Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Normative healthy aging frameworks promote later-life wellbeing through the maintenance of functional ability, moralizing autonomy, productivity, and sexual fitness, rendering disability, interdependence, and non-normative sexual lives signs of decline…
Retirement is a transitional process, a period associated with an end to working life when individuals develop new social lives and belonging. Simultaneously, retirement is an institutional moment, involving new obligations and contractual arrangements…
This study presents the development of an innovative contemporary Thai musical drama designed to educate the public about preparing for an ageing society. Traditional Thai musical drama—featuring vocal performance with percussion accompanime…
This paper examines how popular culture and digital media shaped youth-led mobilization during Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests. While scholarship on Nigerian activism often focuses on state violence and democratic struggle, this study highlights…
The paper delves into the concept of ‘superdiversity’ within urban districts, using as a case study an area in Lisbon (Arroios), Portugal, which has been dubbed the coolest neighbourhood in the world. Based on case study methodology, using a…
This research explores factors influencing residents’ engagement in community policing in Addis Ababa City, employing a cross-sectional descriptive and interpretive approach. Data was collected from 328 respondents through a semi-structured …
How might overabundant ferns vitalize and pressure political ecologies of landscapes and wildlife conservation? This ethnographic article interrogates the relational worlds of humans, animals, and the fern species known as the ‘bracken fern’ (the Pteri…
Quantitative tools for evaluating energy justice allow users to make quickly comparisons across options. Most of these tools overrepresent distributional justice at the expense of other dimensions that are more difficult to measure (e.g., procedural, r…
The aim of this article is to synthesize existing knowledge in a novel way by looking through a social psychological lens at historical manifestations of antisemitism and its most recent variant, presented as a case study which tracks its d…
This article examines how identity motives shape siblings’ disaffiliation from the Conservative Laestadian revival movement in a Sweden-Finnish context, highlighting apostasy as a multifaceted identity process marked by renegotiation betwee…
This article critically reassesses the accounts of the supposed custom of infanticide, particularly female infanticide (in Arabic, wa’d al-banāt), among pre-Islamic Arabs, arguing that this notion emerged during the Umayyad era as an imagin…
This review article explores the applicability of the Social Identity Approach (SIA) in historical research, focusing on research and sources from the Early Modern era, particularly the context of the Lutheran Reformation. The study argues …
This study investigates polemical representations of enemies in early Christian Greek literature (1–600 CE) through the framework of Cultural Attraction Theory. It begins with the identification of recurring categories of accusations—such a…
Identities (and social identities) are studied in many different disciplines and approached with different theoretical tools and concepts. This special issue grew out of the need to enhance dialogue between disciplines and expand our common…
Identity is a key concept in practically all fields of the humanities and social sciences. However, different approaches diverge dramatically in their conceptualization of identity, which makes mutual dialogue and integration markedly chall…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Extreme weather patterns have become an inconvenient reality in contemporary times and coping strategies reveal entrenched social inequalities. This article focuses on how extreme heat impacts different populations loca…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
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Journal Name: Learning and TeachingVolume: 19Issue: 1Pages: 108-126
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