Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article challenges dominant conservation discourses that frame nature as pristine and separate from humans, critiquing the wilderness paradigm informing Third World environmental planning. While scientific discourses promote holistic planetary vis…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Land governance in Nairobi is shaped by hybrid systems that blur the boundaries between formality and informality, especially in informal settlements which houses over 60 per cent of the city’s population. Land cartels …
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This study examines how the re-emerging “informal” land demarcation systems contribute to the de-escalation of land conflicts and promotion of peace in post-war Northern Uganda. Although relative peace and normalcy have…
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Anthropological studies based on participant observation, with the goal of producing context-sensitive, holistic sociocultural descriptions of high-risk industries, are few and far between. This article focuses on the intentional bending and breaking o…
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Scholars have convincingly proposed understanding processes of tidal flooding and subsidence as questions of environmental justice: they form part of a politics of uneven urbanization, with those most responsible for causing subsidence suffering least …
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Conservation practices in the twenty-first century are facing a critical reckoning as global biodiversity loss, climate disruption and social inequalities expose the limitations of exclusionary, top-down approaches. Nowhere is this more evident than in…
Cada any, els Estats Units donen feina a gairebé dos milions de treballadors agrícoles temporers, aproximadament la meitat dels quals son migrants (Rothenberg, 1998). Aquest article es basa en un any d’observació participant duta a terme en una finca d…
La lleugeresa del dispositiu fílmic, la versatilitat de l’investigador-cineasta, el principi de no intervenció en la realitat observada i el caràcter experimental de l’enfocament etnofílmic constitueixen, d’una banda, l’expressió d’una enginyositat cie…
Les malalties cròniques representen un dels temes d’estudi prevalents en l’àmbit de l’Antropologia de la Salut, no obstant això sembla no haver-hi cabuda per a la migranya crònica, com a malaltia feminitzada, ja que afecta especialment les dones, i inv…
(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació social
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
This article examines the role of plants shaping the political ecology (PE) of the conservation of the Andean páramos in the Sumapaz Region in Colombia. Due to their rich biodiversity and role in the water cycle, páramos have gained major importance in…
Environmental anthropology has evolved from early ethnographic traditions that emphasized the interplay between culture and ecology to a field increasingly influenced by ideological perspectives across the political spectrum. Traditionally, anthrop…
Published: December 2025.
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Rassismus im medizinischen Bereich und wie ihn angehende Ärzt:innen in ihrem Berufs- und Studienalltag erleben. Es geht dabei um rassistische Praktiken und Strukturen im System, die individuellen Umgangsweisen der Akteur…
Dear Colleagues!The CAES editorial team looks forward to receiving your papers for CAES Vol. 12, No. 1, which is going to be published in late February or early March 2026. The deadline for submission of papers is February 10, 2026.
When young people in Danish residential care escape their institutions without permission it is often understood as acts of ‘troubling behaviour’ among social workers. Drawing on one and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork across three re…
This article examines how the Canela Apanjekra (Porquinhos Indigenous Land, Maranhão, Brazil) engage with conditional cash transfer policies aimed at combating hunger—especially the Bolsa Família Program—and how these policies are interpreted throu…
Na virada do século XXI, salários, programas e políticas previdenciárias com aporte renda, voltados ao bem-estar social, começam a atingir povos indígenas brasileiros. Os poucos estudos etnográficos acerca da monetarização concordam sobre possíveis…
Examinam-se aspectos e percursos do sistema alimentar dos Wari’, povo indígena da Amazônia Ocidental, em um intervalo de duas décadas, mas também contemporaneamente. Trata-se de um cenário marcado por transformações, com dinâmicas que incluem a mon…
Os Guarani e Kaiowa apresentam uma relação sofisticada entre as práticas alimentares e a recuperação de territórios tradicionais em Mato Grosso do Sul (Brasil), protagonizada cotidianamente por mulheres indígenas. As mulheres guarani e kaiowa consi…
El artículo analiza cómo la comida se ha convertido en un eje central para comprender las transformaciones morales, corporales y políticas entre los urarina de la Amazonía peruana. La introducción de alimentos industrializados —especialmente los co…