Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it explores how Andean filmmakers use the horror genre as …
The film follows the crew of the Norwegian fishing vessel Havdrøn as they set out for a new season of mackerel fishing, their main source of income. Fishing can be a difficult activity, because of the risks at sea and the instability of the p…
Dating back to 3000 years ago, Launeddas are a wind instrument from the Nuragic civilisation (Sardinia, 18th century BC/2nd century AD) bearing the marks of contaminations from all over the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. Nearly vanished between the 1960…
The Hanoi New Music Festival 2018 was an historic event. It was the largest festival of exploratory forms of new music that has ever been held in Vietnam, and artists from countries across Southeast Asia and Japan came to Hanoi to participate. The film…
The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of Arab men. As we move deeper into the desert, the site tu…
The Depth Beneath, The Height Above consists in an exploration of the high alpine region of Robiei, southern Switzerland. Conceived as a sensory piece, the film particularly focuses on the existing relationships between the humans, animals, infrastruct…
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Call for papers for the International Journal Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (RS&A).
Special Issue to be published in December 2022
Hierarchies of knowledge production and power relations in academic postcolonial se…
Call for Papers – Varia issue december 2021
Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (RS&A) is launching a call for papers for its varia issue 2-2021 (December).
In addition to the classic criteria for evaluating the scientif…
Appel à articles pour un numéro varia
Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (RS&A) lance un appel à articles pour son numéro varia 2-2021 (décembre).
Outre les critères classiques de l’évaluation de la qualité scientifiqu…
Appel à contributions bilingues françaises/anglaises pour la revue Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (RS&A)
Hiérarchies des savoirs et rapports de pouvoir dans l’académie en contextes postcoloniaux
Hierarchies of knowl…
This paper examines Akan indigenous concepts for “stress”, “distress”, “sorrow”, and “depression” through the interaction between language, culture, mind and the body. It applies the theory of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson 1980), with an emp…
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Reviewed by Malaika Sutter, University of Bern James Voorhies, Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form Since 1968. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2017. 288 pages. In James Voorhies’ first monograph, Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critic…
Book Review
Review of Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Romance and Family
Alan Warde. 2016, The practice of eating. Cambridge : Polity. 220 p.
Alan Warde’s aim in writing this book is to show how the academic discourse on food and its links to consumption, health and sustainable development has been “colonized” …
Alan Warde. 2016, The practice of eating. Cambridge : Polity. 220 p.
Alan Warde’s aim in writing this book is to show how the academic discourse on food and its links to consumption, health and sustainable development has been “colonized” …
Editores do dossiê: Stephen Grant Baines (UnB) e Bruce Granville Miller, University of British Columbia (UBC) Este dossiê é o resultado do painel, “Indigenous Peoples, tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes”, coordenado por Stephen G. Baines e Bruce G. Miller, realizado em 23 de novembro de 2019 na Conferência Internacional da CASCA/AAA em […]
L’escalade est une activité sportive associée à un imaginaire enchanté : souplesse de corps en suspens, liberté aérienne de jeunes personnes sveltes et souriant·e·s, contact direct avec une nature de rêve ou encore prise de risques éclatante fac…