On Museum Anthropology Review (2007-2023)
In an editorial, Museum Anthropology Review editor Jason Baird Jackson discusses the work and circumstances of the journal in the context of it suspending publication with volume 17.
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Charle. Matthieu. 2019. Cœur d’Alene: Book Review
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Perception of Refugees in Lithuania
This article offers a partial answer to the question, “why are the vast majority of Lithuanians opposed to refugees immigrating to Lithuania?” I use cultural model theory (CMT) to find the salient characteristics Lithuanians attribute to r…
Lustenberger. Sybille. 2021. Judaism in Motion: Book Review
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Kaufmann. Lena. 2021. Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China: Book Review
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Editorial SJSCA 28/2022
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
Anthropological Knowledge and Power Relations
This special issue provides an opportunity to reflect on the conditions for knowledge production by interpreting the social world in a way that recognizes the interconnected nature of power relations. Building on existing research that has…
Hartmut, Rosa 2020. The Uncontrollability of the World. Cambridge, Medford: Polity Press. 140 p.
Rosa, Hartmut. The Uncontrollability of the World. Cambridge, Medford: Polity Press. 2020. 140 p. ISBN: 9781509543151 (hardcover); 9781509543168 (softcover)
Rural mobilites and urban norms
This article deals with everyday life in sparsely populated parts of northern Sweden. It investigates the relationship between local practice and political discourses. The discussion is based on fieldwork carried out in two northern municipalities. Emp…
Living and Working Research Policies: The Case of International Scholars in Latvia
The article examines the incorporation of international scholars into the Latvian higher education and research system from the perspective of labour. Whilst recent research policies in the country are aimed at increasing international cooperation to s…
Sleights of Hand: Free Ports, Bordering, and the Racial Capitalist Roots of Economic Nationalist Strategies in the US and the UK
Sleight of hand economic nationalist strategies by recent administrations of the US and UK emphasizing the “freedom” of those selectively imagined as belonging to the nation while quietly but pivotally discouraging human mobility and encouraging elite …
Editors’ note: On rent extraction in academic publishing and its alternatives
In this editorial we introduce new members of our editorial team and the contents of this issue. In addition we discuss open access developments of the journal, namely our new license policy, which allows authors to choose a Creative Common license tha…
Lectio Praecursoria: Transgressive participation: Housing struggles, occupations and evictions in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Lectio praecursoria. Weeds of Sociality: Reforms and Dynamics of Social Relations at the University of Helsink
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Articulations of power: Guns on campus and the protests against them
When carrying concealed handguns on campus was legalised at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin in 2015, students and faculty positioned themselves in relation to the new law in very different ways, ranging from large demonstrations and the use of v…
Lectio praecursoria. Carving out Possibilities: Refugee Background Young Men and Mundane Political Agency
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Lounela, Anu, Berglund, Eeva and Kallinen Timo (eds) (2019) Dwelling in Political Landscapes. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
Lounela, Anu, Berglund, Eeva and Kallinen Timo (eds) (2019) Dwelling in Political Landscapes. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives. Helsinki: SKS. Studia Fennica Anthropologica 4. 293 p. ISBN 978-951-858-087-7 (Print), ISBN 978-951-858-114-0 (PDF)…
From ‘Anglophone Problem’ to ‘Anglophone Conflict’ in Cameroon: Assessing Prospects for Peace
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Since 2017, an armed conflict has been raging in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon between separatist forces and the Cameroonian military. This review analyses the historical origins and root causes of the confli…
Could ChatGPT Prompt a New Golden Age in Higher Education?
The public rollout of ChatGPT, a free app that produces uncannily refined responses to users’ questions or prompts, initially had many education professionals up in arms due largely to fears over student cheating. Panic levels receded as a new realizat…
New issue: Volume 19 (2022)
A new issue of Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology is now available: Vibrant – Volume 19 contains the dossiersGlobal Anthropological Dialogues – Dossier Reflections on Anthropological Practice around the world; Dossier Indigenous Peoples, t…
Le ceebu jën
Les valeurs, les représentations et les symboles alimentaires circulent entre les villes et les campagnes sénégalaises depuis la colonisation. La présence d’un plat partagé par la majorité des Sénégalais et consommé presque quotidiennement par u…
Déb’bo, marque africaine déposée: Deborah, cuisinière et impresario de la valeur écologique et healthy des aliments et savoir-faire venus du continent africain
Déborah Ribeiro, rencontrée pour la première fois par Abdourahmane Ndiaye et Chantal Crenn à Bordeaux, à l’Institut des Afriques, en mars 2022 (https://institutdesafriques.org/agenda/dejeuner-et-presentation-poetique-proposes-par-deborah-ribeiro…
Le goût des origines
Through an ethnographic survey conducted between 2019 and 2020 in Casablanca, the article shows that, despite the significant food diversity that this city offers to eaters, they remain strongly attached to their regions of origin in Morocco and…
La consommation de la viande de brousse à l’épreuve de changements environnementaux
La viande de brousse est la principale source d’aliments riches en protéines pour les populations qui vivent dans la forêt en Afrique centrale. Cependant, de grands changements affectent les écosystèmes forestiers de cette zone et les régions de…
Alimentation, environnement et santé : l’Afrique au cœur des changements globaux contemporains
Thinking ecologically about food reminds us that eating is an agricultural act that “ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth” (Berry 1992)
À l’heure des changements sociaux et environnementaux globaux …