Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article builds on fieldwork conducted in 2019 and 2020 and examines the implications of Covid-19 lockdown for the engagement of Danish Muslim women in Islamic educational activities. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari (2012) and Larkin (2008b), it di…
The issue of religious freedom while serving a sentence of imprisonment often occupies scientists from around the world. Basically, they agree that a prisoner, regardless of the act for which he or she has been convicted, has the right to religious fre…
The current issue of Approaching Religion is based on a summer school and conference arranged in Åbo/Turku, Finland, in June 2021, with the theme ‘Religion and Cultural Change’. The event was organized jointly by the Polin Institute for Theological Res…
Previous research has demonstrated that young European Muslims relate to religion and religious authority differently from their parental generation. While traditional ‘ulama (Islamic scholars) are not about to become obsolete, they are nevertheless in…
So far, the study of indigenous people’s attitudes towards Indo-Europeans in the era of decolonization, especially in Indonesia, has focused on native militia violence against Indo-Europeans. Serious studies on the desire of the indigenous people to pe…
Despite the iconic nature of the Manhattan skyline, there are only four places the public can see it from and those are the Empire State Building, the Rockefeller Center, ONE World Trade Center and the recently opened EDGE at Hudson Yards. A…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. What factors influence constitutional stability in the emerging democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa? This is an important question that has never been addressed in a systematic cross-national study of Africa’s emerging de…
In a globalized context, modern nation states use nation branding techniques to promote their position in the global social order. This article takes a cultural approach to a specific nation branding project, viewing it as a means through which the Swe…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Teachers navigate funding cuts, political machination, sexual harassment and assault investigations, racism and White supremacy amid various locally constructed crises. Using bureaucratic violence and institutional betrayal – two interlinked, yet disti…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This paper is a response to Matthias Basedau’s article published in issue 55/2020 of the present journal. At a time when African Studies scholarship is rising beyond the flogging of dead horses, certain strands in the f…
The Swedish sci-fi drama TV series Real Humans (original title in Swedish: Äkta människor) can be viewed as a playground for trying out imagined possible future human-robot relationships that can tell us something regarding ideas about possible futures…
In the cultural heritage digital archive, descriptive metadata makes images (re)searchable. Text-based searches seek terms that match metadata terms or terms referring to aspects of images that have previously been considered essential to select and de…
This article considers what UK-based higher education researchers Jan Meyer and Ray Land describe as “threshold concepts,” asking how these concepts might apply to the field of social/cultural anthropology. This is explored in relation to the practical…
Mentally disabled people are a common sight on the streets of Malawi. One of the commonly cited reasons for this situation is that as a country, Malawi does not have enough facilities to accommodate the swelling numbers of the mentally ill. However, an…
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The car dominates the imaginary of urban modernity. Such modernity links the car to living the good life, especially for the growing middle class. However, an environmentalist in my research laments that the unprecedented increase in car volume causes …
As institutions that arose during the European age of imperial expansion to glorify and display the achievements of empire, museums have historically been deeply implicated in the colonial enterprise. However if we understand coloniality not as a resid…
This paper considers a specific cohort of new Chinese professional women born under the one-child policy in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It explores their perceptions and experiences of career in Australia through qualitative data collected fr…
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This article focuses on children whose sharing of family and siblingship is not limited to a single place or a family unit. Based on a phenomenological understanding, our research sheds light on how children’s participation…
Within the social sciences, family research in sociology has in recent years – and for good reason – taken to adopting a “practical turn” to its subject. Drawing on the concepts of doing and displaying family, numerous authors have provided valu…
I. Introduction
This article focuses on children whose sharing of family and siblingship is not limited to a single place or a family unit. Based on a phenomenological understanding, our research sheds light on how children’s participation…
Le présent article cherche à connaître le fait, le fait social, à l’origine de la connaissance sociologique. Quel est-il ? Quelle est sa “matérialité” ? Comment se conçoit-il pour être l’objet de l’étude propre à la sociologie ? Après avoir envi…
Au travers de l’analyse des discours de 21 adolescents belges âgés de 10 à 16 ans sur leur expérience vécue d’un mode de vie multilocal, cet article éclaire la manière dont la matérialité qui entoure ces jeunes leur permet d’ordonnancer leur mon…
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«The new family is here!» shouted a small, blond girl in German when my younger son and I approached the stop for the German school bus on one of our first days in Tokyo. The bus stop is located on one side of the neighbour…