Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):3–18 Introduction This article examines an apparently undocumented tale from northwestern Africa: a short, simply phrased dialogue between a man and a cat. The cat finds some money, and repeated questions of “What do you want that for?” lead to progressively longer-term goals, outlining a moderately successful life. These goals are largely […]
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Digital networks and social media are increasingly becoming spaces with high political stakes as well as great economic gains. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the relationship between economic and political motivations, particu…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Among heterosexual Igbo women in Southeastern Nigeria, the use of praise names is an essential aspect of their cultural socialisation, expression of feminine essence, and tranquil marital union. Relying on a social cons…
InVisible Culture
Sensibilisation is a French term often translated to “awareness raising” but which encompasses a broader set of practices and philosophies intended to foster behavior change among target audiences. For those working on biodiversity conservation, sensib…
Green Infrastructure (GI) connects across a city’s urban fabric and exhibits multiple meanings. It inevitably ties to questions about environmental justice. In South Africa, the historical legacy of colonialism and apartheid has left deep scars and the…
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Using a combination of site visits, document reviews, focus group and key informant surveys of fishermen, we explore the cultural beliefs, taboos and norms that protect Musambwa Islands, Uganda. The islands form part of a large protected …
This review examines the edited volume by Elizabeth A. Bews and Kathryn E. Marklein, “Roman Bioarchaeology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life and Death in the Roman World” which presents a synthesis of bioarchaeology from across multiple regions o…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Despite ongoing institutional reforms to mitigate longstanding bottlenecks in natural resource governance, persistent legal pluralism complicates and constrains such efforts in Africa. This is evident in post-independen…
A new approach to energy transition governance is necessary, one that is inclusive of First Nations on whose land the energy transition will occur. In this short position paper, we elaborate upon the concept of green energy statecraft (GES), a new appr…
The NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 created a network of Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs) to receive returned lands and establish Aboriginal enterprises that bolstered economic security for Aboriginal people. The restituted Aboriginal land es…
Training and employment will be a key determinant of whether the socio-economic position of First Nations peoples is improved through the energy transition, but there are few studies on how to increase First Nations employment in renewable energy. Our …
The Aboriginal land estate in NSW is uniquely vulnerable to the physical risks of climate change and this jeopardises the rights and interests of First Nations peoples. This paper presents the findings of research and knowledge exchange between a cross…
Australian First Nations people are playing an increasingly important role in climate litigation relating to the approval of greenhouse gas emission (GHG) projects, with several important cases handed down in the last few years. Here we discuss three r…
Indigenous peoples have acted across a wide range of fields to address climate change. In all contexts they encounter the barriers of established colonial relations of land and state sovereignty. Indigenous-centred agendas are defined in articulation, …
InVisible Culture
Natural capital approaches to mitigating the impacts of construction projects, in which environmental harms and mitigations are calculated and then traded, have become dominant features of contemporary conservation. They are subject to considerable cri…
In this article, we examine how political ecology can benefit from greater engagement with green criminology’s focus on harms. We do so by developing a harms-based political ecology, which is a useful lens through which to analyze global environmental …
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A vast body of literature has established how armed conflicts and wars are harmful to the environment, and it is generally assumed that peace should be beneficial to it. This article investigates the understudied environmental and energy discourse and …
Teaching the anthropology of topics often considered controversial, such as “addiction” and the structural inequalities that shape it, is becoming increasingly challenging in the current climate of higher education in the United States. Neoliberal impe…
To fight against “wokeness” in higher education, Florida’s conservative-led government passed multiple laws that restrict the ability of faculty to teach and students to learn at the state’s public colleges and universities. This legislation created a …
In this article, I describe how teaching anthropology in polarizing times can potentially impact instructors. Using Florida as an example, I show how polarizing political contexts can embolden students to challenge faculty and coursework they view as i…
In this article, two university professors explore what it means to teach anti-colonial and anti-racist anthropological theory and ethnographic methods to graduate students at an American Land Grant University and predominantly white institution (PWI) …