Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
In this article we explore how languages interact with exogamous social units (e.g., clans and phratries) and descent ideologies (such as having a common mythical ancestor and emergence from the same mythical place) to help organize the multilingua…
Recent decades have seen an exponential growth in our understanding of the indigenous languages of lowland South America – from their structures and interrelationships to the dynamics of their day-to-day use and the ways they are conceptualized by …
UEDA H. 2023. Food education and gastronomic tradition in Japan and France, ethical and sociological theories. Routledge : Oxford.
1973, après une longue période de procès en ringardise, l’enseignement ménager est définitivement rayé de la…
UEDA H. 2023. Food education and gastronomic tradition in Japan and France, ethical and sociological theories. Routledge : Oxford.
1973, après une longue période de procès en ringardise, l’enseignement ménager est définitivement rayé de la…
In the mountainous interior of the Himalaya, a highland peasant transforms into a redeemer by cutting holes (chidra) in the social fabric to be delivered to the gods through his body as sacrificial victim. Closely observing this unique ritual-spectacle…
“Curupira” was shot along the Javari Valley, the border region of Peru and Brazil. The story follows Arturo, a local riverine, as he paddles through the darkness in pursuit of the elusive Curupira — a mythological creature deeply ingrained in the regio…
The film presents a unique conversation between anthropologist Edvard Hviding and his long-term friend Vincent Vaguni, a community leader and sometime environmental activist from the remote village of Tamaneke in northern New Georgia, Solomon Islands. …
Journal of Anthropological Films
This observational anthrozoological ethnographic film documents the lives of Nepal’s working mules. The film finds a closeness with the mules; their sale in India, their journey to Nepal and their work in the huge brick factories of the Kathmandu valle…
The film presents a unique conversation between anthropologist Edvard Hviding and his long-term friend Vincent Vaguni, a community leader and sometime environmental activist from the remote village of Tamaneke in northern New Georgia, Solomon Islands. …
The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is …
This observational anthrozoological ethnographic film documents the lives of Nepal’s working mules. The film finds a closeness with the mules; their sale in India, their journey to Nepal and their work in the huge brick factories of the Kathmandu valle…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Since the early 2000s, armed attacks and inter-ethnic violence have increased in parts of northern Kenya’s Baringo County. This article examines how the Maa-speaking Il Chamus men respond to the growing insecurity as th…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Working collaboratively with students, lecturers, and others, to conduct digital ethnography enriches the ethnographies produced, expands pedagogical possibilities, and allows us to rethink how we teach and do research in anthropology. This Special Iss…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Between the 1850s and 1950s, when abolitionism masked neoslavery and engendered displacement and forced labour migration in West Africa, Africans used forgery as a survival mechanism. They forged legal documents, claime…
This reflective piece considers the pedagogical possibilities presented by centering collaboration in the process of teaching and learning anthropology. This piece explores the intimate, lived experience of an undergraduate student who completed their …
In this reflective piece, I explore my experience with different social media platforms and how they have shaped my identity as a first-generation Afghan immigrant in Finland. Using autoethnographic methods, I draw from personal memories and experience…
This piece provides the opportunity to reflect upon the period of my master’s studies, undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first part, it highlights a project on ‘WitchTok’ that emerged through my engagement with the TikTok Ethnography Coll…
This article discusses the affective dynamics of two interwoven spheres of musical life: on the one hand, the sphere of local musical engagements, often connected to the notion of scene; on the other, the sphere of digital music promotion an…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. African youth became a central research theme in anthropology and related disciplines in the early 2000s, drawing renewed attention to the lives and aspirations of a segment of the continent’s population that, since the…
Violence, including acoustic violence, can be remarkably resistant to critique; the semiotic structures upon which scholarly arguments rely may appear, in their representationalism, to have a distancing effect from the sheer materialism of v…
Se establecen cuatro problemáticas a superar: el colapso de la imaginación, el dominio de la ideología urbanística, la incompatibilidad entre los utopismos de forma espacial y los procesos sociales emancipatorios, y la persistencia de estudiar la ciuda…
Aquest article presenta una exploració teoricometodològica dels significats i pràctiques que es relacionen amb l’anar a caminar en grup a la natura. A partir de la consideració del caminar com a pràctica d’observació amb un triple objecte —un mateix, l…
Actualmente estamos asistiendo a un renovado interés académico por drogas alucinógenas como la psilocibina o la ayahuasca. El uso clínico de alucinógenos se ha acompañado pormodelos psicoterapéuticos con los cuales se direccionan sus efectos subjetivos…