Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This paper discusses a project to develop an introductory course in Cultural Anthropology that prioritizes accessibility. Drawing inspiration from Universal Design for Learning and other teaching strategies, we explore ways of making course materials, …
In Northern Canada, the Tłı̨chǫ have experienced a long history of settler-imposed mining. The history of the mines is written into Tłı̨chǫ place names that hold the knowledge of ecological harm and repair, the community re-purposing of mining equipmen…
Within immediate modernity, increases in the multitude of psychological, social, emotional and behavioural disruptions affecting human actors, categorised under the (reductive) label of ‘anxiety’ are reaching an apex. This peak can be conceptualised bo…
This is the editorial introduction to the special issue Becoming Rebels: From Everyday Acts of Protest to Radical Imaginaries and Societal Change. The editors discuss the global backdrop to contemporary protest politics, and argue for the im…
Cet article entend montrer comment la valeur mythique du bouillon de santé est perceptible dans certaines œuvres picturales des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, où il apparaît. Tel qu’accessoire dans les œuvres, il est attribut symbolique, participant à …
L’agricultura industrial a l’estat de Michoacan, Mèxic, enfocada en la producció de diverses mercaderies agrícoles per a exportació com alvocat Has i fruits vermells, genera llocs de treball i divises econòmiques, per la qual cosa és una activitat prot…
Il existe un consensus croissant sur la nécessité d’une transformation, mais des points de vue différent sur les priorités à traiter et les types de stratégies à mettre en œuvre à cette fin. Cette recherche s’intéresse aux différentes conception…
Various grassroots initiatives that have emerged in recent decades reduce our dependence on large-scale industrial agriculture. They decouple food value from volatile markets through close producer-consumer relations, displaying potential for food syst…
The release of our first 2025 issue on 22 April, coordinated by our new editorial team, coincides with Earth Day 2025. This issue presents five films that take a close look at natural resource extraction worldwide, including gold, copper, oil, sand and…
As a seemingly cheap, abundant and easy to extract resource, sand is a key ingredient in many construction materials, most notably concrete. Minding Sand follows the sand mining industry along the beaches of Sierra Leone and the struggles associated wi…
Gold is the cornerstone of Suriname’s economy, attracting many Brazilian migrants who seek to improve their lives. Building on a friendship spanning over fifteen years, miner Pretinha and anthropologist Marjo embarked on a collaborative film project fo…
This film is about gold– a global commodity shaping local livelihoods and landscapes across the world. It is about the people who risk their lives in the narrow underground mines and about their struggles for a better future. It is a participatory proj…
Dragging Chains moves between observation and conversation as the apparent obscurity of Grenada’s Jab Jab masquerade is unraveled. Shot during the 2023 carnival season, the film immerses its viewers in a sensorial spectacle of oil, chains and rhythms, …
The mountain of Tindaya (Fuerteventura, Canary Islands) has been entangled in controversy for over thirty years. The mountain is, at once, a sacred site for the indigenous people of Fuerteventura– who decorated it with hundreds of engravings–; a mining…
In this article I place into dialogue the challenges of the circular economy (CE) with Political Ecology by using the notion of autonomy. I examine two circular food initiatives in the capital city region of Brussels, Belgium, a cooperative supermarket…
Folklore is a thriving cultural treasure, laden with fascinating stories, myths, customs, and rituals influenced by a particular locale or community. This post delves into the enigmatic world of folklore, from the mythical creatures of European folklore to the spiritual rites of African traditional religions, to the captivating legends of Native American tribes. The Alluring […]
The post Dancing with Shadows: A Global Exploration of Folklore first appeared on Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
The reshaping of global production through platform capitalism has been the subject of numerous studies around the world. Across these, it has been common to observe similar characteristics of this model of management and labour control via …
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This study explores how social media analytics (SMA) advances political ecology (PE) through a case study on Polish discourse around waste-to-energy facilities (March 2020–June 2023). Using a social media listening platform (SMLP) for sentiment analysi…
The lack of concerted action by the majority of the population in the face of the global ecological catastrophe compels us to ponder the deeper cause of inaction: a troubled relationship with the more-than-human world. Redressing this relationship and …
Lately, our daily news is engulfed with billowing clouds of despair as democracy slips away and is replaced with emboldened form of authoritarianism. We live in dark times. Global disasters are multiplying with no end in sight. Powerful institutions ge…
Scholars from all disciplines are becoming increasingly conscious of the co-dependence between humans and more-than-humans. This special collection engages these debates, guided by a question both practical and theoretical: What makes good relationship…
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the care and attention between other-than humans and musicians in the contemporary improvised music scene. From dominant Western perspectives, ethical relations are considered in anthropocentric terms: …
On a cold December evening, in the thick cloud of cigarette smoke and clatter of the cocktail shaker, two women, Suvi Rautio and He Beili tell stories of what it means to see through the eyes of an anthropologist. Speaking to a crowded room of seventy …