Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding (eds.) Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations. Canon Pyon, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing. The RAI Country Series, Volume Three. 2021. 152 pp. ISBN: 978-1-912385-30-0 (paperback); ISBN: 978-1-9…
This paper reflexively unpicks digital ethnographic methods employed during ongoing online fieldwork on ‘digital deaths’. To do so, this research delves into the digital afterlife, exploring the fate of online traces and social media profiles after dea…
This article explores the story of Sanwar, who fled Bangladesh following persecution for his sexuality, and spent five years struggling for asylum in the UK. Analysing our conversations together with his asylum paperwork, I show how trauma was apprehen…
Laos is a country of seven million people in Southeast Asia, with its largest urban centre having a population of just under one million people. At a time of rising inflation and growing awareness of climate change, this article investigates how urban …
The present collection examines the ways Indigenous peoples across the Eurasian North—Sámi, Nenets, Khanty, and Tyva—deal with the past and how their conceptualizations of the past are entangled with dominant ideologies in Russia and Finland, human-env…
Anthropology human’ other (American things, has as Anthropological ‘the been study described, of what Association makes amongst us 2023), ‘the science of human beings’ (Merriam–Webster Dictionary 2023), and ‘the comparative study of common sense’ (Herz…
The book The Dawn of Everything is an introduction to some of the diversity and surprising complexity of ancestral social lives written in an accessible, yet academic fashion. The book also develops a theory of human development as emerging from encoun…
The historiography of maritime archaeology is one of margins and peripheries. Linked to the development of underwater archaeology, efforts to advance theoretical frameworks within the discipline have been slow at best. There remains a widespread assump…
This article discusses Nenets epic songs, focusing on two texts collected at the beginning of the twentieth century in relation to the divergent historicities they represent. The process of gathering and publishing folklore is analysed as folklorisatio…
The Finnish geodesist and self-taught ethnographer Karl Nickul (1900–1980) studied the Indigenous toponymy among the Skolt Sámi in northeastern Finland. This article analyses Nickul’s early publications and international correspondence, focusing on the…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
This article deals with the complexity of relations of urban dwellers with the natural environment. It explores a rich variety of practices in engaging with non-built environments developed by the population of mining cities in the Murmansk…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
The seminar was dedicated to examining the types of transformations that have recently taken place in feminism in Latin America and in the global justice movements, as well as envisioning possible future processes and shifts in relation to …
GISA W ESZKALNYS. Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010. Pp. 214. ISBN: 978-1-84545-723-5.
KHOSRAVI, SHARAM. Illegal Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 176. ISBN: 978-0-230-23079-8.
HARVEY, DAVID. Social Justice and the City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009 (Revised Edition). Pp. 354. ISBN: 978-0-8203-3403-5. FAINSTEIN, SUSAN. The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 224. ISBN: 978-080144655…
It is widely held that a new image of the world—a colour photograph of the planet Earth rising beyond the shadow of the moon, as captured by a pair of American astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission of 1968—was one of the most influential force…
Scientific research and public debate on biodiversity loss (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), climate change (IPCC 2007), and other environmental issues have led to a renewed discussion of what needs to be done about the place of humans…
In an information society, where overload has become a problem, might anthropology’s comparative method find a new lease of life? This Lecture sets out to test the hunch that it might. A field ever more densely populated with information is that of org…