Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Northern Norrland has a long history of domestic colonialism and internal migration. However, in the latter half of the twentieth century the region has seen a decline in population, job opportunities and welfare services. This study analyses how conte…
This study explores the visual representation of Great Yarmouth, a British coastal town caught between the urban and the rural, as seen through the quasi-monopolistic image search engine Google Images. The research examines levels of pluralistic or bia…
This special issue of Culture Unbound directs attention beyond cities, to small towns and rural communities, and the practices taking place there. Referring to a previous special issue on ‘Rural Media Spaces’ from 2010, this special issue revisits the …
Celebrations of local volunteering as a way to cope with cutbacks are frequent. Not least are such celebrations apparent within the media, where descriptions of local initiatives are sometimes seen as the solutions to downward spiralling trends in Swed…
Malaysia’s indigenous and rural communities have played a vital role in the growth of the country’s environmental movement. Yet, the ways in which their cultures and ancestral attachments to territory come to underpin their activism has remained unders…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Using interview data collected from communities in Cameroon’s Cross River region, this study examines the experiences of “slave descendants” in their marriages/attempted marriages with “freemen.” Using theories from Mar…
Editor’s foreword Articles New data on the etymology of the Ainu word kamuy Alexander Akulov, Tresi Nonno Previously it was shown that Ainu is a relative to the Sino-Tibetan family. The Ainu word kamuy is a compound of two roots: ka and muy. The component ka correlates with the Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kăŋH – “tie”, and *Kat […]
En este artículo planteo que, grosso modo, la industria conservacionista y el correspondiente establecimiento y administración de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, a pesar de sus múltiples intentos de flexibilización y renovación de las últimas décadas, no h…
At the resource frontier of Prey Lang Forest in Cambodia, a new food regime marks multiple rifts in the social fabric. As the forest gives way to rural road development, migrant incursions, and cash cropping, long-term residents lament the paucity of a…
In the 20th century, the increase of world population was backed up by the industrialisation of production and food consumption. However, neither high productivity nor mass consumption prevented malnutrition and periods of starvation, in the Nor…
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Dans l’optique de faciliter l’accès aux recherches en cours sur l’alimentation, la revue Anthropology of Food crée une nouvelle rubrique intitulée Notes de Recherches.
La note se veut être un document sommaire …
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With the view to facilitate access to current research on food sciences, the Journal Anthropology of Food is creating a new collection: Research Notes.
The paper should be a short document presenting the current state…
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Au 20e siècle, l’augmentation de la population mondiale a été soutenue par une industrialisation de la production et de la consommation alimentaires. Pourtant, ni l’agriculture à haut rendement ni l’accès à la consommation alimentaire de masse n…
In resource-constrained countries such as Nigeria, traditional medicine plays a pivotal role in the management of epilepsy.
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Les médias et les travaux universitaires ont porté un intérêt accru aux combattantes kurdes depuis les années 2000 sans toujours s’appuyer sur des données primaires. Afin de comprendre si cet engagement coïncide avec un processus d’émancipation,…
Simon Peter undergoes a considerable development from his first introduction in the Gospel of Mark to later narratives, where he gains remarkable miraculous abilities. In Mark, he witnesses Jesus performing numerous miracles without himself being named…