Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Social media networking websites have become platforms where users can not only share their photos, moments of happiness, success stories and best practices, but can also voice their criticism, discontent and negative emotions. It is interesting to fo…
The topic of the present article concerns verbal aggression and focusses on the verbal expression of the emotional mind; specifically, the expression of negative feelings, emotions and attitudes. Since computer-mediated communication is widely used to…
In this article the phrase “extreme speech” is used to encompass both hate speech and impoliteness. Legislation against hate speech has been passed in many countries, while work on defining phenomena related to hate speech is still ongoing. As a rule, …
This paper explores the tension between perceiving autism as a spectrum of traits or as a core. A spectrum is defined as a tension between two extremes. A core, on the other hand, is defined by an essence or a pervasive structure. I present the views o…
Sus scrofa domesticus limbs were obtained as a human proxy to study the effects of five distinct materials used in published methods of flesh removal: Dermestes lardarius beetles (also referred to as dermestids), distilled…
Few systematic historical studies of Seminole Indian foodways in Florida exist, fewer even for the critical period between Removal and World War I. This paper aims to fill the gap in related foodways and historical literature, while establishing …
At the time of Spanish contact, the Timucua were the original people of northern central Florida. Granberry (1996) claimed in a provocative article that Timucua constitutes an exception to the universal or near-universal property of preference for the …
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The aim of this paper is to explore the parallels of fathering and foodwork among men in Sweden. The research question is: can foodwork be seen as “the new fathering”? The paper outlines the narrative of fathers in Sweden and gender progressiveness, an…
The present study explores the contents and functions of inspirational memes addressing happiness in two cultural contexts, Finnish and Italian. Inspirational memes are understood as a mode of present-day folk wisdom conveying advice that can be easily…
‘Individual crisis’, as a psychological term, was introduced in a Swedish context in the late 1960s. In this article, ‘individual crisis’ is analysed as a concept in order to understand how masculinity and emotion came to matter in Sweden in the 1970s—…
This is an ethnographic and an autoethnographic study based on qualitative interviews as well as memories and experiences of the author. It focuses on two men that were childhood friends of the author and who both died prematurely. Marcus died in Novem…
One of the most important questions for feminist research on men and masculinity concerns how men can change and become more affected by feminism and less engaged in sexism. Here, men who identify as feminist, pro-feminist or anti-sexist have been cons…
Men and feminism is a contentious topic. In theoretical discussions as well as in previous studies, men and feminism have been described as an oxymoron, that being a man and a feminist is a border land position and that it entails experiences of so-cal…
This paper explores the construction of a nuclear power facility at Fessenheim, Alsace, and its role in the remaking of French-German post-war relations and the consolidation of the post-war peacebuilding process. The siting and materiality of nuclear …
This article explores two Swedish TV shows centred on close, emotional friendships between men, Våra vänners liv (2010) [Our friends’ lives] and Boys (2015), as examples of postfeminism with a Swedish twist, inspired by Swedish ideologies of gender equ…
In Spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced university instructors across the United States to confront the daunting task of quickly changing their courses from face-to-face to remote instruction. Nationally, universities relied on virtual platforms a…
This commentary serves as a reflection on the impact of COVID-19 and other current events that have coincided with the pandemic from my perspective as an anthropologist and faculty administrator. With consideration of the multiple levels of decision-ma…
Dette nummer sætter således samlet set fokus på sammenhænge mellem politik, medier, diaspora og islam, og hvordan sådanne sammenhænge får betydning for, hvordan arabiske diasporaer orienterer sig mod forskellige lande, herunder deres oprindelsesland. A…
Denne artikel undersøger, hvordan forståelsen og italesættelsen af spørgsmålet omkring religiøse tilhørsforhold kommer til udtryk i kontekst af konflikten i Syrien. Konflikten i Syrien har øget sekteriske skel og ekspliciteret sekteriske kløfter, og ar…
Under overgangen fra autokrati til demokrati har religiøs identitet været et centralt emne på den tunesiske dagsorden, både for folk i Tunesien og den tunesiske diaspora. Denne artikel undersøger fra et interkulturelt kommunikationsperspektiv, hvordan …
Denne artikel sammenligner to grupper af bahrainere i Europa: en lille gruppe dansk-bahrainere og den noget større gruppe bahrainere i London. Min analyse fokuserer på forholdet mellem diaspora og aktivisme, i relation til fx Sökefeld (2006) og Adamson…
Nye medieteknologier har forkortet distancen mellem diasporagrupper og deres oprindelseslande, samtidig med at de har intensiveret muligheden for at orientere sig både nationalt og transnationalt. I denne artikel undersøges, hvordan muslimske mænd i Da…
Med Arabisk filosofi af Christian Høgel og Saer El-Jaichi har vi for første gang på dansk fået et udvalg af arabiske, filosofiske tekster målrettet gymnasieundervisningen i filosofi og religion. Som undervisningsbog til ungdomsuddannelserne udgør den e…