Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Collaborative ethnographic filmmaking has been celebrated as a practice that ethically challenges the traditional relationship between the observing researcher and the observed Other. At the same time, the collaborative mode raises the question …
This special issue follows Walter Mignolo´s call for epistemic disobedience and combines it with MacDougall´s work on transcultural cinema. The films and texts of this special issue support our hypothesis that more equally balanced modes of comm…
In this article, we will explore a relationship between Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and Sophia Pinheiro through image and filmmaking. A videography of a poetic encounter between two women, one indigenous and other non-indigenous, using visual a…
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
I share in this paper experiences and insights from my fieldwork in a local ethnic artist’s and media producer’s network in South-Mexico. As an attempt at transcultural collaboration, I took part in a nude photoshoot for a local photographer, as…
Pondering on the power of cultural preconceptions, this article examines the tension between self-representation and ‘representation from the outside’. Using the indigenous filmmaking practices of the Arhuaco community from Colombia as a case st…
This article aims to reflect on the challenges of participatory film projects. The text analyses the method applied in the making of the short film Ghetto PSA. The main character is Jacob, a young man who arrived alone in Italy from French Guine…
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
Book review of Sara Roncaglia, Canti urbani: Trasformazioni del lavoro e degli spazi di vita a Mumbai, Milano, Raffaello Cortina, 2019, pp. 183.
Book review of Giuliana Sanò, Fabbriche di plastica. Il lavoro nell’agricoltura industriale, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2018, pp. 236.
Book review of Alessandro Mancuso, Altre persone: Antropologia, visioni del mondo e ontologie indigene, Milano, Mimesis, 2018, pp. 307.
Book review of Andrea Ravenda, Carbone: Inquinamento industriale, salute e politica a Brindisi, Milano, Meltemi, 2018, pp. 207.
Book review of Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335.
Book review of Simonetta Grilli, Antropologia delle famiglie contemporanee, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp. 315.
Review article of Giovanni Pizza, L’antropologia di Gramsci: Corpo, natura, mutazione, Milano, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182; Fadi A. Bardawil, Revolution and disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the binds of emancipation, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, pp….
Book review of Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds, Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239.
The followers of the Afro-Brazilian candomblé cult feel today more than ever threatened by various dangers, in particular by the aggressiveness of the evangelical churches. The contribution poses some questions and formulates some hypotheses to be expl…
How to become a làmb (Senegalese wrestling with punches) wrestler in Dakar? Starting from an ethnography based on an “observant participation” method, this article analyzes wrestlers’ “techniques of the self” by focusing on the articulation between dis…
This paper compares two marginal neighbourhoods and Italian “badlands”: the Zona Espansione Nord (ZEN) of Palermo and San Siro in Milan. It concerns multiple types of violence that affect them and their connections with different multi-scale processes….
Stereotypical ideas about poverty and life in refugee camps make it difficult to understand the choices that individual refugees make when moving from one place to another within Africa, including from refugee settlements to town, to refugee camps and …
Based on extensive multi-site fieldwork with Punjabi immigrants in Italy, the article discusses the institute of transnational marriage and kin reunification among Indian diasporas, interlacing the drive for upward mobility, the normative frame of fami…
This article investigates how mobility regimes and destination countries contribute to reshaping transnational family ties among refugees from Eritrea. Due to protracted political violence in the country, Eritreans are a geographically dispersed commun…
One of the main human factors recognized in the New Classical economy of labour market explanations is that families, extended families or even groups of neighbours might be involved in designing the migration path of one or more members of the group, …
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences, is the result of an LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment–funded workshop entitled Academic Freedom, Academic Integ…
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