Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
HIV-positive Mozambican migrants in Johannesburg — Bent SteenbergHome to one fifth of all people living with HIV, South Africa carries the world’s heaviest burden of this disease. While a significant proportion of those infected are immigrants from oth…
— Jong-min JeongThis article critically engages with the predominant understandings of repetitive bodily practices within a dementia context. Rather than interpreting such practices as pathological and abnormal, I instead approach them through an ethn…
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Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
How would the anthropology of the 1990’s have been different if anthropologists understood what it meant to be a writing subject describing Others the way that Bakhtin did? These questions are undercurrents in this essay, as I summarize what early Bakh…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork materials in the form of participant observation and interviews and looks at the mission encounter between the Kaale (Finnish Roma) missionaries and the traditionally Lutheran, Russian Orthodox or Catholic R…
The article is centred around an event in Njeguši, a small village in Montenegro, whereby a group of people tried to honour their ancestor by inauguration of a small church and a commemorative building. Unexpectedly, the event was forbidden, the police…
Ada I. Engebrigtsen, Peter I. Crawford, Halvard Vike, Elisabeth L’orange Fürst: Redaksjonelt
Halvard Vike, Elisabeth L’orange Fürst: Forskningsetikk og forskningens frihet: utfordringer for antropologifaget
Lise Lundh: Personvernreg…
September 2 – October 3, 202035 E 67th Street Written by Peter Murphy, University of Rochester Stepping into Petzel Gallery on the Upper East Side, I felt beside myself. Months had passed since I last visited a gallery; would I remember how to be…
Think pieces: Substrate lexis of Kildin Sami interpreted through languages belonging to the Western branch of the Ainu-Minoan stock: some notes on the language of Paja ul deˀŋ Alexander Akulov In Kildin Sami there are about 30 words which have no convincing Finno-Ugric/Uralic (or any other) etymologies. 8 of them can be interpreted through languages […]
Reviewed by Stella Gatto, Independent Researcher Klara Kemp-Welch, Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019. 480 pages. The theory of “Six Degrees of Separation” (or perhaps more humorously known…
Grappling with Aadhaar: Biometrics, Social Identity and the Indian State [Full text]
Silvia Masiero and S. Shakthi
Chasing Rights in Delhi: Social Movements and the National Food Security Act [F…
Rice, Stephen K. and Michael D. Maltz, eds. 2018. Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork. Cham: Springer.
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Anthropology Matters
Resumo Relacionar os processos demenciais ao tornar-se louco ou ser outra pessoa, estar possuído, foi algo que encontrei em cenas e relatos de meu material de campo. É numa tentativa de compreender o que está em jogo nesse “devir outro” que faço um diá…
Resumo Relacionar os processos demenciais ao tornar-se louco ou ser outra pessoa, estar possuído, foi algo que encontrei em cenas e relatos de meu material de campo. É numa tentativa de compreender o que está em jogo nesse “devir outro” que faço um diá…
Resumen El objetivo del artículo ha sido investigar los paradigmas, significaciones y formas de abordar la locura que han caracterizado el modo de pensar contemporáneo en términos de exclusión, inclusión e “inclusión exclusiva”. Para ello se ha recurri…
Resumo Este artigo traz uma análise do modelo de petição inicial de requalificação civil de pessoas transexuais elaborado pelas funcionárias do Núcleo de Defesa da Diversidade Sexual e Direitos Homoafetivos da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Jan…