Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Le sociologue Jean Remy est décédé le 6 octobre 2019 à l’âge de 91 ans. Il a été professeur à l’Université catholique de Louvain (aujourd’hui UCLouvain) de 1967 à 1992. Il a également enseigné pendant de nombreuses années à l’Université Saint-Lo…
I. Introduction
In the last few decades, the number of men and women aspiring to be recognized as artists and live from their art in a professional manner has significantly increased in developed societies, whether we refer to actors (Meng…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…