Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article investigates how the dual demands of finance and social impact affect the relationships of founders to disruption, as a rhetorical function, material goal and relational context. Building on recent studies of innovation and entrepreneurshi…
This paper addresses the entanglements, complicities and collisions between financialization processes and state action during the current housing crisis in Spain, with a focus on Catalonia and the Barcelona area in the last decade. Departing from the …
Book review of Francesco Scotti, Per una storia della riforma psichiatrica in Umbria: Nascita ed evoluzione di una psichiatria di comunità in Umbria, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2021 (vol. 1, pp. 448), 2022 (vol. 2, pp. 506).
Book review of Alessandra Brivio, Serpenti, sirene e sacerdotesse: Antropologia dei mondi acquatici in Africa occidentale, Roma, Viella, 2023, pp. 216.
Book review of Patrick Williams, Tsiganes ou ces inconnus qu’on appelle aussi Gitans, Bohémiens, Roms, Gypsies, Manouches, Rabouins, Gens du voyage…, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2022, pp. 601.
Book review of Antonello Ricci, Sguardi lontani: Fotografia ed etnografia nella prima metà del Novecento. Con immagini di Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Griaule, Renato Boccassino, Lamberto Loria e Raffaele Corso, Gregory Bateson e Margaret M…
In this introduction we map the tradition of thoughts and state of the art on the study of finance and financialization in relation to the anthropological Italian debate. We suggest a particular attention towards ethnographic approaches “from the margi…
Book review of Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 276.
Book review of Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 276.
Book review of Serena Olcuire, Indecorose: Sex work e resistenza al governo dello spazio pubblico nella città di Roma, Verona, Ombre corte, 2023, pp. 236.
Book review of Denise Pettinato, Etnografia al bancone: Spazi, corpi, oggetti nelle pratiche del bar, Afterword by Pietro Meloni, Pisa, Pacini, 2022, pp. 231.
Book review of Alessandra Ciucci, The voice of the rural: Music, poetry and masculinity among migrant Moroccan men in Umbria, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2022, pp. 228.
Book review of Gabriella D’Agostino, Vincenzo Matera, eds, Storie dell’antropologia, Milano, UTET, 2022, pp. 635.
Book review of Francesco Apergi, I mezzadri e i trovatelli: Famiglie e senza famiglia nei poderi del Mugello (secoli XIX-XX), Firenze, Società editrice fiorentina, 2023, pp. 108.
This article deals with critical shareholding, that is, the action of non-profit organizations that resorts to involvement in corporate ownership as shareholders to promote socially responsible corporate behaviours. Based on the combined use of sociolo…
How voluntary associations promote social interaction across difference and contribute to building diverse communities are questions of relevance in Italy and beyond. To be successful, associations must earn and maintain reputations as groups worth joi…
Review article of Andrea Canobbio, La traversata notturna, Milano, La nave di Teseo, 2022, pp. 520; Renzo Guolo, Michel Leiris etnologo, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 274.
This article reflects on the existing dynamics between the sacredness derived from the museumification of religious items and the sacredness of those artefacts employed in rituals that survive in museum spaces as a trace or sacred residue (Be…
Este trabajo busca aproximarse al relato que responsabiliza a la izquierda chilena del quiebre institucional que terminó en la dictadura cívico militar que lidero Augusto Pinochet. Si tomamos como referencia el caso uruguayo, en lo relativo a la discus…
L’articolo si propone studiare i meccanismi di circolazione militante nello spazio della DSN, ricostruendo il percorso di gruppi anticomunisti europei attraverso Cile, Argentina e Bolivia. Si evidenzia come la permanenza dei militanti sul territorio si…
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo principal revisar el legado autoritario de la dictadura uruguaya desde una perspectiva feminista, centrando el análisis en las intervenciones conservadoras del presente y su continuidad con el proyecto de reconf…
El artículo propone una historia de la patrimonialización del sitio arqueológico de Tiwanaku desde una perspectiva de larga duración y centrada en la relacionalidad activada por las ruinas. Lo que emerge es una tensión constante entre discursos oficial…
Neste artigo, analisa-se o uso e as disputas da memória acerca da Guerrilha do Araguaia a partir da homenagem feita pelo ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro ao Major Curió, acusado de atrocidades durante esse conflito. A metodologia constou de revisão bibliog…
El caballero de Cervantes es un personaje que se ha convertido en fuente inagotable de interpretaciones. En este artículo propongo un análisis de dos adaptaciones de la novela: La voz de los mitos: grandeza y servidumbre del hombre (García Martí 1941) …
A partir de una aproximación etnográfica (2019-2022) a cuatro experiencias de reparación en salud en el sur de Chile este artículo interroga las prácticas de reparación en un contexto de hegemonía neoliberal e impunidad. Propone que usuarias/os junto …