Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Resumen: El presente artículo analiza el funcionamiento de una lengua ritual dentro de la religión Umbanda desde la perspectiva de la etnografía de la comunicación. Los ritos afrobrasileños plantean una situación lingüística compleja para sus practican…
Journal of Anthropological Films
Tributary is an experimental ethnographic film that traces the movement and harnessing of natural resources within the Icelandic landscape to support our digital lives. Tributary explores covert, ‘black-boxed’ data centres (remote and highly secure sit…
In the mid-60s, in the small Belgian town of Verviers, most of the textile factories that had contributed to the town’s prosperity closed down. On witnessing the end of an epoch, the town council decided to put together a collection of old textile mach…
Tuo Dolphins takes place in both Aarhus, Denmark and in the Reef islands, the Solomon Islands. Moffat Bonunga, visits the Danish anthropologists Jens Pinholt and Peter I. Crawford in Aarhus to help them with their work on the film project. This include…
In Oak Tree, gum tree, a collaborative video work by award-winning filmmakers Catherine Gough-Brady and Christine Rogers, explores the way that audio-visual material can “embrace the complexity of the world” and “incorporate, within their structures an…
How can we create a world that will offer our children wisdom, humanity, responsibility and hope? Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural village school in Hokkaido, Japan, passionately believes he knows the way – by giving children a…
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Drawing from the lived experiences of female domestic workers in Ethiopia and Tanzania, this article illustrates different ways in which domestic work can be practiced and defined in both countries. It analyses women’s narratives in the present and pas…
At the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the act of loading shopping carts more than usual materialized as a sensible choice for most shoppers. Yet, stockpiling was constructed in parallel to the social pathologizing of so-called panic buying. P…
Racehorses are the result of a thousand-year-old human domestication through breeding. These practices of selective reproduction are based on the creation and manipulation of non-human kinship, which is inscribed in the genetic history of thoroughbred …
Die Aufforderung sich zu beteiligen sowie die Forderung beteiligt zu werden ist mittlerweile in vielen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen allgegenwärtig und zu einem Imperativ der Gegenwart geworden. Menschen fordern, dass ihre Sichtweise, ihre Expertise in …
In dieser ethnografischen Studie wurde mithilfe von teilnehmender Beobachtung, Durchführung und systematischer Analyse von Interviews sowie Rückgriff auf sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur die Frage beantwortet, welche Lerneffekte eine Beteiligung von M…
In diesem Artikel werden die Praktiken des feministischen Kollektivs Minervas in Montevideo, Uruguay, vorgestellt und untersucht, wie Beteiligung aus ihrer Sicht gelebt und gestaltet und Wissen jenseits von cartesianischer Logik hergestellt wird. Meine…