Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The verb lexicon, and more specifically verb subcategorization frames, forms an integral part of any computational grammar. In building a Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) computational grammar for Setswana, it is therefore necessary to determine, in a …
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En el presente artículo se realiza un abordaje que surge de la articulación entre investigación antropológica, histórica y la utilización de las fuentes judiciales, con la intención de exponer su potencial heurístico para los estudios de company towns …
La costa oeste del Golfo San Matías (Pcia. de Río Negro, Argentina) es un sector del litoral nordpatagónico del que se posee escasa información zooarqueológica. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de un estudio osteométrico desarrollado sobre r…
El artículo recupera la experiencia de lucha y de trabajo de una agrupación social abocada a la generación de proyectos habitacionales en una ciudad media de la provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina). A partir de la misma se reflexiona respecto a los pr…
El presente artículo realiza un breve recorrido por los estudios en ciencias sociales y particularmente en antropología sobre la pesca artesanal y el fenómeno marino-costero de Chile. Para ello se ha consultado una serie de autores vinculados a este ca…
As part of a current investigation a number of stone structures have been registered throughout the locality of Santa Cruz (Argentina), which have been assigned to various functions such as hunting blinds, cairns, bases of awnings and “chenques” or fun…
Keywords: Ethnohistory, Personal names, Language-in-contact, Rombo-Chagga, Tanzania The history of African societies, which are mostly oral, could be deciphered through onomastics. This is possible because naming practices, which are elaborate, and per…
Keywords: Ọjị (kola nut), Ọjị Ezinihitte cultural festival, Socio-cultural heritage, Historical dynamics, Igboland, Nigeria. Ọjị (kola nut) is indispensable in traditional life of the Igbo of Nigeria. It plays an intrinsic role in almost all segments o…
Keywords: Qur‟an interpretation, Biological evolution, Supernatural Creator, Limits of science, Human reproduction, Picturing creation, Human gametes, Human zygote, Human embryogenesis, Real Renewal of Islam.
This essay examines two domains in which wealthy Chinese seek to cultivate social distinction. The first section examines luxury consumption and highlights the ambivalences surrounding global luxury goods in China. Given that luxury goods often fail to…
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
This article draws on ethnographic research to examine the bureaucratic matrix of temporal, material, and legal scales that come together to constitute the rehousing process for a group of rough sleepers seeking passage out of homelessness in contempor…
In just a few years, China has become one of the world’s largest markets for Western luxury products. Marketing professionals play a key role in this market. As symbolic brokers between the production and consumption of goods, they analyze and attempt …
This essay brings literature in experimental psychology and visual perception into conversation with psychological anthropology to propose a new theory of presence. We examine data on Catholic nuns’ experiences of God’s presence, proposing that presenc…
Based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, this article focuses on collections of gifted kimono that have accumulated in the home, which are usually intended to be passed from mother to daughter and thus enable the perpetuation of famil…
This article explores how cosmological currents contest and converse with one another to compose a shifting “cosmoscape” in Kaata, a community in highland Bolivia. Contrasting worlding practices encompass reciprocal relations between humans, ancestral …
Philippe Descola’s work on ontologies has created new possibilities for exploring the rich connections between creation myths and their ontological underpinnings. This has proven fruitful in studies of animist and totemist narratives whose myths often …
By distinguishing between attributions of sentience and agency we begin to take crucial analytical steps to consider ontological and cosmological differences between groups. Scholars in New Animist and Actor-Network Theory camps sometimes expound broad…
According to Arjun Appadurai (1996), global flows are both economic and cultural, forming what he calls “scapes”: financescapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, ethnoscapes, and ideoscapes. Within these scapes, spaces are created and reproduced to give visi…
A scholarship on “time” has emerged that pays attention to the ways contemporary economic life and information technology affect temporal perception and practice. A critique of this scholarship, along with a joint reading and reinterpretation of Alfred…
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
Italy has emerged as a leading producer of luxury goods on the international stage, while China has been asserting itself as a strategic market for luxury firms. Italy took advantage of the World Expos, in both Shanghai and Milan, to redefine its relat…