Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article examines birthday party decorations as a way of understanding the materiality and religious place-making of an expanding Baptist congregation in central Sweden in the early twentieth century. The fiftieth birthday party for Magnus Johanson…
The purpose of this article is to investigate how memory activists from 2008 onwards used the past in their advocacy work for the restoration of the university church in Leipzig. The Paulinerkirche was built as a Dominican monastery church in the first…
This article analyses mechanisms of heritagisation that transformed oil from a natural to a cultural resource through the case study of the Branobel corporation, which operated in Azerbaijan from the late nineteenth century, and by reflecting on the ro…
The article investigates the complex negotiation process regarding the renovation of St Catherine’s church in St Petersburg. Additionally, the goal is to gain novel understanding of how former religious spaces can be transformed and highlight the vario…
El presente Dossier titulado “Etnografías de Moda en el Desierto de Atacama”, representa una valiosa compilación de trabajos diversos, todos ellos integrados en el marco del proyecto Diseño y formas de vestir en el Desierto de Atacama. El enfoque princ…
En este artículo se investiga la vestimenta en la oficina salitrera María Elena durante el ciclo extractivo Guggenheim, centrándose en el calzado utilizado por los residentes. Se examinó el contexto, uso y significado de los zapatos masculinos “calamor…
Prefiguration is a term borrowed from political science, describing the experimentation with alternative ways of living, doing and being together in the present as a form of activism. In this article I will argue that cinema can be a powerful tool that…
Abstract This article examines ways to analyze and understand the social and cultural transformation that occurred after the 2011 uprising in downtown Cairo. We argue for a cultural sociological perspective using a renewed version of the concept “the s…
Live-action role-playing (larp) is characterized by participants’ physical and mental immersion in a storyworld, played out in a specific location during a fixed period of time. Most of the immersion is realized during the live event itself, where a co…
There are plenty of objects that are conspicuous in the way they signal to the surroundings that the user has some kind of physical impairment. Most obvious are perhaps wheelchairs, motorized wheelchairs, hearing aids and crutches. These objects can…
La presente investigación se centra en el uso de trajes de mar en el hábitat costero de Tongoy. Las actividades relacionadas con el mar requieren el uso de prendas que sean lo suficientemente impermeables para las actividades al aire libre y que manten…
Esta investigación se enfoca en el guardarropa de las mujeres de la comunidad indígena de Socaire, ubicada en la región atacameña. Se examinó las prendas de vestir utilizadas tanto en el día a día como en las festividades, con el objetivo de comprender…
La arqueología del salitre desarrollada en los últimos 15 años ha contribuido a “hacer visibles” una serie de materialidades, agentes, prácticas y/o procesos sociales difíciles de identificar o poco investigados desde la documentación escrita, contribu…
Se propone un modelo de análisis cerámico que busca reconstruir tradiciones y estilos mediante la comparación de aspectos visibles y ocultos de los tipos cerámicos. Ello asume que cada vasija tiene un grupo de aspectos altamente visibles que destacan …
This article analyses women’s accounts about hormonal contraceptives in Tanzania, and the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts that cause them to use such contraceptives, even as they called them ‘feki’ (Swahili for fake). Drawing on four…
In recent decades, the scientific and medical literature has routinely argued that ‘fake’ drugs present a pressing threat to global health. However, this article steps back from the chorus surrounding fake drugs to ask what wider issues have been at st…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Guinea Ecuatorial, como casi todos los países del mundo, ha sido afectadapor COVID-19, enfermedad provocada por el nuevo coronavirus SAR-Cov-2 e iniciada en China. La respuesta que cada país ha dado para luchar contra la pandemia e intentar que haga el…
At the end of August 2018, a controversy erupted in South Africa. Accusations of potentially poisonous ‘fake food’ had been circulating on social media for a month or so, and by early September reports were common on South African news programmes. Accu…
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2.
All articles in this latest issue can be accessed via this link.
We take this opportunity to thank our contributors, reviewer…
I argue in this thesis that we can understand the various ways in which community is ontologized as a tangible, affective and compelling social reality through the analytical lens of the future orientation of collective aspiring. The social and materia…
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
The detention of irregular migrants in the European Union has increasedin scope and intensity in the years following the 2016 ‘refugee crisis’.Detention is usually codified as an administrative practice, a neutral routinenecessary for the surveillance …
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a novel environmental movement formed in 2018 which uses non-violent civil disobedience to communicate the catastrophic severity of anthropogenic climate change, protest for urgent action to be taken by governments to cut g…