Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
L’article traite d’une profession des classes populaires fortement féminisée, les esthéticiennes, en la replaçant dans le secteur économique auquel elle appartient : l’esthétique-cosmétique. Or celui-ci est dominé par l’industrie cosmétique qui …
L’industrie cosmétique brésilienne s’est construite autour de normes de beauté qui faisaient la promotion de représentations eurocentrées de la féminité. Si celle-ci s’est attachée depuis la fin des années 1970 à élargir son offre de produits co…
À partir d’une enquête menée dans des classes de CAP coiffure dans un centre de formation pour apprentis et un lycée professionnel, nous examinons dans cet article le travail du corps et la transformation de l’apparence au cours de la formation …
Faisant le choix d’adopter une approche critique et de partir des discours des acteurs, producteurs et réalisateurs de films pornographiques gay, cet article vise à montrer que les injonctions du travail pornographique et les logiques de profess…
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Le 10 janvier 2020, le magazine Vie Pratique Féminin, publiait un article faisant le « zoom sur 26 jeunes femmes, qui grâce à leur beauté époustouflante, sont passées du statut d’instagrameuse à celui de mannequin professio…
L’article s’attache à analyser les déplacements, dans l’expérience de femmes ayant participé à des élections de Miss, d’un travail du corps réalisé dans le cadre des concours à l’échelon local vers des formes de travail esthétique. À quelles con…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Education policy can embed ethnic inequalities in a country. Education in Burundi, with its historically exclusive political institutions and education, represents an important case for understanding these interactions….
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. In recent decades, musicians have figured prominently on Africa’s political stage. Popular Ugandan musician Bobi Wine moved beyond protest singer and ventured into politics by entering parliament in 2017 and challenging…
This paper deals with a Facebook-group named Malaysia-News. This group was founded in August 2019 and saw a rapid increase in members, especially in Southeast Asia. The analysis of the development of this group is based on data from Facebook and concer…
Social media have played a major role as a place where one can meet and socialize with like-minded people, and this is especially important for marginalized groups. Atheists depict such a group in Indonesia where public expressions of atheism are punis…
In April 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, memes addressing the Thai monarchy in a critical way appeared on Twitter under the hashtag #MilkTeaAlliance, which for a couple of days trended worldwide. Initially, the Twitter account of a Thai TV…
As a result of lockdowns across Southeast Asia, the use of all types of social media has reached high records in the whole region. Yet, the rapid social media response manifested in the form of an infodemic – an overabundance of false and misleading in…
This article examines how Malaysia has sought to improve migrant workers’ welfare through the revision of its labor laws. Migrant workers’ welfare in Malaysia has been hindered by the absence of social security frameworks, outdated labor laws, multiple…
Poverty in rural areas remains a major concern for developing countries. In order to improve the lives of poor rural people, it is important to identify the key factors behind their poverty. Over the past two decades, rural development policy and resea…
In the literature, Malaysian Indians, as minorities, are marginalized and discriminated against, while their agency is either conspicuously lacking or one-dimensional. As a result, the mainstream discourse concerning Malaysian Indians is discursive and…
This book dicusses the national, regional, and transnational appropriations of Kartini – a young Javanese woman who lived in Jepara, Central Java, between 1879 and 1904. She is recognised internationally as an iconic feminist and nationalist Indonesian…
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Pesquisador do Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet) e diretor do mestrado em Sociologia e Análise Cultural do Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales (Idaes) da Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Unsam), o sociólogo Miguel…
Resenha (review) do livro Tecnopolíticas da vigilância: Perspectivas da margem, organizado por Fernanda Bruno, Bruno Cardoso, Marta Kanashiro, Luciana Guilhon e Lucas Melgaço (2018).
O artigo analisa a estética da violência como representação do sertanejo em Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1964) de Glauber Rocha. A estética desenvolvida pelo cineasta rompeu com a forma e o conteúdo da produção cinematográfica no país, problematizan…
Resenha (review) de La naturaleza ante la triada divina: Marx, Durkheim, Weber, de José Luis Lezama (2019).
Este artigo é oriundo de uma pesquisa maior e tem como objetivo refletir sobre o uso de ferramentas e estratégias na pesquisa em meio virtual. Apresentarei algumas soluções desenvolvidas em face dos obstáculos e das dificuldades que se apresentaram dur…
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…