Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Until 2023, the finding aids of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Lisbon, Portugal (Overseas Historical Archive) did not provide information on the scope and content of the archival series “files of settlers and the repatriated” (“processos de colonos…
LAPORTE C. 2023. Figures de cuisiniers. De l’artisan à l’assembleur. Paris : Classiques Garnier. 239 p.
Publié en 2023, Figures de cuisiniers. De l’artisan à l’assembleur est un ouvrage du sociologue Cyrille Laporte, maître de conférences …
LAPORTE C. 2023. Figures de cuisiniers. De l’artisan à l’assembleur. Paris : Classiques Garnier. 239 p.
Publié en 2023, Figures de cuisiniers. De l’artisan à l’assembleur est un ouvrage du sociologue Cyrille Laporte, maître de conférences …
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For over half a century, wolves in France were extinct. In the absence of predators, the shepherds became accustomed to leaving the sheep roaming freely in the mountains in relative safety. However, at the end of the 1980s, wolves returned, resul…
Appel à contribution : Imaginaires nutritionnels
La question des imaginaires alimentaires a déjà été travaillée en histoire (Heimberg 2010 ; Vierne 1989), en littérature (Lambert-Perreault et Sicotte 2016), en sciences de la communication …
Call for papers: Nutritional imaginaries
The question surroundings imaginaries of food has already been explored in history (Heimberg 2010; Vierne 1989), in literature (Lambert-Perreault et Sicotte 2016) and in communication studies (Bouta…
Aegviidu on suurepärane koht, kus nautida looduse ilu. See linn on kuulsus Eesti kauni looduse poolest aastaringselt. Host.ee annab sulle võimaluse avastada seda imelist paika igal ajal aastas, pakkudes laia valikut tegevusi ja vaatamisväärsusi, et igasugune külastus oleks mäletamist väärt. Kevadine Aegviidu Kui lumi hakkab sulama ja loodus ärkab, muutub Aegviidu imeliseks kohaks, kus nautida […]
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Teaching Anthropology
This article explores anthropological insights in/outside of classroom spaces and is also a pedagogical experiment in embracing student agency. Co-first authored by four undergraduate students at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LS…
Teaching Anthropology
Teaching Anthropology
Teaching Anthropology
Introduction to the Special Section on Generative AI and Socio-Technological Advancements in Anthropology.
This paper explores key developments in research and publications that have occurred since 2013 that are relevant to the teaching of pre-university anthropology. It covers several decades of efforts to expand cultural awareness and knowledge of cultura…
The International Baccalaureate Organisation, a global leader in international education, has offered Social and Anthropology (SCA), a course in its Diploma Programme (DP), to pre-university school students across the globe for over 50 years. SCA is we…
This introduction to the special section on pre-university anthropology outlines the current context of anthropology teaching and learning in schools. It briefly locates contemporary pre-university anthropology education in historical context, covering…
This paper lays out some quite successful developments in the teaching of social anthropology in Scottish secondary schools and further education colleges. It is written in a personal style because much of the initial work was carried out by the author…
L’ouvrage dirigé par Irene Becci se prête à l’analyse des interactions subtiles entre écologie et spiritualité, en donnant à voir les formes contemporaines et souvent complexes que prennent leurs convergences. Il montre comment des personnes issues de tendances spirituelles ou religieuses (christianisme, New Age, néopaganisme, néochamanisme, écoféminisme) intègrent progressivement l’écologie dans leurs univers symboliques et pratiques. Inversement, des écologistes réinvestissent leurs[…]
In recent decades, anthropologists have increasingly recognised the researcher’s vulnerability as an inherent and indispensable element of ethnographic field research. This article shares my ethnographic fieldwork experiences navigating th…
This article explores the process of “unveiling” researcher positionality during fieldwork in Swiss psychiatric spaces and in academia, whilst the researcher herself has a personal connection to the topic as a family member of someone wit…
This article looks at how anthropologists deal with the effects of witnessing violence. Although anthropologists work in interaction with human beings, they rarely discuss the consequences of these encounters on their mental equilibrium. H…
This paper explores the silence of my traumatic experience, the feeling of vulnerability, and insecurity that affected my fieldwork and the writing process. Drawing on the concept of “auto-reflexivity”, I address the “double violence”, exp…
Navigating payments in ethnographic research provides insights into social dynamics within ethnographic research contexts. Drawing from research with financially vulnerable queer male sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya, this article explores th…
This paper brings anthropological scholarship on reflexivity and positionality in conversation with debates around issues of self-exploitation in the neoliberal university, to argue that the publication pressures early career anthropologis…
This article discusses the potentials and challenges of psychoanalytically oriented “interpretation workshops”: interpretive, collective spaces that address ethnographic fieldwork’s subconscious, emotional, and experiential aspects. While …