Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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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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.
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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 […]
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