Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how practitioners in the West African Health Organization (WAHO) obtain and exercise autonomous political agency in the development of regional health policy. While many process-driven accounts…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. African countries are well recognised as being among the worst affected by the impacts of climate change. However, efforts to secure recognition of these “special circumstances” of African countries within the UN climat…
The comment highlights Tullio Seppilli’s ethical-political sensitivity, as shown in the interview on risk and health the author conducted during a PhD program. Powered by ongoing generosity, the meeting announced the sharing of a unique heritage, in th…
The contribution points out how the notion of health as a common good, central in Rita Lima’s interview with Tullio Seppilli, fits within Seppilli’s scientific itinerary in the context of policies and problems relating to health and health care in a gl…
In this short text, the author makes a portrait of Tullio Seppilli. The portrait highlights Tullio Seppilli’s choice for critical rationalism, the role of his political convictions and the academic ethics of an outstanding master of medical anthropolog…
The dialogue between medical anthropology and epidemiology is important in Tullio Seppilli’s thought. Indeed, the probabilistic mechanisms of a statistical nature make it possible to identify significant correlations between risk, health, and power str…
The purpose of this article is twofold: first, we show how algorithms have become increasingly central to financial credit scoring; second, we draw on this to further develop the anthropological study of algorithmic governance. As such, we describe the…
Information-driven automated systems that deliver services proactively to citizens in need are heralded as the next level of digital government. There is, however, concern that such systems make welfare services less accessible to some citizens. This s…
Remembering Patrick Williams (1947-2021), one of the most important anthropologists of Gypsy-Roma groups, is also paying homage to a specific anthropology, which Williams constantly and consciously contributed to establish: an anthropology which anchor…
In early March 2020, Teaching and Learning Anthropology (TLA) initiated a crowdsourced document entitled “Teaching COVID-19: An Anthropology Syllabus Project.” This essay reflects on TLA’s #COVIDSyllabus in the context of a broader shift toward the use…
This paper looks to investigate how running groups function in public space, both in terms of how they find their way and how they interact with other users. It builds on theories of wayfinding and the study of mobilities to examine how different space…
This essay proposes the application of the concepts of ‘small’ and ‘big’ stories theorised by Lyotard (1984) to the discipline of visual anthropology, by focusing on the issues of ‘generalisation’ and ‘individuality’. The primary question on which this…
This essay analyses the goings on of First Minster’s Questions in the Scottish Parliament. Through the realisation that this spectacle is largely semi-scripted I make the argument that the idea of the state relies on the charisma of events li…
Summary: Since its inception in the 1980s, the US ‘Sanctuary Movement’ has been the source of contentious political debate and academic discussion. Although originally a clergy-based effort of transnational activism, ‘sanctuary’ has since diffused beyo…
During my research with women performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I adopted drawing as my primary tool for collecting and analysing data. I found that the best way to capture the value of theatrical performances was through an effective visual…
This essay will examine the affective relationships people have with human remains and by extent, the souls of the deceased in Aguni, Okinawa. In conceptualising care, I will explore how senkotsu (bone washing) and other emerging mortuary practices per…
Abstract:This essay will explore pedagogic engagement in a Dutch sustainability site, De Ceuvel. Self-labelled as the “clean-tech playground”, De Ceuvel is a publically accessible site which houses scientists, creatives and a café, and whose amb…
This short photo essay presents an aspect of work in progress. First hand observational notes and photo recordings were taken around the socially structured field habitus of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, it’s religious spheres of sacred cul…
Historical records allow the lingering presences of people of the past to be traced. This study documents a search for recorded eighteenth-century sex workers in Edinburgh, assessing whether ghosts can be brought under anthropological inquiry. I find t…
Reply to comments on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses cultur…
A Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC), a Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL), a Academia Nacional de Medicina (ANM) e a Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC), entidades que procuram contribuir sempre para o desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico do País, para a educação e para a cultura brasileira, manifestam sua grande preocupação com a […]
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Reviewed by Stefan Higgins, University of Victoria James J. Hodge. Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 220 Pages. The task of “pulling back the curtains” on computational technology has …
Buchowski Michał (ed.) 2019. Twilight Zone Anthropology: Voices from Poland. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 250 p. ISBN: 9781912385065 (hardback).
Schielke, Samuli 2020. Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. 137 p. ISBN: 9789774169564 (paperback)