Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Ethiopia was until recently perceived to be a strong state, with a coherent governing coalition party, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front, dominated by its minority Tigrayan component party. The death of the party’s strongman Meles Z…
This article examines the portrayal of mental disability in Malawian literature. Through a critical analysis of selected poetry, short stories, and plays, the article argues that in the Malawian literary imagination, mental disability is usually approp…
Book Review
The Dawro, speakers of an Omotic language in Southwest Ethiopia, use personal names both to establish individuals’ linguistic identity and to reflect their culture and language. This article provides an explanatory analysis of “traditional” Dawro perso…
Book Review
A partir del cas d’una comunitat colombiana d’indígenes kankuamos que han desenvolupat estratègies per a l’autogestió de la salut individual i col·lectiva, es presenta aquesta revisió bibliogràfica contextualitzada on es pretén dialogar amb diversos au…
Seguint la introducció de Renato Rosaldo sobre la “aflicció i la ira dels caçadors de caps ilongotes” es realitza una reflexió autoetnogràfica del concepte de força cultural de les emocions vinculant-ho amb el concepte d’experiència amb la medicació. A…
This article reflects on the current explanatory value of concepts such as postsocialism and Eastern Europe by exploring how they are represented in contemporary art projects in Estonia. Through an overview of recent exhibitions in which I collaborate…
This article explores the world making capabilities of travel writing (Goodman 1978; Youngs 2013). The premise is that literary products are key elements in the configuration of the world itself and that specifically authors of travel accounts mediate …
Though scholars in memory studies often deal with different aspects of cultural memory, it is rare to find any systematic framework to which memory adheres to and which would explain the emergence and maintenance of memories in general. In this article…
This paper draws on cultural gerontology and literary scholarship to call for greater academic consideration of age and ageing in our imaginations of the future. Our work adds to the development of Critical Future Studies (CFS) previously publish…
In recent years, Canadian/US singer, songwriter, and author Neil Young’s production shows increased signs of environmental awareness, manifested in his promotion of biofuels, critique of genetic manipulation, biotechnology, and ecocide, as well as in h…
The cradleboard was collected in 1823 by G. Costantino Beltrami probably near Fort Snelling (ex Fort Anthony) among the Eastern Sioux, probably the Santee …
This is a summary of some of the main arguments and findings of the book ¿Corrupción pública o privada? La dimensión ideológica de los discursos anti-corrupción en Colombia, Ecuador y Albania (Bogotá: Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). The book compares the offi…
Published: December 2021.
Published: December 2021.
Using the famous culinary triangle theorized by Claude Lévi-Strauss, this paper tries to determine the place of the raw in the Japanese culinary model and to understand how it became so iconic. For this purpose, the research focuses on the relat…
Au Monet, ce restaurant de gastronomie française situé en haut d’une tour de luxe sur la place centrale Sühbaatar d’Ulaanbaatar, Bold, chef cuisinier, me fait visiter les cuisines, impeccables, et me présente l’équipe du midi, qui finit de netto…
The tool used in Chinese kitchens to cut ingredients, whether professional or domestic, is of a single model: a wide, perfectly sharpened rectangular blade fixed on a handle. Difficult to use for a novice, it requires a real apprenticeship. But …
The Cuisine of Guangxi Autonomous Region (southern China), is defined in terms of local, wild and ethnic, to mark its identity, differentiation, and sophistication relative to neighboring Cantonese cuisine. This article studies the different way…
Ce texte s’intéresse à un sous genre des films de kung fu tournés à Hong Kong et à Shanghai depuis les années 1990, que l’on pourrait nommer « kung food », à partir de la rencontre entre la cuisine chinoise et le kung fu. Dans ces films réalisés…
Les scènes de préparation et de dégustation de repas sont omniprésentes dans l’animation japonaise, des films pour le cinéma internationalement réputés comme Le Voyage de Chihiro aux séries télévisées populaires comme Food Wars! L’héritage du ma…
Dans d’innombrables ouvrages littéraires japonais, fictions et non-fictions, la description de la nourriture joue un rôle de miroir reflétant l’évolution de la société. Nous tenterons d’éclairer certaines problématiques et préoccupations populai…
Cet article se propose de donner un aperçu visuel de la cuisine populaire de la région d’Hanoi (Vietnam) au début du XXe siècle. Pour cela, nous disposons de sources graphiques abondantes rassemblées dans l’ouvrage de référence d’Henri Oger « Te…
Cet article propose de suivre quelques mouvements de revalorisation de la sauce soja artisanale dans le Japon contemporain. Alors que la sauce soja à macération lente en fûts de cèdre ne représente aujourd’hui qu’un pourcent de la production sur…