Ha sido enhorabuena… In memoriam María Victoria Castro Rojas (1944-2022)
Revista Chilena de Antropología
Category: English
Rutas y asentamientos en Valdivia y Los Llanos a mediados del siglo XVIII
Se presenta un estudio etnohistórico acerca del sistema de asentamiento indígena e híbrido de los “Llanos de Valdivia” durante el siglo XVIII. Mediante la integración de información arqueológica, fuentes históricas y trabajo etnográfico se reconocen la…
CAES Vol. 8, № 4
Editor’s foreword Articles: How often the Neolithic people of Okhta 1 could visit those of Sarnate and Šventoji 43: some preliminary notes on seafaring of Paja Ul Deˀŋ Alexander Akulov There are two routes from the mouth of Paleo-Okhta to the region of Sarnate Šventoji : a short and a long. The short one is […]
35 | 2022 – Post-Kemalism and Its Discontents
In Pursuit of Post-Kemalism [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek
À la poursuite du post-kémalisme [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek
Post-Post-Kemalism: In Search of a New …
29 | 2022 – South Asia in Covid Times
Introduction. Syndemic South Asia: Health Politics and Inequalities [Full text]
Marine Al Dahdah, Clémence Jullien and Raphaël Voix
With a Little Help from My Friends? Surviving the Lockdown Usi…
Religion and Cosmopolitan Society: Religious Conflict Settlement based on Legal Culture
Conflicts occur when people believe that they are different from others and conflict in religion is no different. Religious conflicts in Poso and conflicts between Sunnis and Shiites in East Java have the effects of conflict, including protracted socia…
From Exclusion to Leadership
Israel comprises diverse groups (mostly Jewish), between whom the differences are sometimes greater than the similarities. This frequently leads to social exclusion and discrimination that damages the very basic sense of human security. Scholars agree …
Customary Land Tenure Values in Nagari Kayu Tanam, West Sumatra
The transfer of rights or transactions does not exist in customary land tenure because it is a common property; thus, it can never be transferred to another party. On the other hand, in the Minangkabau indigenous community, West Sumatra, there is a shi…
Deconstructing Gangsterism in South Africa: Uncovering the Need for Gender-Sensitive Policies
Although the dawn of democracy promised a new beginning in South Africa, lingering effects of Apartheid remained, including the struggle to address gang violence and gender-based violence amidst the backdrop of widespread organised crime and corruption…
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.38 No.1
Published: June 2022.
Discovering Local Discourses about Climate Change
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Yellowtail Snapper: Human-Ecological Relationships in the South Florida Fishery
In 2018 over a period of five months researchers from National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) conducted a study with fishermen and local business owners who participate in the South …
The struggle of indigenous people of the lower Rio Mayo, northwestern Mexico for water resources: an overview and a critical assessment
To irrigate the 6.5 million hectares of land of the Mayo River Valley, Sonora, Mexico uses nearly 77% of its water. Sonora is home to seven indigenous groups, with over 110,000 indigenous people living on their ancestral, though largely reduced, te…
Local People’s Perceptions of Benefits and Costs of Protected Areas: The Case of Tarangire National Park and the Surrounding Ecosystem, Northern Tanzania
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A better understanding of the benefits and costs of conservation to people living adjacent to protected areas is fundamental to balancing their conservation goals and needs. This study, based in the Tarangire-Simanjiro ecosystem, explored the cos…
Seme Divination in Burkina Faso. I
The Seme of Burkina Faso attribute all the problems they encounter to interventions from the invisible world. Divination allows them to identify the cause of the problem and a suitable remedy (which blood sacrifice to make at which altar). The d…
Seme divination in Burkina Faso. II
The Seme of Burkina Faso attribute all the problems they encounter to interventions from the invisible world. They identify the cause and the appropriate remedy (blood sacrifice) through divination. The diviner, called by the invisible, is intim…
Éditorial
Avec ce Varia, nous mettons à l’honneur des chercheurs et leurs approches singulières qui rappellent combien l’anthropologie visuelle recèle une variété d’approches, de méthodes et bien évidemment de terrains.
Les trois premiers articles n…
Editorial
1 December 2022
In this issue of Varia, we present researchers and their singular approaches that remind us of various perspectives, methods and fields of study in visual anthropology.
The first three articles reveal tensions between…
The New Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
Ethnographic exhibitions play an increasingly prominent role in rethinking how anthropology can engage in contemporary debates across academic and public settings. Since its inception in autumn 2014, the new Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus, Denmark, …
Attending GIEFF (German International Ethnographic Film Festival) at the Time of the Pandemic
This paper draws on experiences and lessons from GIEFF 2020, an ethnographic film festival that took place during the Covid-19 pandemic. The GIEFF organizers decided to stream instead of screen films, and created an online streaming event that c…
Bodily Connections Between Yielding and Knowing in Anthropological Filmmaking and Internal Martial Arts
Yielding and knowing may be familiar terms. But how do they connect to anthropological filmmaking and Chinese martial arts? This is a new way of looking at knowledge in the making. The author defines the relationship between the two arts and the…
Blurred Boundaries: Sicilians and their Mafia
This paper examines the nature of Cosa Nostra, how it exists in parallel to the State, the way it depends on social consensus, and how it is culturally embedded within some sections of its community. This paper also examines the approach taken b…
Du paiement de la dot à la chambre nuptiale
Dans le présent article, nous avons insisté sur la dimension interprétative des données ethnographiques visuelles recueillies auprès des acteurs concernant leurs rôles dans le rite du mariage pour pouvoir sauvegarder et transmettre le contenu de…
Oriental for a Day
In so-called Oriental photo shoots, women stage themselves to convey an image of opulence, eroticism, mysticism, etc. After a brief review of the visual representation of the Orient in ethnographic photographs, tourist imagery, and art, the arti…
Relació entre l’educació i el paper de la dona a les comunitats indígenes colombianes.
L’escenari educatiu actual converteix als docents en actors fonamentals, responsables d’incloure progressivament la dona en el desenvolupament i enfortiment de les comunitats indígenes en els sistemes educatius interculturals propis. De la vinculació e…