Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The “slow violence” arising from mining tailings in Chile spreads cumulatively, slowly and invisibly over time and space. Even those affected are not necessarily aware of it. Toxic substances, which tailings contain in high concentrations, spread easil…
Published: November 2025.
Among popular beverages associated with Puglia’s Salentine sub peninsula are coffee with ice and coffee with ice and almond lymph. The origin of the first is attributed to the patriarch of a family of coffee roasters in the city of Lecce who int…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the ways in which Muslim meditation practitioners in Indonesia understand and utilize Buddhist meditative practice. Focusing on the narrative of one such practitioner, we draw out the little-known role that meditation plays in the…
This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an expe…
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned a doctorate in French literature at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, 2017), where her dissertation examined comparative approaches to epic, with particular attention to French and Turkic traditions. In this context, she developed a specific interest […]
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This article examines dropout from therapeutic communities for addiction treatment through the lens of institutional escape. In conventional treatment research, dropout is framed as evidence of patients’ non-compliance, lack of motivation, o…
Anthropologists compare – it is at the heart of what we do as we try and make sense of, describe and explain human social being in all its diversity. But the use of comparison extends far beyond anthropology. Indeed, it seems ubiquitous acr…
This paper examines how a group of women’s rights activists in Iran who identify as Muslim represented themselves prior to the emergence of the 2022 Mahsa Movement, and why they were reluctant to adopt the labels ‘feminist’ or ‘Islamic femi…
The winds are changing at Suomen antropologi: Journal of Finnish Anthropological Society! My service as editor-in-chief is coming to an end at the end of this year and I am proud to announce the appointment of the incoming editors-in-chief,…
Since the earliest colonial encounters in Greenland, place-based Inuit knowledge of seal skin processing has been applied and regenerated within a web of regional, national, and global relations. These relations have not only affected metho…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Faced with limitations to transnational transactions, Chinese students in Russia engage in informal currency exchanges. Through fieldwork in a Siberian city, we discovered how, against the backdrop of sanctions, fluctuating official exchang…
This essay is based on the 2025 Westermarck Lecture, delivered at the 50th anniversary meetings of the Finnish Anthropological Society. My deepest thanks to the organisers, staff, and participants of that conference, including Sarah Green, …
This essay belongs to the essay series ‘The Anthropologist’s Toolkit: Reflections on Ethnographic Methodology’. In this series, authors peer into the anthropologist’s toolkit to reflect on what ethnographic methodology constitutes in all it…
From 1920 through 1932, Soviet biomedical propaganda disseminated via Udmurt literature including through periodicals, novels, plays, and poetry aimed to instil sanitation values and advance modernisation. This propaganda targeted the Indig…
This article explores how different forms of adaptation governance in Costa Rica shape subjectivities and adaptation capacities in smallholder farms. The country presently has a neoliberal-welfare state structure that stems from the progressive transit…
The looming ecological crisis demands an urgent rethinking of possibilities within our surroundings. This article examines the practice of bamboo-shoot fermentation in India’s North-Eastern Region (NER) and explores its connections to sustainability, f…
Cette contribution offre un regard heuristique et réflexif sur la préparation conjointe, en candidat libre et de manière autofinancée, de deux diplômes aux symboliques aussi fortes qu’apparemment opposées : un certificat d’aptitude professionnel…
Certaines maladies transmises via le lait de vache, comme la tuberculose et la diphtérie, suscitent l’inquiétude des médecins. Dans cet article nos questionnements sont à la croisée de la médecine humaine, de la médecine vétérinaire, de la micro…
Seeking to establish “psychical history” as a category of Victorian occult science, this paper explores the consequences that emerge when belief in spirit phenomena converges on the historical imagination. To do so, a study of the Bygone Da…
The special issue “The Witching of Art History” examines how women and artists beyond gender binaries have navigated artistic and occult subjectivities, identities and agency within art and occulture since the 19th century. The articles ill…
This article proposes that approaching the work and practice of the British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) and other women working at the intersection of art and esotericism necessitates revisiting some fundamental assum…
This article explores the intersections of clairvoyance, mediumship and gender in early-twentieth-century art through the case of the Finnish artist and occultist Meri Genetz (1885–1943). While esotericism has played a pivotal role in moder…