Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The Colombian Amazon has experienced rapid forest loss in the past decades due to growing colonization, infrastructure development, and commercial agriculture expansion. While much of the analyses of deforestation in the Amazon have been in Brazil, the…
Malaysia’s indigenous and rural communities have played a vital role in the growth of the country’s environmental movement. Yet, the ways in which their cultures and ancestral attachments to territory come to underpin their activism has remained unders…
En este artículo planteo que, grosso modo, la industria conservacionista y el correspondiente establecimiento y administración de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, a pesar de sus múltiples intentos de flexibilización y renovación de las últimas décadas, no h…
At the resource frontier of Prey Lang Forest in Cambodia, a new food regime marks multiple rifts in the social fabric. As the forest gives way to rural road development, migrant incursions, and cash cropping, long-term residents lament the paucity of a…