Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The Thai yaoi culture is getting a lot of attention in several parts of the world. Numerous Thai boy’s love (BL) series are a huge hit in Thailand and other countries. Despite the notable success of Thai yaoi and BL culture, there is less attention giv…
This paper focuses on the largest group of refugees in Malaysia, the Rohingya. Many Rohingya have made Malaysia their home over recent years, even though they have no official legal status in the country. Refugees more broadly are often tolerated as wo…
Studies about disasters have focused on large-scale and extreme weather events. However, slow-onset hazards such as drought-like seasons and monsoons also pose challenges since they are dynamic and experienced differently from place to place. This pape…
The protracted refugee situation in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased refugee children’s vulnerability due to the non-fulfillment of their fundamental rights, including the right to education. Drawing on data collected through interv…
This paper focuses on the political crises shaping Burmese1 peoples’ im-mobilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. As governments around the world urged people to stay at home to be protected from infection and transmission, throughout 2021 many Burmese …
Australia is a sought-after destination for international students, including from countries of the Global South such as Indonesia. Prior to the pandemic, the tertiary education of international students was its second largest export. At the onset of t…
In the debates over environmental impacts on migration, migration as adaptation has been acknowledged as a potential risk management strategy based on risk spreading and mutual insurance of people living spatially apart: migrants and family members tha…
This narrative research report summarizes the experiences of Vivid Ethnicity, a mobile anthropological museum of the Museum of Cultural Anthropology at Mahidol University, Thailand, during the lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2022. Alt…
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Editores/as de organização Ana María Forero Angel (am.forero260@uniandes.edu.co)Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Los Andes (Colômbia) Marco J. Martínez-Moreno (akkmjm@gmail.com)Programa de […]
I. Introduction
La production de connaissance dans l’univers académique est de plus en plus présentée par diverses institutions comme le résultat de “collaborations” entre chercheur·e·s de différents pays ou disciplines, du Nord et du Sud….
I. Introduction
The controversial notion of decolonization dominates present-day media, and gives rise to various mobilizations in global contexts that are sometimes very different: Black Lives Matter protests, debates over the restitution…
I. Introduction
La notion controversée de décolonisation occupe l’actualité médiatique et suscite diverses mobilisations dans des contextes parfois fort différents : manifestations Black Lives Matter, débats sur la restitution d’artefacts …
This article addresses identities, hierarchies of knowledge and power relations in academia in postcolonial settings, in the context of development studies in Tanzania. Based on literatures on organizational identity and postcolonial hybridity, …
De plus en plus de mouvements étudiants ont dénoncé le fait que les universités perpétuent la colonialité, et exigé le démantèlement de l’eurocentrisme au cœur de l’enseignement supérieur. Les universités ont répondu de manières diverses à ces m…
In the last decades, the pressure on museums, especially on ethnological museums in the global North, has increased considerably. They are criticized for reproducing neo-colonial power relations and knowledge orders through common representation…
This article addresses partnerships in the fields of refugee education and education in emergencies research. We use the framework of political reflexivity to critically engage with our experiences as researchers from the Global South working on…
Cet article porte sur le vécu de relations de partenariat par une femme, noire, anthropologue, citoyenne française, née en Afrique subsaharienne et travaillant à l’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), une institution française, his…
Le mouvement de décolonisation au sein des institutions universitaires du continent africain s’est traduit au Sénégal par le recrutement d’un personnel africain et par un effort constant dans la confection des curricula. Qu’en est-il ailleurs, a…
Book review of Gérald Gaillard, Françoise Héritier, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 208.
Book review of Elena Zambelli, Sexscapes of pleasure. Women, sexuality and the whore stigma in Italy, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2023, pp. 184.
This essay discusses poses of identities available for anthropologists in relation to increasingly salient issues of contemporary anthropological knowledge-making. Starting with a critical evaluation of the idea of the anthropologist as a witness by Ge…
This article aims to introduce the reader to the anthropology of finance in its contemporary dimension of financialization. Through the lens of the feminist manifesto “GENS” (Bear et al. 2015), the author proposes a reading of ethnographies that highli…
This is a book review for An Amazonian myth and History, to the special volume to honor Peter Gow