Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Book review of Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 276.
This article reflects on the existing dynamics between the sacredness derived from the museumification of religious items and the sacredness of those artefacts employed in rituals that survive in museum spaces as a trace or sacred residue (Be…
This article investigates how the dual demands of finance and social impact affect the relationships of founders to disruption, as a rhetorical function, material goal and relational context. Building on recent studies of innovation and entrepreneurshi…
This paper addresses the entanglements, complicities and collisions between financialization processes and state action during the current housing crisis in Spain, with a focus on Catalonia and the Barcelona area in the last decade. Departing from the …
Book review of Francesco Scotti, Per una storia della riforma psichiatrica in Umbria: Nascita ed evoluzione di una psichiatria di comunità in Umbria, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2021 (vol. 1, pp. 448), 2022 (vol. 2, pp. 506).
Book review of Alessandra Brivio, Serpenti, sirene e sacerdotesse: Antropologia dei mondi acquatici in Africa occidentale, Roma, Viella, 2023, pp. 216.
Book review of Patrick Williams, Tsiganes ou ces inconnus qu’on appelle aussi Gitans, Bohémiens, Roms, Gypsies, Manouches, Rabouins, Gens du voyage…, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2022, pp. 601.
Book review of Antonello Ricci, Sguardi lontani: Fotografia ed etnografia nella prima metà del Novecento. Con immagini di Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Marcel Griaule, Renato Boccassino, Lamberto Loria e Raffaele Corso, Gregory Bateson e Margaret M…
In this introduction we map the tradition of thoughts and state of the art on the study of finance and financialization in relation to the anthropological Italian debate. We suggest a particular attention towards ethnographic approaches “from the margi…
Book review of Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 276.
Published: December 2023.
Este artículo aborda la modalidad de colonización territorial y conformación de la propiedad de la tierra en torno a la ciudad de Concepción a partir de 1550. Se documenta el proceso de asignación de encomiendas y distintos tipos de mercedes de tierra,…
En este artículo se muestran aspectos de la cultura mapuche-pehuenche que se han conservado hasta el presente. Aunque la población autóctona del sector ha sido cristianizada, se mantiene plenamente vigente la creencia en Ngünechen (“el que gobierna a l…
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Tesis doctorals 2022-2023
A new issue of Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology is now available: Vibrant – Volume 20 contains the dossiers Ethnography of Governance Institutions and Utopias of Recycling and Circularity.
Published: June 2023.
In this paper, I focus on those images of dementia (care) which have been, or might be, deemed overtly positive, because they tend to marginalize suffering, decline and compassion fatigue. I argue for the notion of carescope, a heuristic tool wh…
These are three distinct essays that interrogate what happens when the anthropologist studying aging and care envisions their fieldwork through the lens of the video camera and its outputs. The intersection between the anthropology of care/aging…
Prologue:
This is a slightly unusual commentary since it was written in response to three oral presentations at the EASA 2020 meetings of “Illuminating Futures of the Life Course through Visual and Digital Media” should be of which only o…
In this paper we reflect upon our comparative ethnographic research on ageing, the life course and smartphones in Italy and Japan as part of a collaborative anthropological project The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA). Our dis…
Following a visual ethnography, this article analyzes parkour’s visual subculture as a form of subcultural capital that has developed with the rise of this alternative sport. It describes a visual habitus and a set of media practices to understa…
Introduction
My first impression was that The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video was the third broad-based overview of visual anthropology, so I requested a review copy. However, I had to adjust my impression t…