Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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.
L’articolo ricostruisce le condizioni di ospitalità di opere poetiche africane in lingua portoghese nell’Italia degli anni Sessanta. Sono particolarmente indagati il ruolo di figure-cerniera e/o traduttori, quali Joyce Lussu, Giuseppe Tavani e Pier Pao…
Este trabajo se propone explorar la influencia de un militarismo específico, el progresista, en la experiencia de uno de los grupos más emblemáticos de la Nueva Izquierda, el uruguayo Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros, así como del Frente Amp…
El cine musical español fue habitual durante el franquismo, con actores que cantaban o con cantantes que actuaban. Vinculado en un principio a estilos populares, apostó desde los años 60 por la canción melódica o el pop, y fomentó una idea de modernida…
O artigo perquire as dimensões acústicas e imagéticas da figura do “O” no sermão “Nossa Senhora do O” (1640), de Antônio Vieira, para propor que enquanto a imagem remete à geometria; a inclusão da voz (em oposição à linguagem), por sua vez, diz respeit…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
El artículo examina cómo la prensa de Argentina, Perú, España, Francia y Austria, a través de imágenes fotográficas, informa sobre el golpe de Estado del 11 de septiembre de 1973 en Chile. Se realizó un estudio con metodología cualitativa, mediante el …
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Este trabajo analiza las ‘carreras migratorias’ de un grupo de mujeres altamente formadas de origen brasileño y las dinámicas activadas para conseguir la adecuación entre formación y trabajo en España. Para ello, se exploran las razones de emigración y…
Este artículo compara el modo en que se recuerdan las tensiones y enfrentamientos entre Argentina y Chile a partir de las memorias de violencia de una región marginal y fronteriza, en los valles de los ríos Cochamó, Manso y Puelo, comprendidos entre Ch…