Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
O coming out (“saída do armário”) como escolha particular deveria dar-se no tempo determinado pelos sujeitos que optam por tal decisão. Porém, quando se trata de pessoas públicas, muitas vezes não tem sido essa a prática. Atletas olímpicas lésbicas têm…
O artigo argumenta que o corpo de conhecimento construído por meio de pesquisas sobre e com o HIV no Haiti, feitas e/ou financiadas por entidades internacionais, compõe uma metanarrativa histórica acerca da nação caribenha. Nesta, o Haiti é um símbolo …
Baseado na discussão de Michel Foucault sobre a subjetivação na modernidade, abordo as diferentes facetas das relações sexuais entre homens nas Forças Armadas sul-africanas do apartheid (South African Defence Force [SADF]) descritas no romance sul-afri…
Este artigo explora uma série de representações de amicitia, categoria romana que expressava, em partes, o que se compreende modernamente como amizade. Para tanto, utiliza-se como documento o Satyricon, de Petrônio, texto ficcional e satírico composto …
Este artigo discute modalidades de compreensão e gestão fornecidas pelos saberes biomédicos para a assistência em saúde de crianças e adolescentes trans e/ou não conformes de gênero. Tomando como objeto as normas, diretrizes e resoluções que buscam est…
Este artigo visa retratar e discutir as possibilidades de existências e performatividades a partir da observação e participação em uma oficina de dança do grupo Transamigas, direcionado para travestis e mulheres trans na cidade de São Paulo. Durante os…
Os artigos reunidos neste dossiê têm em comum o fato de perseguirem lógicas relacionais alternativas à hegemonia da cisheterossexualidade reprodutiva, no mundo e na análise das ciências sociais. Procuram assim contribuir para uma antropologia da normal…
Em meados dos anos 2000, entre os jovens emos da cidade de São Paulo, surgiram as famílias alternativas, redes de amigos que ganham notoriedade na cena alternativa, conferindo a seus integrantes prestígio e suporte emocional e material. Pensando na ami…
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Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Conventional narratives suggest that the African Union Commission (AUC), like most international public administrations and international organisations (IOs) housed in the less materially endowed regions of the world, e…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article investigates how practitioners in the West African Health Organization (WAHO) obtain and exercise autonomous political agency in the development of regional health policy. While many process-driven accounts…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. African countries are well recognised as being among the worst affected by the impacts of climate change. However, efforts to secure recognition of these “special circumstances” of African countries within the UN climat…
The dialogue between medical anthropology and epidemiology is important in Tullio Seppilli’s thought. Indeed, the probabilistic mechanisms of a statistical nature make it possible to identify significant correlations between risk, health, and power str…
In this short text, the author makes a portrait of Tullio Seppilli. The portrait highlights Tullio Seppilli’s choice for critical rationalism, the role of his political convictions and the academic ethics of an outstanding master of medical anthropolog…
The contribution points out how the notion of health as a common good, central in Rita Lima’s interview with Tullio Seppilli, fits within Seppilli’s scientific itinerary in the context of policies and problems relating to health and health care in a gl…
The comment highlights Tullio Seppilli’s ethical-political sensitivity, as shown in the interview on risk and health the author conducted during a PhD program. Powered by ongoing generosity, the meeting announced the sharing of a unique heritage, in th…
Information-driven automated systems that deliver services proactively to citizens in need are heralded as the next level of digital government. There is, however, concern that such systems make welfare services less accessible to some citizens. This s…
The purpose of this article is twofold: first, we show how algorithms have become increasingly central to financial credit scoring; second, we draw on this to further develop the anthropological study of algorithmic governance. As such, we describe the…
Remembering Patrick Williams (1947-2021), one of the most important anthropologists of Gypsy-Roma groups, is also paying homage to a specific anthropology, which Williams constantly and consciously contributed to establish: an anthropology which anchor…
In early March 2020, Teaching and Learning Anthropology (TLA) initiated a crowdsourced document entitled “Teaching COVID-19: An Anthropology Syllabus Project.” This essay reflects on TLA’s #COVIDSyllabus in the context of a broader shift toward the use…
Summary: Since its inception in the 1980s, the US ‘Sanctuary Movement’ has been the source of contentious political debate and academic discussion. Although originally a clergy-based effort of transnational activism, ‘sanctuary’ has since di…
Historical records allow the lingering presences of people of the past to be traced. This study documents a search for recorded eighteenth-century sex workers in Edinburgh, assessing whether ghosts can be brought under anthropological inquir…
During my research with women performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I adopted drawing as my primary tool for collecting and analysing data. I found that the best way to capture the value of theatrical performances was through an effec…
This short photo essay presents an aspect of work in progress. First hand observational notes and photo recordings were taken around the socially structured field habitus of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, it’s religious spheres of…
This paper looks to investigate how running groups function in public space, both in terms of how they find their way and how they interact with other users. It builds on theories of wayfinding and the study of mobilities to examine how diff…