Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
L’industrie cosmétique brésilienne s’est construite autour de normes de beauté qui faisaient la promotion de représentations eurocentrées de la féminité. Si celle-ci s’est attachée depuis la fin des années 1970 à élargir son offre de produits co…
L’article traite d’une profession des classes populaires fortement féminisée, les esthéticiennes, en la replaçant dans le secteur économique auquel elle appartient : l’esthétique-cosmétique. Or celui-ci est dominé par l’industrie cosmétique qui …
The economic reforms that triggered China’s extremely fast development since the 1980s have also involved the beauty sector: the so-called beauty economy has flourished along with all the commercial activities related to the beauty industry, fro…
L’objectif de cet article consiste à interroger les concepts utilisés par les chercheurs en sciences sociales afin d’appréhender les processus de radicalisations qualifiées d’islamiques. Si certaines disciplines universitaires comme la géopolit…
Le lectorat francophone est pour une fois particulièrement gâté : ce premier livre consacré à l’éthique de la recherche en sociologie est remarquable et le lectorat anglophone n’a plus accès à un équivalent depuis trois décennies. Contrairement …
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Education policy can embed ethnic inequalities in a country. Education in Burundi, with its historically exclusive political institutions and education, represents an important case for understanding these interactions….
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. In recent decades, musicians have figured prominently on Africa’s political stage. Popular Ugandan musician Bobi Wine moved beyond protest singer and ventured into politics by entering parliament in 2017 and challenging…
This paper deals with a Facebook-group named Malaysia-News. This group was founded in August 2019 and saw a rapid increase in members, especially in Southeast Asia. The analysis of the development of this group is based on data from Facebook and concer…
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This book dicusses the national, regional, and transnational appropriations of Kartini – a young Javanese woman who lived in Jepara, Central Java, between 1879 and 1904. She is recognised internationally as an iconic feminist and nationalist Indonesian…
In the literature, Malaysian Indians, as minorities, are marginalized and discriminated against, while their agency is either conspicuously lacking or one-dimensional. As a result, the mainstream discourse concerning Malaysian Indians is discursive and…
Poverty in rural areas remains a major concern for developing countries. In order to improve the lives of poor rural people, it is important to identify the key factors behind their poverty. Over the past two decades, rural development policy and resea…
This article examines how Malaysia has sought to improve migrant workers’ welfare through the revision of its labor laws. Migrant workers’ welfare in Malaysia has been hindered by the absence of social security frameworks, outdated labor laws, multiple…
As a result of lockdowns across Southeast Asia, the use of all types of social media has reached high records in the whole region. Yet, the rapid social media response manifested in the form of an infodemic – an overabundance of false and misleading in…
In April 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, memes addressing the Thai monarchy in a critical way appeared on Twitter under the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance, which for a couple of days trended worldwide. Initially, the Twitter account of a Thai TV…
Social media have played a major role as a place where one can meet and socialize with like-minded people, and this is especially important for marginalized groups. Atheists depict such a group in Indonesia where public expressions of atheism are punis…
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Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Conventional narratives suggest that the African Union Commission (AUC), like most international public administrations and international organisations (IOs) housed in the less materially endowed regions of the world, e…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how practitioners in the West African Health Organization (WAHO) obtain and exercise autonomous political agency in the development of regional health policy. While many process-driven accounts…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. African countries are well recognised as being among the worst affected by the impacts of climate change. However, efforts to secure recognition of these “special circumstances” of African countries within the UN climat…
The contribution points out how the notion of health as a common good, central in Rita Lima’s interview with Tullio Seppilli, fits within Seppilli’s scientific itinerary in the context of policies and problems relating to health and health care in a gl…
In this short text, the author makes a portrait of Tullio Seppilli. The portrait highlights Tullio Seppilli’s choice for critical rationalism, the role of his political convictions and the academic ethics of an outstanding master of medical anthropolog…
The dialogue between medical anthropology and epidemiology is important in Tullio Seppilli’s thought. Indeed, the probabilistic mechanisms of a statistical nature make it possible to identify significant correlations between risk, health, and power str…
The comment highlights Tullio Seppilli’s ethical-political sensitivity, as shown in the interview on risk and health the author conducted during a PhD program. Powered by ongoing generosity, the meeting announced the sharing of a unique heritage, in th…
The purpose of this article is twofold: first, we show how algorithms have become increasingly central to financial credit scoring; second, we draw on this to further develop the anthropological study of algorithmic governance. As such, we describe the…