Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
David MacDougall’s film work and theoretical reflections, which began in the late sixties and continue to this day, are anchored in the idea that film should maintain a respectful, coexisting relationship with everyday reality. The notion of par…
This article examines the ethnographic significance of silence and background noise in biographical video interviews with former miners in southwest Sardinia. Drawing on John Cage’s conceptualization of silence, sensory ethnography, and anthropo…
Drawing from the fieldwork experience with a sound engineering and video maker in Austria, France, and Italy, the paper reflects on how to use a camera to explore beekeeping practices. Shadowing the footage and related fieldwork notes, the contr…
Media studies that examine the relationship between media content and the materiality of media objects partly address the question of the logics of innovation in media tools. From a historical perspective, some focus on the specificity of media …
This introduction frames a thematic section dedicated to examining how contemporary digital technologies are reshaping visual ethnographic practice and contributing to the emergence of a new habitus of visual production. Drawing on debates in vi…
EV100 on Eesti algatus, mille eesmärk on edendada ja toetada elektri- ja nullheiteautode kasutamist. Selles artiklis vaatleme EV100 tähtsamaid sündmusi ja hetki ning nende mõju Eesti tulevikule. EV100 sündmused EV100 korraldab mitmeid sündmusi, et tutvustada elektriautosid ja pakkuda teavet alternative kütuste kohta. Need sündmused toovad kokku autojuhid, tootjad ja spetsialistid. Osalejad saavad kogeda uusimaid tehnoloogiaid, […]
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Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Since the 1990s, donors and multinational publishers have entrenched an extraverted academic publishing economy across Africa. Postcolonial optimism around independent African publishing was extinguished by two decades …
Latin American political ecology has advanced a rigorous critique of mainstream development models predicated on intensive extraction of natural resources. In Brazil, the diversity of environmental justice movements illustrates the multifaceted ways di…
When we put out the call for this themed issue, we placed a single question at its center: Does contemporary AI represent a fundamental shift for business anthropology – or not? More specifically, we asked whether AI marks a genuine break from the digi…
The accelerating integration of Artificial Intelligence into organizational life is prompting a critical reckoning with how we conceptualize, deploy, and coexist with these technologies. In this essay, I argue that the prevailing tendency to anthropomo…
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) presents opportunities and challenges for business anthropology. It offers analytical efficiencies, but requires well-informed, judicious use. Some anthropologists are hesitant to incorporate GenAI in their wo…
The market research industry has eagerly embraced artificial intelligence (AI) along with the promises of it bringing greater speed, reduced costs, and less laborious work. Advocates recommend the use of various forms of AI across the entire research p…
This essay – written as a reflexive field report – examines the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) through PreeMe, a digital health platform grounded in long-term anthropological and epidemiological r…
This essay reframes the discourse around large language models (LLMs) by drawing on anthropological and linguistic theories of magic as a positive transformative force. While current discussions often cast AI as mysteriously dangerous – a form of “dark…
When the history of the United States in 2025 is written, it is likely to go down as the year when the hype around AI reached a fever pitch and the beginning of a fundamental shift in how businesses approach task assignment and staffing. Many CEOs are …
Anthropology faces a dual challenge in the age of artificial intelligence (AI): integrating computation while maintaining disciplinary rigor and distinctness, as well as reclaiming public relevance. To situate these challenges, we trace a relevance gap…
Anthropology has made a defining feature of its work to critique and interpret waves of technological change, most recently social media and digital infrastructures and currently artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, at the same time, it has struggled to …
Business anthropology faces a moment of simultaneous continuity and rupture. As adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates across US organizations, the digital turn has moved from emerging possibility to disciplinary reality. Yet, the field i…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. As geo-political and geo-economic tensions among major powers escalate, weaker states face renewed pressure to take sides. This article looks at how the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) handles this dilemma. Drawi…
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Este artículo de investigación recoge parte de mis hallazgos en torno a algunos de los cuerpos de agua de La Mojana bolivarense en Colombia, los cuales pude conocer en medio de mi trabajo de campo etnográfico y gracias al conocimiento expert…
El despojo de tierras a través del crédito ha marcado históricamente las relaciones sociales y la distribución de la riqueza. La presente investigación se ocupa de examinar el papel del crédito rural en el despojo de tierras campesinas en Co…
Cerrejón, una de las empresas de minería de carbón más grandes del mundo, produce miles de toneladas de rocas fragmentadas que deben ser retiradas de su sitio original hacia áreas específicamente designadas. Así se forman los botaderos miner…
En este artículo analizo la imbricación entre la conformación del istmo como espacio geoestratégico, los diferentes procesos de intervención desarrollista y los recursos naturales como parte de la creación de paisajes tecnopolíticos, constan…
Entre 2018 y 2023, en la vereda La Sirena, que está ubicada en Ciénaga (Magdalena), sociólogos, ingenieros y biólogos intervinieron un sistema de gestión local del agua adaptando un sistema de almacenamiento y potabilización con una do…