Going for Mackerel

The film follows the crew of the Norwegian fishing vessel Havdrøn as they set out for a new season of mackerel fishing, their main source of income. Fishing can be a difficult activity, because of the risks at sea and the instability of the p…

Horror in the Andes

Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as …

Unless the Water is Safer Than the Land

The film based on the selection of stories about the experience of journeys, shared by its participants (minor age unaccompanied refugees) during the 3 months of fieldwork in 2013 in Cologne, Germany. What they have gone through and been faced wit…

"Djeneba" a Minyanka Women of Southern Mali

Djeneba is a mother of nine children living in Kadioloko, southern Mali. Since her husband left the family some years ago Djeneba and her children manage the family’s millet fields without him. Recently the eldest boy, Madou, has brought his new wife, …

Call for papers: Indigenous Peoples, tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes in Brasil and Canada

Editores do dossiê: Stephen Grant Baines (UnB) e Bruce Granville Miller, University of British Columbia (UBC)   Este dossiê é o resultado do painel, “Indigenous Peoples, tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes”, coordenado por Stephen G. Baines e Bruce G. Miller, realizado em 23 de novembro de 2019 na Conferência Internacional da CASCA/AAA em […]

Présentation

I. Introduction
La distinction est un objet classique en sciences sociales depuis au moins Hebert Spencer et nous disposons en la matière de nombreuses traditions analytiques toutes dignes d’attention. Mais lorsque le sujet se voit évoqué,…

Anxieties of Entitlement

Despite the rise of the “moral economy” as a frame for analyzing increasing inequality, few scholars have explored the moral dimensions of elites’ experience and interpretations of their own privilege. Based on in-depth interviews with 50 afflue…