Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
I. A constructivist and relational approach to family and space
Today, mobility (whether spatial, social, or relational) has largely become a normative imperative impacting various spheres of life, including family life (Urry, 2007; Minck…
This paper describes a course on Anthropology and Museums offered at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. The interface between anthropology and museums is of great relevance for the elaboration of an effective pedagogical strategy in teaching anth…
Review of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead), edited by Susan D. Blum
Review: Qualitative research methods (2nd ed.), by Monique Hennink, Inge Hutter and Ajay Bailey, London, SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020, 345 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4739-0390-6. ISBN: 978-1-4739-0391-3 (paperback)
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This article focuses on the intergenerational nature of migrants’ aspirations and the emotions that attach to them. Drawing on Ahmed’s (2014) notion of “affective economies” that emphasises that emotions circulate and accumulate affective value, I show…
Theoretically, cultural diplomacy has commonly been perceived as part of a broader family of connect…
Reviewed by Hsin-Yun Cheng, University of Rochester Hentyle Yapp. Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 Pages. At first glance, the title of the book, Minor China, seems to counterintuitively bel…
InVisible Culture
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On the website for his eponymous luxury fashion label, Telfar Clemens says of his products: “It’s not for you—it’s for everyone.” Eschewing conventional markers of luxury production, Clemens underwrites this claim through TELFAR’s “Bag Security Program…
Access to consumption, especially to objects that are challenging to obtain, is one of the features contributing to the successful spread of Pentecostalism in West Africa. Pentecostal pastors have become central public figures, ‘consumer stars,’ whose …
This paper is based on ethnographic work in organization that form part of what we term the Future Industry – such as think tanks, consultancies and governmental bodies – involved in the charting, description and analysis of geopolitical future sce…
Building on ethnographic research in Uganda, this paper discusses the mundane practice of rumour mongering and gossiping as anticipatory practices. Crude oil discovery in Uganda brought a small oil boom to the region endowed with the natural resource i…
This article explores the ways in which emergent police forces in conflict-affected Southern societies are shaped by cultural practices operating through social phenomena. It uses the record of the prototypical police forces found in the Somali cities …
This article analyzes the conceptions of anticipation and invention in the philosophies of Henri Bergson and Gilbert Simondon. In doing so, I analyze the questions how futures are anticipated and what role technologies play in the anticipation and inve…
In light of climate change, projected population growth, increasing conflicts over land and the question of food security, the Tanzanian government takes the respective visions of environmental futures as a cause and justification for particular measur…
This special issue brings together research from various disciplines to not only assess the current state of human rights, aid and development projects, and legitimate governing orders – often framed as factors of human security – but also to criticall…
In dealing with terrorism cases in Indonesia, the government must develop a strategy to eradicate terrorism, be it the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or other terrorism ideologies through awareness of the importance of human rig…
Abstract After World War II, an estimated five million people were on the move in Czechoslovakia. Between 1954 and 1970, over 16,000 of them immigrated to Australia. This paper is part of a larger research project that provides an in-depth inquiry of t…
The Papuan People’s Assembly (Majelis Rakyat Papua-MRP) is a cultural representation of the Papuan people, which has an important role in protecting the rights of the Papuan people in the fields of customs and culture, empowering women, and religious h…
This paper analyzes the policies for migrant economies as part of broader social and labor market in Germany. It points out that the current fragmented and contradictory policy action can be identified as an outcome of former ambiguities and the delega…
In pursuit of post-Kemalism [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek
À la poursuite du post-kémalisme [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek
Post-Post-Kemalism: In Search of a New …
Synopsis (English) : When Ammiya was 13 years old, while in her 6th year at school, her parents sent her to marriage without her consent. As is customary in the Fulani and Muslim communities in Cameroon, no one tried to stop this marriage….