Book Review: Ullah, AKM. A., & Chattoraj, D. (2022). COVID-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Population in Southeast Asia: Vaccine, Diplomacy and Disparity
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Chamada para dossiê: Ampliação dos horizontes da compreensão antropológica: etnografias com “alteridades desconfortáveis”
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 […]
Equitable Partnerships for Education: A Myth or a Panacea
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…
Une anthropologue noire dans l’étau d’un partenariat en Afrique subsaharienne
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…
Décoloniser les pédagogies universitaires au Canada et au Sénégal
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…
Les partenariats scientifiques à l’épreuve de la question décoloniale : une expérience France-Mali
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….
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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…
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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 …
Hybrid Identities of Development Studies in Tanzania
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, …
La décolonisation de l’enseignement universitaire à l’épreuve du colonialisme d’occupation
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…
Attempts to Decolonize Knowledge Production in Museum Practice
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…
Gérald Gaillard, Françoise Héritier, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 208
Book review of Gérald Gaillard, Françoise Héritier, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 208.
Elena Zambelli, Sexscapes of pleasure. Women, sexuality and the whore stigma in Italy, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2023, pp. 184
Book review of Elena Zambelli, Sexscapes of pleasure. Women, sexuality and the whore stigma in Italy, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2023, pp. 184.
Fieldwork as witnessing. Anthropological knowledge-making between openness, blind spots, and personal involvement
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…
Financialization as social reproduction. For a feminist anthropology of finance
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…
‘One Piro man I knew well’: A brief commentary on An Amazonian Myth and its History
This is a book review for An Amazonian myth and History, to the special volume to honor Peter Gow
Review: Of Mixed Blood
The review revises the most inportant concepts of the book Of Mixed Blood
Interviewing Peter Gow — Dundee, June 24, 2017
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….
Desire, difference, and productivity: reflections on “The perverse child” and its continued relevance
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…
Indigenous transformations in the comunidad nativa: rethinking kinship and its limitations in an expanding resource frontier
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…
Between Cocama and Modernity in the Ucamara (Peruvian Amazon)
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…
Rituals (and Myths) transformations in the Gran Chaco
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, …
Las nociones o’dam de cuerpo y persona. Diálogo interrumpido entre el norte de México y la Amazonía peruana
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 …
Marginal to Whom? Reflections on Gow’s Purús Song
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…
Civilized Elders and Isolated Ancestors: The Multiple Histories of Contemporary Amazonia
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…