Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Le mécénat de compétences se caractérise par la mise à disposition par une entreprise d’un salarié sur son temps de travail au profit d’une structure d’intérêt général. L’étude sur le mécénat de compétences menée par l’Injep et le Lise-Cnrs a c…
Dans le prolongement des perspectives appréhendant la relation d’enquête comme relation sociale, l’article met l’accent, de manière typologique, sur un double enjeu dans la construction du terrain ethnographique : il s’agit de la légitimité de l…
Les questions migratoires ont été une des thématiques abordées par les professionnels de l’éducation interviewés dans le cadre d’une recherche nationale sur les pratiques enseignantes en contexte de diversité sociale et culturelle. Notre questio…
Cet article entend contribuer à l’analyse et à la compréhension des actes de vandalisme perpétrés sur des œuvres exposées dans des musées d’art. Dans le cadre d’un musée, il semble improbable d’éviter la détection et les conséquences d’une inte…
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,…
La création d’un Centre pour la culture de l’alimentation en Israël représente une étape importante de la vague gastronomique observable au sein de la société israélienne depuis une quarantaine d’années. Non seulement le Centre consacre un bouil…
InVisible Culture
El artículo contribuye al debate de un campo de conocimiento conocido como etnografía o antropología arquitectónica, desde un enfoque que reconoce el rol estratégico de la arquitectura en la reproducción de las políticas urbanas de corte neoliberal. Pa…
At the heart of this article is the presence of Indigenous children in photographs of explorative travels taken by Dutch Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Netherlands New Guinea (present-day West Papua, Indonesia) in the early twentieth c…
Pastoralists who live in the Tyva Republic approach their home landscapes as sentient and engage with them through a reciprocal relationship. The sociality of landscapes builds upon a multigenerational belonging amongst Tyva kinship groups with their h…
The Finnish geodesist and self-taught ethnographer Karl Nickul (1900–1980) studied the Indigenous toponymy among the Skolt Sámi in northeastern Finland. This article analyses Nickul’s early publications and international correspondence, focusing on the…
The paper discusses official and Indigenous views of the Khanty and Forest Nenets uprising against the Soviets, known as the Kazym War (1931–1934). The rebellion is well documented in archival sources and covered by scholarly research, popular essays, …
In this Editors’ note we introduce two new members to our editorial team, discuss student protests in Finland and anthropologists’ support for them, and introduce the texts to this issue. This issue is a special is guest-edited by Dmitry Arzyutov and K…
This article discusses Nenets epic songs, focusing on two texts collected at the beginning of the twentieth century in relation to the divergent historicities they represent. The process of gathering and publishing folklore is analysed as folklorisatio…
The historiography of maritime archaeology is one of margins and peripheries. Linked to the development of underwater archaeology, efforts to advance theoretical frameworks within the discipline have been slow at best. There remains a widespread assump…
A key point David Graeber and David Wengrow make in their mammoth work, The Dawn of Everything (2021), is that we humans are not by default redisposed to hierarchy or equality, but are first and foremost a socially creative species. In this essay…
The book The Dawn of Everything is an introduction to some of the diversity and surprising complexity of ancestral social lives written in an accessible, yet academic fashion. The book also develops a theory of human development as emerging from encoun…
The Dawn of Everything is a general-audience social science book with a mission. In a nutshell, the book argues against evolutionary accounts that view societal development as a trade-off involving increased social complexity, increased social co…
Anthropology human’ other (American things, has as Anthropological ‘the been study described, of what Association makes amongst us 2023), ‘the science of human beings’ (Merriam–Webster Dictionary 2023), and ‘the comparative study of common sense’ (Herz…
Another communication technology has been introduced, ChatGPT, drawing the attention of many pundits, occupying valuable space on every op-ed page, and inspiring a Hollywood writers’ strike and endless small talk, all steaming a bit with the intoxicati…
The present collection examines the ways Indigenous peoples across the Eurasian North—Sámi, Nenets, Khanty, and Tyva—deal with the past and how their conceptualizations of the past are entangled with dominant ideologies in Russia and Finland, human-env…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper investigates the restitution of Tanzanian human remains from colonial contexts in the Anthropological Collection at the University of Göttingen, Germany. This collection contains 66 human remains from Tanzani…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Building on original data collected for the period between 2001 and 2020, this article contributes to the research on the effectiveness of gender quotas. It does so, first, by looking into the salience of ministerial po…
Aquest treball de fi de grau proposa submergir-se en la xarxa social Twitter amb l’objectiu d’abordar tres preguntes fonamentals en referència al col·lectiu LGTB+. Al llarg d’aquesta investigació, es pretén explorar el paper que exerceixen les xarxes s…