Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2019URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-7162 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/4714057
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2019URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-7140 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/4714031
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2019URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-7150 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/4714042
Nestled in the Himalayan range of Uttarakhand in India, Kalap may soon have a motorable road. Till then the village continues to be 10 kilometres uphill on foot from the nearest road. The film delves into the lives of the people of Kalap, who for gener…
2020-01-30 – This article looks at French television during and after the post-war period to explor…
2020-01-30 – In this article, the intersection of the economic and social dimensions of thrift is a…
2020-01-30 – In its long history of airing the popular crime series Midsomer Murders does not only …
Capture as an Idiom for More-than-Human Entanglements by Chakad Ojani, PhD student (University of Manchester) chakad.ojani@gmail.com January 30, 2020 We have barely finished installing Sergio’s fog catcher before he exclaims: “Look how the water is tri…
This article explores how hurricanes are used in news media to exemplify the consequences of climate change. This is done by a close reading of Norwegian newspaper articles on the hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), Harvey and Irma (both 2017). Th…
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Can grain crops be increased? The issue was heatedly debated in 18th century Denmark-Norway, both for patriotic and economic reasons. The historian Gerhard Schøning (1722–80) answered affirmatively. Chopping down much of the forests that covered Norway…
During the past decades, notions of Earth dynamics and climate change have changed drastically, as anthropogenic CO2-emissions are linked to measurable Earth system changes. At the same time, Earth scientists have discovered deep time climate changes t…
This thematic section of Culture Unbound brings together five articles which in very different ways invite us to reflect on the importance of examples in the discourse on climate change. At first glance, such an invitation might be surprising, if not p…
In this article, the intersection of the economic and social dimensions of thrift is analysed under the special condition of debt. The debt context serves as a focal glass exposing agents, their social practices and strategies of accumulation capitals …
Concepts of thrift and dwelling are central to how societies live together. Thrift refers to a complex and morally-loaded set of economic practices that people engage with out of necessity, choice, or both. Whilst home-making or dwelling refers to soci…
In its long history of airing the popular crime series Midsomer Murders does not only present various murder cases but also a glimpse into the opinions on gender, sexuality, age and ethnicity. These opinions mirror the attitude of the producers as well…
This article looks at French television during and after the post-war period to explore the relationships that programmes systematically established between home-making in social housing, housekeeping money management and women. It sheds light on the g…
The Anthropocene is regularly invoked as an occasion for the rethinking of the Anthropos, for instance through a reexamination of human origin stories. This article examines one such anthropological origin story; the construction of an exemplary and su…
In the years following the 2008 global financial crisis (“GFC”), feminist media scholarship has drawn attention to the gendered calls in Western media culture to remake subjectivity in line with imperatives of thrift required in conditions of austerity…
This paper will explore the ways in which thrift operates as a signifier of a specific type of lprecarity and imperfection in young women’s lives in several popular series associated with the current ‘golden age’ of women’s television production. The t…
Peter I. Crawford, Ada I . Engebrigtsen: Redaksjonelt
Nils Bubandt: Koralteori, eller hvad koraller kan lære antropologien om multispecies socialitet
Helle V. Goldman, Martin T. Walsh: Classifying, Domesticating and Extirpating the …
Common terms used by students to describe a good professor, especially on websites like ratemyprofessor.com, a website that allows students to rate their professors, include “understanding,” “nice,” “engaging,” “lenient” and “kind,” all of which are in…
2020-01-20 – Decía Henri Lefebvre en su célebre obra Le droit à la ville que en todos los subsistem…
We are pleased to inform you that the latest issue of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies (IJAPS), Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan 2020) is now online, featuring the following contributions: Local community and policy maker perspectives on sustainable livelihoods, tourism, environment and waste management in Siem Reap/Angkor, Cambodia, by Tahmina Rashid Empowerment issues … Continue reading →
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Journal Name: Nordic Journal of Migration ResearchVolume: -1Issue: ahead-of-print