Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article focuses on the intergenerational nature of migrants’ aspirations and the emotions that attach to them. Drawing on Ahmed’s (2014) notion of “affective economies” that emphasises that emotions circulate and accumulate affective value, I show…
Theoretically, cultural diplomacy has commonly been perceived as part of a broader family of connect…
Este texto tem como objetivo tecer reflexões sobre a história da população infantojuvenil e sua intersecção com a história da educação. Acredita-se que por meio desta análise é possível compreender o processo de construção a cerca desse grupo e suas re…
Reviewed by Hsin-Yun Cheng, University of Rochester Hentyle Yapp. Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 288 Pages. At first glance, the title of the book, Minor China, seems to counterintuitively bel…
InVisible Culture
On the website for his eponymous luxury fashion label, Telfar Clemens says of his products: “It’s not for you—it’s for everyone.” Eschewing conventional markers of luxury production, Clemens underwrites this claim through TELFAR’s “Bag Security Program…
Access to consumption, especially to objects that are challenging to obtain, is one of the features contributing to the successful spread of Pentecostalism in West Africa. Pentecostal pastors have become central public figures, ‘consumer stars,’ whose …
This special issue brings together research from various disciplines to not only assess the current state of human rights, aid and development projects, and legitimate governing orders – often framed as factors of human security – but also to criticall…
In light of climate change, projected population growth, increasing conflicts over land and the question of food security, the Tanzanian government takes the respective visions of environmental futures as a cause and justification for particular measur…
This article analyzes the conceptions of anticipation and invention in the philosophies of Henri Bergson and Gilbert Simondon. In doing so, I analyze the questions how futures are anticipated and what role technologies play in the anticipation and inve…
This article explores the ways in which emergent police forces in conflict-affected Southern societies are shaped by cultural practices operating through social phenomena. It uses the record of the prototypical police forces found in the Somali cities …
Building on ethnographic research in Uganda, this paper discusses the mundane practice of rumour mongering and gossiping as anticipatory practices. Crude oil discovery in Uganda brought a small oil boom to the region endowed with the natural resource i…
This paper is based on ethnographic work in organization that form part of what we term the Future Industry – such as think tanks, consultancies and governmental bodies – involved in the charting, description and analysis of geopolitical future sce…
In dealing with terrorism cases in Indonesia, the government must develop a strategy to eradicate terrorism, be it the ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or other terrorism ideologies through awareness of the importance of human rig…
Serena Bindi est anthropologue et maître de conférences à l’Université de Paris, au sein du Centre d’Anthropologie Culturelle (CANTHEL). Ses travaux, basés sur des matériaux ethnographiques collectés dans l’État indien himalayen de l’Uttarakhand, s’inscrivent dans les domaines de l’anthropologie du
Alexandra de Sousa est chercheure en médecine et en anthropologie, elle a notamment travaillé sur la maternité chez les Bijago de Guinée-Bissau. Elle est aujourd’hui chef de bureau adjointe de l’OCHA en Éthiopie
Alexandra de Sousa est chercheure en médecine et en anthropologie, elle a notamment travaillé sur la maternité chez les Bijago de Guinée-Bissau. Elle est aujourd’hui chef de bureau adjointe de l’OCHA en Éthiopie
Jean-Paul Colleyn est anthropologue, membre de l’IMAF (UMR 8171/CNRS –UMR 243/IRD) et directeur d’études retraité de l’EHESS. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur l’art et la religion en Afrique de l’Ouest (Mali, Sénégal, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo).
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This paper analyzes the policies for migrant economies as part of broader social and labor market in Germany. It points out that the current fragmented and contradictory policy action can be identified as an outcome of former ambiguities and the delega…
The Papuan People’s Assembly (Majelis Rakyat Papua-MRP) is a cultural representation of the Papuan people, which has an important role in protecting the rights of the Papuan people in the fields of customs and culture, empowering women, and religious h…
Abstract After World War II, an estimated five million people were on the move in Czechoslovakia. Between 1954 and 1970, over 16,000 of them immigrated to Australia. This paper is part of a larger research project that provides an in-depth inquiry of t…
In pursuit of post-Kemalism [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek
À la poursuite du post-kémalisme [Full text]
Emmanuel Szurek
Post-Post-Kemalism: In Search of a New …
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The aim of the study is to acquaint the reader briefly with the movement of Messianic Judaism in the world and to introduce its specific Czech form in more depth. Based on almost two years of field research in the Messianic community in Prague, the aut…
According to psychoanalysis and the depth psychology, folktales and dreams can be seen as modalities through which the unconscious manifests itself. Using the folktale ATU 510B The Donkey Skin, some theories of folktales are introduced in this paper. A…