Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Esta investigación se enfoca en el guardarropa de las mujeres de la comunidad indígena de Socaire, ubicada en la región atacameña. Se examinó las prendas de vestir utilizadas tanto en el día a día como en las festividades, con el objetivo de comprender…
La arqueología del salitre desarrollada en los últimos 15 años ha contribuido a “hacer visibles” una serie de materialidades, agentes, prácticas y/o procesos sociales difíciles de identificar o poco investigados desde la documentación escrita, contribu…
Se propone un modelo de análisis cerámico que busca reconstruir tradiciones y estilos mediante la comparación de aspectos visibles y ocultos de los tipos cerámicos. Ello asume que cada vasija tiene un grupo de aspectos altamente visibles que destacan …
Published: December 2022.
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo examinar la relevancia de la vestimenta, como medio de diferenciación y segmentación dentro de la sociedad rural, minera e indígena de San Pedro de Atacama durante el siglo XX. Tal situación se analiza específic…
El artículo aborda la indumentaria de la danza religiosa de la Diablada en festividades en el Alto El Loa, segunda región de Chile. Se releva la importancia de materialidades asociadas a la vestimenta como bienes y costumbres culturales que dotan de co…
En agosto de 1886, el presidente Julio Argentino Roca firmó un decreto mandando a realizar la primera expedición oficial dirigida a explorar por tierra el norte y este de la parte argentina de la Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. La misma estaría al man…
Este trabajo se enfoca en el papel de los zapatos como metáfora en la memoria de la identidad Mapuche Huilliche. La memoria es abordada desde narraciones autobiográficas recopiladas en la obra “Vida y Palabra Campesina” publicada en 1986. Se explora có…
La práctica de la navegación es y ha sido central para los distintos grupos humanos que han habitado el archipiélago de Cabo de Hornos y para la conformación del territorio/maritorio como lo conocemos hoy. El objetivo de este artículo es relevar los mo…
Brazil is one of the largest food producers in the world and also one of the most socially and economically unequal countries. Afro Veganism, Ghetto Veganism and Feminist Veganism are associated with this fight, addressing the contradictions bet…
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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…
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 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…