Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This analysis examines the implications of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s 2025 aid suspension in Nigeria and China’s expanding role in its development landscape. Using a desktop researc…
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The CAES editorial team awaits your contributions for CAES Vol. 11, № 4, which will be published in mid-December 2025. The deadline for paper submissions is November 30, 2025.
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Approximately 25,000 Nubians live in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum, which they consider their ancestral home. As descendants of African soldiers in Britain’s colonial armies, they have faced marginalization and de facto statelessness. Joh Sarre’s diss…
This article draws on my dissertation on Tuareg craftsmanship in Niger as a social practice, which was published under the title ‘Die Unbeständigkeit der Dinge: Handwerk, Familie und Mobilität bei den Tuareg in Niger’ (The Impermanence of Things: Craft…
It is my honour, as a German scholar and historian of Pacific-German connections, to send the collection of insights, thoughts and hopes edited by Safua Akeli Amaama and Philipp Schorch onwards and to wish it well. For a conclusion would mark the essay…
The last few years have seen increasing calls for German institutions to change their approach to collections from colonial contexts. Concomitantly, pressure has been put on museums to digitize and open up collections to new audiences, which has been f…
The Samoan world opens with the notion of nu‘u tofi, in which every person is assigned a place or position that resonates with culture, polity, citizenship and governance. Tofi (or tofiga) places Samoans according to their ancestral connections within …
This article examines the remarkable permanence of fa‘asāmoa, Sāmoan custom, throughout the upheavals of history. The strength of this permanence lies in a particular configuration of what brings the community together at meetings when an important dec…
In the essay ‘Our sea of islands’, Epeli Hau‘ofa (1994:151–3) influentially argued for ‘what may be called “world enlargement” carried out by tens of thousands of ordinary Pacific Islanders right across the ocean.’ Hau‘ofa further stressed that ‘there …
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Editor’s foreword Articles Comparing Ainu kinship terms with their Sino-Tibetan counterparts (Part I) Alexander Akulov, Tresi Nonno Abstract Ainu kinship terms “father”, “mother”, “elder brother”, “elder sister”, “younger brother”, and “younger sister” have clearly seen Sino-Tibetan counterparts. Late Jōmon Ainu (LJA) *miti “father” ~ Khoibu mit “father”; LJA *ʔona “father” ~ Galo `honam “nurture”. LJA *ʔunu […]
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Armed conflict between the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and the military of Thailand in northern Thai-land began in mid-1967. By the end of the 1960s, there were a number of CPT stronghold bases in the remote uplands of Northern Thailand. Large nu…
This article grapples with two pressing problems endemic to capitalist agriculture: the exploitation of nonhuman animals and the enclosure of the agricultural commons. How might a post-growth food transition support animal liberation and restore access…
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