Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
A partir del cas d’una comunitat colombiana d’indígenes kankuamos que han desenvolupat estratègies per a l’autogestió de la salut individual i col·lectiva, es presenta aquesta revisió bibliogràfica contextualitzada on es pretén dialogar amb diversos au…
In recent years, Canadian/US singer, songwriter, and author Neil Young’s production shows increased signs of environmental awareness, manifested in his promotion of biofuels, critique of genetic manipulation, biotechnology, and ecocide, as well as in h…
This paper draws on cultural gerontology and literary scholarship to call for greater academic consideration of age and ageing in our imaginations of the future. Our work adds to the development of Critical Future Studies (CFS) previously publish…
Though scholars in memory studies often deal with different aspects of cultural memory, it is rare to find any systematic framework to which memory adheres to and which would explain the emergence and maintenance of memories in general. In this article…
This article explores the world making capabilities of travel writing (Goodman 1978; Youngs 2013). The premise is that literary products are key elements in the configuration of the world itself and that specifically authors of travel accounts mediate …
This article reflects on the current explanatory value of concepts such as postsocialism and Eastern Europe by exploring how they are represented in contemporary art projects in Estonia. Through an overview of recent exhibitions in which I collaborate…
The cradleboard was collected in 1823 by G. Costantino Beltrami probably near Fort Snelling (ex Fort Anthony) among the Eastern Sioux, probably the Santee …
This is a summary of some of the main arguments and findings of the book ¿Corrupción pública o privada? La dimensión ideológica de los discursos anti-corrupción en Colombia, Ecuador y Albania (Bogotá: Tirant lo Blanch, 2020). The book compares the offi…
Published: December 2021.
Published: December 2021.
Cet article propose de suivre quelques mouvements de revalorisation de la sauce soja artisanale dans le Japon contemporain. Alors que la sauce soja à macération lente en fûts de cèdre ne représente aujourd’hui qu’un pourcent de la production sur…
Cet article se propose de donner un aperçu visuel de la cuisine populaire de la région d’Hanoi (Vietnam) au début du XXe siècle. Pour cela, nous disposons de sources graphiques abondantes rassemblées dans l’ouvrage de référence d’Henri Oger « Te…
Dans d’innombrables ouvrages littéraires japonais, fictions et non-fictions, la description de la nourriture joue un rôle de miroir reflétant l’évolution de la société. Nous tenterons d’éclairer certaines problématiques et préoccupations populai…
Les scènes de préparation et de dégustation de repas sont omniprésentes dans l’animation japonaise, des films pour le cinéma internationalement réputés comme Le Voyage de Chihiro aux séries télévisées populaires comme Food Wars! L’héritage du ma…
Ce texte s’intéresse à un sous genre des films de kung fu tournés à Hong Kong et à Shanghai depuis les années 1990, que l’on pourrait nommer « kung food », à partir de la rencontre entre la cuisine chinoise et le kung fu. Dans ces films réalisés…
The Cuisine of Guangxi Autonomous Region (southern China), is defined in terms of local, wild and ethnic, to mark its identity, differentiation, and sophistication relative to neighboring Cantonese cuisine. This article studies the different way…
The tool used in Chinese kitchens to cut ingredients, whether professional or domestic, is of a single model: a wide, perfectly sharpened rectangular blade fixed on a handle. Difficult to use for a novice, it requires a real apprenticeship. But …
Au Monet, ce restaurant de gastronomie française situé en haut d’une tour de luxe sur la place centrale Sühbaatar d’Ulaanbaatar, Bold, chef cuisinier, me fait visiter les cuisines, impeccables, et me présente l’équipe du midi, qui finit de netto…
Using the famous culinary triangle theorized by Claude Lévi-Strauss, this paper tries to determine the place of the raw in the Japanese culinary model and to understand how it became so iconic. For this purpose, the research focuses on the relat…
L’adherència terapèutica als fàrmacs continua exercint-se en els sistemes sanitaris des del dogma i el paternalisme degenerant en ocasions en el càstig, la coacció o la por i relegant al pacient a posicionar-se en termes d’obediència o desobediència. U…
L’objectiu d’aquest assaig és reflexionar sobre les implicacions del suïcidi feminicida com a fet individual, social i biopolític, sobre la base d’un exercici reflexiu i la tensió entre diferents autors que han abordat aquesta temàtica. Es proposa lleg…
Malgrat el focus d’atenció sanitària sobre la diabetis a Espanya, hi ha nombrosos estudis que demostren que un elevat percentatge de la població diagnosticada de diabetis mellitus tipus 2 (DM2), tot i estar rebent seguiment mèdic i tractament farmacolò…
by Jonathan Walz and Philip Gooding Abstract This article seeks to redress what the authors perceive as a coast-inland dichotomy in understandings of eastern Africa’s past. Through allowing aspects of highly problematic historical paradigms to persist, some of which are European in origin and date from the Victorian and colonial eras, and through adopting certain […]
Organizadoras María Gabriela Lugones – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Facultad de Lenguas María Lucía Tamagnini – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Antropología María Cecilia Díaz – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Antropología El presente dossier surge de diálogos […]
In the rural Bolivian Andes, personhood is defined by intersubjective reciprocal relationships between human and nonhuman beings. This paper examines the role of the house as a living being in itself and a conduit between its inhabitants and local plac…