Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. In the spring of 2023, the ninth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) took place in Cologne. Though not unexpected (or unusual) this event sparked critical comments and questions. As the organisers, we understa…
Water scarcity in the Western US, through the lens of political ecology, can be understood as inextricably shaped by power dynamics, governance structures, and legal practices of resource allocation. Water allocation in the region is determined largely…
Articles Deciphering of the Lemnos Stele inscription Alexander Akulov The Lemos Stele is a funerary monument with an inscription in the Lemnian language, that is a juncture between Etruscan and Hurro-Urartian. The inscription of side A tells about Holaie’s grandson/nephew named Zia: Holaie-z(1) nafoth(2) Zia-zi(3) mara-z(4) maw(5). Sialkʰweiz(6) awiz(7) Ewistho(8) zeronaith(9) ziwai(10). Aker(11) tawar-zio(12) Wamala-si-al(13) […]
Historically, the study of human anatomy has had a very complex relationship with race and racism in the United States. Today, BIPOC students are disproportionately excluded from the health sciences, in part because anatomy courses play the role of “ga…
Audre Lorde folgend widmet sich dieser Beitrag Werkzeugen zur Dekolonialisierung ethnografischer Forschungspraxis. Er argumentiert, dass jede ethnografische Forschung mit einer kritischen Selbstreflexion beginnen sollte, die das Klassenbewusstsein und …
Diese Einleitung zum 86. Band der Reihe Kulturanthropologie Notizen widmet sich der Frage, welche Rolle die Strukturkategorie und Erfahrungsgröße ‚Klasse’ in der ethnografischen Forschungspraxis spielen kann. Sie formuliert ein Plädoyer dafür, sich in …
Aufgewachsen an der Schnittstelle von Bauernstand, Arbeiterklasse und (aufsteigender) Mittelschicht verschafften sich Reibungen zwischen Theorie und Praxis (wie auch von Willis 1977 beschrieben), Geist und Körper, Wissenschaft und dem ‚echten Leben‘ Ra…
Ausgehend von einer gemeinsamen biografischen Rekonstruktion ihrer Wege an die und in der Universität plädieren die Autorinnen für einen prozessualen, dynamischen und relationalen Klassenbegriff, der offen ist für die Verquickung intersektionaler gesel…
Audre Lorde folgend widmet sich dieser Beitrag Werkzeugen zur Dekolonialisierung ethnografischer Forschungspraxis. Er argumentiert, dass jede ethnografische Forschung mit einer kritischen Selbstreflexion beginnen sollte, die das Klassenbewusstsein und …
Soziale Ungleichheiten werden in Alltagssituationen produziert, reproduziert und hinterfragt. In diesem Beitrag beschäftige ich mich mit der Rolle der Klassendimension in den sozialen Interaktionen während meiner ethnografischen Feldforschungen in Urug…
In den letzten Jahren hat sich im deutschsprachigen Raum eine Kontroverse um die Verwendung der Begriffe ‚Klasse‘ und ‚Klassismus‘ entwickelt. In der Debatte stehen sich marxistisch ausge-richtete Vertreter:innen der Klassentheorie und die eher identit…
Energy colonialism is an essential, yet scarcely theorized concept for understanding how past, present and future energy systems are shaped by colonial or neocolonial power dynamics, imaginaries, discourses, and practices. These perspectives are import…
This article examines how drought intersects with long-standing issues of ecological degradation and social inequity caused by water extraction. I focus on the case of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and its ongoing impacts on communities and ecosystems in th…
Este trabalho trata da história da música na tradição do povo indígena wai wai, um grupo de língua caribe da região guianense. A pesquisa se passa entre os Wai Wai do rio Mapuera (norte do Pará), tendo como foco os conhecimentos de anciãos e as mús…
No contexto de uma série de encontros entre pessoas zo’é e tiriyó na região da fronteira Brasil-Suriname, o presente artigo aborda a experiência de Kita, jovem zo’é que em 2010 viajou com alguns chefes e pastores tiriyó e permaneceu na aldeia Kwama…
A partir da análise de um mito de um povo (Katxuyana) das Guianas e da família linguística Caribe, este artigo enfatiza a necessidade do relato etnográfico não se distanciar do contexto e da moral da narrativa indígena. O artigo não desmerece a ime…
This essay considers the problematics of anthropological translations when its responsibility to the codes of its modernist subjectivity persuades us to defer judgment on interpretations made of indigenous semiotics of life. It begins with this ful…
In this article, I describe a Makushi wake in Guyana, where an opposition was drawn between people in mourning and their perception of others who appeared to them to be much more like partygoers. This opposition in affective states was made evident…
Through an ethnographic examination of the shared capacities of cassava and womanhood for what I term growth and replication, I argue that Waiwai sociality seeks to curtail the trajectory of life towards finite death through the intervening act of …
Exploring the journeys of some Makushi women, this article highlights the relevance of gender in the question of (im)mobility and female engagements with the world as central to contemporary Makushi life. Departing from the understanding that the c…
Este trabalho, inicialmente, apresenta uma breve discussão sobre as novas arqueologias indígenas, seu método e sua relação com os conhecimentos tradicionais. Com base na história oral dos Wai Wai, um povo caribe das Guianas, apresentamos as aldeias…
Na introdução a este número especial da Tipití, dedicado a etnografias recentes realizadas junto a povos indígenas na Amazônia guianense, sobrevoamos as principais tradições antropológicas que posicionaram a região no centro dos debates da etnologi…
In the introduction to this special issue of Tipití, dedicated to recent ethnographies conducted among indigenous peoples in Guianese Amazonia, we offer an overview of the main anthropological traditions that have placed the region at the center of…
Este trabajo es el resultado de un estudio bibliográfico de las cuestiones conceptuales inherentes a la cultura escolar, que a su vez condujo a una breve investigación exploratoria de campo en una escuela municipal de la ciudad de Manaos, do…
En este artículo se explica la relación que existió entre la doctrina de Vallejo Nájera y el robo de menores durante el franquismo. Este robo de menores estuvo enraizado en la eugenesia positiva y buscaba la separación de los niños de sus ma…