Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This is a revised and updated edition of the essay previously published in the volume Approaches to Gramsci, edited by Anne Showstack Sassoon, London, Writers & Readers, 1982.
Introduction to Anniversary Forum Cirese 101: Rereading Antonio Gramsci’s “Observations on Folklore”, Anuac, 11, 1, 2022.
Book review of Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta, eds, Pluriverso: Dizionario del Post-Sviluppo, Italian edition edited by Maura Benegiamo, Alice Dal Gobbo, Emanuele Leonardi, Salvo Torre, Pisa, Orthotes, 20…
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
My purpose in this paper is, first, to explore metaphorical recursiveness in Yaminahua, i.e. the latter’s folding of the common binary structure: {(x) things + (y) words} into the threefold scheme: (A) things + (B) external analogies + (C) internal…
This article is based on fieldwork among the Guajá people, a small indigenous group of Tupí-Guaraní speakers inhabiting the eastern portion of Brazil’s Amazon region. Aiming for an ethnographic definition of kinship, this article engages in issues …
This paper describes the history of the Villas Boas brothers of Brazil and their role in establishing and administering the 26,000-square-kilometer Xingu Indigenous Park in the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso. Many anthropologists came to work in th…
Over the past decades, museums, particularly the large Euro-American ethnographic ones, have had trouble developing adequate presentations of Amazonian cultural productions. To some extent, this failure can be seen as a side effect of a more genera…
This essay describes one recent Ayoreo film and its production in order to reflect on the wider significance of lowland South American Indigenous cinema and analyses of it today. Informed by the authors’ roles in the collaborative editing of the fi…
In terms of the pan-Amazonian social paradigm that transforms affines into kin and assimilates them into the consanguineal unit, Eastern Tukanoans must be regarded as exceptional. This paper explores a foundation myth that allows us to better under…
Les kīrai, légumes feuilles, sauvages ou cultivés, sont consommés dans la ville de Pondichéry (Inde du Sud) par toutes les catégories de sa population. Oubliés des politiques publiques, ils contribuent à assurer l’apport en fibres, en micronutri…
Food media, such as Netflix’s Chef’s Table, presents both an empirical and a normative-aspirational dimension, communicating specific instructions and projecting powerful images of what constitutes a good meal and a culinary authority. This inve…
Published: March 2022.
À travers une observation netnographique d’un groupe de cuisine Facebook marocain mixte et fondé par des hommes, cet article interroge les reconfigurations des normes alimentaires genrées dans l’espace numérique. Le confinement de 2020 a permis …
Rice is a staple in Sri Lanka and is often eaten with three or more condiments. This article explores the modes in which this staple transforms itself when it becomes a packaged commodity of ‘rice and curry’ (called “bath packets”) in Colombo. T…
This paper examines how a group of seventeen self-defined Brazilian feminists reacts to the idea of a moral link between feminism and vegetarianism, as developed by some ecofeminists in the eighties of the last century. These women argue in favo…
Cet article interroge les liens entre genre et alimentation à l’heure où les technologies et services alimentaires se démocratisent et où la norme égalitariste progresse. Il s’appuie sur un dialogue fictif entre un homme et une femme au restaura…
Dans cet article, nous proposons d’explorer les mobilisations alimentaires, à l’instar d’Auchan dégage, une campagne de protestation contre l’offensive de la grande distribution française au Sénégal, sous le prisme de l’approche du conflit, pers…
Les employés de rayon constituent la population la plus nombreuse des grandes surfaces alimentaires en France. Pourtant, ce sont les caissières qui depuis des années tiennent le haut du pavé dans les études portant sur le secteur. Cet article a …
L’Italie a connu durant les années 1960-1980 plusieurs vagues de terrorisme (extrême droite, extrême gauche, d’État). Afin de comprendre le passage vers le militantisme politique illégal et l’action armée, nous avons mené une enquête de sociolog…