Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Neste artigo, analisa-se o uso e as disputas da memória acerca da Guerrilha do Araguaia a partir da homenagem feita pelo ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro ao Major Curió, acusado de atrocidades durante esse conflito. A metodologia constou de revisão bibliog…
El caballero de Cervantes es un personaje que se ha convertido en fuente inagotable de interpretaciones. En este artículo propongo un análisis de dos adaptaciones de la novela: La voz de los mitos: grandeza y servidumbre del hombre (García Martí 1941) …
A partir de una aproximación etnográfica (2019-2022) a cuatro experiencias de reparación en salud en el sur de Chile este artículo interroga las prácticas de reparación en un contexto de hegemonía neoliberal e impunidad. Propone que usuarias/os junto …
El artículo efectúa un análisis de la producción descolonial de Edgardo Lander y Ramón Grosfoguel. Se elabora una reconstrucción historiográfica de las caracterizaciones de la Red Modernidad-Colonialidad. El abordaje metodológico se realiza desde la Hi…
La pervivencia del franquismo continúa en el debate político, social y mediático de España. El estudio realizado demuestra la importancia que conceden las generaciones más jóvenes a la dictadura, pero al mismo tiempo reconocen que su formación es defic…
I regimi autoritari del mondo iberico e latinoamericano sono stati oggetto di differenti studi nell’ambito delle scienze sociali e di quelle umanistiche. Per diversi anni, ci si è interrogati sulla natura delle dittature, sui meccanismi della repressio…
Vivemos tempos sombrios no Brasil. Tempos marcados pela reverberação das ideias e palavras de ordem do autoritarismo, especialmente aquelas que se apoiam no legado da Ditadura Militar (1964-1985). Neste artigo, discutir-se-á a forma como a dramaturgia …
El objetivo de la contribución es avanzar la hipótesis de una posible lectura bajo el prisma del modo melodramático de narraciones pertenecientes al corpus de la generación de HIJOS argentinos que enfocan el tema de los vínculos afectivos intergeneraci…
Este artigo estuda a produção e a circulação de um vídeo produzido pelo YouTuber Felipe Castanhari sobre a ditadura civil-militar brasileira. Argumenta-se que a narrativa elaborada pelo YouTuber atualiza certa interpretação histórica e memorial sobre a…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Introduction
My first impression was that The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video was the third broad-based overview of visual anthropology, so I requested a review copy. However, I had to adjust my impression t…
In a Lisbon senior day center, the staff and especially the elderly members care for each other in ways that expand upon the neoliberal assumptions of active aging campaigns in Portugal. Theatre plays, and communal watching of the video-recordin…
In this paper, I look at how ethnographic filmmaking became research practice when I focused the lens towards the everyday life of my grandparents. Furthermore, I explore how imagistic, metaphorical, or even fantastical elements where the key to…
While we were finalizing this introduction, British media outlets announced the death of the BBC news presenter George Alagiah who passed away, at the age of 60, and nine years after he had been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer. In one of …
In this paper, I focus on those images of dementia (care) which have been, or might be, deemed overtly positive, because they tend to marginalize suffering, decline and compassion fatigue. I argue for the notion of carescope, a heuristic tool wh…
These are three distinct essays that interrogate what happens when the anthropologist studying aging and care envisions their fieldwork through the lens of the video camera and its outputs. The intersection between the anthropology of care/aging…
Prologue:
This is a slightly unusual commentary since it was written in response to three oral presentations at the EASA 2020 meetings of “Illuminating Futures of the Life Course through Visual and Digital Media” should be of which only o…
In this paper we reflect upon our comparative ethnographic research on ageing, the life course and smartphones in Italy and Japan as part of a collaborative anthropological project The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA). Our dis…
Following a visual ethnography, this article analyzes parkour’s visual subculture as a form of subcultural capital that has developed with the rise of this alternative sport. It describes a visual habitus and a set of media practices to understa…
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Esta entrevista realizada com Felipe Sotto Maior Cruz, ou melhor, Felipe Tuxá – antropólogo do povo Tuxá, da Aldeia Mãe de Rodelas, Bahia, primeiro professor indígena da Universidade Federal da Bahia e membro do departamento de Antropologia e Etnol…
This essay celebrates the work of Jean E. Jackson, a pioneering female ethnographer who devoted most of her fifty-year career to the Indigenous peoples of Colombia. Her research, represented in an extensive set of publications from the early 1970s …
This article addresses issues of care and corporeality during gestation, childbirth, the postpartum period, and childcare through a case study conducted with Mehinako people. Among this Amazonian people, care forms the person, having an elementary …
The spread of ayahuasca shamanism throughout the Upper Amazon has become a matter of debate among scholars since, in 1994, anthropologist Peter Gow formulated the controversial suggestion that it could be a recent phenomenon in the Ucayali basin, u…
This article addresses hunting practices and human-animal relations among the Karitiana, a Tupi-Arikém-speaking indigenous people in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon, asserting that if humans can learn from animals in long-lasting hunting experien…