Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
As climate change threatens cities worldwide, how does the act of escaping environmental disaster become entangled with opportunities to generate wealth? Recent projections indicate that Manila, the capital of the Philippines, will become uninhabitable…
This essay is based on an ethnography by Parker Shipton (2011) of a World Bank development effort in Africa which failed spectacularly. The reason for its failure – and all similarly conceived efforts – lies in its disregard of the ecology of social pr…
Dans cet article, il est question d’analyser l’incidence de l’ancrage de l’identité estudiantine sur la gestion de la pandémie de Covid-19 dans un restaurant universitaire au Sénégal. L’étude, dans une approche socio-anthropologique, est essenti…
Cet article propose d’examiner comment les dynamiques collaboratives et contributives, qui jouent un rôle clé dans la production des écrits de fans, tels que les fanfictions sur le Web, se manifestent concrètement dans l’activité de leurs auteur…
Sur base d’une enquête en ligne (n=539) et d’entretiens (n=57) auprès d’artistes et techniciens des arts de la scène, cet article se penche sur l’influence de la grossesse et de la parentalité sur la carrière des artistes. Il cherche à comprendr…
La sécurité communautaire est perçue comme un objectif essentiel face au phénomène de gangstérisation qui affecte profondément certaines communautés en Haïti. La prolifération des gangs armés dans les quartiers entraîne des pertes humaines et ma…
Partant d’une recherche sociologique conduite sur la base de corpus experts, scientifiques et politiques entre 1990 et 2005, cet article explore les contextes et modalités de fabrication des nouvelles courbes de référence pour la croissance des …
Aujourd’hui, la Science fait face à des remises en question qui dépassent le cadre du débat académique. Si le « scepticisme organisé », pour reprendre le concept du sociologue Robert King Merton, fait partie intégrante du processus scientifique,…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Access to decent and affordable housing is a major source of distress for migrants in many cities in Africa. For translocal migrants, there are limited housing pathways, further constrained by various socio-cultural pra…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) offer valuable tools for fostering social cohesion and conflict resolution, yet little is known about women’s roles in this domain. This study draws on 14 interviews to …
Après l’accord bilatéral du 25 janvier 1965 entre les gouvernements français et yougoslave, les entreprises de Belfort-Montbéliard, et en premier lieu Peugeot, intensifient leurs recrutements en Yougoslavie. Lors des examens d’embauche, les crit…
Se constituer dans la liminalité : le cas de « Chypre Nord » [Full text]
Julie Alev Dilmaç
Existing through Liminality: The Case of Northern Cyprus
Ce numéro problématise le rapport au terrain en Turquie, en montrant comment celui-ci (re)configure les recherches et la posture du chercheur ou de la chercheuse en retour. Il aborde la recherche en train de se faire en Turquie en ta…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article critiques dominant development frameworks by examining the ≠Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari, who despite winning one of South Africa’s largest post-Apartheid land claims, remain marginalised and impove…
This article recuperates an overlooked history of a photographic archive created in 1965 to document the cultural diversity of the Portuguese colonies for an ethnological museum in Lisbon during the concluding decades of the country’s last colonial reg…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Uganda has been home to a myriad of communities of Somali origin for over a century. Pioneering Somali-Ugandans can trace their arrival to the early days of the colonial administration. A second wave of Somalis migrated…
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This article reads Finnish linguist and ethnographer Matthias Alexander Castrén’s published letters as travel writing influenced both by imperialist discourses and the tradition of Finnish travel writing. The article examines the letter formulae and th…
The image of Steppe Ukraine as a historical region has mainly been constructed based on narratives originating from urban centres that are often perceived as alien to this territory and people. Being one of the most industrial and urbanised parts of Uk…
The article aims to unsettle the meaning of gender assignment for Ukrainian variants of the dragonslayer wonder tale of ATU 312D, “Kotyhoroshko”, which is represented by a child hero through a post-structural deconstruction on four levels: language, jo…
This study analyses the rules of circulation of money (and wealth in general) in Qing-era (1644–1911) Chinese texts on the supernatural. It is based on the popular collections of stories by writers Pu Songling, Ji Yun and Yuan Mei.Ever since the 19th c…
The Sundarbans, which stretches from the Bay of Bengal over parts of India and Bangladesh, is the largest mangrove forest in the world, constantly in flux due to the erosion and cyclones that can drastically reshape the land. This article explores how …
Forests are one of the most commonly recurring settings of folktales and oratures. In the popular imagination, forests are often seen as the site of the unknown, the non-human, enchanting and, mystifying, however, in the northeastern cultures of India,…
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This article investigates a religious group in contemporary northeast China. The group is formed by ritual experts and adherents of a traditional folk belief in animal spirits. The group runs as an institution providing aid to those who need psychologi…