Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
In Uganda, green charcoal – briquettes made of carbonized biochar from agricultural residues – has the potential to replace wood charcoal. This can contribute to halting deforestation and reducing national carbon emissions. Yet, the acceptance of green…
InVisible Culture
The anthology of interviews and short works by Michel Foucault, Power, edited by James D. Faubion with an introduction by Colin Gordon, presents a well-rounded overview of Foucault’s analysis of power dynamics, knowledge production, and the constructio…
This article examines the dynamics of water grabbing in Lake Toba, Indonesia, focusing on how corporate aquaculture and emerging tourism developments have reshaped access to and control over water resources. Drawing on previous studies, policy analysis…
InVisible Culture
At the conclusion of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD-COP15) in Montreal, Canada in December 2022, many rights-holders and allies commended the inclusion of language respecting Indigenous rights and know…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The need for identity has always been a major issue for humanity in its search for significance and meaning. In the context of African societies, colonisation has sparked extensive debate over the erosion of indigenous …
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The global refugee protection regime assigns to states the primary responsibility of protecting refugees. Nevertheless, the overwhelming number of refugees, combined with the growing hostility towards them, has led to s…
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BRICAS N., CONARÉ D., WALSER M. 2021. Une écologie de l’alimentation. Hors collection. Versailles : Quæ. 312 p.
L’ouvrage vient marquer l’existence de 10 années de la Chaire UNESCO « Alimentations du monde » (créée en 2011). Il se veut un …
This article explores how the popular Icelandic Nordic Noir series, Trapped Season 2, provides a nuanced perspective on the deeply rooted concepts of Icelandic and Nordic exceptionalism and homonationalism in popular culture. It offers a com…
In September 2020, a video circulating on social media plunged he country of Mozambique into a deep moral crisis. The video showed five young men, dressed in the uniform of the Mozambican army, cruelly whipping a naked woman along a road and…
In Silozi, High tones are subject to a number of different processes including shift, doubling and deletion. After establishing these on the basis of isolation forms and two-word phrases, this paper examines a range of complex phrases which …
This study critically examines (post)colonial ideologies within the Nollywood epic Jagun Jagun (2023), directed by Adebayo Tijjani and Tope Adebayo and produced by Femi Adebayo. Through a colonial reading, the film emerges as a narrative tha…
InVisible Culture
This article is grounded in a longitudinal ethnographic investigation of half a dozen working-class neighbourhoods in a large town in northern England. That investigation focused on nostalgia and culturally informed perceptions of change. Re…
This paper discusses the experiments with human subjects in clinical trials related to the investigation of African human trypanosomiasis at Lisbon’s Colonial Hospital during the first decades of the twentieth century. The research draws on evidentiary…
“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world into an arithmetic problem, to fix every part of the world by mathematical formulas”. Geor…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This analysis examines the implications of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s 2025 aid suspension in Nigeria and China’s expanding role in its development landscape. Using a desktop researc…
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The CAES editorial team awaits your contributions for CAES Vol. 11, № 4, which will be published in mid-December 2025. The deadline for paper submissions is November 30, 2025.
In the essay ‘Our sea of islands’, Epeli Hau‘ofa (1994:151–3) influentially argued for ‘what may be called “world enlargement” carried out by tens of thousands of ordinary Pacific Islanders right across the ocean.’ Hau‘ofa further stressed that ‘there …
This article examines the remarkable permanence of fa‘asāmoa, Sāmoan custom, throughout the upheavals of history. The strength of this permanence lies in a particular configuration of what brings the community together at meetings when an important dec…
The Samoan world opens with the notion of nu‘u tofi, in which every person is assigned a place or position that resonates with culture, polity, citizenship and governance. Tofi (or tofiga) places Samoans according to their ancestral connections within …
The last few years have seen increasing calls for German institutions to change their approach to collections from colonial contexts. Concomitantly, pressure has been put on museums to digitize and open up collections to new audiences, which has been f…