Editorial
Journal of Anthropological Films
Category: English
Teaching and Learning Urban Anthropology in Bosnia-Herzegovina
In the summer of 2019, two professors led seven students from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, in a high impact immersive learning course in urban anthropology in Bosnia-Herzegovina. They spent a week each in three different cities: the multie…
Extra-Regional Return Migration to Africa: A Systematic Literature Review
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. As global economies become increasingly interconnected, the movement of people across borders has intensified, generating significant debate on the implications for both sending and receiving countries. Amid this debate…
Past shadows and gender roles: Human elephant relations and conservation in Southern India
Some conceptual thinking about human-wildlife relations has lacked translations into empirical studies with an in-depth enquiry into social, cultural, economic and ecological aspects. This study explores human-elephant relations in a cohabited landscap…
De- and repeasantisation through wolves: A political ecology of predator-friendly farming
While wolves are often described as ‘ecological engineers’, this article reframes the image of this predator as a socioecological engineer. Adopting a more-than-human political ecology perspective, I highlight the imbrication of wolf agency with the po…
IJAPS Vol. 20, No. 2
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2.
All articles in this latest issue can be accessed via this link.
We take this opportunity to thank our contributors, reviewer…
Asian Ethnology
Madhyadeśa Mlecchadeśa dharmaśāstra caste system marriage Dalit In the premodern world, many communities believed that they were located in the center of the world. The Hindu community, too, invented the idea of Madhyadeśa (Middle Country) in the first…
Asian Ethnology
Urdu film Shamim Ara South Asia Southeast Asia This article examines the material culture of Urdu action heroine films released in the era of Pakistan’s Islamization (late 1970s through 1980s) by a woman-led company called Shamim Ara Productions, which…
Asian Ethnology
Indian circus itinerant communities migration cosmopolitanism Kerala Indian big top circuses carry an ensemble of people, animals, and infrastructures over long distances. Interviews with circus managers and owners about their itineraries suggest their…
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project Controversies: Understanding the role of worldviews and nexus
This paper examines the complex interplay of worldviews, siloed thinking, and the ‘nexus approach’ in shaping the controversy on Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) project. Using a worldview-nexus framework and data from 38 key informants, governme…
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.40 No.1
Published: June 2024.
Training for teaching medical anthropology in Egypt/the Arab region
Medical anthropology is a growing subfield of anthropology, especially as a subject within health education. Medical anthropology knowledge and skills improve the satisfaction of patients and health professionals, better health outcomes for patients, i…
Change, Transformation, Flow, Metamorphosis, Mutation, Distance.
Walking in the city is being engaged in its flow, fluctuations, and ambiances. It is taking part of an experience both individual, collective, cognitive, and physical which is enhancing our sensations and emotions. This movement binds to…
Still Lifes
Withering Refuge (2020) is a film-article that explores visual representations of displacement and the possibilities of refuge amidst environmental decline, developmental and extractive endeavours, in and around Meheba Refugee Camp, Zambia. This…
Becoming Community. Filmmakers Crafting Futures in an Andean Town
In the aftermaths of the internal armed conflict in Peru (1980-2000), a group of film enthusiasts from the Andean highland town of Ayacucho began using cameras to tell their stories of violence in the region. According to scholarly analyses, the…
The Beehive Metaphor in Blade Runner 2049
For the past four decades, digital sensing technology has slowly and slyly transformed our relationship with planet Earth, extending its synthetic tentacles into the most remote areas of our planet. Recently, it reached beehives and gave birth t…
Nomadic Time in Sarawak, Malaysia
In the face of the Planetary Emergency it feels like we spend a lot of time trying to sense make and make sense of speculative futures. Climate predictions, ramifications of 1.5 degree tipping points, and even a youth climate movement who dedica…
Speculations and Survivals:
What role might an engagement with the past continue to play for an anthropology oriented toward the imagining and enacting of alternative (more just, livable, sustainable) futures? I approach this question via a “speculative memoir” of my own i…
The Need to Be Seen, and the Need for Escapism.
This article presents an interdisciplinary, practice-based research project which aims to investigate the perception and the imaginaries – both present and future – of children living in a condition of imprisonment, using a multimodal approach a…
Fictional Futures: Ethnofiction in Applied Ethnographic Filmmaking
Inspired by the films of Jean Rouch, I have been experimenting with fictionalizations in the documentaries I produce within the field of applied visual anthropology. This paper will argue that ethnofictional filmmaking not only provides an alter…
Introduction
In laying the foundation for this special issue, this introductory article serves as a precursor to the essays it comprises. It delves into the dynamic shifts occurring over recent decades within the realm of future-thinking in anthropology. Spe…
Change, Transformation, Flow, Metamorphosis, Mutation, Distance
Walking in the city is being engaged in its flow, fluctuations, and ambiances. It is taking part of an experience both individual, collective, cognitive, and physical which is enhancing our sensations and emotions. This movement binds to…
West African Pidgin: World Language Against the Grain
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. West African Pidgin (“Pidgin”) is a cluster of related, mutually intelligible, restructured Englishes with up to 140 million speakers in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, and The Gambia. Spoken …
The political ecologies of “green” extractivism(s): An introduction
What is so-called ‘green’ extractivism and where did it come from? The introduction to this Special Section examines the origins and implications of the concept, linking it to a long history of exploitation, dispossession and (neo)colonialism under the…
Transnational Chinese Beautyscapes: Ghetto Glamour and Fake Beauty in Abidjan
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article explores how beauty and fashion practices and imagination have evolved in Ivory Coast since the early 2000s, using secondary sources and ethnographic research conducted in Abidjan in 2017. In addition to id…