Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The study investigates how adult migrants to Norway develop a sense of belonging through both attachment and mobility. Building on transnational and mobilities perspectives, it emphasizes embodied affect—the sensory and emotional exper…
Romanian Roma who beg and perform street work represent the most visible and acute form of poverty in today’s Norway, but as EU citizens operating outside formal labour markets, they have limited access to social rights and services. Using a stre…
This article is concerned with the institutionalisation of suspicion within migration control regimes, and more specifically the Swedish migration authorities’ practices of credibility assessments from a historical governmentality pers…
In the Gender, Culture, and Society undergraduate course at a mainland Chinese university, an instructor had her students perform Emily Martin’s The Woman in the Body (2001) to engage their own embodied experience in an anthropology class. To clarify t…
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, videoconferencing rapidly shifted from being a time-liberating support tool to becoming a health concern. This article explores the phenomenon of Zoom fatigue from the perspective of a sample of first-wave blog posts, edit…
Deeply rooted in cultural traditions, myths, and legends, folklore is regarded as the beating heart of any civilization. It opens a window into the customs, fears, beliefs, and values that have steered societies through the ages, ultimately shaping our shared human experience. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the colorful world of folklore, exploring […]
The post Across the Veil: Exploring The Rich Tapestry of Folklore Around the World first appeared on Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
The Finnish Anthropological Society (or simply Society) was founded during a period in which the number of academic students increased rapidly. In addition, many young people sought ways to participate in international politics, particularl…
This year, the Finnish Anthropological Society turns 50 years old! Hooray! Founded in 1975, the core focus of the Society has remained trained on promoting high-quality research in the field of anthropology and in disciplines closely aligne…
Public anthropology refers to the dissemination of anthropological knowledge beyond the academy, although no clear-cut definition of the term exists. In this article, we scrutinise the history, meanings, and practices of public anthropology…
Sarah Green was invited by the editorial team of Suomen antropologi to write something for their Jubilee Edition about Finnish anthropology, perhaps about her experience as an outsider, having worked in anthropology departments for a couple…
This year marks a century since Finnish ethnographer Hilma Granqvist (1890–1972) embarked on her first journey to Palestine, an undertaking that proved intellectually rich alongside becoming a professional impasse. Initially setting out to …
I am a social anthropologist born, raised and educated in the United Kingdom. I have however carried out fieldwork in Finnish Lapland, first in 1971-2, for my doctorate, among Skolt Sámi people, and subsequently, in 1979-80, in the distric…
Book Review: Venkatesan, Soumhya. Decolonizing Anthropology: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity. 2025. 252 pp. ISBN: 9781509540600 (softcover), 9781509540594 (hardcover); 9781509540617 (e-book).
Este artículo contribuye a las discusiones sobre la dimensión política del enfoque de los sistemas socioecológicos (SSE) y a la apertura transdisciplinar de la ecología política (EP), a partir de una articulación con otros conocimientos disciplinares y…
Articles Comparing Ainu numerals “one”, “two”, “three”, “four”, “five”with their Sino-Tibetan counterparts Alexander Akulov, Tresi Nonno Ainu numerals “one”, “two”, “three”, “four”, and “five” have clearly seen Sino-Tibetan equivalents. Late Jōmon Ainu (LJA) *si “one” ~ Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB) *tyak / *g-t(y)ik “one”, Meche ceʔ / seʔ “one”. LJA *tu “two” ~ PTB *(t/d)u-n/t “join” / […]
New Florida Journal of Anthropology
New Florida Journal of Anthropology
Dans son ouvrage Le travail à vif. Souffrances professionnelles, consulter pour quoi ?, Thomas Périlleux livre au lecteur des expériences et analyses issues de sa pratique de sociologue clinicien. En effet, l’auteur, professeur de sociologie …
Due to the saturation of the academic market, the employment of PhD graduates has become an important issue in higher education studies. In this article, we measured to what extent the internalisation of a scientific ethos and previous professio…
Un assez large accord existe parmi les sociologues et anthropologues qui travaillent sur les relations humains-animaux pour considérer qu’un « clivage », ou un « fossé » existe entre les animaux de rente, d’une part et les animaux de compagnie, …
Depuis 2020, l’Université Autonome Communale de Oaxaca s’est déployée dans l’État de Oaxaca à travers seize Centres Universitaires Communaux (CUC) tous réunis pour la défense de leur mode de vie et de penser, appelé comunalidad. L’Université com…
In the course of the last century, and still more singularly in the last fifty years, the family has undergone major transformations. The domain of the family has thus seen the appearance of a multitude of terms reflecting he emergence of these …
En France, la demande d’asile est inscrite dans une politique du soupçon qui entraine une remise en cause systématique de la véracité et de la crédibilité des récits des requérant·e·s. S’intéresser à l’asile LGBTI, c’est-à-dire à la demande de p…
What is sustainable – and who gets to decide what sustainability is – remains a central question for political ecologists. Scholars have explained and critiqued specific iterations, as well as proposed versions of what they believe sustainability ought…