Timo Kaartinen

Timo Kaartinen is Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki where he began his academic career as Jukka Siikala’s student. His Ph.D. dissertation, accepted at the University of Chicago in 2001, was based on fieldwork in the Indonesian islands of Maluku and focused on different forms of ritual and narrative temporality. He has also published articles about sociolinguistics, state-society relations, nationalism and the theory of ritual, and his recent fieldwork is concerned with linguistic diversity and local responses to political transition in Kalimantan. From 2001 until 2007 he was president of the Finnish Anthropological Society. At present he edits the monograph series Studia Anthropologica Fennica published by the Finnish Literature Society.