Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Lo studio prende in esame cinque componimenti in cui il poeta barocco portoghese Frei Jerónimo Baía (1620-1688) dipinge il ritratto della donna amata. In essi si assiste all’elenco delle diverse parti del corpo elogiate per la loro bellezza, secondo un…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
María Luisa Bombal’s La última niebla, published in 1935, was so famous in Chile that Bombal’s North American husband, Rafael de Saint Phalle, urged her to translate it into English years after its publication and after Bombal had mostly given up writi…
The present article focuses on The Double, deliberately turning away from the literary motif that Saramago appropriates to denaturalize and expose the constructedness of dominant masculinity and its apparatuses of social and symbolic reproduction. The …
Editores/as de organização Ana María Forero Angel (am.forero260@uniandes.edu.co)Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Los Andes (Colômbia) Marco J. Martínez-Moreno (akkmjm@gmail.com)Programa de […]
This is a book review for An Amazonian myth and History, to the special volume to honor Peter Gow
The review revises the most inportant concepts of the book Of Mixed Blood
This interview presents an initial dialogue about Peter Gow’s trajectory as an anthropologist, trying to bring to light particularly the fieldwork experiences and events thatithad notbeen possible to commenton and explore in the published material….
This article is concerned with the relationships through which children have been born, raised, and made into Amahuaca people over the past 75 years, and within contemporary Native Communities on the Inuya River since their formation beginning in t…
In Of Mixed Blood, Peter Gow sets out an account of the transformations of kinship and the construction of social relations among Indigenous, mainly Yine (Piro), people of the Bajo Urubamba valley in the early 1980s, when Peru’s “Comunidades Nativa…
Combining a contemporary ethnographic perspective with a review of historical records, the article extends Peter Gow’s re-reading of the ex-Cocama phenomenon in the Western Amazon. It argues that the foundation of the Amazonian Peruvian town of Req…
Based on the inspiration Peter Gow takes from Lévi-Strauss’ canonical formula or double twist and his concept of ensemble, this article aims to illustrate by analogy how the rituals of female initiation, such as the Yammana of the Enlhet-Enenlhet, …
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar acerca de las nociones de cuerpo y persona del pueblo o’dam del norte de México, partiendo de los principios que Peter Gow y otros autores han observado para las poblaciones nativas de la región …
This paper constitutes a personal exploration of the impact of the work of Peter Gow on my own attempts to think through specific ethnographic problems, both in the Mapuche communities of Southern Chile and the Gaelic communities of Western Scotlan…
In this article I consider the impact of Peter Gow’s writing on indigenous histories as a key area of research on Amazonia. Building on his study of kinship as history on the Bajo Urubamba (1991) he presented a regional perspective on the dynamic s…
This paper explores the notion of painting as meaningful action (Gow 1999) and highlights the productivity of the idea as emerged from, and dovetailing, different strands of thought on the nature of symbols and actions. Bringing together Lévi-Strau…
In this article, we reflect on one of Peter Gow’s key pieces of work, “Helpless,” tracing how his scholarship has informed and influenced our own work, from our experiences in the field to our approaches to analysis. We explore some of the main the…
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Todas las muertes provocadas por una causa extraordinaria (si es que tiene sentido hablar de muertes naturales) generan un impacto en la sociedad, cuya magnitud se explica por lo sucedido o por el elevado número de defunciones. Recurriendo a la idea de…
Els textos recollits en aquest número temàtic d’Arxiu d’Etnografia de Catalunya ofereixen una suggestiva mirada coral al voltant de les memòries socials, un àmbit que ens segueix interpel·lant com a societat.
Los esquemas y modelos patriarcales siguen vigentes hoy en día en nuestra sociedad de manera transversal, desde las élites hasta los sectores obreros. Nuestra unidad de análisis incluye a hombres y mujeres de sectores populares, muchos de ellos de proc…
En pleno centro de la ciudad de Tarragona conviven dos recordatorios de la muerte de Juan Gabriel Rodrigo Knafo, que tuvo lugar durante la manifestación habida en protesta por los hechos ocurridos el 3 de marzo de 1976 y en que murieron cinco trabajado…
El llamado Xiximai (espíritu de la escasez) es una entidad sobrenatural que colabora para entender la necesidad de ayudar y regalar comida en tiempos de escasez de alimentos. Este personaje se presenta en las casas de los indígenas el primer día de jul…
Este texto se orienta a visibilizar las disputas por los derechos sexuales tomando como eje de análisis el aborto y la ciudadanía sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres. Para ello me basaré en entrevistas realizadas a una médica activista por estos derec…