Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
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…