Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Relative to Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America, scant attention has been paid to the fate of formerly socialist states in Africa. One reason is that postcolonialism has served as the default analytic frame for everything Africa-related. Another re…
Following up on Steve Gudeman’s insight that economic categories are fundamentally cultural, this lecture juxtaposes different perspectives on money that transcend the conventional society/nature divide. It considers money as a unique semiotic phenomen…
This article attempts to delineate what it means to be Shia in relation to home-making in Sunni-majority Bangladeshi society. Unlike longer established Shias, those primarily settled in Old Dhaka and who are integrated into Dhakaiya culture and linguis…
This article focuses on home-making practices in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil. Following their religious leader’s exhortations to make hicret (migration) to spread their worldview and expand their religious movement, committed Muslims decided t…
The spiritual home of Ahmadiyya Muslims and physical home of their leader has moved from India to Pakistan to London in under a century. These relocations signal the communal dislocation and diasporic spread of Ahmadis. Some collective experiences of m…
This is the introduction to the second part of a special section that spans two issues of Hau (14 [1] and 14 [2]). The articles in the special section focus on home and home-making and all that this entails for Muslims who have left their homes or cann…
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Durante la pandemia, abundaron las reflexiones en relación con la apremiante necesidad de propuestas para habitar éticamente el planeta. Se contemplaron posturas radicales que vislumbraban el fin del capitalismo. Sin embargo, todo se redujo a una expli…
El artículo analiza la fragmentación socioespacial en la ciudad de Santa Cruz do Sul/RS, Brasil, y aspectos del plan director a la luz del debate actual sobre el espacio urbano expresado en la “nueva agenda urbana” (ONU/Hábitat III – 2016). La propuest…
La importancia que han adquirido los análisis referidos a la dinámica urbana de las ciudades medianas es consecuencia de la intensidad de las relaciones que en ellas se establecen en el contexto económico de la región de la que forman parte. Esta afirm…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Why do politicians intervene in some chieftaincy succession disputes but not others? The key actors and their motivations in these processes remain understudied. In this article I leverage a comparative analysis of two …
Este articulo explora la medicina indígena, enfocándose en el Pueblo Mapuche. Destacando la importancia de entenderla como distinta de la medicina tradicional. Abordando la salud intercultural, mediante el Programa Especial de Salud y el Con…
El tatuaje se ha analizado como herramienta de resistencia, reivindicación y empoderamiento. El régimen de Franco (1939-1975) implicó una poderosa política corporal que moldeó profundamente las experiencias corporales de las mujeres española…
Este articulo explora la medicina indígena, enfocándose en el Pueblo Mapuche. Destacando la importancia de entenderla como distinta de la medicina tradicional. Abordando la salud intercultural, mediante el Programa Especial de Salud y el Con…
El presente texto buscar dar cuenta de la experiencia de infancia en el Caribe colombiano en la primera mitad del siglo XX a través de la memoria de Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), nuestro premio Nobel de Literatura, quien reconoce la in…
It gives me great pleasure to present a new issue of Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. This issue contains four peer-reviewed articles, an essay, and four research reports.
A series of biodiversity conservation campaign since 1980s and the establishment of Siberut National Park on Siberut Island (West Sumatra, Indonesia) have seriously unsettled the relationship between the Mentawai and forest as well as between the Menta…
This article examines how the futures promised by the postcolonial state through various projects leave peasants sceptical about a new government project at the rural margin of India. Focusing on a car factory project undertaken in 2006 by the governme…
The Murle age system is often presented in a negative light in the South Sudan conflict reporting, which links age-set activities to communal violence, cattle rustling, and the abduction of women and children. Such assessments by outsiders overlook the…
The theoretical aim of this paper is to articulate a novel analytical framework that makes sense of our interlocutors’ apparently conflicting claims about the reality of meritocracy in China. The theoretical argument is rooted in ethnographic fieldwork…
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Anthropologists often talk about ‘encounters,’ but what do they actually mean? This term—‘encounter’—shows up everywhere across ethnographic writing and practice, but is itself rarely defined or discussed. ‘Ethnographies of encounters,’ too, are increa…
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…