A journey between literature and anthropology
Review article of Andrea Canobbio, La traversata notturna, Milano, La nave di Teseo, 2022, pp. 520; Renzo Guolo, Michel Leiris etnologo, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 274.
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Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 276
Book review of Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 276.
Sacred residues in museums: A membrane ethnography of Taiwanese religious heritage
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…
Studia ethnologica Croatica, Vol.35 No.1
Published: December 2023.
Entrega de tierras en la jurisdicción de la ciudad de Concepción, Chile (1550-1599)
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,…
Cultura tradicional mapuche que aún se conserva entre los pehuenches del alto Bío-Bío
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…
El dret a l’alimentació entre la gent gran: anàlisi dels entorns alimentaris i creació d’indicadors per a una alimentació més inclusiva, saludable i sostenible en un context post-covid-19
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Living heritage for sustainable development (LIVHES)
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El model de cura de llarga durada en transició: l’impacte de la covid-19 en l’organització familiar de la cura
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Tesis doctorals 2022-2023
Tesis doctorals 2022-2023
New issue: Volume 20 (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.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.39 No.1
Published: June 2023.
The Visual Habitus of a Traceur
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…
Phillip Vannini, ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video.
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…
Aging On-Screen:
In a Lisbon senior day center, the staff and especially the elderly members care for each other in ways that expand upon the neoliberal assumptions of active aging campaigns in Portugal. Theatre plays, and communal watching of the video-recordin…
Saved by the (Half) Elves:
In this paper, I look at how ethnographic filmmaking became research practice when I focused the lens towards the everyday life of my grandparents. Furthermore, I explore how imagistic, metaphorical, or even fantastical elements where the key to…
Editorial
While we were finalizing this introduction, British media outlets announced the death of the BBC news presenter George Alagiah who passed away, at the age of 60, and nine years after he had been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer. In one of …
Carescopes: On Caring, Looking at and Becoming
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…
Filming as a Care Practice
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…
Mending Gaps with Multimodal Care
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…
Doing Multimodal Anthropology of Ageing with Smartphones
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…
The way of warriors: annotated narratives of the Mebengokre (Kayapo) in Brazil
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
“Letalidade branca”: antropologia, educação e universidade. Uma entrevista com Felipe Tuxá
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…
Jean E. Jackson: a pioneering ethnographer in the Colombian Amazon
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 …
Into an interference zone: childbirth and care among Mehinako people
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 …