Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Subjectivity, forms of subjectivation, domination, forms of resistance and other analogous concepts are at the heart of a vibrant debate, that runs through anthropology and social sciences since many years. This introduction aims to rethink some issues…
Book review of Simona Taliani, Il tempo della disobbedienza: Per un’antropologia della parentela nella migrazione, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2019, pp. 207.
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
In this interview, Tullio Seppilli points out the usefulness of the notion of health risk if aimed at reducing it with public interventions by improving living conditions and reducing social inequalities. Introducing the notion of health as a common go…
Forum in memory of David Graeber. Contributions by Patrícia Alves de Matos, Stefano Boni, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Alessandro Deiana, Nika Dubrovsky.
Based on an ethnography conducted in Istanbul, this article analyses nostalgia and the perpetuation of mourning among former leftist militants of revolutionary organizations, who were the main targets of the political repression following the 1980-1983…
In Belfast, despite everyone knowing the conventional date that put an end to the Northern Irish conflict, commonly known as The Troubles, many people still suffer from its legacies to this day. In this article, I consider both post-conflict dynamics a…
Italian detention centres for undocumented migrants (Centri di Permanenza per il Rimpatrio – CPRs) have received little attention in the field of social sciences. This article focuses on the issue of self-harm, unanimously reported to be a very frequen…
This article explores the memories of female Palestinian former political prisoners, via a rethinking of the interrogation moment as liminal space. This arena reveals and triggers productive processes of recognition of self and other, construction of m…
Book review of Constantin Bărbulescu, Physicians, peasants and modern medicine: Imagining rurality in Romania, 1860-1910, translated by Angela Jianu, Budapest, Central European University Press, 2019, pp. 308.
Book review of Antonello Ricci, ed, L’eredità rivisitata: Storie di un’antropologia in stile italiano, Roma, CISU, 2019, pp. 655.
Book review of Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo, Martin Demant Frederiksen, eds, Peripheral methodologies: Unlearning, not-knowing and ethnographic limits, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2021, pp. 199.
Book review of Douglas R. Holmes, Integralismi europei: Capitalismo veloce, multiculturalismo, neofascismo, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Berardino Palumbo e Giovanni Pizza, Milano, Meltemi, 2020, pp. 382.
Book review of Carlo Capello, Giovanni Semi, eds, Torino: Un profilo etnografico, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 268.
Book review of Fabiana Dimpflmeier, Il giro lungo di Lamberto Loria: Le origini papuane dell’etnografia italiana, Roma, CISU, 2020, pp. 383.
Book review of Carlo Capello, Ai margini del lavoro: Un’antropologia della disoccupazione a Torino, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2020, pp. 182.
Book review of Jean-Louis Tornatore, ed, Le patrimoine comme expérience: Implications anthropologiques, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019, pp. 298.
Book review of Silvia Vignato, Le figlie delle catastrofi: Un’etnografia della crescita nella ricostruzione di Aceh, Milano, Ledizioni, 2020, pp. 247.
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Aside to the demographic screening, a deeper biosocial interest in India can be observed on the scale of groups and subpopulations. Several agencies (university consortia, departments of human forensic genetics), are pursuing the inspection of populati…
This article proposes an ethnographic and anthropological reflection conducted in the context of a sociolinguistic investigation of the linguistic dynamics between locals and asylum seekers in the Aosta Valley. The analysis of language practices involv…
I interpret the pursuit of an Islamic understanding of ideals such as democracy, pluralism and freedom, carried out by the Tunisian Islamic movements after the 2011 revolution, as part of a discursive tradition (Asad 1986) about the “Tunisian specifici…