Investigar con arte y poesía
Investigar con arte y poesíaEva Marxen y Luis Felipe González Gutiérrez (2023)(Vol. 240023). Editorial Gedisa.171 p.ISBN 978-84-19406-47-7
Category: English
Cartografia visual: Anàlisi de les aplicacions dels plans d’urbanisme del Casc Antic de Lleida a través de la fotografia analògica
El propòsit d’aquesta investigació, a través de l’antropologia visual, és recollir la pluralitat de mirades del Casc Antic de Lleida amb l’objectiu de qüestionar l’estetització de les seves àrees, properes al Turó de la Seu Vella, segons els discursos …
Llegat i lluita: memòria, patrimoni i antropologia visual al campus de la UAB
Es presenta una experiència docent fonamentada en l’Aprenentatge Basat en Projectes (ABP), desenvolupada al marc del Seminari de Teories i Recerques Antropològiques Avançades de 4t curs del Grau d’Antropologia Social i Cultural de la UAB. El projecte L…
La fotografia en instàncies de recerca coparticipant. Reflexions teorico-metodològiques sobre un taller de mapeig i fotografia amb adults a Barcelona
Aquest article presenta reflexions metodològiques i teòriques derivades del taller de fotografia i recerca «Mapa visual i emocional de l’Eixample», fet amb veïns adults d’aquest barri de Barcelona. L’experiència proposà indagacions individuals a través…
La domesticació de la memòria: entre allò íntim i allò històric en un arxiu familiar del franquisme
Aquest article analitza com les fotografies familiars medien entre la memòria històrica i la íntima a partir de l’arxiu fotogràfic del meu besavi Celestino, general del règim franquista. El punt de partida és el descobriment de dos àlbums familiars des…
Veient el tubuan actuar: el paper de l’experiència sentida en una pràctica d’emmascarament a Papua Nova Guinea
Aquest article busca combinar l’estudi del secretisme i d’allò sensorial per demostrar com allò sensorial intervé en la manera que el secretisme crea grups i jerarquies. S’acosta al tema mitjançant l’anàlisi d’un cas particular: la societat secreta i l…
Sentir, imaginar, confiar: la imatge com a experiència encarnada de valoració visual
Aquest article explora la valoració visual com una pràctica afectiva, imaginativa i situada, a partir de l’estudi de la fotografia documental en contextos de creació i recepció. Basant-se en una etnografia multisituada que inclou el treball amb fotògra…
Editorial
El número 41.2 de la revista Quaderns de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia dedica per primera vegada una monografia als debats contemporanis sobre l’antropologia visual.
Fair Access or Mirage? A Biodiscovery Case Study at Uluru for Indigenous Benefit-sharing
International minimum standards for sharing and protecting Indigenous peoples’ traditional knowledge have been adopted under United Nations conventions which promote fair and equitable benefit-sharing with Indigenous peoples. However, biodis…
Protection of Yei Tribe’s Sago Food Processing as Traditional Knowledge: An Archive-Based Effort on Digitization
Communal intellectual property on traditional knowledge, in the South Papua region, has not been adequately identified. This research focuses on the importance of digitized archives for the protection and preservation of traditional knowledg…
Reconstructing Marriage Annulment in Dui’ Pappenre within Bugis Customary Law
This article explores the intersection of national law and Bugis customary tradition through Dui’ Pappenre in marriage annulment cases. Using a normative legal approach, it identifies a legal vacuum: while Dui’ Pappenre symbolizes respect an…
Empowering Indigenous Coastal Conservation: Eco-Muamalat as a Model for Sustainable Marine Practices
The degradation of marine ecosystems and the socioeconomic vulnerability of coastal populations are intensifying due to unsustainable fishing methods and inadequate regulatory frameworks. This study seeks to establish the Eco-Muamalat framew…
Civil Society in Cultural Preservation in Africa: Evidence from the Kambari People of Nigeria
This paper examines the role of civil society organizations (CSOs) in preserving endangered cultural practices among the Kambari communities of Kebbi and Niger States in Nigeria. It explores the major socio-cultural and linguistic factors th…
Consultation Protocols of Indigenous People in Contexts of Environmental Conflicts
Our paper analyzes alternatives to overcome the dynamics of epistemicide through processes of Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation of Indigenous Peoples when exogenous actors act in their territories. The objective is to demonstrate the po…
The Ebbs and Flows of te reo Māori Use in New Zealand English
In this article, we associate the use of te reo Māori in vernacular New Zealand English with political alignments and transformations in Aotearoa New Zealand. The volume and direction of this lexical borrowing – from Māori into vernacular Ne…
Editorial
Journal of Anthropological Films
Our Little Garden
Our Little Garden explores in the hustle of Santiago de Chile’s megacity how gardeners of different ages have found a respite, a connection to the soil and a community in an organic urban garden at the edges of the capital city. Organic gardening not o…
Living Water
The vibration of machines echoes across the desert. Ever since Jordanian nomads settled in the spectacular landscape of Wadi Rum, they have grown dependent on complex water infrastructure. The source is right below their feet, yet they still struggle t…
Jimmy’s Archive
‘50 years ago today they landed on the moon… and I’m still waiting for that future’. Jimmy’s Archive provides an intimate portrait of home, place and aging in a rapidly changing urban landscape. It also contributes to practices of multi-modal anthrop…
Wind and Words
This visual essay is an example of what I call an ‘ethnographic making-of’: a film that deconstructs the production of anthropological films (see The Image That Never Ends: A Journey Through Visual Anthropology, Berghahn Books, 2025). Wind and Words di…
The Lost Child
This film chronicles a two-day rite of passage known as Nuka Nua, or ‘Returning to one’s home village’ among the Ngadha people in central Flores, Indonesia. Nine years earlier, Ludis, a noblewoman and nurse, secretly married her beloved, Anis, a school…
Homeland as Echo, Nostalgia as Strategy
This essay rethinks Heimat through the figure of Heidi, not as a sentimental icon of Alpine innocence but as a conceptual prism through which to understand the contemporary weaponization of nostalgia. Drawing on theories of restorative nosta…
Review of Joseph Whitson. 2025. Marketing the wilderness: Outdoor recreation, Indigenous activism, and the battle over public lands
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Review of Joseph Whitson. 2025. Marketing the wilderness: Outdoor recreation, Indigenous activism, and the battle over public lands
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Review of Kyle Boggs. 2025. Recreational colonialism and the rhetorical landscapes of the outdoors