Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article discusses the situation of Finnish visual artists, taking as its starting point ideas presented by Hans Abbing in his book Why Are Artists Poor (2002). The empirical data derive from a survey on young artists conducted at the end of…
La question des dynamiques temporelles des carrières artistiques a été souvent investie, avec l’ambition de mettre au jour les patterns menant à la reconnaissance critique et/ou publique. Ainsi, les logiques structurant les rythmes des carrièr…
This paper utilizes qualitative and quantitative analysis to examine the careers of foreign (non-EU) musicians living and working in Europe, and in particular, the second phase of a career in classical music of Japanese musicians in France and P…
À la fin des années 1980 ont été lancées en France les premières expériences de théâtre d’entreprise visant à résoudre les “dysfonctionnements” internes des entreprises. Or, ces pièces sont portées par des comédien·e·s professionnel·le·s qui in…
Ce texte analyse les conditions du maintien de l’activité des artistes modestes en deuxième partie de carrière qui, malgré une absence de revenus associés à la pratique artistique et un faible niveau de reconnaissance, continuent à se définir co…
Cet article aborde les stratégies mobilisées par des artistes œuvrant dans le secteur de la danse et du cirque pour perdurer dans une activité scénique. Si le maintien dans la carrière est complexe pour l’ensemble des artistes, il l’est d’autant…
Frédéric PRÉCIGOUT, 2019, Logiques des peurs alimentaires, Perspectives ethnosociologiques. Paris : L’Harmattan, Coll. Questions alimentaires et gastronomiques. 352p.
Le sujet des peurs alimentaires est inépuisable; sans cesse réitéré, de …
TIBERE V. & MARCILHAC V. (ed.) 2019. Les goûts du chocolat dans le monde. Paris : L’Harmattan, Coll. Questions alimentaires et gastronomiques, 274 p.
L’ouvrage rassemble des contributions issues du premier colloque international sur le…
This article examines both the development and implications of a sales strategy deployed by Christie’s and Sotheby’s from the mid-2000s to increase their market share and the prices of African and Oceanic art. The strategy was designed to entice…
Critical considerations of the impact of biennials on artistic practices worldwide emphasize that they create new hegemonies: biennials produce another canon of contemporary art at a global scale. The main characteristic is art’s insertion into …
This article puts forward a methodological pathway for work between anthropology and art that is premised on the relation between social and aesthetic form. It draws on the authors’ work with cartonera publishers in Latin America, small communit…
In the context of contemporary digital art and documentary making, practitioners are discovering the possibilities given by emerging image-based immersive practices, techniques and tools (360-degree video and photography; virtual, augmented, and…
Reflecting on two sets of analytical trajectories of the articles in this special issue — ‘institutions, histories, and spheres of valuation’ (Thomas Fillitz and Tamara Schild) and ‘immersion, correspondence, and form’ (Alex Flynn/Lucy Bell and …
Short versions of the following articles were presented at the panel ‘Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts, Design and Literature,’ which Paula Uimonen (Stockholm University) and I organized at the fifteenth …
I arrived in the island of Chiloé with the idea of making a fictional film about the 1880 Chilean State trial against a powerful organisation of sorcerers. Based on the experiences and encounters that emerged from my attempt to develop the film …
The idea of Latin America as an unified geopolitical entity has been called into question (Mignolo 2005), exposing claims for a specific aesthetics and epistemological modality as romantic fetishism in face of the diverse histories of economic, …
It may be tautological to claim that ethnographic films are a form of storytelling; one that combines concomitance and linearity between images and words to show and tell particular stories. However, drawing on Guto and Graça, a 9-minute film on…
In recent years, Peruvian social anthropology has seen a rising production of audio-visual and artistic works within the discipline, ranging from written analyses that incorporate arts and crafts (Bernedo 2011; González 2011; Ulfe 2014; Del Pino…