Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Este artículo se basa en una investigación realizada sobre la relación entre política y emociones en el movimiento independentista catalán. Propone situar las emociones como un campo de estudio imprescindible en relación con las políticas contemporánea…
El període històric conegut com el Procés independentista Catalunya s’ha caracteritzat per una activació política extraordinària que ha portat a la generació de mobilitzacions massives. En aquest procés, l’experimentació individual i col·lectiva d’emoc…
Més enllà de la política que s’exerceix a i des de les institucions, els individus fan servir els seus recursos de poder per mantenir o reptar estructures polítiques mitjançant micropolítiques esperonades per tecnologies afectives, tot perseguint en te…
El objetivo de este artículo es proponer el interés que puede tener el análisis de la noción de confianza en los estudios del nacionalismo. Se parte de una perspectiva teórica que pone el acento en la vivencia emocional de la nación y el papel de la so…
Este artículo se centra en la puesta en escena de la política Alt-Right española a partir de dos aspectos concretos: la fetichización erótica de sus candidatos, convertidos en sujetos likeable (Sontag; Han, 2015) –fenómeno que englobamos dentro de la b…
El objetivo del artículo es ofrecer algunas herramientas analíticas para comprender la polarización en el contexto político y social catalán a partir de la literatura sobre la dimensión emocional en la política contenciosa. Apoyándonos en la perspectiv…
Editor’s foreword Articles The Linear A tablets HT 102, HT 94 and HT 89: new data on different groups within Minoan society Alexander Akulov The Keftiw/Minoan language is a very close relative of Hattic. In the text of HT 102 are listed the following groups of people: sara/sarja, pani, dirina, and a group denoted by […]
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Legacies of colonial rule, continuing neocolonial extraction, and excessive carbon dumping have meant that the majority of those living in the Global South experience many of the consequences of climate change more acut…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Legacies of colonial rule, continuing neocolonial extraction, and excessive carbon dumping have meant that the majority of those living in the Global South experience many of the consequences of climate change more acut…
On United States public lands, large-scale structural capitalocentric valuations are at odds with the embodied non-monetary valuations expressed by nature-based recreators. Valuing United States Forest Service lands through a capitalocentric lens does …
This article aims to discuss how Muslims participating in the Norwegian public debate experience what we refer to as representation work activism. Building on Conner’s and Rosen’s understanding of activism ‘as acts that challenge the status …
Introduction. Place, Identity, and Politics: Muslim Women’s Agency under Hindutva [Full text]
Nazima Parveen and Usha Sanyal
Religion, Power, and Place: Three Muslim Women’s Stories in Old Delhi…
Introduction. Place, Identity, and Politics: Muslim Women’s Agency under Hindutva [Full text]
Nazima Parveen and Usha Sanyal
Religion, Power, and Place: Three Muslim Women’s Stories in Old Delhi…
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
In recent years – in the context of debates on post-truth, Covid-scepticism and decolonization – the idea that science represents universal knowledge has been challenged from a variety of perspectives. Despite (or because of) this, science and the prom…
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
This paper uses life-skills training courses and an automated therapeutic self-help app from Bengaluru, India, as lenses through which to investigate universalizing processes of psychology and therapy and some of its frictions. How is psychological uni…
In recent years, genomic medicine has invited critical attention for its potential to include diverse population groups and therefore expand the clinical relevance of global genome databases in diagnosing diseases. Population geneticists across the Glo…
How do we do an ethnography of universalities? Is it possible to reconcile local specifi cities with universalities through/in ethnography? That is the question the authors in this special issue ask and engage with. If ethnography is about specificitie…
Covid-sceptics in the Czech Republic relate strongly to the idea of universal science. They understand this universality as emerging through the participation of ordinary citizens in scientific knowledge-making. Rather than then belonging solely to the…
Science played a crucial role in the early days of Indian nationalism. This has not changed since India’s independence. With recent political transformations, the significance of science has acquired a new dimension. Contemporary apologists of Hindu na…
This article examines how scientists sense the rewilding of wolves in Italy through camera traps. Specifically, I elaborate on two cases when footage of these elusive animals did not allow scientifically sound conclusions but instead lent itself to sto…