Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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…
Published: December 2025.
Dear Colleagues!The CAES editorial team looks forward to receiving your papers for CAES Vol. 12, No. 1, which is going to be published in late February or early March 2026. The deadline for submission of papers is February 10, 2026.
When young people in Danish residential care escape their institutions without permission it is often understood as acts of ‘troubling behaviour’ among social workers. Drawing on one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork across three re…
This article examines how the Canela Apanjekra (Porquinhos Indigenous Land, Maranhão, Brazil) engage with conditional cash transfer policies aimed at combating hunger—especially the Bolsa Família Program—and how these policies are interpreted throu…
Na virada do século XXI, salários, programas e políticas previdenciárias com aporte renda, voltados ao bem-estar social, começam a atingir povos indígenas brasileiros. Os poucos estudos etnográficos acerca da monetarização concordam sobre possíveis…
Examinam-se aspectos e percursos do sistema alimentar dos Wari’, povo indígena da Amazônia Ocidental, em um intervalo de duas décadas, mas também contemporaneamente. Trata-se de um cenário marcado por transformações, com dinâmicas que incluem a mon…
Os Guarani e Kaiowa apresentam uma relação sofisticada entre as práticas alimentares e a recuperação de territórios tradicionais em Mato Grosso do Sul (Brasil), protagonizada cotidianamente por mulheres indígenas. As mulheres guarani e kaiowa consi…
El artículo analiza cómo la comida se ha convertido en un eje central para comprender las transformaciones morales, corporales y políticas entre los urarina de la Amazonía peruana. La introducción de alimentos industrializados —especialmente los co…
Este artículo es resultado de un proyecto de investigación asociado a la producción de alimentos en una comunidad arhuaca en las tierras bajas de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Se describen algunas experiencias de la implementación del proyecto, …
This article examines the fermentative processes at the core of the agricultural food system of the Upper Rio Negro, northwestern Amazon, highlighting women’s technical and social agency in the production of fermented beverages such as caxiri. Base…
La presente investigación examina el sistema agroforestal familiar (nainu) del pueblo gunadule como un tejido de resistencia social, espiritual y ecológica frente a los procesos históricos y actuales de desposesión territorial y colapso climático. …
O artigo explora a ligação entre a cosmologia do povo Ye’kwana e suas práticas alimentares tradicionais, com base no conceito central de ädeeja, que representa os alimentos cultivados. Esse termo abrange mais do que a ideia de comida — ele carrega …
This special issue of Tipití presents a critical examination of ‘food economies’ and their transformations within Indigenous communities in Lowland South America. Stemming from seminal ideas in the Anthropology of Lowland South America that directl…
This essay is based on an ethnography by Parker Shipton (2011) of a World Bank development effort in Africa which failed spectacularly. The reason for its failure – and all similarly conceived efforts – lies in its disregard of the ecology of social pr…
As climate change threatens cities worldwide, how does the act of escaping environmental disaster become entangled with opportunities to generate wealth? Recent projections indicate that Manila, the capital of the Philippines, will become uninhabitable…
Aujourd’hui, la Science fait face à des remises en question qui dépassent le cadre du débat académique. Si le « scepticisme organisé », pour reprendre le concept du sociologue Robert King Merton, fait partie intégrante du processus scientifique,…
Partant d’une recherche sociologique conduite sur la base de corpus experts, scientifiques et politiques entre 1990 et 2005, cet article explore les contextes et modalités de fabrication des nouvelles courbes de référence pour la croissance des …
La sécurité communautaire est perçue comme un objectif essentiel face au phénomène de gangstérisation qui affecte profondément certaines communautés en Haïti. La prolifération des gangs armés dans les quartiers entraîne des pertes humaines et ma…
Sur base d’une enquête en ligne (n=539) et d’entretiens (n=57) auprès d’artistes et techniciens des arts de la scène, cet article se penche sur l’influence de la grossesse et de la parentalité sur la carrière des artistes. Il cherche à comprendr…
Cet article propose d’examiner comment les dynamiques collaboratives et contributives, qui jouent un rôle clé dans la production des écrits de fans, tels que les fanfictions sur le Web, se manifestent concrètement dans l’activité de leurs auteur…
Dans cet article, il est question d’analyser l’incidence de l’ancrage de l’identité estudiantine sur la gestion de la pandémie de Covid-19 dans un restaurant universitaire au Sénégal. L’étude, dans une approche socio-anthropologique, est essenti…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Access to decent and affordable housing is a major source of distress for migrants in many cities in Africa. For translocal migrants, there are limited housing pathways, further constrained by various socio-cultural pra…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) offer valuable tools for fostering social cohesion and conflict resolution, yet little is known about women’s roles in this domain. This study draws on 14 interviews to …