Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Creating our own image, whether it is in research or in art, is a constant conversation with the images already in our heads. In the case of refugees, these images are shaped by mediatised and politicised realities that obscure the capacity to s…
This article reconfigures and reflects on the author’s visual essay “MOLLusCS + mollUScs” (2019), which assembled narration on human-mollusc correspondences and a series of three black and white photos. With the aim to employ the trope of presen…
Reflecting on the use of different tools within anthropological research and its outcomes, as well as positioning these tendencies within recent debates in the discipline, the article draws attention to the importance of form – the poetics of et…
In 2008, an Indigenous Australian artist based in Melbourne – Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Wemba Wemba/Boonwurrung) – created a kangaroo-teeth necklace, revivifying an art and cultural practice for the first time in over a century. She was inspire…
Incorporating moving and still images and audio within the text, I examine in this article how site-specific augmented reality (AR) can convey ethnographic research and forms of embodied knowledge through emplacing the audience and engaging thei…
« Dieu merci ». Une lecture photo-ethnographique d’une recherche sur des migrants catholiques à Lyon
L’ouvrage Dieu merci de Valérie Aubourg et Benjamin Vanderlick est un encouragement et une audace aussi bien en anthropologie des religions qu’en anthropologie visuelle. Cet ouvrage écrit à deux mains présente les résultats d’une recherche menée auprès de catholiques lyonnais en provenance des sociétés africaines et créoles, en optant pour une forme d’écriture tour à tour discursive et en images. Le choix[…]
« Dieu merci ». Une lecture photo-ethnographique d’une recherche sur des migrants catholiques à Lyon
L’ouvrage Dieu merci de Valérie Aubourg et Benjamin Vanderlick est un encouragement et une audace aussi bien en anthropologie des religions qu’en anthropologie visuelle. Cet ouvrage écrit à deux mains présente les résultats d’une recherche menée auprès de catholiques lyonnais en provenance des sociétés africaines et créoles, en optant pour une forme d’écriture tour à tour discursive et en images. Le choix[…]
Abstract= Interactive documentary are epistemological tools that can help shaping and fostering comparative reflections in collaborative ethnographic projects. This paper analyses the process of planning and coding a digital platform – an intera…
Four of the five articles in this special issue are authored by members of the Food Citizens? team. Together with our colleagues from the Security Vision project (fifth article), we reflect on the epistemological and methodological practices fol…
With the ongoing penetration of digital technologies and tools across the world, the act of conducting visual research increasingly entails a capacity to incorporate a broader horizon characterised by multimodality and multisensoriality, by algo…
The article investigates urban gardening in Turin with ethnography, historical analysis and photography, using both the authors’ photography and sources from social media and private archives. The authors collaborate to analyse ‘community’ garde…
The aim of this paper is to address the potential of combining the focus group method with photo-elicitation in ethnographic research. The paper is based on my own experience with a photo-elicitation focus group (PEFG) consisting of five communi…
While photography has a long history of being used by anthropologists, not much has been written of the use of anthropology by photographers. Based on my personal experiences of two distinct ethnographic fieldworks, I argue that these two practi…
The aim of this article is to present the research programme Visual Trust. Reliability, Accountability and Forgery in Scientific, Religious and Social Images. The main objective of this programme is to explore how people from different countries…
How does one map and visualise the complex arrangements of computer vision technologies used in the field of security in a collaborative setting where the research participants come from different scholarly traditions? This paper is an account o…
As a crucial component of « Italianicity », food is a common topic in the political discourse in Italy. The diffusion of the grammars and practices of food porn media offer new possibilities for political communication: in Italy, it’s especially…
Barbecuing is often highlighted as one of the most masculine forms of cooking. In this paper, I will analyse a recent Netflix documentary series, Chef’s Table: BBQ, with portraits of four different barbecue chefs, including two women. The barbec…
Many French doctors and psychiatrists in the colonial Maghreb supposed that spices, sexuality and the dangers of “primitive” masculinity were intrinsically linked. They regularly described Maghrebi food as unbearably spicy and, consequently, loc…
Previous research on migrant farmworkers’ resistance efforts in the US focuses on collective organizing but often fails to adopt an intersectional lens that considers farmworker women’s everyday acts of resistance. This study looks at Mexican fa…
In certain geopolitical contexts, women’s creative act of using aromas and spices to characterize and give flavour to dishes can become a powerful tool for gender claim and identity affirmation, and an economic resource to support women’s autono…
In contemporary rural Mali, when it comes to cooking, there is a strict division of labour. Women always make the meals. Each and every day, they transform raw ingredients into cooked fare for themselves and their families. Through their quotidi…
Juliet comes from Nigeria and has been living in Italy for the past 20 years. “Where I come from, a woman who does not know how to cook cannot get married”, she told me (Mauriello) when we first met during my fieldwork in Naples. Stories told by…
The Marcha das Margaridas is a coalition of women and feminism movements, agrarian movements, trade unions, and international organizations that emerged in 2000. Women’s organizations that are part of a rural trade federation lead the process. W…
Dans la littérature scientifique en sciences humaines et sociales sur l’alimentation, la question du genre n’est abordée que depuis une trentaine d’années, souvent pour souligner la division sexuelle du travail relatif à l’alimentation, un domai…
A lockdown was declared in mid-March 2020 to curb the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia, a Southeast Asian society undergoing rapid modernization. Based on netnography, this study explores selected daily experiences of five professional women belong…