Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Under the influence of social media, aesthetic cosmopolitans have shifted from the real world to the digital world. This study exemplified Jingxuan Peng’s street art on TikTok to explore how street artists digitally increase the transcultural enga…
Book review of Aleksander Bošković, Günther Schlee, edited by, African political systems revisited: Changing perspectives on statehood and power, New York-Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2022, pp. 256.
Book review of Lorenzo D’Angelo, Robert Jan Pijpers, The anthropology of resource extraction, Routledge, 2022, pp. 233.
Book review of Georges Balandier, La situazione coloniale e altri saggi, edited by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, translated by Alice Bellagamba, Rita Finco, Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 156.
Book review of Alessandra Gribaldo, Unexpected subjects: Intimate partner violence, testimony, and the law, Chicago, HAU Books, 2021, pp. 148.
Book review of Didier Fassin, Le vite ineguali: Quanto vale un essere umano, translated by Lorenzo Alunni, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2019, pp. 202.
Book review of Nicolas Richard, Zelda Alice Franceschi, Lorena Córdoba, eds, La misión de la máquina: Técnica, extractivismo y conversión en las tierras bajas sudamericanas, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2021, pp. 283.
Book review of Eduardo Kohn, Come pensano le foreste, translated by Alessandro Lucera, Alessandro Palmieri, foreword by Emanuele Coccia, Milano, Nottetempo, 2021, pp. 439.
Book review of Marta Scaglioni, Francesco Diodati, Antropologia dell’invecchiamento e della cura: Prospettive globali, Milano, Ledizioni, 2021, pp. 190.
Book review of Pietro Saitta, Populismo urbano: Autoritarismo e conflitto in una città del sud (Messina 2018-2022), Milano, Meltemi, 2022, pp. 253.
Book review of Pier Giorgio Solinas, Lettere dagli antenati: Famiglie, genti, identità, Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020, pp. 175.
In this article, I will analyse the creative use of smartphone by West African men living in reception centers in Torino, in Italy. As the usurpation of time has become an integral part of the European border regime, I place migrants’ media practices i…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Lånordet sharia, som i dag er i alminnelig bruk i svensk, dansk og norsk, har sitt opphav i det arabiske substantivet sharīʿa, med de beslektede formene substantivet sharʿa og verbet sharaʿa, som alle opptrer i koranteksten. Denne artikkelen tar for se…
Denne artikel udgør et pilotstudie, som baseret på fem semi-strukturerede interviews undersøger minoritetsunges sproglige konceptualisering af æresrelaterede konflikter og de følelser, disse giver anledning til. Således har artiklens første del fokus p…
This article examines the current politico-economic developments in Turkey through the lens of the effects of the Syrian war. The empirical focus of my discussion is an export city bordering Syria, Gaziantep. The city has been radically shaped by not o…
Among the factors that the Covid-19 Pandemic has brought to light, the link between international mobility, migration policies and economic nationalism is central. Drawing on ethnographic data collected during and after the lockdown, the article focuse…
Across the global south, regimes of labour and mobility control are reforming that attempt to manage the northern movement of people. By combining financing development projects with explicit forms of border enforcement (including border personnel trai…
Pierre Bourdieu distinguished two main ways to teach sociology, by either teaching the principles and formal procedures, or by revealing examples of these formal procedures at work, and preferred to harness both together. This essay attempts to adopt t…
Comments on “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” by Antonino Colajanni, with contributions by Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piaser…
In a time when many national governments are rhetorically, if not practically, turning away from global collaboration and emphasizing economic nationalisms, understood here as a plurality of historically and politically contextualized policies, the aut…
This essay aims at reconstructing – from an historical-critical point of view – the growing interest, in Bronislaw Malinowski’s work, for practical anthropology, for the relations between politics and anthropological research, and finally for the relat…
Journal of Anthropological Films
This documentary opens the gate to a courtyard and the lives of the Yang family as they look into the past and towards the future for guidance on how to secure a home in post-reform China. Yang used to live with his two uncles in his ancestral courtyar…
This film takes inspiration from the work of Kon Wajiro,- an architect, ethnologist and sociologist who created detailed sketches of everyday life on the streets of Tokyo in the 1920s. Shot in Aomori City, Japan in the depths of winter, Sonotoki capt…