Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
With their association to enterprise and innovation, creative industries have emerged as a legitimate concern in national cultural and economical policy in many countries across the world. In Denmark, the fashion business, in particular, has been haile…
It has been en vogue for official bodies to focus on ’culture’ as a strategic factor for the development of spatial entities such as cross-border regions in the making. This focus places high expectations and a strong belief in the power of ’culture’. …
The arts and culture are considered core in a creative industries strategy. But the promotion of the creative industries brings about revised notions of creativity. These revised notions are being applied to the arts. Creativity is now seen to be large…
The aim of this article is to give a tentative illustration of how a creative, postpolitical citizen is imagined and encouraged to unfold within the frame of a city renewal project. As a starting point, the article outlines an exploratory framework str…
A carnival is a cultural event within the experience economy, and can be considered an activity of added value to a city when creating place-awareness for tourists and residents. ’Culture’ is used as a way to regenerate post-industrial and run down pla…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
This article deals with the complexity of relations of urban dwellers with the natural environment. It explores a rich variety of practices in engaging with non-built environments developed by the population of mining cities in the Murmansk…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
The seminar was dedicated to examining the types of transformations that have recently taken place in feminism in Latin America and in the global justice movements, as well as envisioning possible future processes and shifts in relation to …
Why would anthropologists pay attention to planning research? The symposium, ‘Planning for People’, held in Helsinki on May 3rd 2011 demonstrated that there are many reasons. Most obviously, anthropologists have to deal more and more with t…
GISA W ESZKALNYS. Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010. Pp. 214. ISBN: 978-1-84545-723-5.
KHOSRAVI, SHARAM. Illegal Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 176. ISBN: 978-0-230-23079-8.
HARVEY, DAVID. Social Justice and the City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009 (Revised Edition). Pp. 354. ISBN: 978-0-8203-3403-5. FAINSTEIN, SUSAN. The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 224. ISBN: 978-080144655…
It is widely held that a new image of the world—a colour photograph of the planet Earth rising beyond the shadow of the moon, as captured by a pair of American astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission of 1968—was one of the most influential force…
Scientific research and public debate on biodiversity loss (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), climate change (IPCC 2007), and other environmental issues have led to a renewed discussion of what needs to be done about the place of humans…
Published: December 1995.
Published: December 1995.
Kinship is an essential factor in human social life. Many years of research devoted to develop a better understanding of kinship bear witness to this fact. Important advances were made on conceptual, modeling and empirical grounds. Computational social…
This paper presents a simulation of world-systems theory’s iteration model of early human societies. The polities modeled are composed of sedentary foragers and/or simple horticulturalists that rely upon basic subsistence technologies and display low l…
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Today’s clothing industry is based on a system where clothes are made in ready-to-wear sizes and meant to fit most people. Studies have pointed out that consumers are discontent with the use of these systems: size designations are not accurate enough t…
Fashion and retail ought to be a happy marriage. Yet several entrepreneurs in the field of fashion speak of a climate that is difficult to penetrate because of economic and cultural factors. For example, the chain store concept is an expression of the …
This article discusses the mobilization of the nation for fashion, based on how the relationship between fashion and nation unfolds in the case of fashion design practice and the fashion industry in Denmark. The otherwise globalized fashion industry is…
The story of fastskin swimsuits reflects some of the challenges facing the impact of technology in postmodern culture. Introduced in 1999 and ratified for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, fastskin swimsuits were touted as revolutionising competitive swim…
With Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological view that human beings ’take in’ the world and experience themselves as subjects through their bodies as a starting point, players in both men’s and women’s teams, kit men, purchasing managers, sporting dir…