Review of Cool Anthropology
Review of Cool Anthropology
The Impacts of Ongoing Higher Education Legislation on University Instruction: Perspectives from an Anthropology Graduate Student in the State of Florida
In this essay, I reflect on my own experiences as a graduate student in applied anthropology working in the context of ongoing higher education legislation implemented under the DeSantis administration in the state of Florida. In particular, I focus on…
“DecolonialPedagogies.Space”: Youth-led, Open-source Instructional Design as Experiential Learning and Meta-pedagogical Empowerment
This commentary describes a pedagogical experiment in youth-led, open-source learning design carried out between Autumn 2022 and Spring 2023 while I was teaching in the University of Chicago’s Colonizations sequence. “Colonizations” is one among severa…
In Memoriam: El legado de Thomas Francis Lynch a la arqueología andina y chilena
Revista Chilena de Antropología
31 | 2023 – Art & Activism in South Asia
Introduction. Situating Artistic Activism in South Asia [Full text]
Nicolas Nercam, Christine Ithurbide and Nicolas Bautès
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Artivism Unveiled: Tracing the His…
A Decade of Charitable Crowdfunding and Its Impacts on the Social Justice Trajectory of Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia
This article aims to investigate the development of charitable crowdfunding and its impacts on Islamic philanthropy and its social justice trajectory in Indonesia. As the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia has thrived and undergone some leg…
Un futuro para la Puna de Jujuy: discursos e imaginarios estatales sobre el desarrollo digital
La creciente importancia de las tecnologías digitales para la vida cotidiana a escala global en la última década, que fue impulsada aún más por la pandemia y promovida por organismos de derecho internacional y nacionales, ha profundizado desigualdades …
Dilemas de las políticas de inclusión de la escuela secundaria en contextos rurales e indígenas
La expansión de la escuela secundaria en contextos rurales e indígenas de Argentina, a partir de la vigencia de la Ley Nacional de Educación 26.206, produjo una inclusión dilemática de sectores postergados. Para tal fin se dispuso normativamente el dis…
Gobernar los alimentos y producir población: la agroecología en la trama del desarrollo
El objetivo del siguiente artículo es analizar un problema de gobierno del desarrollo en la producción de una cuestión alimentaria en particular; la agroecología. A partir de un trabajo de campo realizado con personas que producen en transición a este …
Políticas de desarrollo territorial y conservación. La participación de Pueblo Tolombón en los proyectos TICCA.
El presente trabajo indaga en cómo un pueblo diaguita, Pueblo Tolombón (noroeste argentino) participó en una línea de política de desarrollo de financiamiento externo con el proyecto “Resguardo de la diversidad biológica del territorio de la comunidad …
Arqueologías entramadas. Desarrollo y sacrificio en Ancasti, Catamarca.
En los entramados territoriales poscoloniales se dan cita diversos grupos de actores para tensar el conflicto en torno a las relaciones de sentido con el territorio. Cuando se tensa el escenario de conflicto, los diversos conjuntos de actores se aline…
REDD+ en Argentina: captura de carbono y Pueblos indígenas en el chaco salteño (2015-2022).
Los movimientos sociales que alertan sobre la crisis climática progresivamente han logrado encender algunas alarmas en distintos ámbitos de las políticas públicas y la producción económica global; sin embargo, nos preguntamos si realmente son las voces…
Vivir el cáncer infantil. Experiencias de salud-enfermedad-atención-cuidados en un hospital público de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.
Los objetivos generales de la tesis son: describir y analizar las experiencias de enfermedad de niñes y adolescentes con diagnóstico de cáncer y las formas creativas de expresión de sus vivencias, haciendo foco en las actividades lúdicas, durante el tr…
Karine Lopes Narahara. Em territorio mapuche. Petroleiras e cosmopolíticas na Patagonia argentina. Río de Janeiro: Ape’Ku. 2022.
Em territorio mapuche, petroleiras e cosmopolíticas na Patagônia argentina, la tesis doctoral de Karine Lopes Narahara, defendida en la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro en 2018 y publicada en 2022 por la editorial Ape’Ku, describe etnográficamente…
Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 276
Book review of Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of degrowth communism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 276.
Anthropology, financial expansion and its relationalities from “marginal sites”: An introduction
In this introduction we map the tradition of thoughts and state of the art on the study of finance and financialization in relation to the anthropological Italian debate. We suggest a particular attention towards ethnographic approaches “from the margi…
Patrick Williams, Tsiganes ou ces inconnus qu’on appelle aussi Gitans, Bohémiens, Roms, Gypsies, Manouches, Rabouins, Gens du voyage…, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2022, pp. 601
Book review of Patrick Williams, Tsiganes ou ces inconnus qu’on appelle aussi Gitans, Bohémiens, Roms, Gypsies, Manouches, Rabouins, Gens du voyage…, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2022, pp. 601.
Alessandra Brivio, Serpenti, sirene e sacerdotesse: Antropologia dei mondi acquatici in Africa occidentale, Roma, Viella, 2023, pp. 216
Book review of Alessandra Brivio, Serpenti, sirene e sacerdotesse: Antropologia dei mondi acquatici in Africa occidentale, Roma, Viella, 2023, pp. 216.
Francesco Scotti, Per una storia della riforma psichiatrica in Umbria: Nascita ed evoluzione di una psichiatria di comunità in Umbria, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2021 (vol. 1, pp. 448), 2022 (vol. 2, pp. 506)
Book review of Francesco Scotti, Per una storia della riforma psichiatrica in Umbria: Nascita ed evoluzione di una psichiatria di comunità in Umbria, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2021 (vol. 1, pp. 448), 2022 (vol. 2, pp. 506).
State action and the movements of finance during the Spanish housing crisis: Alleviating or amplifying the social impacts of financialization?
This paper addresses the entanglements, complicities and collisions between financialization processes and state action during the current housing crisis in Spain, with a focus on Catalonia and the Barcelona area in the last decade. Departing from the …
Disruption, interrupted: Startups and social challenges in a government accelerator
This article investigates how the dual demands of finance and social impact affect the relationships of founders to disruption, as a rhetorical function, material goal and relational context. Building on recent studies of innovation and entrepreneurshi…
Sacred residues in museums: A membrane ethnography of Taiwanese religious heritage
This article reflects on the existing dynamics between the sacredness derived from the museumification of religious items and the sacredness of those artefacts employed in rituals that survive in museum spaces as a trace or sacred residue (Be…
A journey between literature and anthropology
Review article of Andrea Canobbio, La traversata notturna, Milano, La nave di Teseo, 2022, pp. 520; Renzo Guolo, Michel Leiris etnologo, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 274.
More seats at “The Philosopher’s Table”: The reinvigoration of a multicultural community association in southern Italy during and post-pandemic
How voluntary associations promote social interaction across difference and contribute to building diverse communities are questions of relevance in Italy and beyond. To be successful, associations must earn and maintain reputations as groups worth joi…
Bringing dissent to shareholders’ meetings: An investigation into critical shareholding
This article deals with critical shareholding, that is, the action of non-profit organizations that resorts to involvement in corporate ownership as shareholders to promote socially responsible corporate behaviours. Based on the combined use of sociolo…