Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article emerges from the raw material of an ethnographic process that seeks to remain faithful to the overwhelming nature of juxtaposed spaces and times. The reader is invited to engage closely with the details as an exercise in recog…
How to narrate queer lives without reproducing the epistemic violence of abstraction? In this article, we address several tensions between portraying, as necessarily reductive process of description and representation, and Queerness, as pe…
Drawing on the portrait of Vesta, this article explores the “politics of the pronoun” in two interrelated key ways. First, it analyses the stakes of using the portrait to convey a queer experience marked by disciplinary processes that seek…
This article engages with current debates in queer anthropology that interrogate gender and sexuality as discrete analytical domains and highlight their complex entanglement in colonial and capitalist structures of power. It focuses on the…
Losing a close relative in old age is nowadays a very common occurrence. But what does it mean in practice to organise a funeral for someone over 80, in a context characterised by the pluralisation of our relationship with death and the de…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Uuri, kuidas täpsed ilmaprognoosid mõjutavad noorte sportimisvõimalusi Eestis. Olulised nipid ja info, et olla valmis igaks väljasõiduks ja laagriks.
The post Noorte Üritused ja Sport Eestis: Täpne Ilmaprognoos on Edu Võti first appeared on Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
Raadio teel juhitavad mudelid, tuntud ka kui RC-mudelid, pakuvad mitmeid võimalusi ja naudinguid nii lastele kui ka täiskasvanutele. Need mudelid hõlmavad erinevaid sõidukeid, sealhulgas autosid, laevu ja lennukeid. Käesolevas artiklis uurime RC-mudelite maailma, nende eeliseid ja puudusi ning anname näpunäiteid sobiva mudeli valimiseks. Mis on raadio teel juhitavad mudelid? Raadio teel juhitavad mudelid on mänguasjad […]
The post Uuri Kõik, mida pead teadma raadio teel juhitavatest mudelitest uudis first appeared on Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
This article explores the more-than-human political ecology of human-elephant conflict in North Bengal, India, by emphasizing Asian elephants’ (Elephas maximus) agency within a complex conservation landscape. Through a combination of ethnographic field…
This paper offers a concept of working relations as a complement and extension to existing theories of maintenance, care and repair. Building on the cases of an umbrella, a tractor and a pond, it advances seven propositions that might guide and inform …
Repair in the post-Soviet context shows a specific historicity, linked with Soviet consumer culture, that has caused the Soviet socioeconomic system be characterised as a ‘repair society’. People’s experiences and their narratives of the lively repair …
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This article sets out to explore how reuse is enacted in a Swedish-language Face-book group called Reuse More. In this forum, people are encouraged to post photos and descriptions of what they have reused and how, share with and inspire others to be cr…
Gamlegård farm at the Kulturens Östarp open-air museum, the von Echstedtska Manor farm at Värmland’s Museum, and Oktorpsgården farm at the Skansen open-air museum are three disparate farmhouses scattered across southern Sweden whose histories have very…
This article examines how domestic building repair is represented as a site of experiential learning in Finnish interior design magazines. Situated within heritage studies, the analysis explores how lifestyle media portray the relationships between peo…
This paper examines how community-driven mending knowledge travels across time and into contemporary schooling, and what conditions allow it to persist. We pair a concise historical backdrop through a timeline called “How Mending Survives”, with a prac…
This article critically examines dominant sustainability narratives that prioritise technological innovation, market-based solutions and individual behaviour while often neglecting the socio-economic structures driving overconsumption. Drawing on quali…
Old buildings are imbued with problems and possibilities shaped by their material condition. This article unfolds around material stories circulating on Insta-gram with the hashtag #byggnadsvård, using the Swedish concept byggnadsvård (‘building care’)…
This lecture was given on April 16th, 2026, at St Andrews University, as the 2nd Peter Gow Memorial Lecture. Its aim is not only to pay tribute to a great anthropologist who died prematurely, but also to explore a fundamental aspect of his work. Na…
O artigo analisa um episódio ocorrido na comunidade waiwai do Jatapuzinho, na Terra Indígena Trombetas-Mapuera, envolvendo o encontro do professor Renato Kanhera Waiwai com um antigo Pote de Pedra encontrado às margens do rio Jatapuzinho durante um…
Este trabajo presenta un análisis etnohistórico de los cambios en la jefatura awajún del Alto Marañón a inicios del siglo XX, centrándose en sus relaciones de dependencia, poder y trabajo forzoso con los comerciantes mestizos, en su mayoría patrone…
This paper analyzes two cases of resistance by Kukama workers within the debt slavery system of habilitación in the Peruvian Amazon during the first half of the twentieth century. It discusses the similarities and differences between the two cases,…
In so-called “French” Guiana, or Guyane, the Kali’na village of Atopo Wipi has fought for years against a hydrogen power plant being built on their land. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2024 in Guyane and Western Europe…