Book Review: Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move by Nyabola, Nanjala
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Category: English
Re-placing Race in the Public Space
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…
Front Matter 3,2
New Florida Journal of Anthropology
How Does Meaning Affect the Perceived Value of Art? The Case of Chinese Calligraphy
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…
Resistance Across Borders: Belarusian Civic Activism in Exile under (Trans-)National Repression
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 Socio-economic Transformation in Makassar Tribe Gift-giving Tradition: Reconstructing Social Welfare Strategy
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…
Transcending Boundaries: Bangtan Sonyeondan (BTS) as a Transnational Icon of Cosmopolitanism
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…
Editorial
Recently, scholars have paid increased attention to affect as a structuring principle of political life, aesthetic engagement, cultural practice, and social formation (Ahmed 2010, Brown et al. 2019, Lutz 2017, Neuman 2007, Papoulias and Call…
Afterword
In this Afterword, I use the observations from the special issue ‘Music, Affect and Politics’ to discuss what I see are recurring questions in the studies of music and affect: (1) the tension between new materialism and historical materialis…
“Status,” Inter-Normativity, and Socio-Professional Differentiation among Construction Workers in Douala, Cameroon
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…
“The Usual Antisocial Protocol”
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…
In search of tradition: A comparative analysis of wine production in Calabria (Italy) and British Columbia (Canada)
The relationship between tradition and the taste of terroir products is often set aside in the literature. In different contexts, tradition can serve different purposes, often identity-related, and be analysed as such. In the case of wine and te…
Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action
In this introduction to the special section on the Colonialities of climate change and action we provide a conceptual mapping that can help us engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change. We carry …
A Peaceful Place / Un Abri Paisible
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 …
Flâneurs – Street Rambles
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…
Editorial
Journal of Anthropological Films
The Wireless Set
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…
Knots and Holes
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…
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…