Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Taiwan material religion Daoism ritual whip craft cultural improvisation Among the most ubiquitous ritual implements in modern Taiwan, the ritual whip functions to dispel demons and to summon spirit soldiers, the material embodiment of a fearsome serpe…
Since 2022, the Thai government has been establishing community justice centers nationwide. The Civil Justice Network (CJN) has played a crucial role in facilitating justice in every sub-district throughout the country. However, practical challenges ha…
EExisting evidence regarding Australian attitudes and values relating to social cohesion has yet to be comprehensively reviewed. Therefore, there is little understanding of how various programs of research relate to one another, how the information is …
Among the most important productive sectors of Bangladesh is the garment industry. The total contribution of the garment industries to the national foreign exchange earnings is 83%. Though the garment sector has created substantial employment for femal…
Despite its prominence in the international political landscape and its widespread adoption throughout the world, democracy is seldom a stable regimen, and often repeatedly stressed and tested by attempts to wield autocratic power. Anti-democratic atta…
This article critically examines the utilization and misuse of internet spaces during Indonesia’s political contestations over the past five years, focusing on the emergence of fitna (sedition, strife) in virtual environments. It analyzes how internet …
Domestic violence is a social issue, which can cause immense pain and suffering to people in our community. However, it also presents a challenge to business. How can businesses offer support to domestic violence survivors to navigate an immediate cris…
InVisible Culture
Toni Armstrong reviews the Collections Exhibition, Tender Loving Care, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Following Part I, this essay (Part II) continues my attempt to develop an ontology of peace by drawing resources from Ricœur’s thought. I begin with Augustine, Dionysius, and Aquinas to show that peace is not contrary to our humanity but is a natural d…
This essay is the first of two seeking to draw out an ontology of peace from Paul Ricoeur’s thought. This first essay (Part I) argues that Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of creation provides the best starting point because of its insistence on the goodne…
This article critically examines Paul Ricœur’s philosophical contributions to inter-religious dialogue, focusing on his treatment of religion as a presumed universal category. Ricœur’s insights into religious violence and post-religious faith have infl…
There is a tension in Ricœur’s thinking between the undeniable presence of violence and his trust in a primordial goodness of existence. This tension is linked to Ricœur’s understanding of the human being as ambiguous and fragile, torn between freedom …
Persistent and newly emerging conflicts around the world have made the search for successful conflict resolution imperative. We need insights into how to prevent violent clashes, and how to find ways to peace and reconciliation. Since the 1970s, an inc…
In two well-known passages from Paul Ricœur’s work (Ricœur 1990b, 187; 2006, 260), the author proposes approaching memorial writing of the Holocaust not necessarily in the same terms as historiography. On the basis of these passages, the aim of this ar…
Paul Ricœur considered the theme of non-peace in self-affirmation to have such existential and phenomenological bearing that he devoted his intellectual capacity to explore the self that is never immediately present to oneself or at immediate peace wit…
Beginning with images of rampant destruction and violence in our day, Paul Ricœur’s reflections on the political paradox and his “little ethics” (contained in Oneself as Another) are responses to peace and understanding. Ricœur is concerned with questi…
With its emphasis on action and new possibilities opened by imagination, Paul Ricœur’s narrative theory offers insights to understanding each other in a world of polarized views. His theory is helpful in describing the potential that narrating has in s…
Kevin Rudd’s 2007 Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples acknowledged the devastating impact of child removal on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities and included a commitment that ‘the injustices of the past must never, ne…
The Argyle diamond mine, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, ceased production in late 2020 after 37 years of operations and producing 865 million carats of rough diamonds. Opening in 1983, it was the first major diamond-mining operation…
During the peak of its operation, Century mine, in Australia’s western Queensland, was the third largest lead, zinc and silver mine in the world. The mine has had a turbulent history. It was resisted by the indigenous Traditional Owners, and then an un…
Se propone describir en intensidad el modo de vida pescador y recolector en la Caleta de Arica. A partir de ciertas ecologías de prácticas y tecnologías de vinculación, abordamos las vivencias heterogéneas que entretejen un entorno socionatural distint…
El texto presenta una entrevista realizada a Victoria Castro Rojas en el contexto del primer podcast dedicado a la antropología en Chile, A campo traviesa. Luego de una introducción en donde se remarcan dos aspectos del quehacer de Castro Rojas -la sup…
La cerámica “Hedionda”, cuyo nombre proviene del sitio de una laguna homónima del suroeste de Bolivia donde fue reconocida por primera vez, también fue identificada en la década de los setenta y ochenta en las quebradas altas del Loa Superior, específi…
Este texto reflexiona y destaca aportes fundamentales de la investigadora Victoria Castro Rojas. Nos referimos a la particular visión del ejercicio académico e investigativo que promovió a lo largo de su carrera, y de la arqueología como una disciplina…