Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The Tzen oil palm plantation in the northwestern corner of Wide Bay in Pomio District, East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea is a highly infrastructured space. Roads surround and order the oil palm plantings into a grid-like space and connect the…
We are once again delighted to bring you a new issue of Suomen antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. This issue marks our final contribution as your editors-in-chief. Two years ago when we took over the journal, our primary a…
A key point David Graeber and David Wengrow make in their mammoth work, The Dawn of Everything (2021), is that we humans are not by default redisposed to hierarchy or equality, but are first and foremost a socially creative species. In this essay…
In this Editors’ note we introduce two new members to our editorial team, discuss student protests in Finland and anthropologists’ support for them, and introduce the texts to this issue. This issue is a special is guest-edited by Dmitry Arzyutov and K…
In the Editors’ note, we present the texts of this issue, which consists of individual article and research report submissions sent to us. Once again,by fortunate happenstance, the various articles, research reports and essays discuss related topics, l…
In this editorial we introduce new members of our editorial team and the contents of this issue. In addition we discuss open access developments of the journal, namely our new license policy, which allows authors to choose a Creative Common license tha…
This special issue is also the second issue we have overseen as editors-in-chief. In the last issue, we introduced our editorial team, the new editorial board, and our ‘vision’, namely, to maintain and develop the journal’s open access spirit started b…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
The year 2021 saw the open-access republication of Culture and History in the Pacific (ed. Jukka Siikala), an edited volume originally published by the Finnish Anthropological Society. Suomen antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Soci…
In this article I examine a recent communal cocoa planting project in a Wide Bay Mengen community in East Pomio, Papua New Guinea in relation to histories of resource extraction. I discuss how the community members modeled the current planting of cocoa…
Chris Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities (1982) is widely regarded as a classic in economic anthropology as well as in studies on Melanesia. The work offers a lucid typology and definition of the concepts of ‘gift’ and ‘commodity’based on the tradition…