Review of Chloe Ahmann. 2024. Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore
Kalevipoeg: kuidas sündis Eesti rahvuseepos
„Kalevipoeg” on Eesti rahvuseepos, mille koostas 19. sajandil peamiselt Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald eesti rahvaluule põhjal. Teost peetakse üheks eesti kirjanduse olulisemaks teoseks ja sellel oli suur roll eestlaste rahvusliku eneseteadvuse kujunemisel. Idee: anname rahvale eepose 19. sajandi alguse rahvusliku liikumise ajal leidsid rahvavalgustajad, et eestlaste eneseteadvust aitaks tugevdada teiste rahvastega võrdväärne kangelaseepos. Õpetatud Eesti Seltsi […]
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Regilaul: Eesti vanim rahvalaul, selle tunnused ja kus seda kuulata
Regilaul ehk regivärsiline rahvalaul ehk vanem rahvalaul on eesti rahvalaulu vanem vorm. Selle juured ulatuvad läänemeresoome rahvaste ühisaega ja vanuseks hinnatakse tuhat kuni kaks tuhat aastat. Regilaulu tunnused Regilaulu tekst jaguneb tavaliselt kaheksasilbilisteks värsiridadeks. Iseloomulikud on algriim ehk alliteratsioon, kus sõnad algavad samade häälikutega, ja parallelism ehk mõttekordus, kus sama mõtet öeldakse järgmises reas teiste […]
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Choreographing the Clown and the Killjoy: Reflections on Cultivating a Pedagogy of Play
Based on the reflections of three anthropologists teaching in a UK-based university, this paper critically assesses our attempts to realise a playful pedagogy in the design and delivery of undergraduate ethnographic methods teaching. Our playful approa…
Playing with Ideology: Imaginative Game‑Based Pedagogy for Critical Anthropology
This article calls for a ludic, liberatory anthropological pedagogy that uses skilful means to structure playful exploration of possibility through the nested games of educational practices. I argue that course design is always already game design and …
Curated Collection: Elections
Curated Collections highlight previously published articles from our AnthroSource archives that speak to urgent issues in the present, offering insight into current events unfolding around the globe. From movements for racial justice and Indigenous sovereignty to the social implications of climate change, technological transformation, migration, and public health, these contributions demonstrate anthropology’s enduring relevance and […]
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Destruction and Visual Trust
In contexts of violence, the question of trust affects the very way we work, as anthropologists and filmmakers: What can we do? Are images capable of showing what is happening and enabling audiences to feel and understand it? Building on my expe…
Advocacy, Ethnography and Visual Trust
This article reflects on the ethical, political, and representational dilemmas of advocacy filmmaking and visual ethnography in humanitarian crises. It examines how film was used to advocate for a marginalised Sudanese refugee population in Erit…
Acts of Trust in Anthropological Film Making
Trust in anthropology requires situated intersubjectivity and interdependency, emerging from relational contexts and transforming the people involved through performative acts. The act of trust is culturally, psychologically, and pragmatically i…
Emerging Trust
This article explores the transformative potential of collaborative filmmaking in fostering trust, dialogue, and social transformation among women in Northern Cameroon. Against a backdrop of existential insecurity and patriarchal norms, the stud…
From Truth and Trust
This essay arises from an extended conversation between anthropology, cinema, and activism—from within the intricate weave that connects the making of images to the making of trust. It unfolds around the Stronger Family, a Black LGBTQIA+ collect…
Trust and Ethnographic Film. An Introduction.
Trust is a fundamental—and almost definitory—principle of ethnographic cinema, operating in all phases of visual anthropological research, from shooting to post-production and dissemination. Although the issue of trust has always been implicitly…
Revising resilience: The 17 Principles of environmental justice and their ‘Indigenous Overlay’
Resilience is widely celebrated worldwide as a goal for ecosystems and human communities, and yet often lacks a critical, historically specific analysis of equity, specifically from Indigenous and rural standpoints. Without equity or history, resilienc…
The Weight of What Will Not Return
In recent decades, Australia has developed a public grammar for addressing the Stolen Generations through inquiries, testimony, apology, commemoration, legal action and partial schemes of reparation. This article draws on long-term ethnograp…
Critical Nostalgia in Wolves in the Throne Room
Drawing on the innovations of Norwegian atmospheric black metal and its nature-oriented themes, Cascadian black metal foregrounds ecology and the natural environment—particularly that of the Cascadia region—while distancing itself from some …
Sustainable Finance: The Executive (Dys)function of Climate Governance?
This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. In early October 2023, I arrived in Tokyo for the first time, as a financial professional and a graduate student in anthropology studying sustainable finance. Somewhere along my fieldwork journey, my attempts at breaking into the […]
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Kimberly Eison Simmons: An Anthropologist of Blackness, Diasporic Belonging, and the Politics of Natural Hair
The Anthropology News Interview In-depth conversations with the people who make anthropology tick. Doing anthropology isn’t always fun, but some of the people doing it are absolute delights—and they have a lot to say about their research, the state of the discipline, and, naturally, their favorite foods. Welcome to The Anthropology News Interview, where we sit down with some of […]
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The afterlife of the Mt. Taylor “zombie mine” and the continuance of life around the Snowcapped Mountain
In May 2018, the New Mexico Mining Commission (in the USA) held a public hearing regarding a permit revision that would allow the Mt. Taylor Uranium Mine to change its status from “standby” to “operating.” The New Mexico Environmental Law Center contes…
Air Conditioners and Other Bad Environmental Objects
This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. “In the past, a lot of money for capacity building has been spent on foreign consultants who fly in for a week and stay at five-star, air-conditioned hotels.” The audience, a group of environmental professionals, academics, […]
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Social Fires in Belém do Pará
COP30 beyond the Documents This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. 20 November 2025. The eve of the final day of COP30 in Belém do Pará. The heat was intense. I was in the Country Pavilion in the Blue Zone, an area reserved […]
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The Second Círio
This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. Since 1995 world leaders have descended each year on a chosen city to discuss the fate of the biosphere at the annual “Conference of the Parties” to the UN Framework Convention on […]
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Anthropology at the “Sites” of Climate Governance
This piece is the introduction to a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. As a graduate student attending a climate meeting for the first time, I did not know what to expect. I hustled down a street in Katowice, Poland, in the early morning […]
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Review of Alyssa Battistoni. 2025. Free gifts: Capitalism and the politics of nature
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Pratiques ethnographiques, pratiques langagières
Appel à propositions de la revue Ethnographiques.org
Date limite de soumission : 08/01/2027
Coordination : Grégoire Andréo, Université d’Helsinki, Roxanne Comotti, Kone Foundation, Université Grenoble Alpes, University of Helsinki, Anaïs Leblon, Université Paris 8, LAVUE-Alter et Paul Sorrentino, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, CASE
En quoi l’ethnographie et les savoirs qu’elle produit sont-ils façonnés par le fait qu’elle est une méthode d’enquête fondée, entre autres,[…]
Tamales in the Altos de Chiapas: Racialization of Taste in the Food Standardization Era
Tamales, food of pre-Hispanic origin, exemplify global food standardization processes tied to the racialization of traditional local foods. Our research conducted in Los Altos de Chiapas, Mexico, examines ethnographic material related to the eve…