Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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.
Book review of Gabriella D’Agostino, Vincenzo Matera, eds, Storie dell’antropologia, Milano, UTET, 2022, pp. 635.
Book review of Francesco Apergi, I mezzadri e i trovatelli: Famiglie e senza famiglia nei poderi del Mugello (secoli XIX-XX), Firenze, Società editrice fiorentina, 2023, pp. 108.
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.
La pervivencia del franquismo continúa en el debate político, social y mediático de España. El estudio realizado demuestra la importancia que conceden las generaciones más jóvenes a la dictadura, pero al mismo tiempo reconocen que su formación es defic…
I regimi autoritari del mondo iberico e latinoamericano sono stati oggetto di differenti studi nell’ambito delle scienze sociali e di quelle umanistiche. Per diversi anni, ci si è interrogati sulla natura delle dittature, sui meccanismi della repressio…
Vivemos tempos sombrios no Brasil. Tempos marcados pela reverberação das ideias e palavras de ordem do autoritarismo, especialmente aquelas que se apoiam no legado da Ditadura Militar (1964-1985). Neste artigo, discutir-se-á a forma como a dramaturgia …
El objetivo de la contribución es avanzar la hipótesis de una posible lectura bajo el prisma del modo melodramático de narraciones pertenecientes al corpus de la generación de HIJOS argentinos que enfocan el tema de los vínculos afectivos intergeneraci…
Este artigo estuda a produção e a circulação de um vídeo produzido pelo YouTuber Felipe Castanhari sobre a ditadura civil-militar brasileira. Argumenta-se que a narrativa elaborada pelo YouTuber atualiza certa interpretação histórica e memorial sobre a…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
En este artículo nos propusimos examinar los vínculos personales y políticos establecidos entre el presidente Juan Domingo Perón y monseñor Nicolás De Carlo, obispo de la diócesis de Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina). Entre los años 1946 y 1951, este sace…
This article examines the role and the function performed by Voz Operária during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Despite not abandoning its ideological principles, the monthly emerged in this period as a catalyst for a culture of resistance and de…