Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Typical scholarly analyses of ethnic incorporation draw on cases where older, preexisting political entities and their forms of citizenship become the basis for new entrepreneurial corporate identities structured around a set of legal profit-making pra…
Journal of Business Anthropology
Qualitative segmentation is a blend of art and science. There are a variety of sampling methods researchers use to guarantee a pool of participants that is representative of their target market. But for innovation research, we suggest ignoring those sq…
Reviewed by Dylan Lackey, Global Center for Advanced Studies Jack Halberstam. Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. 219 pages. On the other side of interpellation, where the hail does not reach, where the call is unh…
This is a book review of Max Geenberg’s book, which focuses on at-risk youth in violence prevention programs. The review offers an overview of the ethnographic book, which provides critical insight of youth youth programs, but also about the relationsh…
According to Ulrich Beck, the breakdown of nation-state power and the migration of people, culture and ideas through neoliberalism provides us with a unique historical moment that simultaneously holds the potential for unparalleled cosmopolitanism and …
This study examined the living and working experiences of 14 Taiwanese working holiday makers (WHMs) in Belgium as they negotiate their identity and social lives while they live overseas, using both participant observation and semi-structured interview…
The concept of internalised racism (IR) has been criticised for its potential utilisation to perpetuate ‘victim blaming’. In describing the racialised subject’s indoctrination to racist beliefs about themselves and/or their group, the concept of IR has…
This study presents factors that encourage Palestinian NGOs to embrace financial sustainability employing modern ideologies that encompass community engagement, voluntarism, collaboration, and business-like practices in order to meet societal challenge…
The concept and practice of Social Impact and Social Impact assessment has developed and matured over the last decade. Despite this growth, confusion still exists with respect to definitions of social impact as well as which tools and frameworks are mo…
For its thirty-third issue, InVisible Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that engage with the legacy of Douglas Crimp (1944-2019). Douglas was foundational to InVisible Culture and its institutional home, the Graduate Program in Visu…
Pavin Chachavalpongpun is an associate professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University. He has published extensively on Thailand and Southeast Asian politics. He is also politically active and does not shy away from discussing a…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Anthropology Matters
This article challenges the tendency, both academic and popular, to assign ‘monsters’ the status of the radical Other: of that which we are not. This widespread inclination to understand monsters as agencies breaking into the ordinary ignores what…
Resumo O artigo discute a condição ética dos cães nos sertões cearenses tomando como foco de atenção os ataques de alguns deles aos rebanhos ovinos. Geralmente levando à morte dos cães, tais episódios produzem uma espécie de curto-circuito moral nas co…
Resumo O artigo discute a condição ética dos cães nos sertões cearenses tomando como foco de atenção os ataques de alguns deles aos rebanhos ovinos. Geralmente levando à morte dos cães, tais episódios produzem uma espécie de curto-circuito moral nas co…
Resumo Este artigo aborda as leis de propriedade intelectual como um conjunto de regulações constituído por relações porosas estabelecidas entre o legal/ilegal. Para além de uma configuração permeada por normas e comportamentos alinhados a uma racional…
Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é destrinchar alguns contornos sociais e simbólicos do mundo da aviação comercial brasileira nas últimas décadas do século XX, a partir de três metáforas que impregnam os imaginários de antigos funcionários da extinta Var…
Resumen En este trabajo analizamos los equívocos entre expertos en conservación y pescadores artesanales en el marco de un taller sobre identificación de prácticas pesqueras sustentables. Allí se discutieron acciones de mitigación centradas en reducir …
Jump to Table of Contents by Joel Burges, Alisa V. Prince, and Jeffrey Allen Tucker Featured image: Ellen Gallagher, Bird in Hand, 2006. © Ellen Gallagher. Image © Tate. She was dismayed when she realized that what she wanted to imagine, what she was s…
Joel Burges, Alisa V. Prince, and Jeffrey Allen Tucker, “Introduction: Black Studies Now and the Countercurrents of Hazel Carby” Hazel V. Carby, “Black Futurities: Shape-Shifting beyond the Limits of the Human” Alanna Prince and Alisa V. Prince, “What’…
Will Bridges is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester. His scholarship has been recognized by the Fulbright Program, the Japan Foundation, the Association for Asian Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His fi…
by Hazel V. Carby Please follow each link to images, videos or sound as they occur because they are integral to the narrative. They thought they were tasting the future (which for some peopletasted like cardboard and for other people tasted like sugar)…
by Alanna Prince and Alisa V. Prince Two Black Feminists Go For A Walk On a Wednesday afternoon, we walked down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, our hometown. We saw the center aisle of the street lined with older white people holding signs for Black…