Review: Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands.
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Category: English
Ludo Tricks and the Unserious Actor in the Trucking Business
Anthropological studies based on participant observation, with the goal of producing context-sensitive, holistic sociocultural descriptions of high-risk industries, are few and far between. This article focuses on the intentional bending and breaking o…
Sacred Ground, Contested Space: Deathscapes in the Aftermath of an Environmental Disaster in East Java, Indonesia
This study explores the sociocultural, economic, and symbolic significance of graveyards – conceptualized as deathscapes – among survivors of the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java. Drawing on ethnographic engagement and qualitative interv…
Subsiding sediments, gender, and obstinate repairs in the coastal city
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Subsiding sediments, gender, and obstinate repairs in the coastal city
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Vulnerabilitat estructural i jerarquies d’ètnia i ciutadania a la granja
Cada any, els Estats Units donen feina a gairebé dos milions de treballadors agrícoles temporers, aproximadament la meitat dels quals son migrants (Rothenberg, 1998). Aquest article es basa en un any d’observació participant duta a terme en una finca d…
Comprendre la sobrietat energètica a través de la sobrietat etnofílmica. La relació amb la tècnica i el treball en la representació d’alternatives ecològiques
La lleugeresa del dispositiu fílmic, la versatilitat de l’investigador-cineasta, el principi de no intervenció en la realitat observada i el caràcter experimental de l’enfocament etnofílmic constitueixen, d’una banda, l’expressió d’una enginyositat cie…
“Està tot al teu cap”: repensant la migranya crònica des d’una perspectiva antropològica i feminista
Les malalties cròniques representen un dels temes d’estudi prevalents en l’àmbit de l’Antropologia de la Salut, no obstant això sembla no haver-hi cabuda per a la migranya crònica, com a malaltia feminitzada, ja que afecta especialment les dones, i inv…
Seguretat alimentaria i desigualtat social en clau antropològica
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
How plants participate in politically contested ecologies? Species, vegetation cover and crops in the conservation of the páramos in Colombia
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
How plants participate in politically contested ecologies? Species, vegetation cover and crops in the conservation of the páramos in Colombia
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
Pluralism and Critique in a Renewed Environmental Anthropology
Environmental anthropology has evolved from early ethnographic traditions that emphasized the interplay between culture and ecology to a field increasingly influenced by ideological perspectives across the political spectrum. Traditionally, anthrop…
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.37 No.1
Published: December 2025.
Naming things in the sea and muddy bottoms of the mangroves: Indigenous taxonomy of marine resources among the Mijikenda of coastal Kenya
This paper presents findings of a study on the indigenous knowledge and management systems of marine resources among the Mijikenda people of Coastal Kenya. The objective of the study was to investigate how Mijikenda indigenous system of practices and b…
Perception of the national health insurance scheme among artisans in Ibadan, Nigeria
Artisans in the informal economic sector are least enrolled in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Nigeria despite their exposure to numerous health hazards. This study investigated artisan’s perception and utilization of the NHIS in Ido loc…
Kobie, kinship beyond borders: A socio-philosophical ideal for peaceful coexistence in Ogoni, Nigeria
This paper examines Kobie, an indigenous Ogoni socio-philosophical ideal, as a viable framework for fostering peaceful coexistence and rebuilding fractured communal relations in the eastern Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Historically, the Ogoni people …
Exploring the perception of teen mothers on re-dropping from secondary school: A case of Matai Open School at Kalambo District, Tanzania
Globally, teenage pregnancies continued to halt the efforts of numerous states in achieving equal accessibility to primary education among girls and boys. The current study, entitled “Exploring the Perception of Teen Mothers on Re-Dropping from Seconda…
Homophobia in Africa and the Culture of Secrecy
The argument that tends to make homophobic some Africans’ resistance to same-sex practices is debatable. The paper aims to engage a discussion on same-sex practices and the cultural framework of secrecy with a critique of the Western organizations, gov…
Troubling trousers: A study of socio-cultural perceptions surrounding women’s trousers and bodily agency
Tanzanians, like other East African people, have long-standing gendered dress traditions where attempts at cross-dressing have historically been met with disdain and resistance, reflecting deeply ingrained gender norms. However, the increasing influenc…
Akan cosmovision, knowledge, worldview and beliefs about livelihood resources: A case of two coastal communities in the Central Region, Ghana
For some time, the use of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) to sustain coastal resources has been a major concern, as governments and other stakeholders have tried to offer various solutions without much success. This paper examines the worldview, beliefs, and…
Decolonizing cultural names: A driving force behind the choice of certain African wax-printed fabrics as uniforms for Igbo women’s groups in south-eastern Nigeria
In West Africa, Nigeria to be precise, African wax prints are seen as one of the Indigenous garbs characterized by bold and colourful designs. The Igbo(found in the Eastern part of Nigeria) women folk make use of these fabrics for various occasions suc…
The beliefs associated with days: The case of Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday among the Dagbamba of Northern Ghana
The study focuses on how the Dagbamba linguistically encode the culturally embedded beliefs crucially associated with Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday to determine the vitality and morale values of these beliefs at the instance of Islamisation, formal…
Book review: Isabel Bredenbröker. Rest in Plastic Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community. New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2024, 322 pp. Hard back ISBN 978-1-80539-503-4
Isabel Bredenbröker’s exploration of funerary practices in Peki, a town in Ghana’s Volta Region, offers a profound and nuanced dissection of the interplay between death, community, and the material world. Her book is structured into three distinct part…