Pitch Reset in Akan Subordinate Clauses

This study explores how lexical tone interacts with intonation in Akan, focusing on pitch reset as a prosodic cue in complex declaratives. Pitch reset – an upward shift in fundamental frequency (f0) following declination – has been documente…

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.

Post-Melancholia Belfast

This essay explores the numerous roles that visual art plays for tourism in various Belfast neighborhoods. In the commercial districts of City Centre, Cathedral Quarter, and the Titanic Quarter, street art and other tourist attractions like the Titanic…

Heritage, Heirs and Performative Competence

Cultural heritage is traces from the past that are ascribed meaning in the present. This basic tenet of current heritage theory is often followed by a call for more democratic heritage processes and the inclusion of more diverse values. The article poi…

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…