Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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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…
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Esta entrevista realizada com Felipe Sotto Maior Cruz, ou melhor, Felipe Tuxá – antropólogo do povo Tuxá, da Aldeia Mãe de Rodelas, Bahia, primeiro professor indígena da Universidade Federal da Bahia e membro do departamento de Antropologia e Etnol…
This essay celebrates the work of Jean E. Jackson, a pioneering female ethnographer who devoted most of her fifty-year career to the Indigenous peoples of Colombia. Her research, represented in an extensive set of publications from the early 1970s …
This article addresses issues of care and corporeality during gestation, childbirth, the postpartum period, and childcare through a case study conducted with Mehinako people. Among this Amazonian people, care forms the person, having an elementary …
The spread of ayahuasca shamanism throughout the Upper Amazon has become a matter of debate among scholars since, in 1994, anthropologist Peter Gow formulated the controversial suggestion that it could be a recent phenomenon in the Ucayali basin, u…
This article addresses hunting practices and human-animal relations among the Karitiana, a Tupi-Arikém-speaking indigenous people in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon, asserting that if humans can learn from animals in long-lasting hunting experien…
By focusing on ordinary conversational language, relying on a notion of “group” derived from unilineal descent theory, and neglecting mythology and ritual, studies of Vaupés Tukanoan multilingualism have inadvertently tended to reproduce a Western …
Historically, the Pantanal wetlands were inhabited by diverse ethnicities belonging to various linguistic groups, including Bororoan, Arawakan, Tupian, Gauicuruan, and Zamucoan, as well as some isolates and unclassified languages. Numerous ethnic g…
Southwestern Amazonia is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the Americas. It is possible that traditional Indigenous small-scale multilingualism used to exist in two neighboring regions in what is now Rondônia, on the Brazilian side …
In this article we explore how languages interact with exogamous social units (e.g., clans and phratries) and descent ideologies (such as having a common mythical ancestor and emergence from the same mythical place) to help organize the multilingua…
Recent decades have seen an exponential growth in our understanding of the indigenous languages of lowland South America – from their structures and interrelationships to the dynamics of their day-to-day use and the ways they are conceptualized by …
UEDA H. 2023. Food education and gastronomic tradition in Japan and France, ethical and sociological theories. Routledge : Oxford.
1973, après une longue période de procès en ringardise, l’enseignement ménager est définitivement rayé de la…
UEDA H. 2023. Food education and gastronomic tradition in Japan and France, ethical and sociological theories. Routledge : Oxford.
1973, après une longue période de procès en ringardise, l’enseignement ménager est définitivement rayé de la…
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El estallido de la pandemia producida por el virus SARS-CoV-2 tuvo un gran impacto social y económico en las sociedades de todo el mundo. Las diferentes medidas impuestas para intentar controlar los contagios fueron percibidas como arbitrarias y como …
La clínica intersexual del Estado español se ha visto interpelada por la emergencia de un sujeto político intersex, marcadamente presente en la escena pública a partir de 2020. Se trata de un conjunto plural de asociaciones u organizaciones cuyas dema…
El confinamiento contra la COVID-19 fue una de las medidas más globalizadas en el 2020. Sin embargo, su implementación e impacto en diferentes poblaciones fue muy dispar y su efecto en poblaciones del Sur Global sigue ampliamente invisibilizado aun tr…
La importancia social que está adquiriendo la soledad en las sociedades contemporáneas ha convertido esta experiencia en objeto de investigación de disciplinas como la antropología. El abordaje antropológico, tratando de redibujar los análisis tradici…
Aquest article és una síntesi de la tesi doctoral del mateix títol que té per objectiu conèixer les experiències i vivències de les persones malaltes de tuberculosi durant el seu itinerari terapèutic. El context inicial d’aquesta investigació són els i…