Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Desde una perspectiva antropológica se analiza cómo las adolescentes han significado sus propias adopciones focalizando en dos aspectos del proceso de adopción: cómo tomaron conocimiento de la existencia de la adopción como posible desenlace para su tr…
No texto, propomos uma experimentação epistemológica dialogada entre a concepção de quilombagem (Clóvis Moura) e de quilombo (Beatriz Nascimento), a partir da Aquilombagem Crítica (AC). Mesmo partindo de perspectivas e quadros teóricos aparentemente di…
El presente artículo analiza cómo ante los desafíos de la Globalización y las estructuras hegemónicas de poder que gobiernan las relaciones norte-sur y es posible establecer alianzas epistémicas y prácticas entre los feminismos decoloniales y las teorí…
L’articolo intende mostrare come i paradigmi teorico-analitici espressi dal binomio “rispetto/reputazione” e “casa/strada”, che la letteratura d’area caraibica e afroamericana in generale ha lungamente registrato e impiegato come riferimento ideale per…
En esta investigación nos fijaremos en cómo se articulan cinematográficamente los deseos y expresiones de género queer en El niño pez de Lucía Puenzo, mediante el análisis de la relación entre Lala (Inés Efrón) y la empleada doméstica guaraní de su fam…
La presente investigación propone un balance de los estudios que se han realizado sobre las prácticas LGBTIQ+ en Colombia, a partir de las últimas décadas del siglo pasado hasta los años dos mil, estableciendo las categorías y los géneros literarios a …
Ethnographic exhibitions play an increasingly prominent role in rethinking how anthropology can engage in contemporary debates across academic and public settings. Since its inception in autumn 2014, the new Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus, Denmark, …
This paper draws on experiences and lessons from GIEFF 2020, an ethnographic film festival that took place during the Covid-19 pandemic. The GIEFF organizers decided to stream instead of screen films, and created an online streaming event that c…
Yielding and knowing may be familiar terms. But how do they connect to anthropological filmmaking and Chinese martial arts? This is a new way of looking at knowledge in the making. The author defines the relationship between the two arts and the…
This paper examines the nature of Cosa Nostra, how it exists in parallel to the State, the way it depends on social consensus, and how it is culturally embedded within some sections of its community. This paper also examines the approach taken b…
Dans le présent article, nous avons insisté sur la dimension interprétative des données ethnographiques visuelles recueillies auprès des acteurs concernant leurs rôles dans le rite du mariage pour pouvoir sauvegarder et transmettre le contenu de…
In so-called Oriental photo shoots, women stage themselves to convey an image of opulence, eroticism, mysticism, etc. After a brief review of the visual representation of the Orient in ethnographic photographs, tourist imagery, and art, the arti…
The Seme of Burkina Faso attribute all the problems they encounter to interventions from the invisible world. Divination allows them to identify the cause of the problem and a suitable remedy (which blood sacrifice to make at which altar). The d…
The Seme of Burkina Faso attribute all the problems they encounter to interventions from the invisible world. They identify the cause and the appropriate remedy (blood sacrifice) through divination. The diviner, called by the invisible, is intim…
Avec ce Varia, nous mettons à l’honneur des chercheurs et leurs approches singulières qui rappellent combien l’anthropologie visuelle recèle une variété d’approches, de méthodes et bien évidemment de terrains.
Les trois premiers articles n…
1 December 2022
In this issue of Varia, we present researchers and their singular approaches that remind us of various perspectives, methods and fields of study in visual anthropology.
The first three articles reveal tensions between…
Book review of Sophie Chao, In the shadow of the palms: More-than-human becomings in West Papua, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, pp. 336.
Book review of Aleksander Bošković, Günther Schlee, edited by, African political systems revisited: Changing perspectives on statehood and power, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 256.
Book review of Didier Fassin, Le vite ineguali: Quanto vale un essere umano, translated by Lorenzo Alunni, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019, pp. 202.
Book review of Alessandra Gribaldo, Unexpected subjects: Intimate partner violence, testimony, and the law, Chicago, HAU Books, 2021, pp. 148.
Book review of Georges Balandier, La situazione coloniale e altri saggi, edited by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, translated by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 156.
Book review of Lorenzo D’Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers, The anthropology of resource extraction, Routledge, 2022, pp. 233.
Book review of Pier Giorgio Solinas, Lettere dagli antenati: Famiglie, genti, identità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 175.
Book review of Pietro Saitta, Populismo urbano: Autoritarismo e conflitto in una città del sud (Messina 2018-2022), Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 253.
Book review of Marta Scaglioni, Francesco Diodati, Antropologia dell’invecchiamento e della cura: Prospettive globali, Milano, Ledizioni, 2021, pp. 190.