Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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 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.
Book review of Alessandra Gribaldo, Unexpected subjects: Intimate partner violence, testimony, and the law, Chicago, HAU Books, 2021, pp. 148.
Book review of Georges Balandier, La situazione coloniale e altri saggi, edited by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, translated by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 156.
Book review of Lorenzo D’Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers, The anthropology of resource extraction, Routledge, 2022, pp. 233.
Book review of Pier Giorgio Solinas, Lettere dagli antenati: Famiglie, genti, identità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 175.
Book review of Pietro Saitta, Populismo urbano: Autoritarismo e conflitto in una città del sud (Messina 2018-2022), Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 253.
In this article, I will analyse the creative use of smartphone by West African men living in reception centers in Torino, in Italy. As the usurpation of time has become an integral part of the European border regime, I place migrants’ media practices i…
This essay aims at reconstructing – from an historical-critical point of view – the growing interest, in Bronislaw Malinowski’s work, for practical anthropology, for the relations between politics and anthropological research, and finally for the relat…
In a time when many national governments are rhetorically, if not practically, turning away from global collaboration and emphasizing economic nationalisms, understood here as a plurality of historically and politically contextualized policies, the aut…
Comments on “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” by Antonino Colajanni, with contributions by Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piaser…
Pierre Bourdieu distinguished two main ways to teach sociology, by either teaching the principles and formal procedures, or by revealing examples of these formal procedures at work, and preferred to harness both together. This essay attempts to adopt t…
Across the global south, regimes of labour and mobility control are reforming that attempt to manage the northern movement of people. By combining financing development projects with explicit forms of border enforcement (including border personnel trai…
Among the factors that the Covid-19 Pandemic has brought to light, the link between international mobility, migration policies and economic nationalism is central. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during and after the lockdown, the article focuse…
This article examines the current politico-economic developments in Turkey through the lens of the effects of the Syrian war. The empirical focus of my discussion is an export city bordering Syria, Gaziantep. The city has been radically shaped by not o…
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Incorporating moving and still images and audio within the text, I examine in this article how site-specific augmented reality (AR) can convey ethnographic research and forms of embodied knowledge through emplacing the audience and engaging thei…
Within the context of datafication, participatory surveillance capitalism, and prospering rhetoric about scientific insight from big data exists the practice of data shadow donation. This relational activity refers to the digital gifting of pers…
An introduction to the special issue, this article sets the stage for the essays that compose it. It addresses the transformations that have been taking place in the recent decades in the terrain of image-making, visual culture, visual technolog…
Creating our own image, whether it is in research or in art, is a constant conversation with the images already in our heads. In the case of refugees, these images are shaped by mediatised and politicised realities that obscure the capacity to s…