Book Review: The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19: Structural Violence, the Mindful Body, and Teen Advocacy
This essay describes a film that was produced for a community-engaged research project in a Spring 2020 Medical Anthropology course. The authors collaborated with the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide (SPTS) to make a video on how to practice …
Bloody Paperwork
This article is about paperwork: the work staff in UK integrated health and social care teams did to transform small transactions of everyday care work into big data, which in turn enabled the governance of complex service arrangements. This data-drive…
Review of Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology, edited by Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera, and Lara Braff
Review of Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology, edited by Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera, and Lara Braff
Call for Papers: Issue 34, InVisible Memes for Cultural Teens
For our 34th issue, Invisible Culture seeks scholarly articles and creative works that approach internet memes as aesthetic, cultural, and political objects of study. Memes have been discussed largely in their communicative and participatory capacities…
New Publication: Perspectives
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of Perspectives that tackles the important topic of Pandemic Politics and the Peripheries. This second Perspectives publication features two prominent scholars: Victor King on The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Marginalised: Tourism as a Southeast Asian Case and Kathryn Robinson on Global Inequality, the SDGs and COVID-19: What … Continue reading
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A Contextual Analysis of Sacred Qādiriyyah Sufi Paintings in Kano, Nigeria
Vestiges: Traces of Record
The Colonial Lagos Boy in the Ibadan Archives: a Review of the Structural Context
Vestiges: Traces of Record
Professor Bernard Fonlon : Un Témoignage du Canada
Vestiges: Traces of Record
Professor Bernard Fonlon: Testimony/Perspectives from Canada An Interview with Prof. Fernando Lambert
Vestiges: Traces of Record
Enjeux Et Difficultes Du Patrimoine Naturel Et Culturel Camerounais :
Vestiges: Traces of Record
Moving In: A Review of ‘Home Body’ at Sapar Contemporary
February 19 – March 23, 2021 Sapar Contemporary9 North Moore, NYC For better or worse, every art exhibition over the past year has been framed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At its onset, this connection occurred by default; but as time went on, galle…
Book Review: The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
MACDONALD Charles, 2018. L’Ordre contre l’Harmonie. Anthropologie de l’anarchie
Ce livre d’anthropologie comparative trouve son origine dans les constats ethnographiques et les intuitions tirés d’enquêtes menées sur plus de 40 ans chez les Palawan, une population de groupes semi-forestiers d’essarteurs d’environ 45 000 individus, du sud de l’île du même nom, dans l’archipel des Philippines. Ces analyses portent sur certains des principes fondamentaux de la vie collective et de l’organisation sociale dans les petites communautés de chasseurs-cueilleurs et d’essarteurs – parmi[…]
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 01/2021
Ada I. Engebrigtsen, Peter I. Crawford: Redaksjonelt
Mikkel Rytter: Vejen til paradis: En etnografisk fiktion om familiedynamik, ældreomsorg og antropologisk vidensproduktion
Martin Eggen Mogseth: Ontologisk stratifisering: En kompa…
LIZET Bernadette, 2020 [1982]. Le cheval dans la vie quotidienne. Techniques et représentations du cheval de travail dans l’Europe industrielle
La demande de réédition de cet ouvrage, initialement paru chez Berger-Levrault en 1982, a plongé l’auteure dans « une aventure intellectuelle inédite », mettant en perspective 40 années de sa carrière de chercheure. L’avant-propos précise en quoi il ne s’agit pas d’une simple réimpression, mais d’un livre réévalué et « augmenté ». Les dernières pages livrent ainsi les résultats d’une enquête réalisée pour comprendre le changement intervenu durant les quatre dernières décennies. Bernadette Lizet a ainsi opéré une[…]
The multifunctionality of -o in Rukiga
This paper discusses the particle -o in Rukiga (Bantu JE14, Uganda), aiming to establish its origin and function. At first sight, the particle appears to be an independent pronoun agreeing in noun class, reported in previous studies as an emphatic pron…
Book Review of Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico by Alyshia Gálvez
This is a book review of the book ‘Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico’ by Alyshia Gálvez.
Book Review of Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico by Alyshia Gálvez
This is a book review of the book ‘Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico’ by Alyshia Gálvez.
Transmission and Erosion of Local Knowledge Practices in a Fishing Village in South India
Fishermen acquire knowledge through kin or other members of the community in an informal way, as well as through personal experience. The knowledge thus acquired is viewed as an asset, but the dangers of its erosion are well understood by the fishe…
Transmission and Erosion of Local Knowledge Practices in a Fishing Village in South India
Fishermen acquire knowledge through kin or other members of the community in an informal way, as well as through personal experience. The knowledge thus acquired is viewed as an asset, but the dangers of its erosion are well understood by the fishe…
Ethnic heterogeneity of knowledge on termites and human consumption in southern Cameroon
Termites are both pests and non-conventional food resources in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many are reluctant to eat them, and the reasons for this rejection are poorly known. This study examined level of knowledge, and acceptance by members of the 10 main…
Ethnic heterogeneity of knowledge on termites and human consumption in southern Cameroon
Termites are both pests and non-conventional food resources in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many are reluctant to eat them, and the reasons for this rejection are poorly known. This study examined level of knowledge, and acceptance by members of the 10 main…
Participatory Mapping with High-resolution Satellite Imagery: A Mixed Method Assessment of Land Degradation and Rehabilitation in Northern Burkina Faso
Sahelian West Africa is a region that has high population densities and that has frequent severe droughts and enormous pressure on natural resources. Because of these challenges, it is the place where the term desertification was originally coined….
Participatory Mapping with High-resolution Satellite Imagery: A Mixed Method Assessment of Land Degradation and Rehabilitation in Northern Burkina Faso
Sahelian West Africa is a region that has high population densities and that has frequent severe droughts and enormous pressure on natural resources. Because of these challenges, it is the place where the term desertification was originally coined….