Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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 …
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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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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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…
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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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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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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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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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, 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…
Indigenous communities frequently face displacement due to conservation efforts. Consequently, much of the academic literature focuses on how indigenous communities resist such displacement. However, this article takes issue with this narrative, instea…
DEBBABI MISSAOUI Sihem. 2026. L’alimentation dans le patrimoine arabe : sources, méthodes et analyses de textes (2 tomes). Tunis : Académie tunisienne des sciences, des lettres et des arts, Beit al-Hikma.
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Dear Colleagues!
The CAES editorial team welcomes your submissions for CAES Vol. 12, No. 3, scheduled for publication in the second half of December 2026.
Avasta Viljandi ja Rakvere rahvakultuur, traditsioonid ning folklooris peituv pärand. Valikuline majutus tagab elamusterohke külastuse ja rahulikud hetked.
The post Kultuuriretk Viljandisse ja Rakveresse: Eesti pärand elab folklooris ja majutuses first appeared on Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
Editor’s foreword Articles The hieroglyphic writing system of the Ryazan-Oka burial grounds technocomplex Yelena Desherieva, Yelena Kolesnikova The Ryazan-Oka burial grounds technocomplex (ROBGT) features artifacts with inscriptions representing a fully developed logographic writing system. Crucial to decoding this writing system is a graffiti on a buckle depicting sexual intercourse accompanied by a two-sign inscription: a […]
Avasta, kuidas Eesti teadus- ja kultuuriorganisatsioonid saavad praktiliste off-page SEO võtetega kasvatada oma pärandi nähtavust ja usaldusväärsust.
The post Teadus- ja kultuuriorganisatsiooni nähtavuse suurendamine: praktilised off-page SEO võtted first appeared on Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
The story of four boys, one wrongful accusation, and a cycle of violence that outlasted every attempt to stop it. It was still hot outside when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—whom everyone called Sito—reached Grant Avenue, in San Francisco’s Chinatown, around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 8, 2019. His girlfriend Arianna’s mother had been evicted that day, […]
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Global health often treats death as the endpoint of disease. Mortality marks the conclusion of an epidemic, the final outcome in surveillance reports, and the measure against which interventions are evaluated. Yet during fieldwork in the wards of Buguruni and Vingunguti in Dar es Salaam, where many families live with the enduring consequences of poverty […]
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The Bukit Tigapuluh forest landscape in Tebo, Indonesia, has become an arena of contestation involving indigenous peoples, migrant communities, corporations, NGOs, the state, and non-human species. This study examines how competing claims over forests …
In Mexico, severe and pervasive water pollution has sparked on-going socio-environmental conflicts. Successive government administrations have failed to contemplate enhancing control particularly of industrial pollution sources. To what extent can thes…
Die Digitalisierung prägt zunehmend, wie Umwelten im Klimawandel erkannt und regiert werden. Dieses Editorial entwickelt den Begriff der environmental computability (Berechenbarkeit von Umwelten), um jene sozio-materiellen Bedingungen zu beschreiben, u…
Dieser Artikel untersucht die Integration von Digitalisierung und Umweltbelangen in der digitalen Landwirtschaft. Er geht den Fragen nach: Was bedeutet eine solche Integration für die Akteure, die die digitale Landwirtschaft entwickeln, und wie gestalt…
Um der Klimakrise und dem Verlust biologischer Vielfalt zu begegnen, arbeiten Bürger:innen und Forschende in Citizen-Science-Projekten zusammen, wie etwa im schwedischen Biodiversitätsportal Artportalen. Da die dort erhobenen Daten umweltbezogene Entsc…