Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
In this paper, we reflect upon our role as researchers embedded in humanities in the KNOTS project. In the course of the project, we noticed various misapprehensions among both staff and students stemming, among others, form different cultural, politic…
Review article of Hadas Weiss, We have never been middle class, London and New York, Verso, 2019, pp. 176; Caitlin Zaloom, Indebted: How families make college work at any cost, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, pp. 280.
Drawing on neo-institutionalism in policy studies, this paper aims to demonstrate that transdisciplinarity is a new logic that could challenge the existing institutional logic of the knowledge production system in Vietnam. This institutional interp…
Book review of Francesco Bachis, Sull’orlo del pregiudizio. Razzismo e islamofobia in una prospettiva antropologica, Cagliari, Aipsa Edizioni, 2018, pp. 174.
Thai Baan research was developed in the late 1990s as a counter-hegemonic, emancipatory means of knowledge production. Originally developed in the context of protests against a hydropower project, it aims at empowering socially and economically mar…
A comment on Carlo Ginzburg’s new edition of Il formaggio e i vermi, Milan, Adelphi, 2019, pp. 231. With a note by Carlo Ginzburg.
The aim of the paper is to discuss and to reflect on the experiences and challenges encountered during the North-South capacity building project on transdisciplinarity, KNOTS (Fostering Multi-Lateral Knowledge Networks of Transdisciplinary Studies …
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences, is the result of an LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment–funded workshop entitled Academic Freedom, Academic Integ…
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In 2018, I conducted research on the application of protection measures for two minority language groups (Cimbrian and Mocheno) in Northern Italian schools. The study aimed at describing linguistic learning programs but it slowly turned into something …
Aside to the demographic screening, a deeper biosocial interest in India can be observed on the scale of groups and subpopulations. Several agencies (university consortia, departments of human forensic genetics), are pursuing the inspection of populati…
This article proposes an ethnographic and anthropological reflection conducted in the context of a sociolinguistic investigation of the linguistic dynamics between locals and asylum seekers in the Aosta Valley. The analysis of language practices involv…
I interpret the pursuit of an Islamic understanding of ideals such as democracy, pluralism and freedom, carried out by the Tunisian Islamic movements after the 2011 revolution, as part of a discursive tradition (Asad 1986) about the “Tunisian specifici…
This article analyses the ritual gukuna (i.e. the elongation of the labia minora) in Rwanda and among the Rwandan diaspora in Italy. This practice – along with the kunyaza (male sexual technique) – is expected to increase sexual pleasure. When I starte…
Book review of Giuseppe Profeta, L’acqua e il vaso nella vascolarità universale, Ortona, Menabò, 2020, pp. 116.
El sexili és un tipus de migració motivada principalment per l’orientació o opció sexual. Aquest article s’aproxima al fenomen del sexili que es dona a Catalunya entre l’àmbit rural i la ciutat de Barcelona. Molts homes joves homosexuals «s’escapen» de…
Teniu a les vostres mans el número anual miscel·lani de la revista Arxiu d’Etnografia de Catalunya que té com a objectiu ser un referent acadèmic en la disseminació de la recerca en Antropologia Social i, més en clau universitària, projectar la recerca…
Consecuencias del feminicidio en violencia machista: análisis de necesidades de hijos, hijas y familiares para nuevas propuestas de intervención integral en CataluñaAntropologia i fenomenologia de la síndrome del captiveri (Locked-in Syndrome)El cuidad…
La salud de mujeres latinoamericanas que trabajan como cuidadoras en Barcelona atraviesa una multiplicidad de violencias y desigualdades, favorecidas por políticas de Estado estructuralmente patriarcales y coloniales. La explotación laboral que padecen…
Ressenya del llibre: Cortés Vázquez, José A.; Beltran, Oriol (coord.) (2019) Repensar la conservación. Naturaleza, mercado y sociedad civil. Barcelona: Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona.
Le but de cet article est d’analyser les caractéristiques des rites du mariage dans la société Mbochi, en République du Congo. En ce qui concerne le travail anthropologique que nous avons effectué dans le sous-groupe ngaé qui se trouve dans la partie s…
Para poder ser introducido en el particular circuito de cuidados y saberes terapéuticos propios de cada sistema médico el sujeto debe ser significado como asistible. El hecho de que alguien adquiera tal categoría estará íntimamente relacionado con las …
Este trabajo analiza las prácticas y los sentidos de la circulación territorial de las mujeres itinerantes que ejercieron la prostitución en la provincia de Buenos Aires en las primeras décadas del siglo xx. A partir del seguimiento de trayectorias múl…
L’article explora les pràctiques, creences, valors i imaginaris de persones vinculades a un banc de terres comarcal (BdT), un programa de reagrarització centrat a facilitar l’accés a la terra. Arran dels processos de desagrarització, la terra ha perdut…
Tracheostomy with invasive ventilation (TIV) may be required for the survival of patients at advanced stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In Japan it has been shown that a proactive approach toward TIV may prolong the survival of ALS patient…