Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Stephen and Christine Hugh-Jones were the first anthropologists not only to demonstrate that the gender value of places and directions depends on the frame of reference and the point of view but to turn this insight into a fruitful principle on whi…
In this comment on Stephen Hugh-Jones’s “Thinking Through Tubes” Françoise Barbira Freedman offers a feminist meditation on the semiotics of androgyny in Northwest Amazonian shamanism, ritual life and mythology. By focusing on processes of detotali…
The tube, as both object and concept, has cropped up from time to time in the ethnography of lowland South America, most notably in Rivière and Lévi-Strauss’s discussions of blowpipes, hair tubes and pottery and in Hill and Wright’s writings on Yur…
Stephen Hugh-Jones’s ethnographic and collaborative engagement with the peoples of the Pirá-Paraná and, more widely, the Vaupés and Upper Rio Negro today spans 50 years. In this Introduction we chart the evolution of Hugh-Jones’s hybrid identity as…
The article explores the role of network-led policymaking with a focus on immigrant integration. Drawing on the EUROCITIES Integrating Cities Charter, it sheds light on how immigration-related diversity governance plays a part in the city-branding stra…
This article examines the way Somali refugees cope with their situation under uncertain circumstances in their transit country, more particularly, the Eastleigh Estate, Nairobi, Kenya, where they wait for resettlement to a third country in a process th…
This article argues that the West’s neoliberal ‘dignity promotion’ in other parts of the world is counter-productive and leads to the resurgence of a primordial culture of honour, a concept too often an ignored in international relations research. The …
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2.
All articles in this latest issue can be accessed via this link.
We take this opportunity to thank our contributors, review…
New Florida Journal of Anthropology
This paper gives an account of sociolinguistic aspects of Chasu personal names and some ways in which they relate to the modes of address among the Vaasu people of Same District in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. It reveals that Chasu personal name…
Publiée pour la première fois en 2001, la revue Anthropology of Food fêtera son vingtième anniversaire l’année prochaine. Depuis sa création, elle témoigne de la diversité et de la richesse des recherches élaborées par les différentes tendances …
Published for the first time in 2001, Anthropology of Food will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. Since its beginnings, AoFood reflects the diversity and richness of research in the field of the anthropology of food, environment, agricul…
The verb lexicon, and more specifically verb subcategorization frames, forms an integral part of any computational grammar. In building a Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) computational grammar for Setswana, it is therefore necessary to determine, in a …
As part of a current investigation a number of stone structures have been registered throughout the locality of Santa Cruz (Argentina), which have been assigned to various functions such as hunting blinds, cairns, bases of awnings and “chenques” or fun…
El presente artículo realiza un breve recorrido por los estudios en ciencias sociales y particularmente en antropología sobre la pesca artesanal y el fenómeno marino-costero de Chile. Para ello se ha consultado una serie de autores vinculados a este ca…
El artículo recupera la experiencia de lucha y de trabajo de una agrupación social abocada a la generación de proyectos habitacionales en una ciudad media de la provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina). A partir de la misma se reflexiona respecto a los pr…
La costa oeste del Golfo San Matías (Pcia. de Río Negro, Argentina) es un sector del litoral nordpatagónico del que se posee escasa información zooarqueológica. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de un estudio osteométrico desarrollado sobre r…
En el presente artículo se realiza un abordaje que surge de la articulación entre investigación antropológica, histórica y la utilización de las fuentes judiciales, con la intención de exponer su potencial heurístico para los estudios de company towns …
Keywords: Ọjị (kola nut), Ọjị Ezinihitte cultural festival, Socio-cultural heritage, Historical dynamics, Igboland, Nigeria. Ọjị (kola nut) is indispensable in traditional life of the Igbo of Nigeria. It plays an intrinsic role in almost all segments o…
Keywords: Ethnohistory, Personal names, Language-in-contact, Rombo-Chagga, Tanzania The history of African societies, which are mostly oral, could be deciphered through onomastics. This is possible because naming practices, which are elaborate, and per…
Keywords: Qur‟an interpretation, Biological evolution, Supernatural Creator, Limits of science, Human reproduction, Picturing creation, Human gametes, Human zygote, Human embryogenesis, Real Renewal of Islam.
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
This essay examines two domains in which wealthy Chinese seek to cultivate social distinction. The first section examines luxury consumption and highlights the ambivalences surrounding global luxury goods in China. Given that luxury goods often fail to…
Italy has emerged as a leading producer of luxury goods on the international stage, while China has been asserting itself as a strategic market for luxury firms. Italy took advantage of the World Expos, in both Shanghai and Milan, to redefine its relat…
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory