Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Global South cities such as Old Dhaka face persistent challenges in providing basic urban services, including drinking water, sanitation, electricity, and waste disposal. Access to these services is unequal, with limited resources disproportionately di…
PRECIGOUT F. 2026. Entreprendre en charité ; Dynamiques et contradictions d’un dispositif d’aide alimentaire, Paris : l’Harmattan. 214p.
Dans son ouvrage, Frédéric Précigout plonge les lecteur·ices au cœur de l’action sociale contemporaine…
We started the Rowasu’u collaborative digital archive—a project that returns decades of anthropological research materials to the communities they document in Central Brazil—in 2023. Our A’uwẽ (Xavante, Indigenous) collaborators are used to projects that are proposed but never started, launched but fizzle as institutional priorities shift, or take years for regulatory approval. The leaders of […]
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Religion has emerged as a potential barrier to integration in increasingly diverse European societies. While existing research on intergroup relations mostly focuses on majority members’ attitudes toward religious or ethnic minority groups, …
This article examines Finnish political discourse on recent migration events on the eastern border of the European Union and explores its broader societal impacts. Using discourse analysis and a theoretical framework of securitization and ‘o…
Recent shifts in return policy have altered the legal reception and treatment of migrants worldwide. This article examines how policy documents from forced return operations construct human rights, authority and interculturality. Using criti…
How do foreign policy disputes between host and home states affect external voting? Since the early 2000s, Turkey has adopted a proactive diaspora engagement policy to not only enfranchise nonresident citizens more effectively but also mobil…
At the Lac Télé Community Reserve (LTCR)—the Republic of Congo’s only community-based protected area in the seasonally flooded Likouala swamp forests—conservation management remains tenuous: stable large-mammal populations, particularly the reserve’s r…
The sight of masked immigration agents rampaging through cities, ripping people of color from their cars and homes, and killing at least ten people on the streets has sown terror and mass outrage across the US. Innumerable abuses by the second Trump administration’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP) have, naturally, thrust […]
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On August 2, 2026, Michael Eugene Harkin passed away in Laramie, Wyoming. Born in Muncie, Indiana, on August 16, 1958, Harkin received a BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he majored in international studies and English. He then pursued a graduate degree in anthropology at the University of Chicago, receiving his […]
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This article examines how land relations are reconfigured in Klerlweehtu District (KNU-administered territory) in Bago Region, Myanmar, where Karen communities face episodic ruptures amid armed conflicts between the State Administration Council (SAC) a…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article examines oath-taking in Sierra Leone as a diagnostic ritual through which an African state’s postcolonial legitimacy is revealed and contested. Drawing on multisite qualitative research involving 102 indivi…
This short essay investigates why private search and rescue (SAR) crew members who bear witness to state violence against refugees in the Mediterranean Sea experience feelings of deep anger and outrage, what Dubreuil has called “moral anger”…
Kolesterool on keha jaoks vajalik, kuid liiga kõrge tase võib olla ohtlik. Siin on mõned ekspertide soovitused, kuidas hoida kolesterooli kontrolli all. Tervislik toitumine Toitumine mõjutab otseselt kolesterooli taset. Järgi järgmisi soovitusi: Söö rohkem kiudaineid: Kiudained aitavad vähendada halva kolesterooli taset. Söö teravilju, puuvilju ja köögivilju. Väldi transrasvu: Need rasvad tõstavad halva kolesterooli taset. Loe […]
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Loe, kuidas Google Review QR-koodi kasutamine letis või arvel annab Eesti ettevõtetele ja kultuuritegijatele võimaluse kogukonda tugevdada ning rahvapärandit nähtavamaks muuta – praktilised juhised ja soovitused.
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El objetivo general de este texto es brindar un acercamiento a la dinámica de venta de productos naturales comestibles de origen prehispánico en un mercado semanal de la ciudad de Xalapa, Veracruz, México. El trabajo de campo fue realizado de marzo a j…
This article analyzes Argentina’s Law 26.639 on Minimum Standards for the Protection of Glaciers and the Periglacial Environment as a landmark case of pioneering environmental legislation and a result of socio-ecological mobilization. Through a politic…
Much of the knowledge anchoring political ecology continues to privilege Euro-American or Western epistemes. This article explores the opportunities and challenges of using local or indigenized scholarship to enrich political ecology in the Philippines…
Dr. Wayne Warry, distinguished medical anthropologist and pioneer in Indigenous and rural health research, passed away on August 4, 2026, leaving behind an enduring legacy of community-engaged scholarship, health-equity advocacy, and dedicated mentorship across Canada and the United States. Dr. Warry earned his BA (1975) and MA (1976) from McMaster University before completing his doctoral […]
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Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This research investigates the execution of the digitalisation aspect of Ghana’s National Public Sector Reform Strategy (NPSRS) (2018–2023) across three local government entities: Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Tech…
Political ontology research has highlighted how the dominance of the Euro-modern ontology over other ontologies renders other-than-scientific knowledges as subordinate or untrue. Despite the commitment to base conservation efforts on Indigenous and loc…
This article examines Latin America’s critical contributions to global political ecology through concepts such as extractivism, ecological debt, ecologically unequal exchange, epistemic equity, body-territory, and political ontology. Drawing on decades…
Este artículo analiza la revista Pampa (1950–1955), órgano institucional de la Compañía Salitrera Anglo-Lautaro en la oficina Pedro de Valdivia, en el norte de Chile. A partir de un análisis documental de enfoque deductivo-inductivo, aplicado a un corp…
El artículo analiza la genealogía teórica del concepto antropológico de cultura, identificando dos grandes patrones epistemológicos que han estructurado su desarrollo histórico: la tradición ilustrada y la tradición romántica. A partir de una reconstru…