Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 …
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…
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 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…
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…
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 …
Revista Chilena de Antropología
InVisible Culture
This article investigates conflicts in retrospective Facebook groups, i.e., groups created with a particular interest and focus on the past, to analyse how members of these groups understand the past and how they negotiate, resist and challenge each ot…
Digital technology rapidly permeated all aspects of human existence in the majority of the world during the early twenty-first century, concurrently reshaping social understanding of the present and interpretations of the past. Indeed, the process has …
This article tackles the risks of digitization of sensitive collections and the ethical limits of open access. Research into experience of conflicts and violence requires the submerging into a world of local taboos and practices that usually remain wit…
This article analyses the challenge of collecting the heritage of present-day global protest movements, which are shaped and influenced by digital practices. In focus of the analysis are the mass-street demonstrations which took place in cities all ove…
Conflicts such as wars, rebellions and revolutions often give rise to songs that pass on from one generation to another. This applies also to the bloody 1918 Finnish Civil War, which led to the death of nearly 37 000 people (about 1% of the population)…
This article focuses on the 2013–2016 exhibitions in Moscow Manege which were later transformed into a network of entertainment centres (“historical parks”) Russia––my (hi)story. The exhibitions are built on multimedia technologies and include no authe…