Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article explores the politics of producing knowledge about drought in a suburban region of southern California: Orange County. Based on nine months of ethnographic research with the assistant specialists that keep the Loma Ridge Global Change Expe…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
This article analyzes the political activities of residents in a 50-year-old slum in New Delhi. Based on long-term fieldwork undertaken periodically between 2004 and 2019, we describe the forms of oppression experienced by slum residents, ho…
Se constituer dans la liminalité : le cas de « Chypre Nord » [Full text]
Julie Alev Dilmaç
Existing through Liminality: The Case of Northern Cyprus
This article argues that climate change and its mitigation risk threatening Indigenous Peoples’ access to land and their ability to maintain their way of life. Focusing on the experiences of the Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders of the Swedish part of S…
Introduction. Re-orienting Himalayan Borderlands [Full text]
Mélanie Vandenhelsken, Aditya Kiran Kakati and Bernardo A. Michael
Keeping the Edges Near [Full text]
Aditya Kiran Kakati
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Published: December 2024.
Living under Israeli occupation, Palestinians face countless controls over their daily lives and movement. This research focuses on the reflections of cycling group founders and participants in the occupied West Bank, who ride despite effort…
Dear Colleagues!
The CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 11, № 1, that is going to be published in late February – early March 2025. The deadline for submission of papers is February 17, 2025.
In the initial COVID-19 pandemic, much speculation was made about what, exactly, Chinese appetites involved, and whether Chinese had a penchant for sourcing and consuming wild caught meat. Accusations abounded, principally (but not exclusively) …
Editor’s foreword Articles Some advances in reading and understanding the Phaistos disc inscription Alexander Akulov Minoan is a close relative of Hattic, and so Hattic should be used as the key for deciphering the Phaistos disc. Now phonetic values of some previously illegible signs have been clarified: 01 – je, 21 – ne, 23 – […]
In this article, I will reconsider the naming and kinship relationships of the !Xun San in north-central Namibia from the perspective of child socialization. I will thereby deconstruct the naturalized view in which ‘relative age’ (a concept …
This contribution begins with the puzzle as to why there are kinship and naming systems that distinguish junior from senior, elaborately and systematically, even though these practices are embedded in substantially egalitarian societies. The…
Pre-school age children in European contexts are known to use labels like ‘big’ and ‘small’ to orient to age differences, very often to highlight differences in physical and social competence (Häll 2022). This research report explores Datoog…
The paper describes changed elderhood in Sukuma-speaking villages in Tanzania through a combined situational and cultural analysis, starting with the traditional role of (re)generation and medicine in practices of greeting. Elderhood, I argu…
Spencer (1965, 1988, 1993, 2003) theorizes two distinct strands in the life course of a Maasai male. The first strand is the building of a cattle herd and a family, and the second is developing involvement in the age class system. The second…
This paper examines the emic concepts pertaining to age in Ngəmba, a language spoken in the Western Region of Cameroon. It explores both the terminological concepts available in the language for talking about age and their usage in everyday …
This article is about gerontological proverbs in Swahili folkloric discourses. The question posed in this study is as follows: how is old age depicted according to Swahili paremiology? To answer this question, 49 popular Swahili gerontologic…
Concepts of seniority and elderhood were important structuring elements in many societies of precolonial Africa and were connected with social status. This changed with the European colonization of Africa, and strongly affected traditional c…
This study examines linguistic manifestations of age-grade status among the Iraqw, a Southern Cushitic ethnic group in northern Tanzania. It identifies how life stages or age grades are conceptually distinguished in Iraqw terminology and the…
I explore how Yoruba people ascertain who is junior, who is senior, and the mark of equality beyond obvious age, as well as the social function of these distinctions in everyday life. The social ranking of people as either senior, junior or …
This article introduces the special issue “Becoming (Un)Equal in Age: Seniority and Superiority in African Societies”.
Following the transformative journey of Kenyan geothermal professionals throughout a training programme in Iceland and back to their homes, I argue that such long-term training in foreign countries can function as a rite of passage. The coll…
Cherubini B. (dir.) 2022. Patrimoine et œnotourisme, vers une recomposition culturelle du monde vitivinicole. Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires Bordeaux.
Cet ouvrage ouvre sur le propos de B. Cherubini qui questionne l’alliance entre œnot…
Cherubini B. (dir.) 2022. Patrimoine et œnotourisme, vers une recomposition culturelle du monde vitivinicole. Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires Bordeaux.
Cet ouvrage ouvre sur le propos de B. Cherubini qui questionne l’alliance entre œnot…