Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Le présent article cherche à connaître le fait, le fait social, à l’origine de la connaissance sociologique. Quel est-il ? Quelle est sa “matérialité” ? Comment se conçoit-il pour être l’objet de l’étude propre à la sociologie ? Après avoir envi…
I. Introduction
This article focuses on children whose sharing of family and siblingship is not limited to a single place or a family unit. Based on a phenomenological understanding, our research sheds light on how children’s participation…
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…
I. Une approche constructiviste relationnelle de la famille et de l’espace
Aujourd’hui, la mobilité – qu’elle soit spatiale, sociale, relationnelle… – est largement devenue un impératif normatif transversal aux différentes sphères de la …
Cet article analyse les configurations familiales à travers l’espace transnational, en s’appuyant sur une ethnographie de longue durée. Il examine les liens entre ces configurations et des régimes d’(im-)mobilité spécifiques, et propose un langa…
Within the social sciences, family research in sociology has in recent years – and for good reason – taken to adopting a “practical turn” to its subject. Drawing on the concepts of doing and displaying family, numerous authors have provided valu…
Cet article étudie la création d’un sens du “chez soi” par le biais de la parenté volontaire et de l’ancrage social. Plus précisément, il explore comment les jeunes migrants de première génération et de génération 1.5 créent des liens de parenté…
I. Introduction
«The new family is here!» shouted a small, blond girl in German when my younger son and I approached the stop for the German school bus on one of our first days in Tokyo. The bus stop is located on one side of the neighbour…
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)
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…
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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…