Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
L’article aborde le processus de précarisation et la situation d’insécurité alimentaire que vivent de nombreux individus à Barcelone, dans le contexte de crise économique que le pays traverse. La recherche qualitative, menée sur cinq ans, a perm…
Le présent article s’appuie sur une recherche menée à Mulhouse entre 2015 et 2018 sur l’insécurité alimentaire. Dans l’optique de mieux comprendre le rapport à l’alimentation des publics précaires, une soixantaine d’entretiens semi-directifs ont…
À Montréal, les organisateurs et organisatrices communautaires (OC) interviennent dans différents champs de pratique, dont celui de la sécurité alimentaire. Ces professionnels définissent l’organisation communautaire comme une intervention de so…
This article analyzes the uses and relevance of the concept of ignorance in contemporary food research. We distinguish three mechanisms of production of ignorance : 1) we approach ignorance as an individual psychological spring in situations of …
Des organismes d’aide alimentaire bruxellois ont mené entre 2015 et 2018 le projet Solenprim, visant à développer des initiatives pilotes pour permettre aux personnes les plus précaires d’avoir un accès plus durable à une alimentation de qualité…
Este artículo analiza, a través de un enfoque etnográfico, la participación ciudadana en un proyecto de seguridad alimentaria que se ha desarrollado durante diez años en un barrio de bajos ingresos en Montreal (Canadá). El “Système alimentaire p…
Coordenadoras:Rebecca Igreja (Universidade de Brasília) – BrasilLaura R. Valladares (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM-I) – México A antropologia feita sobre a América Latina e o Caribe tem uma longa história, que em alguns países remonta a mais de um século, como no caso do México, e vem contando com a expressiva presença de pesquisadoras e pesquisadores […]
Título: A Covid-19 no Brasil Organizadores:Jean Segata (UFRGS) – jeansegata@gmail.comMarcia Grisotti (UFSC) – marcia.grisotti@ufsc.brRozeli Porto (UFRN) – rozeliporto@gmail.com A pandemia da Covid-19 converteu-se em um evento crítico de múltiplas proporções no Brasil. À despeito da mecânica biológica da Covid-19 ser baseada em um vírus com formas de transmissão sensivelmente padronizáveis, os seus efeitos se agravam […]
Published: December 2020.
Published: December 2020.
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.
Review article of Anand Pandian, A Possible Anthropology. Methods for Uneasy Times. Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2019, pp. 160; Tim Ingold, Antropologia. Ripensare il mondo, translated by Gaia Raimondi, edited by Matteo Meschiari, Meltemi,…
Book review of Ivan Severi, Quick and dirty. Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale, Firenze, editpress, 2019, pp. 308.
Book review of Berardino Palumbo, Piegare i santi. Inchini rituali e pratiche mafiose, Bologna, Marietti, 2020, pp. 176.