Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article investigates how the Norwegian police’s Online Patrols contribute to the cultural production of monstrosity through their posts on social media. Drawing on theories of monstrosity as a shifting moral and cultural category, the study examin…
Today, the phenomenon of the golem becomes a symbol of technological progress, especially in the form of modern android robots, raising important questions about technological singularity, subjectivity, and authorship (as presented in a number of legis…
Borders cannot be avoided and will always be present in everyday life. Border issues may vary, starting from politics, geography, socio-economics, culture, and nature. Not to mention, much literature and films expose border issues as the main themes. M…
As artificial intelligence, robotics, and hybrid embodiment become increasingly embedded in daily life, legal systems are struggling to address the status, rights, and responsibilities of these posthuman entities. This article argues that such difficul…
This study explores the socio-spatial dynamics surrounding the creation and perception of Sara kulturhus, a flagship cultural centre in Skellefteå, Sweden. While initially being framed within a discourse of urban attractivity, the project later became …
Sustainability in agriculture is as much a policy goal as a cultural and political project: privileging scientific expertise, innovation, and entrepreneurship, it defines what counts as competent farming, sidelining the everyday, hands-on skills that a…
This article offers a critique of the lord and bondsman scene from Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (2004[1807]). The scene depicts the struggle between these two protagonists for recognition and material possessions. The outcome of the strug…
In 2021, the BBC News released a video about a Chinese father making medicines at home to save his son. The father, Xu Wei, was around 30 years old, living in southwestern China. In 2020, his nine-month-old son had been diagnosed with Menkes syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that prevents the body from absorbing copper. Doctors told […]
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We write at a moment when the violence of war is reverberating across regions, institutions, and everyday life. Ongoing wars in the Middle East have laid bare the genocidal tendencies of both global and regional powers. In Gaza, Israel’s ongoing assault—enabled and sustained by Western military and financial support—has involved the systematic destruction of the […]
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This editorial opens the Spring issue of the Journal of Business Anthropology. The issue consists of a collection of nine themed essays on artificial intelligence (AI) and business anthropology, edited by Matt Artz and Adam Gamwell, who have also writt…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The climate change–security nexus has dominated the literature, research, policy, and security governance in Nigeria. This study argued that the framing of climate change as a security threat has led to new governance c…
Introduction. Marriage and Carcerality in South Asia [Full text]
Katy Gardner, Naseem Jivraj and Charlotte Ramble
The Specter of Jail [Full text]
Srimati Basu
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Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Border residents in the African region have long been portrayed as threats to national security and labelled as passive dwellers or collaborators in cross-border crime. In this study, we apply an Integrated Border Manag…
Las situaciones de crisis suelen ser tratadas como escenarios excepcionales que alteran el rumbo de lo previsto generando incertidumbre sobre el futuro. En este trabajo analizo los procesos de ritualización política desplegados en dos contextos críti…
Esta tesis se centra en las experiencias laborales y la vida cotidiana de las burocracias estatales que realizan tareas de acompañamiento a adolescentes varones atravesados por el campo penal, en dispositivos de privación de la libertad de la ciudad de…
Prólogo – PUBLICAR, Año XXV N° XL/ Julio 2026
Esta tesis doctoral propone una antropología crítica de la victimización. El trabajo de campo que sustenta las reflexiones aquí desarrolladas consistió en una etnografía de audiencias judiciales relativas a casos enmarcados en la Ley Maria da Penha (Le…
El presente artículo examina, a través de un abordaje etnográfico, los procesos de catalogación y posicionamiento espacial de los cuerpos fallecidos en el cementerio municipal de General San Martín, Buenos Aires, entre 2015 y 2019. Mediante el análisis…
En este artículo analizamos las modalidades específicas que asumen los consumos culturales en ciudades no metropolitanas, a partir de un análisis comparativo entre dos ciudades de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Tandil y Villa Gesell) durante el periodo …
Se presenta un fenómeno religioso particular en la localidad de Sierra de los Padres (Mar del Plata, Argentina) que expone un escenario interesante para analizar situaciones de tensión entre dos tipos de cultos diferentes, uno católico formal que inv…
Con el propósito de documentar los movimientos actuales de reemergencia étnica y revitalización lingüística de la Günün a yajüch en la provincia de Buenos Aires, en este trabajo sistematizo el recorrido etnográfico sostenido con las comunidades del p…
En el presente trabajo se aborda el derecho de acceso a la justicia por los pueblos indígenas, dado que es uno de los ámbitos donde más impacta la falta de reconocimiento de sus derechos, particularmente en la justicia penal. El análisis parte desde …
Presentación – PUBLICAR, Año XXV N° XL/ Julio 2026
Reuniendo diferentes líneas de análisis social -el trabajo sobre la violencia y la subjetividad, la antropología legal y los estudios sobre las prácticas de parentesco-, propongo en este artículo tratar el hecho de que una mujer entregue a su hijo como…
Paisajes y procesos sociales en Tafí del Valle (2007-2024) reúne un conjunto de estudios de diversos autores sobre el Valle de Tafí, espacio habitado desde hace miles de años por comunidades indígenas, tratando de dar cuenta de las relaciones entre e…