Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Writing winning proposals for funding research is an essential skill for doctoral students in the social sciences. Still, most anthropology programs lack formal instruction on this, relying instead on informal mentorship. To advance this, we evaluated …
At the end of 2019, the Maestrazgo-Els Ports initiative was presented publicly with the aim of creating an international ecotourism destination of 550,000 hectares located between the provinces of Castellón, Teruel, and Tarragona, Spain. In less than s…
To contribute to food-system democratization and its transformation towards socio-ecological sustainability, various civil-society actors jointly organized a national citizens’ assembly in Switzerland in 2022. For six months, 80 randomly selected Swiss…
This article explores an experimental approach to mine closure planning and community participation that foregrounds the dialogue between technical and legal approaches to the mine and the knowledge and values of affected Indigenous communities. Locate…
Large-scale infrastructure projects often include government promises and visions designed to win the approval and support of affected populations and to attract much-needed funding for implementation. The promise of infrastructure leads to changes in …
This article considers predictive AI as a cultural epistemological form akin to divination, which is to say, a future-oriented technology of knowledge that concerns itself with risk and uncertainty. The article explores some of the cultural …
The gig economy is a rapidly growing global labour paradigm involving casualised labour across sectors as varied as transportation, freelancing, domestic help, programming and vacation rentals. The gig economy has been studied extensively wi…
Dear Colleagues!
The CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 11, № 2, that is going to be published in the end of May or in early June 2025.
The deadline for submission of papers is May 23, 2025.
Editor’s foreword Articles Ornaments of the Pit-Comb Ware could be notations of rhythmic patterns for the drum log Alexander Akulov The Pit-Comb Ware technocomplex existed in the northeastern Europe in the Neolithic period (about 6th – 2nd millennia BCE). The name was given after the characteristic way of decorating ceramic vessels typical of this technocomplex, […]
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. With an increase in interactions between Kenya and China at all levels, transnational encounters in everyday life add shades and nuances to the understanding of these recent Africa–Asian encounters beyond the grand narr…
Over the past 30 years, participatory forestry reforms have been attempted across much of the world. Ostensibly, these have been attempts at rolling back the enclosures of forests that characterized the colonial era. However, a vast and still-growing b…
In recent decades, there has been a shift both globally and within Australia towards community engagement in protected area management. In Australia, this has manifested in Aboriginal participation and decision-making in a range of protected areas. One…
In 2019, the government of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) embarked on a Venezuelan Registration Exercise with over 16,000 Venezuelan nationals registered. The migratory flows such as the present experience have highlighted the weaknesses in the existing…
Big data are increasingly being used to understand complex social and economic challenges. While there is much to be learned from such approaches, in-place data remain necessary for a multidimensional understanding of neighbourhoods, and for sustainabl…
Cet article s’intéresse aux nourriture produites et consommées lors des fêtes religieuses et des rites de passage célébrés dans un village côtier du Sahel tunisien, Khniss, à une époque où la modernité n’avait pas encore transformé radicalement …
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1.
All articles in this latest issue can be accessed via this link.
We take this opportunity to thank our contributors…
This article analyzes how autonomous more-than-human political communities emerge in practice. We study an agro-ecosystem in the Catalan Sub-Pyrenees, where a peasant land use cooperative runs a regenerative farm. Through interviews and observations, w…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Two “contradictory” perspectives of the borderlands exist: one is that the creation of arbitrary borders and different nationalities imposed on single communities and families not only others them and casts them as alie…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Two “contradictory” perspectives of the borderlands exist: one is that the creation of arbitrary borders and different nationalities imposed on single communities and families not only others them and casts them as alie…
Conflicts between indigenous people and state authorities over conservation projects are increasing in many parts of the world, as traditional indigenous territories mostly coincide with areas that hold 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Although both in…
C’est avec grande tristesse que nous avons appris en septembre 2024 le décès de notre collègue et amie, Janine Helfst Leicht Collaço, membre du comité éditorial de la revue Anthropology of Food depuis 2017. Nous regrettons sa gentillesse, son dy…
C’est avec grande tristesse que nous avons appris en septembre 2024 le décès de notre collègue et amie, Janine Helfst Leicht Collaço, membre du comité éditorial de la revue Anthropology of Food depuis 2017. Nous regrettons sa gentillesse, son dy…
The persistence of neoliberal food systems has often been explained with reference to political economy dynamics or the market and political activities of agri-food companies. This article approaches the issue from a different level of analysis and ask…