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Relations of Debt and Credit Networks in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan, Russia and Kazakhstan
Any relations and practices of debt within credit networks include not only pure economic exchange, such as barter or non-monetary exchange, but diverse kinds of social relations of debt. In this article, we consider case studies embedded in…
Hesitation before the impact
This study has had a twofold ambition; to probe into the life in the museums, and to try out some concepts in a cultural policy research setting. The article does this by analysing encounters between art and visiting audiences with the use of “acontext…
Does Spotify Create Attachment?
This paper seeks to measure the extent to which algorithmically generated playlists, conceptualised herein as cultural intermediaries (Bourdieu 1984), create ‘attachment’ between consumers of music and producers of music. This was undertaken following …
Food sovereignty and popular feminism in Brazil
The Marcha das Margaridas is a coalition of women and feminism movements, agrarian movements, trade unions, and international organizations that emerged in 2000. Women’s organizations that are part of a rural trade federation lead the process. W…
Feeding genders
Juliet comes from Nigeria and has been living in Italy for the past 20 years. “Where I come from, a woman who does not know how to cook cannot get married”, she told me (Mauriello) when we first met during my fieldwork in Naples. Stories told by…
Cooking more than food
In contemporary rural Mali, when it comes to cooking, there is a strict division of labour. Women always make the meals. Each and every day, they transform raw ingredients into cooked fare for themselves and their families. Through their quotidi…
The power of the aromatic herbs of the Azoteas
In certain geopolitical contexts, women’s creative act of using aromas and spices to characterize and give flavour to dishes can become a powerful tool for gender claim and identity affirmation, and an economic resource to support women’s autono…
The daily struggle
Previous research on migrant farmworkers’ resistance efforts in the US focuses on collective organizing but often fails to adopt an intersectional lens that considers farmworker women’s everyday acts of resistance. This study looks at Mexican fa…
Too spicy for the French
Many French doctors and psychiatrists in the colonial Maghreb supposed that spices, sexuality and the dangers of “primitive” masculinity were intrinsically linked. They regularly described Maghrebi food as unbearably spicy and, consequently, loc…
Gender and barbecue
Barbecuing is often highlighted as one of the most masculine forms of cooking. In this paper, I will analyse a recent Netflix documentary series, Chef’s Table: BBQ, with portraits of four different barbecue chefs, including two women. The barbec…
The sovereign meal of the male leader
As a crucial component of « Italianicity », food is a common topic in the political discourse in Italy. The diffusion of the grammars and practices of food porn media offer new possibilities for political communication: in Italy, it’s especially…
Catholic Missionary Work and “Political” Support: The Tokombéré Youth Centre Since 1974
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper studies how the Tokombéré Youth Centre, a secular place attached to the Roman Catholic Church, has led to the political formation of young people in Tokombéré, northern Cameroon. This is a place of socialisat…
Asian Ethnology 81 1&2 | article Basketry among Two Peoples of Northern Guangxi, China
Baskets crafts intangible cultural heritage China Dong Yao In this article, the authors introduce the present-day basketry practices found among two minority nationalities populations living today on the northern borders of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Auton…
Asian Ethnology 81 1&2 | article Moving the Living and the Dead The Power of Bronze Drums in Contemporary Ethnic China
Bronze drum China cultural heritage material culture Yao sacred The bronze drum in Asia has long been regarded as a form of antiquity and a cultural relic of the bronze age, representative of cultural groups found in China, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar’s…
Asian Ethnology 81 1&2 | article From the Margins to Demigod The Establishment of the Kinnar Akhara in India
LGBT+ Sanskritization religious feminism hijṛā Kinnar akhāṛā This article introduces the Kinnar Akhara, a recently established transgender religious organization that stems from the hijṛā tradition, a religiously syncretic subculture of transgender ind…
El parentesco en los estudios andinos del norte de Chile
El artículo presenta una revisión del parentesco en los estudios antropológicos sobre poblaciones indígenas en el sector chileno de los Andes, durante el periodo 1954-2020, abarcando desde la profesionalización de la antropología en el país hasta tiemp…
Presente atrapado, o los afectos cautivos del encarcelamiento
Este artículo explora la experiencia cotidiana del tiempo en el marco de la cautividad. Mediante una serie de fotografías conjuntamente producidas entre los hombres encarcelados en el Complejo Penitenciario de Isla de Pascua -la así llamada cárcel más …
Prácticas materiales entre los habitantes de La Alumbrera, un Pukara de la Puna Meridional Argentina (ca. 1100-470 AP)
La Alumbrera es un gran conglomerado emplazado en la microrregión de Antofagasta de la Sierra y ocupado a partir de ca. 1100 AP. En este trabajo se discuten datos obtenidos a partir de análisis efectuados sobre muestras artefactuales líticas rescatadas…
Violencias por el color de la piel en la enseñanza básica en Chile: ¿el problema del sentido de la acción?
El artículo aborda las violencias por el color de la piel en las escuelas de enseñanza básica en Chile desde la perspectiva antropológica de las violencias. La metodología fue cualitativa mediante 9 grupos de discusión de actores escolares (apoderados,…
El parentesco en los estudios andinos del norte de Chile.
El artículo presenta una revisión del parentesco en los estudios antropológicos sobre poblaciones indígenas en el sector chileno de los Andes, durante el periodo 1954-2020, abarcando desde la profesionalización de la antropología en el país hasta tiemp…
Los perimontun (visiones) en la cultura mapuche (con especial referencia a cómo ocurren entre los pehuenches del Alto Bío-Bío), parte II
En este artículo se presentan relatos de ‘visiones’, con experiencias de personas del pasado y de época comparativamente reciente de la cultura pehuenche, que es la segunda parte de un artículo publicado en el número 31 de la Revista Chilena de Antropo…
Presente atrapado, o los afectos cautivos del encarcelamiento.
Este artículo explora la experiencia cotidiana del tiempo en el marco de la cautividad. Mediante una serie de fotografías conjuntamente producidas entre los hombres encarcelados en el Complejo Penitenciario de Isla de Pascua -la así llamada cárcel más …
In memoriam Mario Orellana Rodríguez
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