Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
L’adherència terapèutica als fàrmacs continua exercint-se en els sistemes sanitaris des del dogma i el paternalisme degenerant en ocasions en el càstig, la coacció o la por i relegant al pacient a posicionar-se en termes d’obediència o desobediència. U…
Malgrat el focus d’atenció sanitària sobre la diabetis a Espanya, hi ha nombrosos estudis que demostren que un elevat percentatge de la població diagnosticada de diabetis mellitus tipus 2 (DM2), tot i estar rebent seguiment mèdic i tractament farmacolò…
L’objectiu d’aquest assaig és reflexionar sobre les implicacions del suïcidi feminicida com a fet individual, social i biopolític, sobre la base d’un exercici reflexiu i la tensió entre diferents autors que han abordat aquesta temàtica. Es proposa lleg…
by Jonathan Walz and Philip Gooding Abstract This article seeks to redress what the authors perceive as a coast-inland dichotomy in understandings of eastern Africa’s past. Through allowing aspects of highly problematic historical paradigms to persist, some of which are European in origin and date from the Victorian and colonial eras, and through adopting certain […]
Organizadoras María Gabriela Lugones – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Facultad de Lenguas María Lucía Tamagnini – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Antropología María Cecilia Díaz – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Antropología El presente dossier surge de diálogos […]
This introductory essay proposes a reflection that discusses, reframes, and presents the thematic section hosted in this volume, that investigates houses at the intersection between recent trends in the anthropology of the house, the study of material …
In the rural Bolivian Andes, personhood is defined by intersubjective reciprocal relationships between human and nonhuman beings. This paper examines the role of the house as a living being in itself and a conduit between its inhabitants and local plac…
In the uplands of northern Laos, in which bamboo and timber houses prevailed, concrete houses are now on the rise. It will be argued that houses can be used as prisms to illuminate processes of social change. Drawing on experiences of staying in both a…
In the mining town of Redeyef (south-western Tunisia), “modern” homes and building techniques bear the signs of a history of marginalization, inequality, and lack of resources. Here, power produced specific mode of living and territorial organization. …
The article develops a critical and transversal reading of the special issue. Each contribution inspired the author to seek for a mirror image or an analogy in Western societies and test the mentioned Carsten and Hugh-Jones observation of the seemingly…
In the course of the production of sociality, the interaction of interests, materialities and rules may occur in unintended and not foreseeable ways. Procedures and norms can establish themselves uncontrollably and contour politics. This paper proposes…
This research report presents the findings of a quantitative investigation about anthropology and mass media, based on questionnaires mailed to all Italian anthropology professors (Scientific-Disciplinary Sector M-DEA/01). The goal of this survey was t…
Oral Tradition, 35/1 (2021):87-102 In March, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced hundreds of thousands of Basque citizens into full lockdown,1 the electronic revolution in communications allowed the Association of the Friends of Bertsolaritza (Bertsozale Elkartea)2 to extensively share, advertise, and disseminate their online offerings. (Bertsolaritza is the Basque cultural practice of singing improvised verses.3) The scheme presented bertso followers with an […]
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