Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Published: June 2022.
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
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 …
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Els feminismes islàmics argumenten que el missatge de la revelació alcorànica és garant dels drets de les dones. Aquest article discuteix els feminismes islàmics com a doble resistència: a les estructures colonials i als discursos patriarcals construït…
Número 11 complet
En els darrers anys, la interseccionalitat pren força a l’espai públic. No obstant això, poques vegades es vincula amb les epistemologies africanes. Tampoc no se’n parla de l’enllaç entre elles quan s’exposen els estereotips racials/sexuals que impacte…
Editorial número 11
Ressenya de l’obra col·lectiva Cultura turística i identitats múltiples a les Illes Balears, que aprofundeix en les relacions entre el turisme i la cultura a l’arxipèlag amb perspectiva històrica i des de múltiples disciplines. A l’article repàs les ap…