Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Presentamos la interpretación sobre actores, tiempos, paisajes y corporalidad involucrados en celebraciones rituales desarrolladas en la “Peña del Medio” para el período Tardío-Inca en la localidad de Paicuqui, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca (Arge…
El trabajo propone una invitación para recorrer la relación entre los contextos rituales, entendidos como dispositivos de intensificación tendientes a la consolidación comunitaria, y los procesos de re-etnización. Estos rituales pueden llegar a reducir…
En este trabajo se presenta el sitio Chañarmuyo 2 que, de acuerdo a sus características formales, escala, ubicuidad, visibilización, visualización y monumentalidad, habría actuado como un espacio público destinado al culto a los nevados de la Sierra de…
En este artículo discutiremos las prácticas de comensalidad diaguita e inca en torno a la plataforma ushnu de Guitián (valle Calchaquí norte, Salta, Argentina). Las excavaciones que llevamos adelante en el interior de la plataforma nos permitieron iden…
Esta investigación explora el paisaje de la protesta a través de las intervenciones gráficas realizadas durante las manifestaciones del estallido social de octubre del 2019 en Plaza Baquedano, Santiago. A partir de técnicas proporcionadas por la arqueo…
La cuestión de la relación entre humanos y no-humanos se ha convertido en algo fundamental de la reflexión antropológica a lo largo de las últimas décadas y ha llevado a reconsiderar, en el marco del denominado “giro ontológico”, buena parte de las cat…
Se presentan variados antecedentes respecto a los usos del püron mapuche dentro de la zona centro-sur de Chile. Tales antecedentes hacen prever una aproximación funcional de este sistema dentro de ámbitos de carácter bélico colonial a partir de caracte…
Published: April 2020.
Published: April 2020.
Drawing upon qualitative interviews, this article narrates central controversies and conflicts that scholars working in the field of “development” face in their daily work. Based on how these conflicts and controversies have been reconstructed, I place…
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Izdano: prosinca 2020.
Izdano: prosinca 2020.
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is an associate professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. He has published extensively on Thailand and Southeast Asian politics. He is also politically active and does not shy away from discussing a…
Collaborative ethnographic filmmaking has been celebrated as a practice that ethically challenges the traditional relationship between the observing researcher and the observed Other. At the same time, the collaborative mode raises the question …
This special issue follows Walter Mignolo´s call for epistemic disobedience and combines it with MacDougall´s work on transcultural cinema. The films and texts of this special issue support our hypothesis that more equally balanced modes of comm…
In this article, we will explore a relationship between Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy and Sophia Pinheiro through image and filmmaking. A videography of a poetic encounter between two women, one indigenous and other non-indigenous, using visual a…
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…
I share in this paper experiences and insights from my fieldwork in a local ethnic artist’s and media producer’s network in South-Mexico. As an attempt at transcultural collaboration, I took part in a nude photoshoot for a local photographer, as…
Pondering on the power of cultural preconceptions, this article examines the tension between self-representation and ‘representation from the outside’. Using the indigenous filmmaking practices of the Arhuaco community from Colombia as a case st…
This article aims to reflect on the challenges of participatory film projects. The text analyses the method applied in the making of the short film Ghetto PSA. The main character is Jacob, a young man who arrived alone in Italy from French Guine…
This article deals with the production process of the film PRISM. Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based filmmaker Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based filmmaker Eléonore Yaméogo from Burkina Faso to collaborate. Our s…
In 2014 and 2017, I accompanied the filmmakers Philipp Hartmann, Danilo Carvalho, and Helena Wittmann to the Sertão in the northeast of Brazil. In this desert-like region we gathered the material for Virar mar (2020), an experimental documentary…
We examine the meaning of shared video work and shared writing in its epistemic dimension. Our reflections are based on our own experiences of working on the video Acteal. Ten years of impunity. How many more? produced by the communications depa…