Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article argues that the resistance to certain foreign influences in Chilean queer thought is an understandable defense against neocolonial “adaptations” of queer theory into local debates, but can also leave issues of race and experiences of racia…
La comunidad ballroom mexicana integrada por personas trans, travestis y no binarixs emplea las plataformas sociodigitales para coproducir imágenes-datos y dar sostenimiento a su cultura. Sin embargo, su visibilidad algorítmica deviene en vigilancia y …
A partir da comparação do romance Grande sertão: veredas (1956 [1994]), de Guimarães Rosa, e do romance gráfico Grande sertão: veredas (2021), de Guimarães Rosa, Rodrigo Rosa e Eloar Guazzelli, e também da análise da crítica literária sobre as donzelas…
La memoria della élite bianca omosessuale durante il tardo colonialismo in Mozambico è un archivio complesso e contraddittorio che colloca questo gruppo sociale tra l’essere vittima della repressione sessuale dell’Estado Novo salazarista e la collabora…
Este trabalho trata de um Estado do Conhecimento, realizado na Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Homocultura (REBEH), com o objetivo de investigar como a transfobia é discutida na educação e de que maneira a Educação Profissional, com vistas à Formação …
El artículo problematiza la discusión prostitución/trabajo sexual en relación con la historia del sexo compensado entre varones en Latinoamérica en el siglo XX. Por un lado, se analiza cómo los cambios que afectaron al sexo compensado entre varones res…
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 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.
Book review of Eduardo Kohn, Come pensano le foreste, translated by Alessandro Lucera, Alessandro Palmieri, foreword by Emanuele Coccia, Milano, Nottetempo, 2021, pp. 439.
Book review of Nicolas Richard, Zelda Alice Franceschi, Lorena Córdoba, eds, La misión de la máquina: Técnica, extractivismo y conversión en las tierras bajas sudamericanas, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2021, pp. 283.
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.