Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Davant la irrupció de la covid-19, el discurs de la “gestió emocional” va permear en diversos contextos, des de les escoles, fins a l’interior de les cases, de la mà de coachings, webs, instagramers, etc. En aquest context, la Generalitat de Catalunya …
Aquest article descriu les aportacions de Fals al desenvolupament de l’etnografia crítica amb la comunitat Muyska del Tunjo a Bogotà, D. C. A partir de la idea de recuperar, reparar i reaprendre valors socials fonamentals, argument que la proposta de F…
El text analitza processos de missionalització indígena generats a les dècades de 1970/80 en territoris jaqueños del Paraguai i l’Argentina. Indaga sobre les relacions existents entre agents cristians de pastoral assentats a un costat i a l’altre de la…
InVisible Culture
The Igbo people are known for their entrepreneurial, itinerant, and adaptive tendencies, thus exemplifying the essence of cultural dynamism. This paper studies two aspects of Igbo dress culture, jewelry and body marking, to unravel the changes that occ…
Australians will soon vote in a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australia in its 1901 Constitution and establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament. A year ago, polling suggested the referendum proposal of the 2017 National Constitutional Conventio…
The Covid-19-pandemic and resulting infection control measures drastically impacted the ability of Christian worshippers to gather and practice their faith. As a result, online solutions emerged as the primary option for maintaining religiou…
Dear Colleagues!
CAES editorial team awaits for your contributions for CAES Vol. 9, № 4, that is going to be published in the second half of December 2023. The deadline for submission of papers is December 1.
To document an inclusive and comprehensive queer history means to write about queer femininity and queer femmes. Depending on their perceived outward form, queer femmes are often the most hypervisible and overtly queer, yet at other juncture…
This article is an exploratory study of the history of carnival as a popular festival in late colonial Lourenço Marques (contemporary Maputo), the capital of Mozambique. Drawing on archival sources and on oral history interviews, it explores…
Over the long term, Africans socially constructed time and gender through struggle and invention, the stuff of history. But to get at this broad salience we must toggle between scales of region and period, among different kinds of evidence, …
This special issue seeks to problematize the way that time and gender – and their relationship to each other – is conceptualized in prevailing historical narratives about African pasts. Often we take these notions for granted in our practices of resear…
This article explores how multiple gendered times are brought to bear on the present in Yaawo oral history-telling about female leaders and gendered power in a more distant past. The dominant research narratives about gender and power in Afr…
This article takes its point of departure in the author’s research experience in matrilineal northern Mozambique in the early 1980s as an employee of the National Women’s Organization, the OMM (Organização da Mulher Moçambicana). Confronted …
This contribution to the special issue develops an argument about time and gender in African history in relation to historical sound recordings. Revisiting a case study from the Namibian sound archive I demonstrate innovative methodological …
This article explores the cultural significance of initiation rites among the Northern Sotho in South Africa, with a particular focus on the blending of symbolic gender motifs in rock art. Scholars on Northern Sotho rock art have associated …
While Kenyan colonial subjects became citizens at independence, women were excluded from state resources, social services, and full political enfranchisement. This was neither the decolonizing future they had been promised nor the one they had envision…
Gender, as broadly construed by Bantu-speaking peoples, is not fixed in the same way that it is in the West. This kind of gender flexibility is counter to binary gender concepts which classify gender into two separate, opposite, and rigid fo…
Editorial to the September issue of 2023.
Jacinta, deaf from birth, chose to give birth to her own baby at home without her hearing aids. Fu-Yu assisted and took photos of the process. This is a Photo Essay about alternative possibilities to biomedical childbirth. We share our experience throu…
Over the last several decades, epidemics of chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) have appeared in Mesoamerica, North Africa, and South Asia. Drawing on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a CKDu-affected village in Sri Lanka, I explore…
L’European Journal of Turkish Studies republie, sous la forme de deux numéros « Varia », un ensemble d’articles parus « isolément » (stand-alone articles) au cours des dix premi…
L’European Journal of Turkish Studies republie, sous la forme de deux numéros « Varia », un ensemble d’articles parus « isolément » (stand-alone articles) au cours des dix premi…
Introduction to the Special Section ‘The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness’, guest edited by Sarah Hodges and Julia Hornberger.
Life with dementia urgently needs to be reimagined. The dominant social imaginary of dementia perpetuates a story in which people with dementia cannot have a life that is ‘good’. In this Position Piece we draw from eight letters written for the Dementi…