Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
I have had the privilege of collaborating with Mary Douglas in the framework of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food (ICAF) since 1978, but our paths first crossed much earlier, in 1962 when she was a member of the Internati…
De Ricardo Avila
C’est avec une profonde tristesse, que nous venons vous informer du décès, survenu ce 27 juin 2018, de notre cher ami et collègue, Igor de Garine.
Igor était amplement reconnu dans le domaine de l’anthropologie de l’…
Introduction
Les questions agricoles sont aujourd’hui revenues sur le devant de la scène. Elles sont inscrites à l’agenda de nombreuses institutions ou pays. Elles suscitent aussi de nombreuses luttes de paysans, peuples « indigènes », cit…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. For decades, as evidenced in programming and research, the humanitarian community has recognised gender equality and equity as integral to effective programming and response. Drawing upon ninety-nine publications indexe…
This brief editorial introduces the special double issue of Museum Anthropology Review titled Studies in Museum Ethnography in Honor of Daniel C. Swan.
This project report discusses the 2018 Centennial Commemoration of the Native American Church State of Oklahoma (NAC-OK). Chartered in 1918 the NAC-OK is an intertribal organization dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of its membe…
This article examines themes of collaboration and stewardship, the importance of cultural protocols, and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge in the context of a Haida totem pole raising ceremony held at the Denver Art Museum in November 201…
In this paper, the authors report on a survey of present-day craft practices found among Bai people in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in China’s Yunnan province. This collaborative work was undertaken by a binational team drawn from five different …
This reflective essay describes the research design for Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia, an exhibition and publication for the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This essay outlines the theoretical,…
This article summarizes the results of a multi-year ethnographic research study commissioned by the National Park Service (NPS). The goal of the project was to gain a better understanding of Native American connections to Alibates Flint Quarries Nation…
New research on a set of drawings known as “Four Horns copies of Sitting Bull’s drawings” reveals that both the name and ethnic identity of the artist are unsupported. Those identifications derive from research and records of an earlier era built upon …
The work is a book review considering the title Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community: A Giving Heritage by Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019).
Misoprostol is effective not only for gastroenterology indications but also for reproductive health-related conditions and for the reduction of maternal mortality. The use of misoprostol is well documented in Latin America, where it is widely used for …
In this paper we describe how the innovative technique of minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) and the researchers associated with it came to represent the fears, anger, and suspicions of a community in Eastern Ethiopia. MITS was developed to less…
The Covid-19 pandemic came to magnify issues that were already an intrinsic part of the Nigerian medical landscape. Growing out of historical processes, uncertainty, ambiguity, doubt, vigilance, and suspicion have become intensely manifest characterist…
Nordic Journal of African Studies
Ideophones have been analysed in the linguistic literature as a class of words that depict sensory imagery; they are established in most natural languages, but particularly in African and Asian languages. They have gained popularity for their uniquenes…
This article examines the naming practices employed for traditional male Sesotho aphrodisiacs with the aim of unveiling the ideologies reflected and promoted by these names. It draws on a combined analytic approach of socio-onomastics and Feminist Crit…
The paper examines the Paleo Diet as a form of primitivism. After describing its constituents, it moves on to assess the evolutionary assumptions surrounding it through the lens of evolutionary mismatch theory. Evolutionary assumptions include t…
Rebaï N., Bilhaut A.-G., de Suremain C.-E., Katz E., Paredes M., (eds.), 2021. Patrimonios alimentarios en América Latina: recursos locales, actores y globalización, Lima, IFEA/IRD, 268 p.
El libro que a continuación comentamos, Patrimonio…
Gastronativism : Food, Identity, Politics, Fabio Parasecoli; ISBN: 978-0-231-20207-7, Columbia University Press, New York, 2022.
Released at an extremely timely moment, Fabio Parasecoli’s Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics undertake…
Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):9-20 Most readers of Oral Tradition may not be overly concerned with the oral transmission of premodern compositions. Those who study the religious texts of the ancient Zoroastrian religion, however, must now take the long period of oral transmission of these texts, and its implications for our understanding of its contents, very […]
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Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):1-2 The contribution that various branches of “Oral Studies” could make to the study of non Western scriptural religions is as yet largely unexplored. In the Iranian cultural sphere—where languages are spoken that belong to the Iranian branch of Indo-European, such as Persian and Kurdish—we find a number of religious traditions that […]
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Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):141-50 The Yārsān This paper will discuss the complex “textual” heritage of the Yārsān of western Iran and northern Iraq, which is mainly transmitted orally but has partly been made available in writing in recent decades. The Yārsān (“Group of Friends”), also known as Ahl-e Haqq (“People of Truth”), and in Iraq […]
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Oral Tradition, 35/2 (2022):103-18 Introduction Among the world’s roughly one million Yezidis, adherents of a monotheistic faith that does not accept converts or allow marriage with outsiders, as many as half are living in exile, with the highest concentration of refugees outside the homeland living in Germany. Yezidis, originally from parts of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, […]
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