Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Después de más de medio siglo de lucha por la solidaridad e integración desde el Sur-Global, la Organización de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de África, Asia y América Latina, más conocida como la OSPAAAL, cerró sus puertas definitivamente en el año 2019….
Resumen: En este artículo parto de Calibán y la Bruja, obra de la historiadora italiana Silvia Federici, para señalar una serie de insuficiencias en los principales paradigmas teóricos en torno a la modernidad y la opresión. En primer lugar abordo la …
Este artículo propone un diálogo de vida y de textos de dos autores que, aun coincidiendo en el tiempo y, a veces, en el espacio de un mismo país, no se conocieron. Vida y textos en diálogo (im)posible que, recogiendo lo mejor (por riguroso y antidogmá…
El presente artículo pretende mostrar cómo el proceso de adquisición derivativa de la nacionalidad española funciona a modo de imperativo de asimilación de los sujetos provenientes de las excolonias. A través del análisis del régimen jurídico de la nac…
Current Issue | School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
Current Issue | School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
Current Issue | School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography
Bribery relations are a way to cope with the uncertainties of everyday life for many people living in Tanzania. For members of the Tanzanian Indian communities, the uncertainties not only count the faltering bureaucratic systems and a state …
Review of Gendered Lives: Global Issues, edited by Nadine T. Fernandez and Katie Nelson
This introduction to the special section on African multilingualism introduces and contextualises three contributing articles into the recently growing research area of small-scale multilingualism. This article does so by briefly characterising the con…
The study of African youth languages (AYLs) has seen a few conceptual shifts and portrayals, reflecting their dynamicity, diversity, and fluidities. In these contexts, AYLs have been described as constituted by codeswitching/mixing, and as restrictive …
This article focuses on a single interaction taking place in a tree nursery located in a village of the Iringa Region in Tanzania. In a country which built its unity around one language, Swahili, this article intends to show how code-switching between …
Migrants from Senegal constitute a small minority in Norway, which complicates their possibilities of carrying out certain linguistic and cultural practices face-to-face. However, with increased access to digital means, socio-cultural practices, includ…
In studies of African languages, Phasal Polarity (PhP) expressions – already, still, no longer, and not yet – have received little attention in the literature on the Mabia (Gur) languages of West Africa. This study aims to address that gap by inves…
Each year, more than 200 World War II, Korea, and Vietnam Veterans participate in the VetsRoll program, a four day bus trip from southern Wisconsin to Washington, D.C. VetsRoll is one of several organizations that bring Veterans to war memorials in Was…
Over the last two decades, there has been a rapid rise in the proportion of older adults in prisons across the world. While the cause for this trend depends on local demographic, legal and social circumstances, ethnographic attention to this issue rema…
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The elder population in Japan is increasing drastically, causing a number of issues that have not yet surfaced in most Western countries. Demographic data from Japan reveal that the Japanese have the longest lifespan globally, resulting in the world’s …
Swim-related activity is one of the most recommended forms of physical activity for older adults, increasing the importance of access to swimming and water sports throughout the life course. This study examined eight online forums addressing topics rel…
Amidst the widespread stigma and exclusion attached to dementia in dominant narratives of successful ageing, this article addresses a gap in the scientific literature concerning our understanding of the medicalization of cognitive decline as a natural …
This paper discusses the evolution of social criticism reflected in the Tunisian Ultra groups’ football chants and investigates the Ultras’ involvement in social movements. To address this issue, we developed a database of mostly published Ultra songs …