Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Este artículo examina el uso colaborativo de la animación y el dibujo en investigación etnográfica para explorer los recuerdos y mundos imaginarios de las personas que han vivido el paso ilegal por el mediterráneo. Al trabajar con tres hombr…
Este artículo examina el poder de codificación de los dibujos como vehículos para la conceptualización etnográfica. Al comparar un conjunto de dibujos recopilados por el autor en la Amazonía occidental con ilustraciones de guías científicas …
Este ensayo explora la experiencia del fotógrafo peruano Marco “Atoq” Ramón al perder parcialmente la visión tras recibir un disparo policial mientras cubría una protesta en el distrito de Puente Piedra, Lima, en 2017. Mediante un diálogo en…
¿Cómo dibujar el murmullo del mar o los cambios de la marea durante el día? Me encontré con esta pregunta cuando Jota me mandó grabaciones de sonidos del mar en nuestro chat de WhatsApp. Me dijo que quería que me imaginara el pueblo costero …
In recent years, the management of asylum-seeker flows has increasingly become a subject of political contention, prompting several states to explore the externalization of asylum procedures as a policy response. Within this context, in November 2023, …
This article examines how human values, media engagement and sociopolitical events shape immigration attitudes across Europe, with a particular focus on understanding the immigration attitudes of European managers, using other workers as a comparison g…
That migrant remittances are, or should be, ‘more than money’ is a statement on which different stakeholders, with different interests, would probably agree. While migrants often strive to articulate care and emotional involvement through t…
In recent years, scholarly attention on sexual orientation asylum‑seekers has markedly increased. However, the role of support organisations in destination countries remains unclear. Organisations are central, both as much research relies on LGBTQ+ org…
What occurs when soldiers’ private photographs enter the public domain? This article examines a digital vernacular repository and its collection of personal images from the Portuguese colonial war (1961-74). Drawing on archival analysis, interviews, an…
The author has always been sceptical about the use of value theory in anthropology. Here he considers its scope in relation to a project linked to the publication of The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide in 2010. This international project, …
A defining feature of an anthropological perspective is that it acknowledges the importance of cultural specificity. As Marshall Sahlins (1976:170) succinctly put it: ‘no object, no thing, has being or movement in human society except by th…
The call by Alf Hornborg for a better consideration of the human dimension in the public discussion of global environmental change, networks of production and consumption, and structures of knowledge and power is a welcome contribution to e…
Until 2023, the finding aids of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Lisbon, Portugal (Overseas Historical Archive) did not provide information on the scope and content of the archival series “files of settlers and the repatriated” (“processos de colonos…
LAPORTE C. 2023. Figures de cuisiniers. De l’artisan à l’assembleur. Paris : Classiques Garnier. 239 p.
Publié en 2023, Figures de cuisiniers. De l’artisan à l’assembleur est un ouvrage du sociologue Cyrille Laporte, maître de conférences …
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For over half a century, wolves in France were extinct. In the absence of predators, the shepherds became accustomed to leaving the sheep roaming freely in the mountains in relative safety. However, at the end of the 1980s, wolves returned, resul…
Appel à contribution : Imaginaires nutritionnels
La question des imaginaires alimentaires a déjà été travaillée en histoire (Heimberg 2010 ; Vierne 1989), en littérature (Lambert-Perreault et Sicotte 2016), en sciences de la communication …
Call for papers: Nutritional imaginaries
The question surroundings imaginaries of food has already been explored in history (Heimberg 2010; Vierne 1989), in literature (Lambert-Perreault et Sicotte 2016) and in communication studies (Bouta…
Aegviidu on suurepärane koht, kus nautida looduse ilu. See linn on kuulsus Eesti kauni looduse poolest aastaringselt. Host.ee annab sulle võimaluse avastada seda imelist paika igal ajal aastas, pakkudes laia valikut tegevusi ja vaatamisväärsusi, et igasugune külastus oleks mäletamist väärt. Kevadine Aegviidu Kui lumi hakkab sulama ja loodus ärkab, muutub Aegviidu imeliseks kohaks, kus nautida […]
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L’ouvrage dirigé par Irene Becci se prête à l’analyse des interactions subtiles entre écologie et spiritualité, en donnant à voir les formes contemporaines et souvent complexes que prennent leurs convergences. Il montre comment des personnes issues de tendances spirituelles ou religieuses (christianisme, New Age, néopaganisme, néochamanisme, écoféminisme) intègrent progressivement l’écologie dans leurs univers symboliques et pratiques. Inversement, des écologistes réinvestissent leurs[…]
In recent decades, anthropologists have increasingly recognised the researcher’s vulnerability as an inherent and indispensable element of ethnographic field research. This article shares my ethnographic fieldwork experiences navigating th…
This article explores the process of “unveiling” researcher positionality during fieldwork in Swiss psychiatric spaces and in academia, whilst the researcher herself has a personal connection to the topic as a family member of someone wit…
This article looks at how anthropologists deal with the effects of witnessing violence. Although anthropologists work in interaction with human beings, they rarely discuss the consequences of these encounters on their mental equilibrium. H…
This paper explores the silence of my traumatic experience, the feeling of vulnerability, and insecurity that affected my fieldwork and the writing process. Drawing on the concept of “auto-reflexivity”, I address the “double violence”, exp…
Navigating payments in ethnographic research provides insights into social dynamics within ethnographic research contexts. Drawing from research with financially vulnerable queer male sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya, this article explores th…
This paper brings anthropological scholarship on reflexivity and positionality in conversation with debates around issues of self-exploitation in the neoliberal university, to argue that the publication pressures early career anthropologis…