Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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
The review revises the most inportant concepts of the book Of Mixed Blood
This interview presents an initial dialogue about Peter Gow’s trajectory as an anthropologist, trying to bring to light particularly the fieldwork experiences and events thatithad notbeen possible to commenton and explore in the published material….
This article is concerned with the relationships through which children have been born, raised, and made into Amahuaca people over the past 75 years, and within contemporary Native Communities on the Inuya River since their formation beginning in t…
In Of Mixed Blood, Peter Gow sets out an account of the transformations of kinship and the construction of social relations among Indigenous, mainly Yine (Piro), people of the Bajo Urubamba valley in the early 1980s, when Peru’s “Comunidades Nativa…
Combining a contemporary ethnographic perspective with a review of historical records, the article extends Peter Gow’s re-reading of the ex-Cocama phenomenon in the Western Amazon. It argues that the foundation of the Amazonian Peruvian town of Req…
Based on the inspiration Peter Gow takes from Lévi-Strauss’ canonical formula or double twist and his concept of ensemble, this article aims to illustrate by analogy how the rituals of female initiation, such as the Yammana of the Enlhet-Enenlhet, …
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar acerca de las nociones de cuerpo y persona del pueblo o’dam del norte de México, partiendo de los principios que Peter Gow y otros autores han observado para las poblaciones nativas de la región …
This paper constitutes a personal exploration of the impact of the work of Peter Gow on my own attempts to think through specific ethnographic problems, both in the Mapuche communities of Southern Chile and the Gaelic communities of Western Scotlan…
In this article I consider the impact of Peter Gow’s writing on indigenous histories as a key area of research on Amazonia. Building on his study of kinship as history on the Bajo Urubamba (1991) he presented a regional perspective on the dynamic s…
This paper explores the notion of painting as meaningful action (Gow 1999) and highlights the productivity of the idea as emerged from, and dovetailing, different strands of thought on the nature of symbols and actions. Bringing together Lévi-Strau…
In this article, we reflect on one of Peter Gow’s key pieces of work, “Helpless,” tracing how his scholarship has informed and influenced our own work, from our experiences in the field to our approaches to analysis. We explore some of the main the…
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of Adele Clarke, Donna Haraway, Making kin. Fare parentele, non popolazioni, edizione italiana e traduzione a cura di Angela Balzano, Antonia Ferrante, Federica Timeto, Roma, DeriveApprodi, 2022, pp. 234.
Todas las muertes provocadas por una causa extraordinaria (si es que tiene sentido hablar de muertes naturales) generan un impacto en la sociedad, cuya magnitud se explica por lo sucedido o por el elevado número de defunciones. Recurriendo a la idea de…
Els textos recollits en aquest número temàtic d’Arxiu d’Etnografia de Catalunya ofereixen una suggestiva mirada coral al voltant de les memòries socials, un àmbit que ens segueix interpel·lant com a societat.