Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Este trabajo propone una lectura de Las aventuras de la China Iron en relación con el canon literario y el imaginario étnico en Argentina, con la lengua de un Estado que se constituyó monolingüe y con la hegemonía heteropatriarcal. Para este propósito …
L’attuale movimento migratorio dal Venezuela verso la Colombia è al centro di un acceso dibattito. Il presente lavoro intende focalizzare l’attenzione sul contesto colombiano, muovendo dal processo di transizione post-conflitto armato interno. Nel pros…
Este artículo aborda el análisis de la evolución que se produce en el cine feminista latinoamericano con los cortometrajes Barbie también puede estar triste (2002), Pets (2012) y el largometraje –definido como porno lesbo-feminista– Las hijas del fuego…
Este trabajo se propone leer un conjunto de artículos en que Lucio V. Mansilla configura a Paraguay como campo de experiencias y escenario de observaciones, y como un territorio que integra en, y a la vez amplía, el mapa de su mundo. Sin incluir aquí l…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Este trabajo se propone abordar el funcionamiento de la justicia militar en Argentina durante el período de la llamada “Organización Nacional” iniciado a mediados del siglo XIX. Revisaremos la influencia y supervivencia de la tradición militar española…
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…
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…
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…
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 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.