Review of Helmcke, Cornelia. 2023. Engineering reality: The politics of environmental impact assessments and the just energy transition in Colombia
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Review of Ellingson, Stephen. 2024. Planting with purpose: How farmers create a resilient food landscape.
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Prácticas alimentarias en una comunidad rarámuri de la Sierra de Chihuahua, México
En México, la inseguridad alimentaria afectaba al 21% de la población (2020), aunado a las carencias en servicios básicos y problemas de salud vinculados con la alimentación. Las comunidades rurales y sobre todo los pueblos indígenas marginados …
Saberes y patrimonios alimentarios locales
Este artículo tiene por objetivo reflexionar acerca de la importancia del trabajo que realizan las tineras, mujeres provenientes de las localidades totonacas de Papantla, Veracruz (México), que se dedican al cultivo y venta de alimentos frescos,…
Chamada para dossiê: A Identidade Palestina em tempos do Genocídio em Gaza
Organizadores Gisele Fonseca Chagas (UFF) : giselechagas@id.uff.brLeonardo Schiocchet (Charles University, Prague): schiocchet@gmail.comPaulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha Pinto (UFF): philu99@gmail.com Este […]
Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics
The land-water dichotomy plays a key role in the prevailing global climate change adaptation (CCA) policy discourse for tropical coastal areas. This dichotomy is implicitly informed by a land centered conception of property which regards areas that flu…
Comment étudier la création culinaire dans la gastronomie ?
A partir de la question « comment les chefs imaginent ce qu’ils imaginent » ?, nous avons mis en place une méthodologie qui combine analyse interne et analyse externe des œuvres culinaires (analyse multidimensionnelle des œuvres culinaires conte…
Comment étudier la création culinaire dans la gastronomie ?
A partir de la question « comment les chefs imaginent ce qu’ils imaginent » ?, nous avons mis en place une méthodologie qui combine analyse interne et analyse externe des œuvres culinaires (analyse multidimensionnelle des œuvres culinaires conte…
To Exist is a Form of Resistance
Photography has long been associated with acts of resistance. In this interview, Sarah Allen, Head of Programme and co-curator of the exhibition Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest at the South London Gallery, e…
Viewing Practices: An Interview with Tom Gunning
InVisible Culture
Drought mending: Experimenting with drought in suburban southern California
This article explores the politics of producing knowledge about drought in a suburban region of southern California: Orange County. Based on nine months of ethnographic research with the assistant specialists that keep the Loma Ridge Global Change Expe…
Book Review
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
A Cause, but no Rebels?
This article analyzes the political activities of residents in a 50-year-old slum in New Delhi. Based on long-term fieldwork undertaken periodically between 2004 and 2019, we describe the forms of oppression experienced by slum residents, ho…
Experiencing the double blow of climate change and its mitigation: Perspectives from Sámi reindeer herders in Swedish Sápmi
This article argues that climate change and its mitigation risk threatening Indigenous Peoples’ access to land and their ability to maintain their way of life. Focusing on the experiences of the Indigenous Sámi reindeer herders of the Swedish part of S…
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.36 No.1
Published: December 2024.
Rebel Attentiveness
Living under Israeli occupation, Palestinians face countless controls over their daily lives and movement. This research focuses on the reflections of cycling group founders and participants in the occupied West Bank, who ride despite effort…
Call for papers
Dear Colleagues!
The CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 11, № 1, that is going to be published in late February – early March 2025. The deadline for submission of papers is February 17, 2025.
Embarrassment and wild caught meat
In the initial COVID-19 pandemic, much speculation was made about what, exactly, Chinese appetites involved, and whether Chinese had a penchant for sourcing and consuming wild caught meat. Accusations abounded, principally (but not exclusively) …
CAES Vol. 10, № 4
Editor’s foreword Articles Some advances in reading and understanding the Phaistos disc inscription Alexander Akulov Minoan is a close relative of Hattic, and so Hattic should be used as the key for deciphering the Phaistos disc. Now phonetic values of some previously illegible signs have been clarified: 01 – je, 21 – ne, 23 – […]
Training as a Rite of Passage
Following the transformative journey of Kenyan geothermal professionals throughout a training programme in Iceland and back to their homes, I argue that such long-term training in foreign countries can function as a rite of passage. The coll…
Doing Being Senior/Junior
In this article, I will reconsider the naming and kinship relationships of the !Xun San in north-central Namibia from the perspective of child socialization. I will thereby deconstruct the naturalized view in which ‘relative age’ (a concept …
Differences of Age Without Distinctions of Authority
This contribution begins with the puzzle as to why there are kinship and naming systems that distinguish junior from senior, elaborately and systematically, even though these practices are embedded in substantially egalitarian societies. The…
“I’m Bigger!”
Pre-school age children in European contexts are known to use labels like ‘big’ and ‘small’ to orient to age differences, very often to highlight differences in physical and social competence (Häll 2022). This research report explores Datoog…
Augmented Authority
The paper describes changed elderhood in Sukuma-speaking villages in Tanzania through a combined situational and cultural analysis, starting with the traditional role of (re)generation and medicine in practices of greeting. Elderhood, I argu…
Power and Age
Spencer (1965, 1988, 1993, 2003) theorizes two distinct strands in the life course of a Maasai male. The first strand is the building of a cattle herd and a family, and the second is developing involvement in the age class system. The second…