Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Resumo Este artigo discute o massacre dos porcos crioulos que teve lugar na ilha de Espanhola, particularmente no Haiti, entre finais da década de 1970 e começo dos anos 1980. Combinando etnografia e análise historiográfica, discuto, primeiramente, a t…
Abstract This article describes prevention and preparedness as different techniques to conserve the past in order to anticipate the future. It relates the emergence of virology and ornithology to the places where samples are accumulated and classified….
Horizontes Antropológicos
Resumo Neste artigo faço uma retrospetiva dos estudos sobre epidemias a que me dediquei enquanto antropóloga, dando destaque a um fenómeno que interseta os interesses da antropologia da biossegurança e da história das plantações de açúcar e migrações l…
Editorial (con)textos número 8
(con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
Hemos entrevistado a los editores del libro Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices publicado por Berghahn en 2018, Adolfo Estalella y Tomás Sánchez Criado. Esta entrevista surge como un espacio para charlar sobre la etnograf…
Com es (re)produeixen les categories racials? De quina manera s’expressen i se les dota de significat en les interaccions que mantenim en el nostre dia a dia? I quines conseqüències tenen per a la nostra vida? Aquestes són algunes de les preguntes que …
La ruta “Barcelona, ciutat de negrers” tiene como objetivo visibilizar e invitar a la reflexión sobre el mito de la descolonización. No consiste únicamente en volver a contar la etapa de la colonización, o centrarse en la historia negrera de Barcelona,…
In the past decades, the Chinese government has popularized the concept of wenming, translated into English as civil, civility, civilization or culture, through its political and practical use in the public space: banners, pamphlets, advertisements and…
Con la aparición en la década de los 80 de la teoría poscolonial y con la irrupción de las comunidades históricamente representadas en los museos como agentes con intereses y reivindicaciones propias, los museos de antropología, surgidos en plena expan…
A new issue of Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology is now available: Vibrant – Volume 17 contains the dossier “Anthropology in times of intolerance: challenges facing neoconservatism”.
Available at http://www.vibrant.org.br/lastest-issue-v-17-2020…
Short versions of the following articles were presented at the panel ‘Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts, Design and Literature,’ which Paula Uimonen (Stockholm University) and I organized at the fifteenth …
This article examines both the development and implications of a sales strategy deployed by Christie’s and Sotheby’s from the mid-2000s to increase their market share and the prices of African and Oceanic art. The strategy was designed to entice…
Critical considerations of the impact of biennials on artistic practices worldwide emphasize that they create new hegemonies: biennials produce another canon of contemporary art at a global scale. The main characteristic is art’s insertion into …
This article puts forward a methodological pathway for work between anthropology and art that is premised on the relation between social and aesthetic form. It draws on the authors’ work with cartonera publishers in Latin America, small communit…
In the context of contemporary digital art and documentary making, practitioners are discovering the possibilities given by emerging image-based immersive practices, techniques and tools (360-degree video and photography; virtual, augmented, and…
Reflecting on two sets of analytical trajectories of the articles in this special issue — ‘institutions, histories, and spheres of valuation’ (Thomas Fillitz and Tamara Schild) and ‘immersion, correspondence, and form’ (Alex Flynn/Lucy Bell and …
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Commentary on the Opening Lecture, “A Window into Twenty Years of Amazonianist Anthropology in Peru (1997–2017)” proffered by Jean-Pierre Chaumeil at the XI Salsa conference and featured in the previous volume of Tipití (15:105–117).
En febrero de 2018, Víctor Zorrilla, un hombre Yine de mayor edad que vive en el sudeste de Perú, fue asesinado por los mashco piro mientras estaba cazando. Zorrilla se había encontrado con los mashco piro, los que consideraba como parientes, nomol…
Ofereço a perspectiva da ecologia política para rever e atualizar a política de “isolamento” e “não-contato” com base nos conceitos de soberania e necropolítica, sugerindo uma nova proposta de prática política para situações de conflitos em territó…
Este artigode opiniãoé a transcrição dos comentários de Make Turu, liderança Matis, feitos na SALSAXI Sesquiannual Conference, em Lima. Make Turu cobra a participação e o protagonismoefetivodo movimento indígena nos processos de contato e de proteç…
Published: December 2019.