a Pacific society: the main fo
The iTaukei Chief
Over the course of the last century and a half, the structural and political underpinnings of Fijian chieftaincy have changed in significant ways and is no longer best represented by the union of the stranger-chief and local lineage. According to what must be the most widely-accepted origin mythology in present-day Fiji, the first Fijians arrived from Tanganyika, Africa. Emphasising the shared origins of all indigenous Fijians, this mythology den…
Matt Tomlinson. In God’s Image
M ATT TOMLINSON. In God’s Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity. The Anthropology of Christianity 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. 263. ISBN: 978-0-520-25777-1 (cloth); ISBN: 978-0-520-25778-8 (paper-back)
"Wasting time" the Veratan way
This article explores time as a vehicle of values in Fiji through an analysis of abundant nonworking time. The analysis centers on the Fijian chiefdom of Verata, where an appreciation of slowness, preparedness, relaxing, or even "time wasting" illustrates an alternative to abstract, labor-based valuation of time. The article employs a village-centric viewpoint from just outside Fiji's main metropolitan area, in Naloto village with a dispersed cit…
The iTaukei Chief
Over the course of the last century and a half, the structural and political underpinnings of Fijian chieftaincy have changed in significant ways and is no longer best represented by the union of the stranger-chief and local lineage. According to what must be the most widely-accepted origin mythology in present-day Fiji, the first Fijians arrived from Tanganyika, Africa. Emphasising the shared origins of all indigenous Fijians, this mythology den…
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland
Worth the While presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth - what "else" can time be besides money? Time is a highly particular vehicle for different considerations of what is good or important, but it is also one which is deployed at different settings with surprisingly little consideration for the specificity of this particular a va…
Time and the other time
This article looks into the valuation of time in Fiji with particular emphasis on ‘Fiji time’, an idiom typically employed in reference to unpunctuality or relaxing. The article discusses Fiji time through four exemplars in order to illustrate the degree to which Fiji time is compatible with labour-based valuations of time
Matt Tomlinson. In God’s Image
M ATT TOMLINSON. In God’s Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity. The Anthropology of Christianity 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. 263. ISBN: 978-0-520-25777-1 (cloth); ISBN: 978-0-520-25778-8 (paper-back)
The iTaukei Chief
Over the course of the last century and a half, the structural and political underpinnings of Fijian chieftaincy have changed in significant ways and is no longer best represented by the union of the stranger-chief and local lineage. According to what must be the most widely-accepted origin mythology in present-day Fiji, the first Fijians arrived from Tanganyika, Africa. Emphasising the shared origins of all indigenous Fijians, this mythology den…
"Wasting time" the Veratan way
This article explores time as a vehicle of values in Fiji through an analysis of abundant nonworking time. The analysis centers on the Fijian chiefdom of Verata, where an appreciation of slowness, preparedness, relaxing, or even "time wasting" illustrates an alternative to abstract, labor-based valuation of time. The article employs a village-centric viewpoint from just outside Fiji's main metropolitan area, in Naloto village with a dispersed cit…
Living Kinship in the Pacific
Living Kinship in the Pacific is an edited volume comprising ten case studies, an introduction and a concluding essay. Each article presents an ethnographic case from a Pacific society: the main fo
Time and the other time
This article looks into the valuation of time in Fiji with particular emphasis on ‘Fiji time’, an idiom typically employed in reference to unpunctuality or relaxing. The article discusses Fiji time through four exemplars in order to illustrate the degree to which Fiji time is compatible with labour-based valuations of time
Commentary
Respectable Families and the Body Politic
Marking Indigeneity
The Worth of the ‘While’
Taxation always involves an element of value quantification, since to tax is also to implement a measuring scale—a process that is usually taken for granted. But when it becomes necessary to determine the taxational value of abstract time or labor, it is also necessary to outline the principles upon which such value is established. This article discusses the conflicting views of the Finnish Tax Administration and the Helsinki Timebank, a local ex…
Forum
The year 2021 saw the open-access republication of Culture and History in the Pacific (ed. Jukka Siikala), an edited volume originally published by the Finnish Anthropological Society. Suomen antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society marks the occasion with this special book forum. For a number of years, Culture and History in the Pacific was known as a book that was particularly hard to find. Now, 30 years after the origina…
Comparing the Worth of the While in Fiji and Finland
Worth the While presents comparative case studies of clock time from Fiji and Finland in order to ask what other values is time capable of expressing besides monetary worth - what "else" can time be besides money? Time is a highly particular vehicle for different considerations of what is good or important, but it is also one which is deployed at different settings with surprisingly little consideration for the specificity of this particular a va…
The Dawn of Everything
The Dawn of Everything is a general-audience social science book with a mission. In a nutshell, the book argues against evolutionary accounts that view societal development as a trade-off involving increased social complexity, increased social control, and the loss of egalitarian ideals. Since Rousseau's Social Contract, Graeber and Wengrow argue, Western thought has followed a 'myth' which sees inequality and coercion as necessary byproducts of …
A Conversation with Marilyn Strathern
Professor Strathern recently delivered the 25th annual Westermarck Memorial Lecture in Helsinki: the lecture, titled 'Comparing Concerns', was published in issue 4/2009 of Suomen Antropologi. In the lecture Professor Strathern highlighted a number of unvoiced assumptions prevalent in the fields of organ, tissue and blood donations, through a comparison of contexts that are often considered incompatible. This is a perspective that has been dominan…
Anthropology and Tax
From the perspective of individual taxpayers to international tax norm negotiators, the anthropologists in this collection explore how taxes shape our world: our social relationships and value regimes, how we exclude and include, the categories we think with, and the way we share with each other. A first of its kind, it presents an anthropological discussion about tax rooted in ethnographic work. It asks fundamental questions such as: what is tax…
A Snapshot of Helsinki Anthropology in Interesting Times
Sarah Green was invited by the editorial team of Suomen antropologi to write something for their Jubilee Edition about Finnish anthropology, perhaps about her experience as an outsider, having worked in anthropology departments for a couple of decades in the UK before coming to Helsinki in 2012. She gladly agreed to write a piece, but argued that she would find it difficult to compare UK and Finnish anthropologies. As a specialist on borders, loc…
Novelistic account, ethnographic accountability
I Don’t ‘Like’ Malinowski, I Cite Malinowski
The use of citation metrics has progressed to a point where a growing number of scholars are contemplating the possibility of using citation practices to enforce necessary changes on the academia - preferential citing practices, citation boycotts, and the like. Yet the academic citation is not an alienable token without consequential characteristics. In this essay, I suggest some lessons from the history of economic anthropology that may help to …
Sociology (10 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)