Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This introduction frames a thematic section dedicated to examining how contemporary digital technologies are reshaping visual ethnographic practice and contributing to the emergence of a new habitus of visual production. Drawing on debates in vi…
Media studies that examine the relationship between media content and the materiality of media objects partly address the question of the logics of innovation in media tools. From a historical perspective, some focus on the specificity of media …
Drawing from the fieldwork experience with a sound engineering and video maker in Austria, France, and Italy, the paper reflects on how to use a camera to explore beekeeping practices. Shadowing the footage and related fieldwork notes, the contr…
This article examines the ethnographic significance of silence and background noise in biographical video interviews with former miners in southwest Sardinia. Drawing on John Cage’s conceptualization of silence, sensory ethnography, and anthropo…
David MacDougall’s film work and theoretical reflections, which began in the late sixties and continue to this day, are anchored in the idea that film should maintain a respectful, coexisting relationship with everyday reality. The notion of par…
Published: June 2026.
Scientific Rationale
Foodways constitute one of the most enduring dimensions (though likely still insufficiently theorized) of African diasporic presence in the Americas. Beyond ingredients and recipes, they embody complex histories of dis…
Argumentaire scientifique
Les pratiques alimentaires constituent l’une des dimensions les plus durables (mais sans doute encore insuffisamment théorisées) de la présence africaine dans les Amériques. Au-delà des ingrédients et des recettes…
Justificación científica
Las prácticas alimentarias constituyen una de las dimensiones más duraderas (aunque todavía insuficientemente teorizadas) de la presencia africana en las Américas. Más allá de los ingredientes y las recetas, encarn…
Justificativa científica
As práticas alimentares constituem uma das dimensões mais duradouras (embora ainda insuficientemente teorizadas) da presença africana nas Américas. Para além dos ingredientes e das receitas, elas incorporam históri…
This lecture was given on April 16th, 2026, at St Andrews University, as the 2nd Peter Gow Memorial Lecture. Its aim is not only to pay tribute to a great anthropologist who died prematurely, but also to explore a fundamental aspect of his work. Na…
O artigo analisa um episódio ocorrido na comunidade waiwai do Jatapuzinho, na Terra Indígena Trombetas-Mapuera, envolvendo o encontro do professor Renato Kanhera Waiwai com um antigo Pote de Pedra encontrado às margens do rio Jatapuzinho durante um…
Este trabajo presenta un análisis etnohistórico de los cambios en la jefatura awajún del Alto Marañón a inicios del siglo XX, centrándose en sus relaciones de dependencia, poder y trabajo forzoso con los comerciantes mestizos, en su mayoría patrone…
This paper analyzes two cases of resistance by Kukama workers within the debt slavery system of habilitación in the Peruvian Amazon during the first half of the twentieth century. It discusses the similarities and differences between the two cases,…
In so-called “French” Guiana, or Guyane, the Kali’na village of Atopo Wipi has fought for years against a hydrogen power plant being built on their land. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2024 in Guyane and Western Europe…
The central theme of this article basically resides in the relationship established by indigenous peoples between their hunting practices and the forest. Indigenous ways of connecting ‘hunting’ and ‘forest’ necessarily pass through other modes of k…
What to do with the problem of predation? This is not only a conundrum for anthropologists working in what has become known as animist societies. The gardening activities of the Awajún people of northern Peru’s high jungle are modelled on the teach…
This paper focuses on the bonds of kinship and care between humans, cultivated plants, and other-than-human beings in Indigenous gardens, myths, rituals, and shamanism, across Lowland South America. Drawing on Krahô ethnography and a review of ethn…
En 2018 en France, deux épisodes d’intoxication alimentaire liés à des souches pathogènes d’Escherichia coli se sont suivis de mesures officielles visant à évincer les fromages au lait cru de l’assiette des enfants de moins de 5 ans. L’article s…
La restauration scolaire en France bascule à la fin du XXe siècle d’un modèle artisanal et quasi familial des cuisines sur place à un modèle industriel fondé sur les cuisines centrales qui fait disparaître des écoles une fabrication culinaire, i…
En 2018 en France, deux épisodes d’intoxication alimentaire liés à des souches pathogènes d’Escherichia coli se sont suivis de mesures officielles visant à évincer les fromages au lait cru de l’assiette des enfants de moins de 5 ans. L’article s…
A partir de nos missions de terrain au Cameroun et au Nord-Congo, nous exposons les dimensions symboliques et économiques de la consommation de la viande de brousse issue de la chasse chez les Ba’Aka, peuples chasseurs cueilleurs, et dont l’accè…
À partir du matériau recueilli dans le cadre d’une thèse en sociologie portant sur l’émergence de l’alimentation sans gluten en France et en Allemagne (2022), cet article montre comment les personnes sensibles au gluten cherchent à objectiver un…
Introduction
While population ageing is not a recent phenomenon, the contemporary context, marked by both a global ecological crisis and a transformation of health policies, gives a renewed centrality to age-related food issues. The accele…
Cette livraison de la revue Anthropology of Food s’est saisie de la notion de « crises » pour en interroger les contours initialement discutés au sein de l’atelier n°19 (Alimentation et crise) ayant eu lieu lors du congrès 2023 de l’AFEA à Paris…