Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Water scarcity in the Western US, through the lens of political ecology, can be understood as inextricably shaped by power dynamics, governance structures, and legal practices of resource allocation. Water allocation in the region is determined largely…
Energy colonialism is an essential, yet scarcely theorized concept for understanding how past, present and future energy systems are shaped by colonial or neocolonial power dynamics, imaginaries, discourses, and practices. These perspectives are import…
This article examines how drought intersects with long-standing issues of ecological degradation and social inequity caused by water extraction. I focus on the case of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and its ongoing impacts on communities and ecosystems in th…
Este trabalho trata da história da música na tradição do povo indígena wai wai, um grupo de língua caribe da região guianense. A pesquisa se passa entre os Wai Wai do rio Mapuera (norte do Pará), tendo como foco os conhecimentos de anciãos e as mús…
No contexto de uma série de encontros entre pessoas zo’é e tiriyó na região da fronteira Brasil-Suriname, o presente artigo aborda a experiência de Kita, jovem zo’é que em 2010 viajou com alguns chefes e pastores tiriyó e permaneceu na aldeia Kwama…
A partir da análise de um mito de um povo (Katxuyana) das Guianas e da família linguística Caribe, este artigo enfatiza a necessidade do relato etnográfico não se distanciar do contexto e da moral da narrativa indígena. O artigo não desmerece a ime…
This essay considers the problematics of anthropological translations when its responsibility to the codes of its modernist subjectivity persuades us to defer judgment on interpretations made of indigenous semiotics of life. It begins with this ful…
In this article, I describe a Makushi wake in Guyana, where an opposition was drawn between people in mourning and their perception of others who appeared to them to be much more like partygoers. This opposition in affective states was made evident…
Through an ethnographic examination of the shared capacities of cassava and womanhood for what I term growth and replication, I argue that Waiwai sociality seeks to curtail the trajectory of life towards finite death through the intervening act of …
Exploring the journeys of some Makushi women, this article highlights the relevance of gender in the question of (im)mobility and female engagements with the world as central to contemporary Makushi life. Departing from the understanding that the c…
Este trabalho, inicialmente, apresenta uma breve discussão sobre as novas arqueologias indígenas, seu método e sua relação com os conhecimentos tradicionais. Com base na história oral dos Wai Wai, um povo caribe das Guianas, apresentamos as aldeias…
Na introdução a este número especial da Tipití, dedicado a etnografias recentes realizadas junto a povos indígenas na Amazônia guianense, sobrevoamos as principais tradições antropológicas que posicionaram a região no centro dos debates da etnologi…
In the introduction to this special issue of Tipití, dedicated to recent ethnographies conducted among indigenous peoples in Guianese Amazonia, we offer an overview of the main anthropological traditions that have placed the region at the center of…
En este artículo se explica la relación que existió entre la doctrina de Vallejo Nájera y el robo de menores durante el franquismo. Este robo de menores estuvo enraizado en la eugenesia positiva y buscaba la separación de los niños de sus ma…
Este trabajo es el resultado de un estudio bibliográfico de las cuestiones conceptuales inherentes a la cultura escolar, que a su vez condujo a una breve investigación exploratoria de campo en una escuela municipal de la ciudad de Manaos, do…
Este artículo presenta un análisis antropológico de los tatuajes postpolíticos como nueva práctica cultural entre activistas profesionalizados de organizaciones sociales, a partir de entrevistas en profundidad y observación participante que …
Ofrecemos hechizas, palabras especialmente pulidas entre científicxs, para estudiar y abrir universos. Renombrar a las categorías analíticas como hechizas permite acentuar la capacidad creativa de las palabras, su fuerza mágica para hacer qu…
El presente trabajo analiza algunos aspectos del cine de terror desde un punto de vista antropológico. En concreto estudiamos las creencias en los espíritus y la presencia de los muertos en las casas. Nuestro punto de vista es multidisciplin…
Este artículo presenta una propuesta, dentro del ámbito de las ciencias cognitivas, denominada praxis etnofenomenológica, fundamentada en la apropiación de enfoques y herramientas de investigación nacidas en el ámbito antropológico. Esta pra…
CoordenaçãoGersem Luciano Baniwa, Luiz Eloy TerenaCorpo Editorial de Vibrant A Revista Vibrant tem como política, desde o seu […]
The use of tropes is a defining feature of resource regulation and is fundamental to both the way legal theories have evolved and to the practical, localized interpretations and implementations of law. This article offers a discursive study of the “wat…
If constructed as planned, the Sites Reservoir Project will add roughly 1.85 billion m3 (1.5 million acre-feet) of storage capacity to California’s water system. Per project proponents, however, the reservoir complex should be understood as infrastruct…
This article examines the role of working people in the energy transition that played out in Puerto Rico in the 1930s and 1940s – from a private, fossil fuel-based regime to a public, hydroelectric system. It argues that by withholding their labo…
For many, the coal industry in Colombia has been synonymous with progress, economic growth and access to education and housing opportunities on the Caribbean mining frontier. However, little has been said about the slow, dosed and silent violence that …
The most recent Global Mercury Assessment estimates that human-made mercury releases are approximately 2,220 tons per year and that a significant source is artisanal and small-scale gold mining (UNEP 2019). The ubiquity of mercury and its negative effe…