Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in SAFN’s four-part 2026 series on temporality in food anthropology. We invite you to explore the other contributions by Janita Van Dyk, Janet Chrzan, and D.H. We. Cheese is an ancient biotechnology for preserving milk. Historically, many styles of cheese were made to travel through trade or nomadic mobility: their curds cooked […]
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Gina Núñez-Mchiri, San Diego State University, President of the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists 2024-2026 As ALLA, we seek to connect with people and organizations that work with Latines (gender-neutral term favored in spoken Spanish) in the cities where our annual American Anthropological Association meetings are held. Knowing these diverse Latine communities expands our […]
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“Two young men died here [in 2021] because of the police. Because they stopped them from seeking medical help. So, obviously we can’t depend on the police, […] the city, the state […], we got to depend on ourselves to take care of ourselves.” Diego (pseudonym), a shipyard worker and ex-inmate in his thirties, was […]
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Nordic Journal of African Studies
In this paper, we examine personal names among the Kiga people of southwestern Uganda. We demonstrate how naming practices reflect gender power relations, cultural beliefs, values, and traditions among the Kiga. Based on a dataset of about 7…
Black metal, a genre known for its radical musical and ideological transgressions, originated in the early 1980s and consolidated in Norway during the 1990s. While traditionally linked to a raw sound, Satanic themes, and a misanthropic world…
Industrial wastelands resulting from the decline of industries from the colonial period are now an industrial heritage and a major challenge for urban renewal in Algerian cities. These wastelands are characterized by long transitional phases…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Basé sur l’expérience d’une chercheuse en immersion au sein d’une organisation anti-avortement polonaise, cet article propose d’analyser une enquête ethnographique rendue impossible. L’impossibilité dont il s’agit est double et renvoie à l’hosti…
Avec ce nouvel ouvrage, Octave Debary livre le fruit de vingt ans de recherche autour de l’anthropologie des restes et de la mémoire. Réunissant un corpus d’« arts de la mémoire » (p. 33), ce livre offre une relecture transversale des thèmes et des terrains qui ont jalonné les travaux antérieurs de l’auteur : De la poubelle au musée : anthropologie des restes (2019) ; La ressemblance dans l’œuvre de Jochen Gerz (2017) ; Les fantômes de Christian Boltanski (2023), pour engager une réflexion[…]
1931-2026 Dr. Michael M. Cernea, the Romanian-born sociologist who helped place people at the heart of the World Bank’s approach to development, died on September 10, 2026, aged 94. His career rested on a conviction: development must be judged not only by economic returns and infrastructure, but by its consequences for people, their livelihoods and […]
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Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
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This article challenges the widely circulated claim that Thailand is a non-reading society. Public dis course frequently reduces reading culture to quantitative indicators such as the number of books read per year, obscuring the complex institutional e…
Research on hydropower development in Southeast Asia has documented processes of dispossession and environmental change, yet small hydropower projects and their cumulative, everyday impacts on community life remain comparatively underexamined. This art…
This article examines the possibilities and challenges of slowing down in field research. It follows four early-career scholars of Southeast Asia with varied positionalities and roots in the region, attempting to conduct reciprocal research and activis…
Business incubators have become central organizations within global entrepreneurial ecosystems, and their intermediary position between local entrepreneurs and multinationals calls for closer, more nuanced examination. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork…
In this article, I describe my long-standing experience of engaging with ‘foreign’ researchers when I was asked to provide support and partner as a local fixer, research assistant, tour guide for field studies, recruiter of enumerators, and field facil…
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
The Tattarisuo Mystery was a sensationalized witchcraft case in Finland in the early 1930s. At its centre was a group of displaced working-class individuals, called by the press the Tattarisuo coven, who sought through magical rituals to re…