Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper analyses the complexity of regulating the activities of small traders at the Grand Marché in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Markets in Africa are places where small-scale trading takes place par excellence, and t…
The Abakuá are an all-male ceremonial association founded in Cuba in the 1830s which persist to this day as exponents of a form of Afrocuban folklore. Legally recognized on the island for the first time in 2005, the Abakuá community has asse…
This article examines how individuals of diverse cultural backgrounds in Norway participate in anti-racist activism via social media. It investigates the nature of digital activism compared to traditional paradigms, highlighting the varied f…
En este artículo analizamos dos metodologías de pedagogía transformadora dirigidas a jóvenes de las provincias de Sevilla y Huelva (España), qué buscaron suscitar reflexiones críticas sobre sus prácticas alimentarias. Examinamos los resultados de las i…
The notion of sonic intimacy has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years, but less well-established has been what it means for a sonic encounter to be non-intimate. This essay proposes an opposite to sonic intimacy, namely so…
Bertrand Hervieu et François Purseigle. 2022. Une agriculture sans agriculteurs ; la révolution indicible. Paris : Presses de Sciences Po.
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Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This introduction provides an outline of what an approach to work regulation processes beyond the formal/informal divide might look like. The first section briefly reviews the different approaches to informal economies …
Political ecologists are increasingly interested in the dynamics of power and authority where mining and conservation converge. We contribute to this emerging literature by applying an ‘actor-oriented’ approach to explore the creation of protected area…
Degrowth and food sovereignty movements share commitments to social-ecological transformation, democracy and the flourishing of human and non-human life. Encounters between the two movements have been relatively limited, however. This contribution is b…
Anthropology & Aging
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This study addresses the struggles for housing among older women, including the meaning attached to ownership and control of urban houses among low-income households. It analyses the extent to which older women in low-income suburbs of Bulawayo, Zimbab…
Anthropology & Aging
Canada’s care systems are ill-equipped to support its aging population, and this crisis intertwines with an acute shortage of affordable housing. Immigrants to Canada have a higher propensity to cohabitate multi-generationally, an arrangement that is s…
Anthropology & Aging
Anthropology & Aging
Anthropology & Aging
Anthropology & Aging
Anthropology & Aging
Anthropology & Aging
Anthropology & Aging
Drawing on narratives recorded from family members of residents in long-term care homes in Ontario, Canada, during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, in this paper, I present a two-pronged argument. First, following Taylor (2008) and Seaman (2018, 2020) I sug…
Anthropology & Aging
Anthropology & Aging