This special issue of Budkavlen in English consists articles that have been published Swedish earlier this journal. The fall into three themes, very different but current interest the fields ethnology and folkloristics at Åbo Akademi University. themes are urbanity, narration masculinity. begins with eight interesting on these subjects, finishes two thorough presentations offolkloristics Akademi.

An investigation of the career of one of the "founding mothers" of the social sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Marina de Vasconcellos, successor of Arthur Ramos, is one way of understanding how anthropology was established in Rio de Janeiro. Conflicts and alliances, continuities and discontinuities, lie behind the pioneering Brazilian Society of Anthropology and Ethnology and the Institute of Social...