Review: Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands.
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Category: English
Ludo Tricks and the Unserious Actor in the Trucking Business
Anthropological studies based on participant observation, with the goal of producing context-sensitive, holistic sociocultural descriptions of high-risk industries, are few and far between. This article focuses on the intentional bending and breaking o…
Subsiding sediments, gender, and obstinate repairs in the coastal city
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Subsiding sediments, gender, and obstinate repairs in the coastal city
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Vulnerabilitat estructural i jerarquies d’ètnia i ciutadania a la granja
Cada any, els Estats Units donen feina a gairebé dos milions de treballadors agrícoles temporers, aproximadament la meitat dels quals son migrants (Rothenberg, 1998). Aquest article es basa en un any d’observació participant duta a terme en una finca d…
Comprendre la sobrietat energètica a través de la sobrietat etnofílmica. La relació amb la tècnica i el treball en la representació d’alternatives ecològiques
La lleugeresa del dispositiu fílmic, la versatilitat de l’investigador-cineasta, el principi de no intervenció en la realitat observada i el caràcter experimental de l’enfocament etnofílmic constitueixen, d’una banda, l’expressió d’una enginyositat cie…
“Està tot al teu cap”: repensant la migranya crònica des d’una perspectiva antropològica i feminista
Les malalties cròniques representen un dels temes d’estudi prevalents en l’àmbit de l’Antropologia de la Salut, no obstant això sembla no haver-hi cabuda per a la migranya crònica, com a malaltia feminitzada, ja que afecta especialment les dones, i inv…
Seguretat alimentaria i desigualtat social en clau antropològica
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
How plants participate in politically contested ecologies? Species, vegetation cover and crops in the conservation of the páramos in Colombia
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
How plants participate in politically contested ecologies? Species, vegetation cover and crops in the conservation of the páramos in Colombia
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
Pluralism and Critique in a Renewed Environmental Anthropology
Environmental anthropology has evolved from early ethnographic traditions that emphasized the interplay between culture and ecology to a field increasingly influenced by ideological perspectives across the political spectrum. Traditionally, anthrop…
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.37 No.1
Published: December 2025.
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!The CAES editorial team looks forward to receiving your papers for CAES Vol. 12, No. 1, which is going to be published in late February or early March 2026. The deadline for submission of papers is February 10, 2026.
Loopholes
When young people in Danish residential care escape their institutions without permission it is often understood as acts of ‘troubling behaviour’ among social workers. Drawing on one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork across three re…
The two hungers: food security, morality, and cash transfer policies for Canela Apanjekra people in Indigenous Central Brazil
This article examines how the Canela Apanjekra (Porquinhos Indigenous Land, Maranhão, Brazil) engage with conditional cash transfer policies aimed at combating hunger—especially the Bolsa Família Program—and how these policies are interpreted throu…
Sociedade sob risco: monetarização, beleza e a economia íntima do dom entre os Rikbaktsa da Amazônia brasileira
Na virada do século XXI, salários, programas e políticas previdenciárias com aporte renda, voltados ao bem-estar social, começam a atingir povos indígenas brasileiros. Os poucos estudos etnográficos acerca da monetarização concordam sobre possíveis…
Comer como o inimigo: violência, transformações e persistências na economia alimentar wari’ (Amazônia Ocidental)
Examinam-se aspectos e percursos do sistema alimentar dos Wari’, povo indígena da Amazônia Ocidental, em um intervalo de duas décadas, mas também contemporaneamente. Trata-se de um cenário marcado por transformações, com dinâmicas que incluem a mon…
As donas do fogo: parentesco, práticas alimentares e luta pela terra entre os Kaiowa e Guarani
Os Guarani e Kaiowa apresentam uma relação sofisticada entre as práticas alimentares e a recuperação de territórios tradicionais em Mato Grosso do Sul (Brasil), protagonizada cotidianamente por mulheres indígenas. As mulheres guarani e kaiowa consi…
Aprendiendo a poner gusto o sobre una gastropolítica urarina
El artículo analiza cómo la comida se ha convertido en un eje central para comprender las transformaciones morales, corporales y políticas entre los urarina de la Amazonía peruana. La introducción de alimentos industrializados —especialmente los co…
Prosperando con otros: paisajes multiespecie y producción de alimentos en el Caribe colombiano
Este artículo es resultado de un proyecto de investigación asociado a la producción de alimentos en una comunidad arhuaca en las tierras bajas de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Se describen algunas experiencias de la implementación del proyecto, …
Fermentative processes of the agricultural food system in the Upper Rio Negro: ethnographic notes on feminine knowledge, intention, and agency in the production of fermented beverages
This article examines the fermentative processes at the core of the agricultural food system of the Upper Rio Negro, northwestern Amazon, highlighting women’s technical and social agency in the production of fermented beverages such as caxiri. Base…
El sistema nainu de agricultura familiar: semillas de la memoria social y de la autonomía alimentaria en Gunayala (Panamá)
La presente investigación examina el sistema agroforestal familiar (nainu) del pueblo gunadule como un tejido de resistencia social, espiritual y ecológica frente a los procesos históricos y actuales de desposesión territorial y colapso climático. …
Ädeeja: origem dos alimentos cultivados e práticas alimentares ye’kwana
O artigo explora a ligação entre a cosmologia do povo Ye’kwana e suas práticas alimentares tradicionais, com base no conceito central de ädeeja, que representa os alimentos cultivados. Esse termo abrange mais do que a ideia de comida — ele carrega …