Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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.
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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…
Rechenzentren sind ressourcenintensive Einrichtungen, die nicht nur auf Rechenhardware angewiesen sind, sondern auch auf unterstützende Systeme wie Klimaanlagen und Notstromgeneratoren, um die Rechenkapazität aufrechtzuerhalten, die für die Bereitstell…
Dieser Artikel untersucht, auf welche Weise technologische Initiativen, die zur Nachhaltigkeit menschlichen Lebens in Dhaka, Bangladesch, beitragen sollen, mit sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Problemlagen verflochten sind, für die es im be…
Successive interventions in South Sumatra’s peat swamps including logging, transmigration, plantations, conservation, and restoration have led to changing land use permits, boundaries, canal systems, different land use classifications, and prohibitions…
As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence, members of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government are rewriting and weaponizing history, narrowing the definition of who and what counts as American. Amid the celebrations, our team completed two years of fieldwork in Pennsylvania exploring the myths and realities of data […]
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This article complicates the dominant narratives of territorial conflicts between indigenous communities and mestizo campesinos in Nicaragua’s Bosawas Biosphere Reserve. I suggest that the framing of these conflicts as “interethnic” obscures how class …
(1952–2026) Pamela R. Frese, professor of anthropology at The College of Wooster, passed away on May 4, 2026, in Wooster, Ohio. Frese served her community for 40 years as a colleague, mentor, teacher, and “nourishing mother” inspiration for all who knew her. Pam Frese completed her undergraduate work at the University of Maryland and earned […]
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Dear Reader, The public release of the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences on June 5, 2026, sent shockwaves through the academy, sparking immediate headlines and intense debate. At its core is a provocative charge: that the humanities and humanistic social sciences face a crisis of their own making, […]
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One of the first things we purportedly unrigorous humanistic scholars teach our students is that it is an elementary scholarly duty to quote authors correctly. If you edit a quote, you risk changing its meaning and you can misrepresent someone by taking quotes out of context. Unfortunately, the person (or AI agent) who was responsible for […]
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In January and February, and again in June and July, I spend hours reading evaluations of the 1600 research grant applications that the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research receives every year. In March and April, and September and October, I repeat the procedure for applications who make it to the final round. Our reviewers ask […]
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US Vice President JD Vance said, “Universities in our country are fundamentally corrupt and dedicated to deceit and lies, not to the truth,” and quoting Nixon, asserted that “professors are the enemy.” These statements stem from a belief that scholarly commitments to intellectual and representational diversity, structural equity, and the inclusion of historically unrepresented groups and voices have […]
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The Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences is not a neutral audit; it is a tactical hit job on disciplines like anthropology. Hand-delivered to university chancellors and presidents—conspicuously bypassing the scholars, students, and research partners actually doing the work—this supposedly “fair assessment” is a political manifesto tailored to sanitize […]
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The Boghossian Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences, which singles out anthropology as overly politicized, treats its attention to race, gender, and colonialism as a recent departure from a purer, more objective tradition of disinterested inquiry. That history does not hold up. Franz Boas spent much of his career […]
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The conclusive statements about anthropology in the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences do not fit my own wide experience of the field or its practitioners. Nor, I think, do the writers of this Report demonstrate the rigorous scholarly standards that they extoll. From 2005 until 2019, I held the position of […]
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“American archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing.” Gordon Willey and Phillip Phillips open their book, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, with this line of thought inspired by Phillips’ 1955 article outlining the significance of general anthropology to archaeological praxis. Today, American archaeology asks questions that move us beyond the dictums presented in 1958 while continuing to […]
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