The Archaeology of Cassipora Creek
New Florida Journal of Anthropology
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Barca, Stefania 2020. Forces of Reproduction Notes for a Counter-Hegemonic Anthropocene. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 75 p. ISBN: 9781108813952 (paperback). ISBN: 9781108880428 (E-book)
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
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Lectio præcursoria: From Paradise to the Town of no Hope—Home-making among the Soviet-era Russian-speakers in Narva, Estonia
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Anti-sedentarism and the anthropology of forced migration
Anthropologists of forced migration have advanced unique perspectives exploring identity and community as they relate to space. With its critique of naturalized conceptions of rootedness, boundedness, and territorialization, anti-sedentarism stands as …
Emotional tapestry of small cities
The paper investigates the emotional foundation of sense of place in small urban environments. The study was based on an anonymous questionnaire exploring various emotions in relation to urban environments in two small northern cities Haparanda (Sweden…
Historical anthropology from a ‘freezing January’ in 1990 to the present
What a pleasure it is to read Culture and History in the Pacific (Siikala 2021b [1990]) once again. The new, open access edition of this important volume brings back memories of my days in graduate school at the University of Chicago in the late 1990s….
Nahau, Pihi Manus, Pilapan: Hegemony’s gender as artefacts of history
It is a pleasure to contribute to the book forum on the republication of the book Culture and History in the Pacific. My contribution comprises two parts. In the first part, I briefly reflect on the book and its current relevance and highlight some iss…
Forum: Culture and History in the Pacific
The year 2021 saw the open-access republication of Culture and History in the Pacific (ed. Jukka Siikala), an edited volume originally published by the Finnish Anthropological Society. Suomen antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Soci…
Belonging in the Pacific, culture and history thirty years on
It is timely in many senses to reflect on culture and history in the in the Pacific. I join colleagues in celebrating the anniversary of the 1990 publication of the landmark volume Culture and History in the Pacific, edited by Jukka Siikala. The book w…
Mills, Dana 2021. Dance & Activism. A Century of Radical Dance Across the World. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 197 p. ISBN 978-1-350-13701-1 (hardback)
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Edwards, Ferne, Roos Gerritsen and Grit Wesser (eds) 2021. Food, Senses and the City. Routledge; Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment. 250 p. ISBN: 9780367458232 (Hardcover), ISBN: 9781003025580 (E-book)
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Engendering European alternative food networks through countertopographies
Recent interventions in scholarly literature have revealed how alternative methods of food production and provision are empowering for women farmers. This literature has been largely based on the historical trajectory of agriculture in the US an…
Gender and Barbecue
Barbecuing is often highlighted as one of the most masculine forms of cooking. In this paper, I will analyse a recent Netflix documentary series, Chef’s Table: BBQ, with portraits of four different barbecue chefs, including two women. The barbec…
Editorial
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Political Servitude Taking Ride on Corporate Social Responsibility Bandwagon
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Repositioning Engaged Anthropology
This special issue aims to shed light on and recognize the full potential of engaged anthropology and its place in academia and beyond. It argues for an inclusive approach to be both theoretically enriching and methodologically grounded in…
From Biological to Political Combat: Itinerary of an Engaged Research
Alex Aebi est biologiste et ethnologue. Il occupe actuellement un poste de maître d’enseignement et de recherche (MER) en agroécologie au sein de l’Université de Neuchâtel. Il y est également professeur, responsable de la filière biologie…
Anthropological Engagement in the International Sphere
As anthropologists increasingly embark upon the study of the international sphere, this often builds on different forms of engagement within and around organizations, processes, and institutional corridors. The co-authors, building upon a …
Learning to Be Freed
This paper delves into the life stories of three unaccompanied asylum seeking youth residing at a state care shelter in Istanbul in 2015 and 2016. Through its intervention, the research follows an engaged anthropological approach to reveal…
Exhibiting Bushman Art in Switzerland
This article discusses the collaborative process that led to the conception of the exhibition Kuru. L’art d’un monde en mutation held in 2019 at the Botanical Garden of Neuchâtel,Switzerland. This project, which brought together San Naro a…
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Art Worlds
This article looks at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the “art worlds” (Becker 1988) in Geneva, Switzerland’s second largest city. The main objective is to determine whether the pandemic has radically reconfigured the art worlds, or…
An Auto-Ethnography of Engagement Through Dance
This paper proposes a reflection on collaboration through dance. Drawing on ten years of fieldwork within the Swiss contemporary dance scene, the author, an anthropologist, dance scholar, and dancer, discusses her ethnographic practice, me…
Africa’s Middle Classes
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Since the early 21st century, the middle classes of the Global South became a focus of attention. However, a precarious minimum income was all it took to be considered middle class. But who exactly is middle class? As t…
Necessitat de legislar i regular la violència obstètrica per garantir a les dones una veritable protecció jurídica
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…