Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Latin American political ecology has advanced a rigorous critique of mainstream development models predicated on intensive extraction of natural resources. In Brazil, the diversity of environmental justice movements illustrates the multifaceted ways di…
When we put out the call for this themed issue, we placed a single question at its center: Does contemporary AI represent a fundamental shift for business anthropology – or not? More specifically, we asked whether AI marks a genuine break from the digi…
The accelerating integration of Artificial Intelligence into organizational life is prompting a critical reckoning with how we conceptualize, deploy, and coexist with these technologies. In this essay, I argue that the prevailing tendency to anthropomo…
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) presents opportunities and challenges for business anthropology. It offers analytical efficiencies, but requires well-informed, judicious use. Some anthropologists are hesitant to incorporate GenAI in their wo…
The market research industry has eagerly embraced artificial intelligence (AI) along with the promises of it bringing greater speed, reduced costs, and less laborious work. Advocates recommend the use of various forms of AI across the entire research p…
This essay – written as a reflexive field report – examines the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) through PreeMe, a digital health platform grounded in long-term anthropological and epidemiological r…
This essay reframes the discourse around large language models (LLMs) by drawing on anthropological and linguistic theories of magic as a positive transformative force. While current discussions often cast AI as mysteriously dangerous – a form of “dark…
When the history of the United States in 2025 is written, it is likely to go down as the year when the hype around AI reached a fever pitch and the beginning of a fundamental shift in how businesses approach task assignment and staffing. Many CEOs are …
Anthropology faces a dual challenge in the age of artificial intelligence (AI): integrating computation while maintaining disciplinary rigor and distinctness, as well as reclaiming public relevance. To situate these challenges, we trace a relevance gap…
Anthropology has made a defining feature of its work to critique and interpret waves of technological change, most recently social media and digital infrastructures and currently artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, at the same time, it has struggled to …
Business anthropology faces a moment of simultaneous continuity and rupture. As adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates across US organizations, the digital turn has moved from emerging possibility to disciplinary reality. Yet, the field i…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. As geo-political and geo-economic tensions among major powers escalate, weaker states face renewed pressure to take sides. This article looks at how the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) handles this dilemma. Drawi…
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Este artículo de investigación recoge parte de mis hallazgos en torno a algunos de los cuerpos de agua de La Mojana bolivarense en Colombia, los cuales pude conocer en medio de mi trabajo de campo etnográfico y gracias al conocimiento expert…
El despojo de tierras a través del crédito ha marcado históricamente las relaciones sociales y la distribución de la riqueza. La presente investigación se ocupa de examinar el papel del crédito rural en el despojo de tierras campesinas en Co…
Cerrejón, una de las empresas de minería de carbón más grandes del mundo, produce miles de toneladas de rocas fragmentadas que deben ser retiradas de su sitio original hacia áreas específicamente designadas. Así se forman los botaderos miner…
En este artículo analizo la imbricación entre la conformación del istmo como espacio geoestratégico, los diferentes procesos de intervención desarrollista y los recursos naturales como parte de la creación de paisajes tecnopolíticos, constan…
Entre 2018 y 2023, en la vereda La Sirena, que está ubicada en Ciénaga (Magdalena), sociólogos, ingenieros y biólogos intervinieron un sistema de gestión local del agua adaptando un sistema de almacenamiento y potabilización con una do…
Universitas Humanística
Este artigo examina como a identidade camponesa é negociada na interseção entre os mercados de cafés especiais, dispositivos de competitividade e arranjos sociomateriais na Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. A partir de uma experiência etnográfic…
In this article, I develop a fugitive anthropology (Berry et al., 1997) from and for the working classes. Four decades of neoliberal austerity policies have increased medical and socio-economic inequality in England and across the world. Yet, the debat…
This article introduces the Random Ethnographic Vignette Printer, an interactive, open-access tool for teaching ethnographic writing. The tool randomly selects and prints vignettes from a curated database, pairing them with reflection prompts and short…
This article interrogates the educational prospects of the Metaverse as a field of social reality, and the implications of this reality for the teaching of anthropology. First, we consider the discursive moves that have led to a modernist rendering of …
In this paper, we illustrate how virtual exchanges that are similar to collaborative online international learning (COIL) can function as an effective means for integrating international and experiential training in collaborative-based ethnography ac…
New Florida Journal of Anthropology