Category: English

Journal Name: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie socialeVolume: 32Issue: 3Pages: 1-19

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.

New Florida Journal of Anthropology

This review explores Emily Mendenhall’s book, “Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements With Trauma, Poverty, and HIV” which cross-culturally examines diabetes. Mendenhall’s use of case study narratives to flesh-out her use of syndemic theory in the explorat…

In this article, by adopting the multimodal analytical model proposed by Sebba (2013), we compared some signs used in two protests #SécuritéPourTous and #StopAsianHate, the former launched by the Chinese community in Paris following the assassin of Zha…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Encouraged by a crippling road infrastructure and the proliferation of Chinese low-tech engines, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo)’s baleinières have reappropriated and significantly increased the potential of…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.

In this article I engage with the un- and re-making of monuments in the context of the globalization and mediatization of Black Lives Matter and anti-racist activism. I analyze in particular two examples that display transcultural negotiations of antir…

New Florida Journal of Anthropology

How does meaning making affect the perceived value of art? In this paper, we focus on a unique form of art, Chinese calligraphy, to explore the effects of literal meaning on the perceived value of art combining both words and aesthetic quality. Based o…

The mass protests following the rigged 2020 presidential elections in Belarus led to unprecedented repression, resulting in the liquidation of over 1,600 NGOs, the imprisonment of hundreds of activists, and the displacement of thousands. After relocati…

The gift-giving tradition in Jeneponto, the land of the Makassar Tribe, has undergone significant transformation over time, reflecting changes in socio-economic ethics within societies. This study explores the evolution of this tradition and its profou…

Cosmopolitanism studies regained popularity in the 1990s. Case studies on individuals are finally emerging, mainly on celebrities, but they are still dominated by Western actors and limited to charitable movements for the poor and the ill. To fill this…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Based on qualitative research conducted in the construction sector in Douala, Cameroon, this article analyses the contractual practices that underpin employment relationships between construction actors. The aim is to p…

This article considers experience narratives of “dålig stämning” (bad atmosphere and unease) in Swedish workplaces. The aim of this article is to show how office-employees in Sweden experience, negotiate and understand bad atmosphere and unease in thei…

Like many island communities, residents of the Orkney Islands, Scotland are acutely aware of the urban-rural dynamic at play in our ever-globalised world. This character-driven film comes as a contribution to an ongoing conversation – one concerning he…

Nets are all around us. They materialize such principles as connecting, filtering and patterning. Which is why we might want to have a closer look at what people do with them — and what they do with people. In Bahia, Brazil, I travelled to places wher…

More than one million people form the Central African Republic (CAR) have fled their homes since the beginning of a new civil war in 2013. This film follows newborn Elias and his extended family over a period of four years, as they are trying to start …

Between film projects and following the birth of his daughter, a Canadian in Paris (Matthew Lancit) must confront his slacker lifestyle and decide if there is something in it worth passing on to the next generation, or if he is better off getting a job…