Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
In this article we argue for a slow, methodical, and collaborative approach to difficult texts. This article is the story of how, thanks to the efforts of the students and professor, a book that rewards diligent effort, and some creative pedagogical st…
Please note that IJAPS merely publishes this announcement. For inquiries regarding contents of the announcement, please liaise using contact details provided below. CONFERENCE TOPIC Tainan is spontaneously seen as a place with a rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage. This has its roots in the history of lowland indigenous people and Han immigration, but also … Continue reading →
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Oral Tradition Volume 33, Number 1 Richard Hughes Gibson Richard Hughes Gibson is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and the author of Forgiveness in Victorian Literature: Grammar, Narrative, and Community (2015). With the designer Jeremy Botts, he directs the Manibus Press, an occasional publisher of artists’ books. Shem Miller Shem Miller is Assistant Teaching Professor of Religion at […]
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Volume 33 marks a major transition for Oral Tradition. After thirty-two fruitful years at the University of Missouri, the journal has now found a new home at Harvard University. In the “Editor’s Column” that prefaced the first issue of Oral Tradition in 1986, John Miles Foley justified the creation of the new journal by speaking of the need […]
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Sciences en danger, revues en lutte [Full text]
Camille Noûs and Collectif des Revues en lutte
Why French Academic Journals are Protesting [Full text]
Camille Noûs and Collective of Jo…
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):51-88 People who pose questions and practitioners of magic have one thing in common: they claim power and authority over others. They lay their claim using language that positions them as speakers with access to, and control over, the unknown. Analyzing questions in multiple versions of “The Song of Bagdad,” a South Slavic epic, […]
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Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):23-501 On an auspicious day, two families from Ne’u na Village, a small village along the Yellow River in Western China’s Qinghai Province, gather to celebrate a wedding. The day has been chosen specifically for this purpose. Midway through the wedding banquet, a man stands before the crowd already so drunk that his words are almost unintelligible, and he speaks. He […]
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Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):115-142 The Myth of Milman Parry Oral traditions are creative: they romanticize and sensationalize otherwise mundane events. The memory of a historical but probably minor conflict between the Mycenaeans and Trojans over commercial interests—access to the straits of the Hellespont that connected the Black Sea to the Aegean—evolved over time into an […]
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Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):3-22 The Dead Sea Scrolls are a cache of ancient manuscripts written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered in eleven caves from 1947-1956. Most scholars associate the Dead Sea Scrolls with an ancient Jewish community who lived in a complex of ruins on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea known as […]
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Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):89-114 The most important question raised by studies in oral tradition is “So what?” —John Miles Foley, “Oral Tradition and Its Implications” With the publication of his fine press Odyssey in view, the great American printer and typographer Bruce Rogers wrote in April 1931 to his translator, T. E. Lawrence, with a […]
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Editor’s foreword Articles: Stone adzes and axes found by A. A. Inostrantsev on the southern coast of Lake Ladoga in the context of the stone industry of some other Neolithic sites in the neighborhood of Saint Petersburg Alexander Akulov Visiting the location where the New Syas and New Svir canals were being dug A. A. […]
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Aquest article pretén analitzar els diferents elements que identifiquen un grup de persones que participen en les professons de la Setmana Santa de Tarragona i són coneguts amb el nom de portants . Majoritàriament amagats sota les faldilles dels anomen…
Desde que en 1985 se detectó el primer caso oficial de sida, el VIH se ha convertido en el principal problema de salud en Malawi y en la primera causa de mortalidad entre la población. Aunque las políticas de prevención del contagio y el acceso a los t…
Este artículo expone la experiencia del trabajo de campo en un pueblo maya de Yucatán (México), donde se vinculó con un grupo de jóvenes para documentar una costumbre relacionada con el culto a los santos. Esto, en un intento de incursionar en la inves…
Las formas de producción en la actividad agrícola pueden convertir productos «sanos» desde la perspectiva nutricional en «peligrosos» desde la perspectiva de la salud. El presente artículo se centra en la percepción del riesgo para la salud de los agro…
Este artículo reflexiona desde una mirada performativa sobre la presencia de niños, niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes menores de 18 años extranjeros, construidos jurídicamente como menores extranjeros no acompañados, dentro y fuera de los sistemas de prote…
Las migraciones forman parte de la historia de la humanidad, trasformando las sociedades en poliétnicas. Nos centraremos en el perfil de trabajadores altamente cualificados, concretamente médicos.Actualmente la situación laboral en el sistema sanitario…
Desde la Década del Cerebro de los años 1990, un «giro neurocientífico» afecta al mundo contemporáneo a escala global. La neurociencia parece imponerse como la mejor manera de entender al ser humano y promete proporcionar la clave de los fenómenos más …
La crítica del concepto de exclusión social pasa por su reinscripción en los procesos e itinerarios vitales de las personas excluidas. Las tensiones entre el individuo y el Estado son parte de las responsabilidades mutuas entre el Estado y la sociedad….
Ressenya del llibre: Lagunas; D. (2018) El quehacer del antropólogo. Métodos antropológicos para el estudio de la sociedad y la cultura. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra.
Oí hablar de William Christian por primera vez en los años ochenta, cuando era estudiante en Lisboa y andaba leyendo Person and God. Entonces, me contaron que su autor era un americano de pelo largo, un independent scholar que recorría España con su mo…