Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Book review of Nick Gill, Anthony Good, eds, Asylum determination in Europe: Ethnographic perspectives, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. XVII + 335.
Book review of Salvador Cayuela Sánchez, Klaus Schriewer, Damián O. Martínez, eds, Dialécticas de la alteridad: Antropología y marxismo a comienzos del siglo XXI, Barcelona, Ediciones Bellaterra, 2018, pp. 239.
Review article of Giovanni Pizza, L’antropologia di Gramsci: Corpo, natura, mutazione, Milano, Carocci, 2020, pp. 182; Fadi A. Bardawil, Revolution and disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the binds of emancipation, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, pp….
The followers of the Afro-Brazilian candomblé cult feel today more than ever threatened by various dangers, in particular by the aggressiveness of the evangelical churches. The contribution poses some questions and formulates some hypotheses to be expl…
How to become a làmb (Senegalese wrestling with punches) wrestler in Dakar? Starting from an ethnography based on an “observant participation” method, this article analyzes wrestlers’ “techniques of the self” by focusing on the articulation between dis…
This paper compares two marginal neighbourhoods and Italian “badlands”: the Zona Espansione Nord (ZEN) of Palermo and San Siro in Milan. It concerns multiple types of violence that affect them and their connections with different multi-scale processes….
Stereotypical ideas about poverty and life in refugee camps make it difficult to understand the choices that individual refugees make when moving from one place to another within Africa, including from refugee settlements to town, to refugee camps and …
This article investigates how mobility regimes and destination countries contribute to reshaping transnational family ties among refugees from Eritrea. Due to protracted political violence in the country, Eritreans are a geographically dispersed commun…
Based on extensive multi-site fieldwork with Punjabi immigrants in Italy, the article discusses the institute of transnational marriage and kin reunification among Indian diasporas, interlacing the drive for upward mobility, the normative frame of fami…
One of the main human factors recognized in the New Classical economy of labour market explanations is that families, extended families or even groups of neighbours might be involved in designing the migration path of one or more members of the group, …
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences, is the result of an LSE Research Infrastructure and Investment–funded workshop entitled Academic Freedom, Academic Integ…
Main publication of Vintilă Mihăilescu.
In memory of Vintilă Mihăilescu (1951-2020).
A note from the Editor-in-chief.
El libro que se presenta ha sido compilado por María Epele y Rosana Guber, y es el producto de un encuentro desarrollado en el año 2017 en torno a los malestares en la práctica etnográfica. Las autoras que participaron de este evento expusieron diversa…
Llegamos a esta entrevista a Annette Weiner mientras planificábamos la bibliografía para nuestro grupo de estudios y trabajo “Cosas Cotidianas”, perteneciente al Programa de Antropología Social (PAS), dependiente del Centro de Investigaciones Sociales …
A partir de una investigación sobre el dolor crónico de la migraña, el objetivo de este trabajo es examinar la relación entre estas dolencias, a partir de las narrativas de los actores entrevistados, y las transformaciones socio-económicas en el contex…
El artículo explora y reflexiona sobre dimensiones que atraviesan los discursos y las experiencias sobre las homoparentalidades masculinas que se conforman mediante subrogación gestacional, tales como la filiación, la identidad, el relato y conocimient…
El libro que se presenta ha sido compilado por María Epele y Rosana Guber, y es el producto de un encuentro desarrollado en el año 2017 en torno a los malestares en la práctica etnográfica. Las autoras que participaron de este evento expusieron diversa…
Llegamos a esta entrevista a Annette Weiner mientras planificábamos la bibliografía para nuestro grupo de estudios y trabajo “Cosas Cotidianas”, perteneciente al Programa de Antropología Social (PAS), dependiente del Centro de Investigaciones Sociales …
Durante las últimas tres décadas experimentamos un mundo que parece cambiar cada vez con mayor rapidez. Vivimos en un mundo mucho más densamente interconectado -e interdependiente- que hace unos pocos años atrás, en el que somos más susceptibles a even…
This article examines how central Ohio winegrowers are able to manufacture “the taste of place” in the midst of a dominant global discourse that maintains a rhetoric of anthropogenic climate change. Importantly, this work positions climate as no…
A distinguishing and authenticating element of Basque culture is created with the use of its language, Euskara. Key words in this non-Indo-European language are commonly sighted to market local products such as milk, wine, and cider to create va…
The term réttir in Iceland denotes a series of annual events occurring in the smaller towns and agricultural regions outside the capital of Reykjavík. Translated literally to “gathering,” the réttir season begins in early September and consists …
I argue that the concept of terroir is related to ideas about locally produced foods and health or wellbeing. Consumer demand for local foods and an emerging interest in terroir hold great potential for mobilizing meaningful social change relate…