Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
As the aquifers beneath the San Luis Valley hit new lows, farmers and ranchers in this agricultural hub of southern Colorado are being encouraged to fallow their fields. With water scarcity as a push factor and renewable energy mandates as a pull facto…
Rewilding is increasingly popular as a new paradigm for conservation, advocating the return of an autonomous nature, the ‘wild’, in closer coexistence with people. This approach resonates with transboundary conservation initiatives like the Kavango-Zam…
En 2018 en France, deux épisodes d’intoxication alimentaire liés à des souches pathogènes d’Escherichia coli se sont suivis de mesures officielles visant à évincer les fromages au lait cru de l’assiette des enfants de moins de 5 ans. L’article s…
La restauration scolaire en France bascule à la fin du XXe siècle d’un modèle artisanal et quasi familial des cuisines sur place à un modèle industriel fondé sur les cuisines centrales qui fait disparaître des écoles une fabrication culinaire, i…
En 2018 en France, deux épisodes d’intoxication alimentaire liés à des souches pathogènes d’Escherichia coli se sont suivis de mesures officielles visant à évincer les fromages au lait cru de l’assiette des enfants de moins de 5 ans. L’article s…
A partir de nos missions de terrain au Cameroun et au Nord-Congo, nous exposons les dimensions symboliques et économiques de la consommation de la viande de brousse issue de la chasse chez les Ba’Aka, peuples chasseurs cueilleurs, et dont l’accè…
À partir du matériau recueilli dans le cadre d’une thèse en sociologie portant sur l’émergence de l’alimentation sans gluten en France et en Allemagne (2022), cet article montre comment les personnes sensibles au gluten cherchent à objectiver un…
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While population ageing is not a recent phenomenon, the contemporary context, marked by both a global ecological crisis and a transformation of health policies, gives a renewed centrality to age-related food issues. The accele…
Cette livraison de la revue Anthropology of Food s’est saisie de la notion de « crises » pour en interroger les contours initialement discutés au sein de l’atelier n°19 (Alimentation et crise) ayant eu lieu lors du congrès 2023 de l’AFEA à Paris…
This article examines the national school food program Qaliwarma in Peru, by analyzing the food-related issues as perceived by government authorities and the Maijuna and Napuruna indigenous peoples of the Amazon, who receive aid consisting of in…
La cuniculture est régulièrement qualifiée, en France, comme une filière agricole « en crise ». D’une part, la baisse continuelle de la consommation de viande de lapin impacte les volumes produits et le nombre d’éleveurs et d’éleveuses de lapins…
En mai 2020, plusieurs médias internationaux ont publié des images de longues files d’attente lors de distributions de colis alimentaires gratuits à Genève, une des villes les plus riches du monde. Cet événement a rudement éprouvé le système d’a…
Pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, au Québec, certains ménages se sont tournés vers le jardinage alimentaire domestique, y compris des ménages en situations d’insécurité alimentaire. Cet article étudie la pratique du jardinage chez ces ménages, av…
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in a correctional facility for male juveniles (aged 12 to 21) in Ghana, this article elaborates on institutional responses following two attempted escapes in 2018 and in 2021. The institutional resp…
This article examines a four-year collaboration between Peruvian music archaeologist Gonzalo Rodríguez and German ethnomusicologist Maurice Mengel at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, exploring how European museums can foster collaborative research …
Collections play a crucial role as a meeting point between community stakeholders, guest researchers, international fellows and museum staff, while also carrying the traces of a violent (colonial) past. Conceived as a cross-disciplinary open conversati…
A collection of late 19th-century mats originating from the Lamu Archipelago in northern Kenya – globally unique, as they bear interwoven poems – is today kept in the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin. The project ‘Talking Mats: Interwoven Histories – Co…
The Ethnologisches Museum houses collections from the Indigenous Mapuche people, acquired since the mid-nineteenth century, primarily from what is now Chile. In a collaborative project with representatives of the Mapuche, we aim to analyze the signific…
This article describes a collaborative educational and artistic project developed by the Instituto Colombiano de Anthropología e Historia (ICANH) and the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. Protective stone figures from the Parque Arqueológico de San Agustín…
Collaborative research on museum collections is standard today in ethnographic museums, where the power of interpretation, questions of expertise and ownership rights are critically discussed as necessary steps towards decolonizing western museums and …
What traces of colonial and Nazi violence can be found in the Humboldt Forum exhibitions? How relevant is this heritage for democracy today? In the collaborative project ‘Intertwined Memories,’ people from Berlin’s diverse urban society, international …
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Ethnographic and non-European art collections currently form a field that is particularly prominent in the public eye, since the methods of curating, exhibiting and working with cultural belongings have undergone significant changes over the past twent…
Based on the Uyghur collection from the late 19th century that is housed within the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, the project asks what objects, both those held at the museum and contemporary objects, mean for Uyghurs living in the diaspora today. The …
A community museum is currently being established at the Niwan Nha Cultural Centre in the Guatemalan village of Yalambojoch. Through a collaboration with the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, copies of stone sculptures collected for the museum by Eduard Se…