Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The paper introduces the results of a case study that attempts to uncover the functions and probable genesis of a group of satirical tales told by the Mongolian peoples. Based on the example of one of the stories, about Argachi, a Til Ulenspi…
This paper examines the cult of cat spirits in north-western China and their veneration by the Han Chinese, Tibetans, and Monguors. These spirits are revered as family spirits and guardians of wealth and property, but possess resentful and&nb…
The Book of Origins (hnewo tepyy) is a major ritual text of the Nuosu, a subgroup of the official Yi (Yizu) ethnic group of southwest China. The narrative, existing in both written and oral variants, is part of a living tradition, especially …
This article examines the origins and development of notions about jian spirits, beings into which, according to Chinese folk tradition, the souls of the dead transform after their demise. An analysis of the few available references to jian i…
The paper explores materials, methods and approaches used by Russian sinologists to define and analyse the cult of Guan Yu (also known as Guan-gong, Guandi, etc.), a popular god of the Chinese pantheon, revered by Daoists, Buddhists and …
Most baojuan (precious scrolls), predominantly religious-oriented prosimetric texts in the vernacular language, in the late period of their development (late 19th–early 20th centuries) lost connection with heterodox religious teachings. Notwi…
A Eurasian motif complex built around the illusion of a flood was described by Artёm Koz’min in 2011 under the preliminary name of the Saint Euplus Miracle. Subsequently, this discovery proved to be productive in the understanding of the …
Preface to the Special Issue: The Devine, the Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East AsiaPreface to the Special Issue: The Devine, the Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East Asia
The paper deals with applicability of the ‘memetic approach’ and ‘epidemiology of culture’ in present day folklore research. These theoretical models could be supplemented by certain ideas and hypotheses borrowed from actor-network theory and…
Editores/as de organização Ana María Forero Angel (am.forero260@uniandes.edu.co)Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Los Andes (Colômbia) Marco J. Martínez-Moreno (akkmjm@gmail.com)Programa de […]
I. Introduction
The controversial notion of decolonization dominates present-day media, and gives rise to various mobilizations in global contexts that are sometimes very different: Black Lives Matter protests, debates over the restitution…
I. Introduction
La notion controversée de décolonisation occupe l’actualité médiatique et suscite diverses mobilisations dans des contextes parfois fort différents : manifestations Black Lives Matter, débats sur la restitution d’artefacts …
This article addresses identities, hierarchies of knowledge and power relations in academia in postcolonial settings, in the context of development studies in Tanzania. Based on literatures on organizational identity and postcolonial hybridity, …
De plus en plus de mouvements étudiants ont dénoncé le fait que les universités perpétuent la colonialité, et exigé le démantèlement de l’eurocentrisme au cœur de l’enseignement supérieur. Les universités ont répondu de manières diverses à ces m…
In the last decades, the pressure on museums, especially on ethnological museums in the global North, has increased considerably. They are criticized for reproducing neo-colonial power relations and knowledge orders through common representation…
This article addresses partnerships in the fields of refugee education and education in emergencies research. We use the framework of political reflexivity to critically engage with our experiences as researchers from the Global South working on…
Cet article porte sur le vécu de relations de partenariat par une femme, noire, anthropologue, citoyenne française, née en Afrique subsaharienne et travaillant à l’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), une institution française, his…
Le mouvement de décolonisation au sein des institutions universitaires du continent africain s’est traduit au Sénégal par le recrutement d’un personnel africain et par un effort constant dans la confection des curricula. Qu’en est-il ailleurs, a…
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La production de connaissance dans l’univers académique est de plus en plus présentée par diverses institutions comme le résultat de “collaborations” entre chercheur·e·s de différents pays ou disciplines, du Nord et du Sud….
Book review of Gérald Gaillard, Françoise Héritier, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 208.
Book review of Elena Zambelli, Sexscapes of pleasure. Women, sexuality and the whore stigma in Italy, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2023, pp. 184.
This essay discusses poses of identities available for anthropologists in relation to increasingly salient issues of contemporary anthropological knowledge-making. Starting with a critical evaluation of the idea of the anthropologist as a witness by Ge…
This article aims to introduce the reader to the anthropology of finance in its contemporary dimension of financialization. Through the lens of the feminist manifesto “GENS” (Bear et al. 2015), the author proposes a reading of ethnographies that highli…
Journal Name: Anthropology of the Middle EastVolume: 18Issue: 1Pages: 113-118
Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 31Issue: 2Pages: 100-118