Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article is part of a broader investigation that has been carried out within the framework of a global justice intervention carried out by the NGO Farmamundi. The study highlights the need for culturally competent health care, that is, with specifi…
Les dones d’arreu del món s’enfronten a formes múltiples i interseccionades de violència, tant a la vida privada com a la pública. Després de les denúncies d’abús i falta de respecte a dones durant el part, L’OMS i l’ONU han abordat i plantejat una nov…
Conèixer la diversitat actual de les experiències d’embaràs, part i transició a la maternitat i paternitat és una qüestió que, en els darrers anys, està interessant a les investigadores, activistes i col·lectius. L’any 2017, a Portugal, un grup de rece…
At the height of the pandemic, schools across the country shut down, shifting classrooms to a remote learning modality. While the use of emergency remote teaching (ERT) provided an alternative for schools, it was a difficult transition. Online learning…
La violència obstètrica consisteix en un conjunt de pràctiques i situacions que posen les dones en una condició inerme. Elles són emotivament i/o corporalment aixafades en una situació no consensuada que produeix unes seqüeles físiques i psicològiques …
En aquest article abordo el tema de la violència obstètrica, a través de l’anàlisi de la representació de l’experiència de part d’una migrant afrobrasilera a Portugal, materialitzada en un treball que integra la Galeria d’Experiències Obstètriques (Gal…
Current Issue | School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
Current Issue | School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
Current Issue | School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
Bribery relations are a way to cope with the uncertainties of everyday life for many people living in Tanzania. For members of the Tanzanian Indian communities, the uncertainties not only count the faltering bureaucratic systems and a state …
Review of Gendered Lives: Global Issues, edited by Nadine T. Fernandez and Katie Nelson
This article focuses on a single interaction taking place in a tree nursery located in a village of the Iringa Region in Tanzania. In a country which built its unity around one language, Swahili, this article intends to show how code-switching between …
The study of African youth languages (AYLs) has seen a few conceptual shifts and portrayals, reflecting their dynamicity, diversity, and fluidities. In these contexts, AYLs have been described as constituted by codeswitching/mixing, and as restrictive …
This introduction to the special section on African multilingualism introduces and contextualises three contributing articles into the recently growing research area of small-scale multilingualism. This article does so by briefly characterising the con…
In studies of African languages, Phasal Polarity (PhP) expressions – already, still, no longer, and not yet – have received little attention in the literature on the Mabia (Gur) languages of West Africa. This study aims to address that gap by inves…
Migrants from Senegal constitute a small minority in Norway, which complicates their possibilities of carrying out certain linguistic and cultural practices face-to-face. However, with increased access to digital means, socio-cultural practices, includ…
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Over the last two decades, there has been a rapid rise in the proportion of older adults in prisons across the world. While the cause for this trend depends on local demographic, legal and social circumstances, ethnographic attention to this issue rema…
Each year, more than 200 World War II, Korea, and Vietnam Veterans participate in the VetsRoll program, a four day bus trip from southern Wisconsin to Washington, D.C. VetsRoll is one of several organizations that bring Veterans to war memorials in Was…
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Swim-related activity is one of the most recommended forms of physical activity for older adults, increasing the importance of access to swimming and water sports throughout the life course. This study examined eight online forums addressing topics rel…
The elder population in Japan is increasing drastically, causing a number of issues that have not yet surfaced in most Western countries. Demographic data from Japan reveal that the Japanese have the longest lifespan globally, resulting in the world’s …