Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
At the turn of the 20th century, exotic shows as a form of displaying otherness gained wide popularity among various kinds of mass entertainment in Europe and the United States. Promoted professionally, the shows attracted public interest,&nb…
Ritual objects and belongings are still used today at Udmurt prayer rituals that have sacrifices. We would even go so far as to say that carrying out ceremonies without them is unthinkable. Depending on their function they can be defined in several gro…
This article is dedicated to special people whom their community marked as having secret knowledge and magic power, and who belong of the institution of the initiated. My main sources are my field materials, interviews with these magic specialists, gat…
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This is a book review: Ali Ali’s reading of Asli Vatasever’s ethnographic book on political and academic exiles. Asli Vatansever shows how the two forms of exile and precarization: 1) under state authoritarianism and 2) in the academic labor market are…
de Haas, Hein, Castles, Stephen and Miller, Mark J. 2020. The Age of Migration. International Population Movements in the Modern World. New York & London: Guilford Press. Sixth Edition. 443 pp. Published on 2022-12-07 10:55:09
Nursing homes for older seniors are considered an integral part of the Nordic welfare regimes, with a comparatively large proportion of employed native-born women. This is partly under change. An ageing population in interplay with increased difficulti…
The article examines how pro-asylum activism contributes to the political socialisation of precarious migrants who become activists, and how it facilitates their social and spatial emplacement in a particular locality. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork…
This article investigates the framing of migrant mothers and migrant families in family policy journalism over a 20-year period between 1998 and 2018 in Finland. Using computational word-based searches and qualitative methods, we explore the ways in wh…
This article examines how attitudes toward Muslims among native majority adolescents in Norway are associated with the ethno-religious composition of their school environment. The inflow of immigrants has changed the sociodemographic landscape in Norwa…
Integration support is a rather new professional field, and it is common for paraprofessionals (PPs) with personal migration experiences as their main qualification to perform the work without having a job description, education or ethical principles t…
This article examines the religious transnational orientation among young Muslims and Christians in Oslo. The study draws upon Andreas Wimmer’s (2013) theory of ethnic boundaries to analyse the characteristics of the ethnic boundary-making emerge withi…
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The author of this book, Thomas Maschio, has lived two anthropological lives; an earlier one as an academic anthropologist and a later one as an anthropologist running a company (Maschio Consulting) that specializes in the use of ethnographic research …
Au Maroc certaines personnes qui se séparent affirment vouloir quitter le conjoint notamment du fait que leur vie conjugale et personnelle est empiétée par les interventions d’une des belles-familles. Ces divorces ont une “composante communautai…
Cet article correspond au travail réflexif croisé d’une sociologue togolaise et d’une anthropologue française questionnant l’organisation quotidienne de deux profils de travailleuses à Lomé au Togo : des soignantes et des cheffes d’entreprise de…
Cet article se donne pour objectif de faire émerger les figures de la violence dans le secteur de la santé dans deux contextes nationaux spécifiques : le Nord, en France et Bucarest en Roumanie. La population au cœur de cette recherche étant cel…
Cet article entend contribuer à l’analyse des interactions non verbales en prenant comme objet la danse classique. Le dialogue entre les outils de la sociologie et les apports de la recherche en danse permet de dégager des pistes méthodologiques…
Cet article se propose d’examiner la manière dont les personnes apportant leur soutien aux exilé·e·s mobilisent et appréhendent le droit à Calais et à Briançon, deux villes devenues, à des époques et selon des modalités différentes, des pôles mi…
À partir d’une enquête sociologique au sein de dispositifs d’éducation pour la santé périnatale dédiés aux femmes enceintes étrangères en France, l’article interroge la manière dont les discours éducatifs des professionnelles de santé reproduise…
Reviewed by Chelsea Wenzhu Xu, George Mason University David Houston Jones. Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics. London: Routledge, 2022. Questions of evidence and ethics in photography have been taken up by many theorists, as phot…
SthlmTech, Stockholm’s startup ecosystem, is famous for being an innovation hub that produces more billion-dollar startups per capita than anywhere else except Silicon Valley. This success, people within the community say, is down to the ecosystem of o…
In this article, we will present an anthropological research project that explores possible benefits of comparing a professional handball club and a software company. More specifically, we turn our attention to the phenomenon of “disturbances.” In work…
Journal of Business Anthropology