BETWEEN TIME & THE SCREEN
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Precarity and uncertainty are a key axis of inequality; yet these are not problems in or of time. They are experiences generated by the forms of financialised speculation that have eroded long term planning for the public good since the late 1980-90s. …
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Chris Gregory’s Gifts and Commodities (1982) is widely regarded as a classic in economic anthropology as well as in studies on Melanesia. The work offers a lucid typology and definition of the concepts of ‘gift’ and ‘commodity’based on the tradition…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
A new issue of Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology is now available: Vibrant – Volume 17 contains the dossier “Anthropology in times of intolerance: challenges facing neoconservatism”.
Available at http://www.vibrant.org.br/lastest-issue-v-17-2020…
The anthropology of security is slowly developing into a substantial sub-discipline of anthropology, yet there are only a few works that elaborate on how the research on security is conducted, what ethical issues emerge in this process, and how this di…
The preventive measures implemented to contain the coronavirus pandemic in Italy involve the self-confinement of the population. At the same time, I argue, an ethos of self-discipline is promoted, leading to ambiguous results. Although the pandemic may…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
The Covid-19 pandemic has made a commonplace of the carceral imaginary. Isolation, social distancing, quarantine have become watchwords. Physician instructions, epidemiologist advice, state orders jostle alongside memes and jokes about being under ‘loc…
The police say brutal things. Research has documented how officers, when amongst themselves, talk about people in derogatory ways or openly fantasize about the use of excessive violence. In the literature, such backstage talk is in general analyzed in …
Hal Scheffler, in arguing that native concepts about procreation provide the basis for kin reckoning universally, presented considerable evidence for his argument, in addition to the extension rules for which he is best known, This essay applies this e…
Back to Kinship III is the third Special Issue of the e-journal, Structure and Dynamics sponsored by the group, Kinship Circle. Each issue is dedicated to current kinship research.There are 5 articles in this Special Issue, covering a wide range of kin…
To exemplify the legitimation processes of a pluralistic health field this article focuses on representations of Chinese medicine and its most popular spokesperson, Rene Bürkland, in the Estonian media. From 320 media texts published between 2009 and 2…
Critical considerations of the impact of biennials on artistic practices worldwide emphasize that they create new hegemonies: biennials produce another canon of contemporary art at a global scale. The main characteristic is art’s insertion into …