Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Justificación científica
Las prácticas alimentarias constituyen una de las dimensiones más duraderas (aunque todavía insuficientemente teorizadas) de la presencia africana en las Américas. Más allá de los ingredientes y las recetas, encarn…
Justificativa científica
As práticas alimentares constituem uma das dimensões mais duradouras (embora ainda insuficientemente teorizadas) da presença africana nas Américas. Para além dos ingredientes e das receitas, elas incorporam históri…
Anthropology often lacks sufficient research opportunities for undergraduates. In this manuscript, we describe the development, delivery, and pilot assessment of INvolving Students In DEsigning Research (INSIDER), a seminar-style course designed to pro…
The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of Course Preparation Assignments (CPAs), informal writing assignments that ask students to respond to the reading, on the student learning experience in an Introduction to Cultural Anthropology cou…
Re-establishing society’s ability to coexist with wildlife species that were historically extirpated presents a critical challenge for reintroduction. Tribal-led efforts across North America aim to restore American Buffalo (Bison bison) as an ecologica…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The 2011 Uprising in Tunisia marked a turning point leading to a democratisation process that granted unprecedented political freedoms. Yet, socio-economic rights remained limited, and corruption persisted among politic…
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938–1997) distinguished himself as one of the foremost Nigerian musicians in the Afrobeat genre by identifying with the masses in Africa. He achieved a populist appeal by critiquing social ills and advocating for the es…
This paper reports findings from a study examining Rwandans’ attitudes towards Swahili across different occupational groups. The study hypothesized that there would be a relationship between Rwandans’ occupations and their attitudes towards …
By the mid-2000s, the contribution of Tanzania’s pharmaceutical industry to local drug circulation was low compared to imports, with the latter mostly coming from India. The situation had mainly stayed the same since independence in 1961, de…
This paper presents a discussion of Akan noun-noun compounds and a Construction Morphology account of their properties. Noun-noun compounds are the most studied type of compounds cross-linguistically, with studies revealing interesting issue…
Drawing on the portrait of Vesta, this article explores the “politics of the pronoun” in two interrelated key ways. First, it analyses the stakes of using the portrait to convey a queer experience marked by disciplinary processes that seek…
How to narrate queer lives without reproducing the epistemic violence of abstraction? In this article, we address several tensions between portraying, as necessarily reductive process of description and representation, and Queerness, as pe…
This article emerges from the raw material of an ethnographic process that seeks to remain faithful to the overwhelming nature of juxtaposed spaces and times. The reader is invited to engage closely with the details as an exercise in recog…
This submission is a review of Ursina Jaeger’s Children as Social Butterflies. Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten. The review critically examines Jaeger’s exploration of the shifting social belongings of kindergarten chil…
This submission is a review of Sandhya Fuchs’s Fragile Hope. Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India. The review argues that Fragile Hope shows the success of India’s Atrocities Act cannot be measured by legal outcomes like convictions, b…
This article focuses on the description of an ongoing ethnographic process. It explores the researcher’s first encounter with a new environment and the initial reflections that emerge from a queer and decolonial perspective. Two portraits,…
This article addresses ethical and methodological challenges I encountered while conducting fieldwork in the town of Camiri, between May 2023 and December 2024, as part of a research project on gender diversity in the Bolivian Chaco. Throu…
This article presents an ethnographic and narrative portrait of Semonpiru, a middle-aged Bolivian Guaraní man who challenges social norms in various aspects of his life, including his sexuality and performance of masculinity. Drawing on ov…
Losing a close relative in old age is nowadays a very common occurrence. But what does it mean in practice to organise a funeral for someone over 80, in a context characterised by the pluralisation of our relationship with death and the de…
This article engages with current debates in queer anthropology that interrogate gender and sexuality as discrete analytical domains and highlight their complex entanglement in colonial and capitalist structures of power. It focuses on the…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
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This article explores the more-than-human political ecology of human-elephant conflict in North Bengal, India, by emphasizing Asian elephants’ (Elephas maximus) agency within a complex conservation landscape. Through a combination of ethnographic field…
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