Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article presents case study research performed in a small-scale and centrally located industrial site by the riverfront in Gothenburg, Ringön. It has been highlighted in municipal visions to develop according to its very own circumstances, meaning…
This article explores how a series of heritage-driven renewal plans in the Swedish city Malmö dealt with a landscape deeply shaped by radical politics: Malmö People’s Park (Folkets Park). Arguing against notions of heritage where the past is essentiall…
This article considers colonial rhetoric manifested in representations of early settlement in the mining town of Kiruna in northernmost Sweden. Kiruna was founded more than 100 years ago by the LKAB Company with its centre the prosperous mine on Sami l…
While nation states have a disputed status in a globalised world, cities are often regarded as sovereign and global actors. Along with de-nationalising processes of increased privatisation, supranational governing and networks of transnational corporat…
Urban memories are remediated and mobilised by different – and often conflicting – stakeholders, representing the heritage industry, municipal city branding campaigns or anti-gentrification struggles. Post-punk ‘retromania’ (Reynolds 2011) coincided wi…
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Reviewed by Katie Lawson, Curatorial Assistant at Toronto Biennial of Art Filipa Ramos, ed. Animals. Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016. 240 pages. Edited by Filipa Ramos, Animals (2016) emerges out of the prolific Do…
Este trabalho discute a construção das posições de escritoras negras na literatura brasileira contemporânea. Para tanto, analiso a trajetória social e literária da escritora negra brasileira Conceição Evaristo, nascida em 1946 em Minas Gerais. Consider…
O objetivo deste artigo é desenvolver uma análise sobre as potencialidades dos distintos modelos analíticos para o aprofundamento das discussões teóricas e metodológicas a respeito da evasão discente no ensino superior. Sendo assim, o trabalho visa ana…
Em A pequena prisão, Igor Mendes narra o processo de brutal repressão a que foram submetidos os 23 ativistas políticos considerados “perigosos” pela Justiça e processados sob a acusação de terem uma forte atuação na organização de atos violentos nas ma…
Este artigo apresenta o relato de experiência com objetivo de a elaboração elaborar do material didático pedagógico bilíngue para difusão de informações na área de informática. A metodologia usada foi através do trabalho em grupos com os alunos do ensi…
Este artigo trata das relações de crédito entre agricultores familiares da comunidade de São Lourenço, em Nova Friburgo – RJ. Essas relações, que muitas vezes substituem os empréstimos institucionais, são realizadas sem nenhum tipo de formalização e sã…
Compreendendo que as identidades políticas são formadas a partir da experiência de conflito e do trabalho de enquadramento coletivo, buscou-se analisar as alterações das condições materiais de existência, tais como a violência dos despejos da terra, a …
Exploro aqui alguns caminhos para pensar que mundo se apresenta a partir da fofoca e do que ela deixa ver das relações sociocosmológicas entre os Mbya-Guarani. A fofoca, ao colocar palavras em circulação, emana como força, circula e afeta corpos e pess…
Desde 2013, acadêmicos e ativistas se reúnem anualmente na International Weight Stigma Conference a fim de discutir suas produções, as quais, na maioria dos casos, situam-se no campo dos fat studies (em tradução livre, “estudos sobre a pessoa gorda”). …
High impact learning experiences are associated with positive trends in student retention and graduation. I developed a course, Historic Mortuary Archaeology, that incorporates two high impact strategies: engaging undergraduate students in research and…
This article examines the role of media in the process of religious communalization (Vergemeinschaftung), drawing on the example of the Evangelical Association of Vineyard Churches. It argues that a direct connection between media production…
In this article, we examine the question of religious communalization on the micro-blogging service Twitter. Twitter has only relatively recently been adopted as a field of research by scholars of media and religion, and the question of reli…
Monasticism is characterized by community life in a specific place (stabilitas loci), but also by local and translocal networks that correspond to different functions of the monastery (religious, cultural, commercial, etc.). Although Max Web…
Drawing on the example of Jehovah’s Witnesses, in this contribution I will explore the role of media in the production of religious commitment. I will argue that, while providing important insights into the relationship between media interpr…
This article – framed within digital religion studies – analyzes the online religious activities of a non-denominational Christian multisite church, LifePoint Church (LPC). A multisite church is a church with a central location that serves a…
Since the rise of the Internet, traditional religious communities have either embraced or struggled with new media. At the same time, a significant number of believers turns to new media as a substitute for or supplement to offline communiti…
This article introduces the special issue, “The Dynamics of Religion, Media, and Community”. It examines the shifting faith in the concept of religious community in the social studies of religion and calls attention to the normative expectat…
Understanding a videogame requires attention to the social dimensions of its production, its material form and its reception. Games are produced in communities of designers, played by communities of gamers, and accepted into families, househ…
In an editorial, Museum Anthropology Review editor Jason Baird Jackson discusses the history of the journal as a context for explaining plans to reorient it to focus more closely on the work of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and its museum and co…