Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Appel à propositions de la revue ethnographiques.org Date limite de soumission : 12 septembre 2022
Coordination : Audrey Higelin (Sophiapol, Université Paris Nanterre) et Laurent Amiotte-Suchet (Haute école de santé Vaud, Lausanne).
Lorsqu’il élabore le concept d’institution totale, à la suite d’un terrain en hôpital psychiatrique au milieu des années 1950, Erving Goffman le circonscrit ainsi : « On peut définir une institution totale comme un lieu de résidence et de travail où un grand nombre[…]
Les kīrai, légumes feuilles, sauvages ou cultivés, sont consommés dans la ville de Pondichéry (Inde du Sud) par toutes les catégories de sa population. Oubliés des politiques publiques, ils contribuent à assurer l’apport en fibres, en micronutri…
Food media, such as Netflix’s Chef’s Table, presents both an empirical and a normative-aspirational dimension, communicating specific instructions and projecting powerful images of what constitutes a good meal and a culinary authority. This inve…
À travers une observation netnographique d’un groupe de cuisine Facebook marocain mixte et fondé par des hommes, cet article interroge les reconfigurations des normes alimentaires genrées dans l’espace numérique. Le confinement de 2020 a permis …
Rice is a staple in Sri Lanka and is often eaten with three or more condiments. This article explores the modes in which this staple transforms itself when it becomes a packaged commodity of ‘rice and curry’ (called “bath packets”) in Colombo. T…
This paper examines how a group of seventeen self-defined Brazilian feminists reacts to the idea of a moral link between feminism and vegetarianism, as developed by some ecofeminists in the eighties of the last century. These women argue in favo…
Cet article interroge les liens entre genre et alimentation à l’heure où les technologies et services alimentaires se démocratisent et où la norme égalitariste progresse. Il s’appuie sur un dialogue fictif entre un homme et une femme au restaura…
Vestiges: Traces of Record
Vestiges: Traces of Record