Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
A Academia Brasileira de Ciências (ABC), a Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL), a Academia Nacional de Medicina (ANM) e a Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC), entidades que procuram contribuir sempre para o desenvolvimento científico e tecnológico do País, para a educação e para a cultura brasileira, manifestam sua grande preocupação com a […]
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Reviewed by Stefan Higgins, University of Victoria James J. Hodge. Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 220 Pages. The task of “pulling back the curtains” on computational technology has …
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
This lectio introduces the thesis ‘This Is A Good Place’: Tsimihety place making, knowledge hierarchies and intensifying conservation efforts in rural northeastern Madagascar. The study is concerned with the rapid rearrangement of nature and the intens…
This article brings together the themes of identi cation, belonging, and community. Based on ethnographic research on a small island in Finland with a majority of Swedish-speakers, it provides a distinctive approach to the research on the minority, …
How do Russian Orthodox Christians frame their understanding of semiotic ideologies of worship? That is to say, how do worshippers interpret liturgical language ‘signs’ and how do these interpretations colour their views as to which language is ‘rig…
Andersen, Astrid Oberborbeck, Anne Line Dalsgård, Mette Lind Kusk, Maria Nielsen, Cecilie Rubow and Mikkel Rytter (eds) 2020. Anthropology Inside Out: Fieldworkers Taking Notes. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 227 p. ISBN: 9781912385218 (pape…
Schielke, Samuli 2020. Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. 137 p. ISBN: 9789774169564 (paperback)
Buchowski Michał (ed.) 2019. Twilight Zone Anthropology: Voices from Poland. Canon Pyon: Sean Kingston Publishing. 250 p. ISBN: 9781912385065 (hardback).
Universitas Humanística
Universitas Humanística
Human beings tend to organize themselves in groups. These groups need to be robust to enable effective cooperation among individuals. According to some researchers (Ostrom, 1990; Suárez et al., 2011), a collective group identity based on shared cultur…
Universitas Humanística
Subjectivity, forms of subjectivation, domination, forms of resistance and other analogous concepts are at the heart of a vibrant debate, that runs through anthropology and social sciences since many years. This introduction aims to rethink some issues…
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Comment on Ernesto De Martino, La fine del mondo. Contributo all’analisi delle apocalissi culturali, new edition, edited by Giordana Charuty, Daniel Fabre and Marcello Massenzio, 2019 [fr. ed. La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles…
Book review of Simona Taliani, Il tempo della disobbedienza: Per un’antropologia della parentela nella migrazione, Verona, Ombre Corte, 2019, pp. 207.
Cet article porte sur l’alimentation des populations peules du Sénégal, plus précisément sur deux groupes de femmes : l’un vivant dans la zone sylvo-pastorale du Ferlo (Nord Est du Sénégal) et l’autre issu du Ferlo et installé dans la capitale d…
Forum in memory of David Graeber. Contributions by Patrícia Alves de Matos, Stefano Boni, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Alessandro Deiana, Nika Dubrovsky.
In this interview, Tullio Seppilli points out the usefulness of the notion of health risk if aimed at reducing it with public interventions by improving living conditions and reducing social inequalities. Introducing the notion of health as a common go…
Dajko, Nathalie and Shana Walton, eds. 2019. Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Amanik, Allan and Kami Fletcher. 2020. Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 288 pages.