Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This visual essay is an example of what I call an ‘ethnographic making-of’: a film that deconstructs the production of anthropological films (see The Image That Never Ends: A Journey Through Visual Anthropology, Berghahn Books, 2025). Wind and Words di…
This film chronicles a two-day rite of passage known as Nuka Nua, or ‘Returning to one’s home village’ among the Ngadha people in central Flores, Indonesia. Nine years earlier, Ludis, a noblewoman and nurse, secretly married her beloved, Anis, a school…
This essay rethinks Heimat through the figure of Heidi, not as a sentimental icon of Alpine innocence but as a conceptual prism through which to understand the contemporary weaponization of nostalgia. Drawing on theories of restorative nosta…
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Editor’s foreword Articles Comparing the main Ainu kinship terms with their Sino-Tibetan counterparts (Part II) Alexander Akulov, Tresi Nonno Ainu kinship terms “uncle”, “aunt”, “grandfather”, “grandmother”, “husband”, “wife” have clearly seen Sino-Tibetan counterparts. Late Jōmon Ainu (LJA) *ʔaca [*ʔatsa] “uncle” correlates with Balti ace· ”uncle (paternal)”, Sak acɨ́ “father’s brother” / “uncle”, Rengma achu ”uncle”, and Tsangla […]
The “slow violence” arising from mining tailings in Chile spreads cumulatively, slowly and invisibly over time and space. Even those affected are not necessarily aware of it. Toxic substances, which tailings contain in high concentrations, spread easil…
The “slow violence” arising from mining tailings in Chile spreads cumulatively, slowly and invisibly over time and space. Even those affected are not necessarily aware of it. Toxic substances, which tailings contain in high concentrations, spread easil…
Published: November 2025.
Among popular beverages associated with Puglia’s Salentine sub peninsula are coffee with ice and coffee with ice and almond lymph. The origin of the first is attributed to the patriarch of a family of coffee roasters in the city of Lecce who int…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an expe…
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned a doctorate in French literature at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, 2017), where her dissertation examined comparative approaches to epic, with particular attention to French and Turkic traditions. In this context, she developed a specific interest […]
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This article examines dropout from therapeutic communities for addiction treatment through the lens of institutional escape. In conventional treatment research, dropout is framed as evidence of patients’ non-compliance, lack of motivation, o…
This paper examines how a group of women’s rights activists in Iran who identify as Muslim represented themselves prior to the emergence of the 2022 Mahsa Movement, and why they were reluctant to adopt the labels ‘feminist’ or ‘Islamic femi…
The winds are changing at Suomen antropologi: Journal of Finnish Anthropological Society! My service as editor-in-chief is coming to an end at the end of this year and I am proud to announce the appointment of the incoming editors-in-chief,…
Since the earliest colonial encounters in Greenland, place-based Inuit knowledge of seal skin processing has been applied and regenerated within a web of regional, national, and global relations. These relations have not only affected metho…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Faced with limitations to transnational transactions, Chinese students in Russia engage in informal currency exchanges. Through fieldwork in a Siberian city, we discovered how, against the backdrop of sanctions, fluctuating official exchang…
This essay is based on the 2025 Westermarck Lecture, delivered at the 50th anniversary meetings of the Finnish Anthropological Society. My deepest thanks to the organisers, staff, and participants of that conference, including Sarah Green, …
This essay belongs to the essay series ‘The Anthropologist’s Toolkit: Reflections on Ethnographic Methodology’. In this series, authors peer into the anthropologist’s toolkit to reflect on what ethnographic methodology constitutes in all it…
From 1920 through 1932, Soviet biomedical propaganda disseminated via Udmurt literature including through periodicals, novels, plays, and poetry aimed to instil sanitation values and advance modernisation. This propaganda targeted the Indig…
Anthropologists compare – it is at the heart of what we do as we try and make sense of, describe and explain human social being in all its diversity. But the use of comparison extends far beyond anthropology. Indeed, it seems ubiquitous acr…