Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Australians will soon vote in a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australia in its 1901 Constitution and establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament. A year ago, polling suggested the referendum proposal of the 2017 National Constitutional Conventio…
The Covid-19-pandemic and resulting infection control measures drastically impacted the ability of Christian worshippers to gather and practice their faith. As a result, online solutions emerged as the primary option for maintaining religiou…
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 9, № 4, that is going to be published in the second half of December 2023. The deadline for submission of papers is December 1.
Kapitel aus: Davis, Mike (2006 [1990]): City of Quartz – Ausgrabungen der Zukunft in Los Angeles. Berlin: Assoziation A, 257-304. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Jan Reise.
Mike Davis (1946-2022) war ein einzigartiger öffentlicher Intellektueller, der wissenschaftliches, aktivistisches und populäres Denken in so unterschiedlichen Forschungsbereichen wie Stadt, Arbeiterbewegung, Marxismus, städtische politische Ökologie, G…
Ein Gespräch mit Rainer Wendling vom Verlag Assoziation A zu City of quartz und seiner Bedeutung für die deutschsprachige Stadtforschung und -bewegung.
Im Abgleich mit vergleichbaren Tendenzen in deutschen Städten wirkte die politische Rezeption von City of quartz als Keimzelle für zunächst lose Zusammenkünfte aktivistischer, künstlerischer und stadterforschender Initiativen in Frankfurt am Main und B…
Mike Davis schrieb zeitlebens aus einer zutiefst kritischen, durch Aktivismus geschulten Perspektive heraus zu raumpolitischen Entwicklung in Los Angeles. Sein Blick auf die Stadt hätte kaum weiter von dem eines weiteren präsenten Autors im Feld abweic…
Anhand des Stadtteils Bunker Hill beschrieb Mike Davis Anfang der 1990er-Jahre, wie bewusste sozialräumliche Strategien im Zuge der Reagan-Jahre die Oberfläche von Los Angeles zunehmend verhärteten. Im Herzen des Plattform-Urbanismus im San Francisco d…
This special issue seeks to problematize the way that time and gender – and their relationship to each other – is conceptualized in prevailing historical narratives about African pasts. Often we take these notions for granted in our practices of resear…
Over the long term, Africans socially constructed time and gender through struggle and invention, the stuff of history. But to get at this broad salience we must toggle between scales of region and period, among different kinds of evidence, …
This article is an exploratory study of the history of carnival as a popular festival in late colonial Lourenço Marques (contemporary Maputo), the capital of Mozambique. Drawing on archival sources and on oral history interviews, it explores…
To document an inclusive and comprehensive queer history means to write about queer femininity and queer femmes. Depending on their perceived outward form, queer femmes are often the most hypervisible and overtly queer, yet at other juncture…
Gender, as broadly construed by Bantu-speaking peoples, is not fixed in the same way that it is in the West. This kind of gender flexibility is counter to binary gender concepts which classify gender into two separate, opposite, and rigid fo…
While Kenyan colonial subjects became citizens at independence, women were excluded from state resources, social services, and full political enfranchisement. This was neither the decolonizing future they had been promised nor the one they had envision…
This article explores the cultural significance of initiation rites among the Northern Sotho in South Africa, with a particular focus on the blending of symbolic gender motifs in rock art. Scholars on Northern Sotho rock art have associated …
This contribution to the special issue develops an argument about time and gender in African history in relation to historical sound recordings. Revisiting a case study from the Namibian sound archive I demonstrate innovative methodological …
This article takes its point of departure in the author’s research experience in matrilineal northern Mozambique in the early 1980s as an employee of the National Women’s Organization, the OMM (Organização da Mulher Moçambicana). Confronted …
This article explores how multiple gendered times are brought to bear on the present in Yaawo oral history-telling about female leaders and gendered power in a more distant past. The dominant research narratives about gender and power in Afr…
Editorial to the September issue of 2023.
Jacinta, deaf from birth, chose to give birth to her own baby at home without her hearing aids. Fu-Yu assisted and took photos of the process. This is a Photo Essay about alternative possibilities to biomedical childbirth. We share our experience throu…
Over the last several decades, epidemics of chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) have appeared in Mesoamerica, North Africa, and South Asia. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a CKDu-affected village in Sri Lanka, I explore…
Las nuevas tecnologías en el campo audiovisual han permitido que proliferen películas basadas en las correspondencias fílmicas. Estas ponen en relación algo más que a dos remitentes. Las imágenes en movimiento y su sonido correspondiente viajan de un l…
L’European Journal of Turkish Studies republie, sous la forme de deux numéros « Varia », un ensemble d’articles parus « isolément » (stand-alone articles) au cours des dix premi…
L’European Journal of Turkish Studies republie, sous la forme de deux numéros « Varia », un ensemble d’articles parus « isolément » (stand-alone articles) au cours des dix premi…