Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
What occurs when soldiers’ private photographs enter the public domain? This article examines a digital vernacular repository and its collection of personal images from the Portuguese colonial war (1961-74). Drawing on archival analysis, interviews, an…
The call by Alf Hornborg for a better consideration of the human dimension in the public discussion of global environmental change, networks of production and consumption, and structures of knowledge and power is a welcome contribution to e…
A defining feature of an anthropological perspective is that it acknowledges the importance of cultural specificity. As Marshall Sahlins (1976:170) succinctly put it: ‘no object, no thing, has being or movement in human society except by th…
The author has always been sceptical about the use of value theory in anthropology. Here he considers its scope in relation to a project linked to the publication of The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide in 2010. This international project, …
Until 2023, the finding aids of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Lisbon, Portugal (Overseas Historical Archive) did not provide information on the scope and content of the archival series “files of settlers and the repatriated” (“processos de colonos…
LAPORTE C. 2023. Figures de cuisiniers. De l’artisan à l’assembleur. Paris : Classiques Garnier. 239 p.
Publié en 2023, Figures de cuisiniers. De l’artisan à l’assembleur est un ouvrage du sociologue Cyrille Laporte, maître de conférences …
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For over half a century, wolves in France were extinct. In the absence of predators, the shepherds became accustomed to leaving the sheep roaming freely in the mountains in relative safety. However, at the end of the 1980s, wolves returned, resul…
Call for papers: Nutritional imaginaries
The question surroundings imaginaries of food has already been explored in history (Heimberg 2010; Vierne 1989), in literature (Lambert-Perreault et Sicotte 2016) and in communication studies (Bouta…
Appel à contribution : Imaginaires nutritionnels
La question des imaginaires alimentaires a déjà été travaillée en histoire (Heimberg 2010 ; Vierne 1989), en littérature (Lambert-Perreault et Sicotte 2016), en sciences de la communication …
Aegviidu on suurepärane koht, kus nautida looduse ilu. See linn on kuulsus Eesti kauni looduse poolest aastaringselt. Host.ee annab sulle võimaluse avastada seda imelist paika igal ajal aastas, pakkudes laia valikut tegevusi ja vaatamisväärsusi, et igasugune külastus oleks mäletamist väärt. Kevadine Aegviidu Kui lumi hakkab sulama ja loodus ärkab, muutub Aegviidu imeliseks kohaks, kus nautida […]
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Conducting research among populations affected by mass violence, especially when such violence takes place in colonial contexts, raises ethical and methodological challenges that require reflexivity. Drawing on fieldwork conducted among th…
In my doctoral research, I work on memory practices of youth collectives in Quibdó, capital of the department of the Chocó (Colombian Pacific). Chocó is a territory marked by many stigmas, and Afro-Colombian youth in Quibdó is considered O…
Despite the urgency of developing and promoting reflexivity and innovative, art-based methods as an alternative to the text-centredness of science in general and anthropology in particular – as a means of data collection and dissemination …
Contemporary anthropology increasingly confronts challenges of representation amid evolving cultural, social, and political landscapes. This special feature investigates how anthropologists engage in multimodal practices—from academic writ…
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
This article presents the essential input of reflexivity for conducting ethnographic research in digital contexts to highlight how power relations are articulated with digital practices. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2021 and 2022…
How can we not adhere to the values proposed by the Ascona Charter? Has transforming anthropology in order to transform the world never been more urgent?
This interview is the edited excerpt of a dialogue recorded in the summer of 2023 between the three editors of this special feature and three experienced researchers: Prof. Susan Ossman, Dr. Eda Elif Tibet, and Dr. Nadine Wanono, who parti…
In this special issue, we seek to uncover the vulnerabilities of researchers in anthropological fieldwork and academia, tracing their political and epistemological potential for the creation of ethnographic knowledge that is based on pract…
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
What might the transformation in transformative anthropology entail? While several responses might be generated, one element that is generally kept to the background is transformation from within. This “inner enquiry” is not necessarily of…
This article discusses the potentials and challenges of psychoanalytically oriented “interpretation workshops”: interpretive, collective spaces that address ethnographic fieldwork’s subconscious, emotional, and experiential aspects. While …
This contribution proposes a primary focus on academia as a relational economy that subtends academics as individuals, rather than on relationships running between academics and the outside world—such as research participants. In this rega…
This paper brings anthropological scholarship on reflexivity and positionality in conversation with debates around issues of self-exploitation in the neoliberal university, to argue that the publication pressures early career anthropologis…
Book review of: Lems, Annika. 2022. Frontiers of Belonging: The Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.