Review of Wolfram H. Dressler. 2025. For the sake of forests and gods: Governing life and livelihood in the Philippine uplands
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Review of Wolfram H. Dressler. 2025. For the sake of forests and gods: Governing life and livelihood in the Philippine uplands
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Endangered cobras and conservation politics: Exploring multispecies encounters in agrarian landscapes of West Bengal
This article challenges dominant conservation discourses that frame nature as pristine and separate from humans, critiquing the wilderness paradigm informing Third World environmental planning. While scientific discourses promote holistic planetary vis…
Endangered cobras and conservation politics: Exploring multispecies encounters in agrarian landscapes of West Bengal
This article challenges dominant conservation discourses that frame nature as pristine and separate from humans, critiquing the wilderness paradigm informing Third World environmental planning. While scientific discourses promote holistic planetary vis…
Cartel Economies and Urban Governance: The Interplay of Performative Politics, Social Embeddedness, and Land Control in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Land governance in Nairobi is shaped by hybrid systems that blur the boundaries between formality and informality, especially in informal settlements which houses over 60 per cent of the city’s population. Land cartels …
“Informal” Land Demarcation Systems: A Lifeline to De-Escalation of Land Conflicts and Promotion of Peace in Post-War Acholiland, Northern Uganda
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This study examines how the re-emerging “informal” land demarcation systems contribute to the de-escalation of land conflicts and promotion of peace in post-war Northern Uganda. Although relative peace and normalcy have…
Review: Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands.
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Ludo Tricks and the Unserious Actor in the Trucking Business
Anthropological studies based on participant observation, with the goal of producing context-sensitive, holistic sociocultural descriptions of high-risk industries, are few and far between. This article focuses on the intentional bending and breaking o…
Subsiding sediments, gender, and obstinate repairs in the coastal city
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Subsiding sediments, gender, and obstinate repairs in the coastal city
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Weaving the Sacred Back In: Revitalizing biocultural diversity through Indigenous-led conservation sovereignty in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Vulnerabilitat estructural i jerarquies d’ètnia i ciutadania a la granja
Cada any, els Estats Units donen feina a gairebé dos milions de treballadors agrícoles temporers, aproximadament la meitat dels quals son migrants (Rothenberg, 1998). Aquest article es basa en un any d’observació participant duta a terme en una finca d…
Comprendre la sobrietat energètica a través de la sobrietat etnofílmica. La relació amb la tècnica i el treball en la representació d’alternatives ecològiques
La lleugeresa del dispositiu fílmic, la versatilitat de l’investigador-cineasta, el principi de no intervenció en la realitat observada i el caràcter experimental de l’enfocament etnofílmic constitueixen, d’una banda, l’expressió d’una enginyositat cie…
“Està tot al teu cap”: repensant la migranya crònica des d’una perspectiva antropològica i feminista
Les malalties cròniques representen un dels temes d’estudi prevalents en l’àmbit de l’Antropologia de la Salut, no obstant això sembla no haver-hi cabuda per a la migranya crònica, com a malaltia feminitzada, ja que afecta especialment les dones, i inv…
Seguretat alimentaria i desigualtat social en clau antropològica
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
How plants participate in politically contested ecologies? Species, vegetation cover and crops in the conservation of the páramos in Colombia
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
How plants participate in politically contested ecologies? Species, vegetation cover and crops in the conservation of the páramos in Colombia
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
Pluralism and Critique in a Renewed Environmental Anthropology
Environmental anthropology has evolved from early ethnographic traditions that emphasized the interplay between culture and ecology to a field increasingly influenced by ideological perspectives across the political spectrum. Traditionally, anthrop…
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.37 No.1
Published: December 2025.
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!The CAES editorial team looks forward to receiving your papers for CAES Vol. 12, No. 1, which is going to be published in late February or early March 2026. The deadline for submission of papers is February 10, 2026.
Loopholes
When young people in Danish residential care escape their institutions without permission it is often understood as acts of ‘troubling behaviour’ among social workers. Drawing on one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork across three re…
The two hungers: food security, morality, and cash transfer policies for Canela Apanjekra people in Indigenous Central Brazil
This article examines how the Canela Apanjekra (Porquinhos Indigenous Land, Maranhão, Brazil) engage with conditional cash transfer policies aimed at combating hunger—especially the Bolsa Família Program—and how these policies are interpreted throu…
Sociedade sob risco: monetarização, beleza e a economia íntima do dom entre os Rikbaktsa da Amazônia brasileira
Na virada do século XXI, salários, programas e políticas previdenciárias com aporte renda, voltados ao bem-estar social, começam a atingir povos indígenas brasileiros. Os poucos estudos etnográficos acerca da monetarização concordam sobre possíveis…
Comer como o inimigo: violência, transformações e persistências na economia alimentar wari’ (Amazônia Ocidental)
Examinam-se aspectos e percursos do sistema alimentar dos Wari’, povo indígena da Amazônia Ocidental, em um intervalo de duas décadas, mas também contemporaneamente. Trata-se de um cenário marcado por transformações, com dinâmicas que incluem a mon…