Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This short text is a simple reflection on the meanings and importance of silence. Starting from the sensory experience of silence he had with the local informant at Kennin-ji in Kyoto, Japan, the author reflects on the various meanings of silence. On t…
Gambling involves a mixture of luck, knowledge, skill and nerve. Through interview discussions with my informant Stew I seek to analyse the ideologies of economy, money, and exchange that interplay into forming the moralities and motivations for Sports…
This ethnography came out of a project by pre-honours Social Anthropology students, studying the space of the Edinburgh Student Housing Co-Operative in the beginning of 2020. I spent time renovating the basement with members of the Co-Operative and spo…
This paper builds on short-term fieldwork at an urban day shelter in Brussels which provides affordable showers and other essential services to homeless and undocumented people, respectively sans-abris and sans-papiers. In dialogue with Simone Weil’s w…
This is an exploration into how the self is performed on TikTok. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, TikTok – a social media app at the forefront of youth-culture – burst onto the screens of millions users. On the hilarious, inventive, frustrating an…
Abstract: What are the social processes that lead up to the moment of sale in Izmailovo Market, Moscow? Selling may seem like a ubiquitous practice, but it is one constructed in the context and incorporates localised understandings of labour, comm…
Abstract This paper is about the relations between work, rhythm and life course among a group of elderly members of a rice paddy collective in Kyoto, Japan. Through the stories of people’s professional work, personal lives and recreational activ…
Street art, including graffiti, tags, stencils, art visualization and art installations, usually denounce an actual situation and conveys messages related to the societal, cultural, economic and political scene. Sometimes, it takes up a playful form, i…
Ethnographic drawings and poetry based on Thom van Dooren’s article ‘Vultures and their People in India: Equity and Entanglement in a Time of Extinction’ (2011).
This article is based on a short ethnography conducted on the 10the day of the Hindu festival ‘Vijaya Dashami’ in Nepal. Although, symbolism is important, I use a phenomenological approach to demonstrate that this ritual shows reverence not just to rel…
This short text is a simple reflection on the meanings and importance of silence. Starting from the sensory experience of silence he had with the local informant at Kennin-ji in Kyoto, Japan, the author reflects on the various meanings of silence. On t…
Sites is pleased to advise that a new issue is now available: General article: ‘Māori History can be a Freeing Shaper’: Embracing Māori Histories to Construct a ‘Good’ Pākehā Identity (Rachelle Pedersen, Tim McCreanor, Virginia Braun) Special section…
Sites is pleased to advise that a new issue is now available: General article: ‘Māori History can be a Freeing Shaper’: Embracing Māori Histories to Construct a ‘Good’ Pākehā Identity (Rachelle Pedersen, Tim McCreanor, Virginia Braun) Special section…
En Chile el desarrollo de la antropología y de los museos fue contemporáneo. Basado en el discurso histórico social promovido desde las élites europeas, la antropología fue dando forma escrita a la historia y la cultura de las sociedades colonizadas, m…
InVisible Culture
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. From the colonial days, the dibia (folk practitioner) in the Igbo-speaking southeast of Nigeria, as elsewhere, has been maligned by hegemonic Christianity and biomedicine. The consequent public reluctance to openly purs…
I draw on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Oceania to formulate the concept of ‘charisma work’, a type of labour in which the extraordinariness of individuals and their visions for the world are (re)produced and promoted to help legitimise …
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. What can music used by politicians during campaigns tell us about their behaviour, character and their rule? The article responds to this question by analysing political songs used by Patriotic Front (PF) in Zambia, bef…
Past issues
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. One of a government’s primary responsibilities is to provide public goods and services for the benefit of citizens. A government that excels in such provision may therefore win favorable evaluations from its citizens. H…
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The CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 9, № 2 that is going to be published in late May – early June 2023. The deadline for submission of papers is May 22, 2023.
Visit our new site at https://www.invisibleculturejournal.com/ In the 25 years since InVisible Culture was founded, the online journal has taken a few different forms. In 2012 IVC moved from its original website to WordPress. In 2022 we moved to a new …
Think pieces: On the etymology of the hydronym Oredezh Alexander Akulov The hydronym Oredezh has neither Uralic nor Indo-European etymology, but can be explained through the language of the people who lived in the region in the Neolithic period. Those people spoke a language that was a juncture between Yeniseian languages, Caucasian languages, Hattic, and […]
The institution of grandparenthood holds an important cultural role as a significant socializing agent for younger generations. Decisions on the care and well-being of new entrants to the family are affected primarily by the views of grandparents. Gran…
Editorial of Approaching Religion, Vol. 13 Issue 1