Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2017URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-5436 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/2565985
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2017URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-5449 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/2565996
Erschienen: Innsbruck : innsbruck university press, 2017URN: urn:nbn:at:at-ubi:4-5424 URL: https://diglib.uibk.ac.at/bricolage/id/2565982
Food Allergies in Japan and the UK by Emma Cook (Hokkaido University) cook@imc.hokudai.ac.jp July 4, 2018 In February 2014, as I was anticipating the start of hay fever season in Japan, I happened to turn the TV channel to a program that mentioned a pa…
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
IJAPS Series for South Asia Taking India to Market Retail Revolution and Consumer Culture In the wake of India’s 1991 economic reforms, trade barriers were lowered and state regulation policies with regard to industrial production and foreign direct investment were significantly liberalized. India transitioned from a state-centric to a market-oriented model of development. Subsequent reforms … Continue reading →
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Introspection for Affective Anthropology by Daniel White (Free University of Berlin) daniel.white@fu-berlin.de June 20, 2018 The first time I held a robot in my arms I was overcome with a wave of sympathy. Pepper had arrived in our laboratory in a larg…
La politisation des supporters de football et leur engagement dans l’espace public [Full text]
Jean-François Polo
Quand le supportérisme et la politique s’imbriquent [Full text]
Gökçe…
La politisation des supporters de football et leur engagement dans l’espace public [Full text]
Jean-François Polo
Quand le supportérisme et la politique s’imbriquent [Full text]
Gökçe…
One of the key challenges for undergraduate students is learning to read, understand, and synthesize academic literature. To help students develop these skills, a research grid assignment using Microsoft Excel was developed. This assignment breaks down…
In the Appalachian mountains, residents experience disproportionately high rates of poverty, exorbitant rates of incarceration, above-average mortality rates across the lifespan, and epidemically low educational attainment rates. The complexities of th…
Combating fake news and fradualent science can be incredibly taxing. In this paper, I reflect on teaching introduction to biological anthropology at a large university and incorporating old academic literature as a teaching document. By utilizing old b…
Curriculum development in biological anthropology requires instructors to generate learning outcomes for both anthropology and biology majors. However, these students have substantially different backgrounds. Anthropology curricula do not always requir…
Alan Smart (University of Calgary): “Posthumanism, as I use the term, means the ways in which we are entangled with non-humans, and which expand our capacities (although in other ways they may diminish them, as with disease). Rather than being a featu…
New Solution to the Classroom Blogging Problem
Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen: Redaksjonelt
Benedikte V. Lindskog, Tone Sommerfelt: Helse, nasjonalstat og virkelighetspolitikk
Lotte Danielsen: Mødrehelse som image og valuta
Camilla Hansen: Skjelvende fortellinger
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The aim of this article is to analyse popular neuroimaging of (dis)able(d) brains as a cultural phenomenon, as well as to explore how there has been, during the last decades, a subtle but important change in the way “normal” brains are depicted in popu…
During 2016 and 2017 the Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University in Sweden organised a seminar series titled the ‘Seminar on Neuroscience, Culture and Society’. Professor Nikolas Rose wa…
This article examines the discourse of the “good life” in popular religion and literature in contemporary Sweden. The results indicate thnew spiritual movements (e.g. mindfulness and the Enneagram) situate traditional transcendental goals within the in…
Contrary to the widely held belief in the humanities that hysteria no longer exists, this article shows that the advent of new brain imaging technologies has reignited scientific research into this age-old disorder, once again linking it to hypnosis. E…
The connection between neuroscience, popular media and lay perceptions of the brain involves the framing of complex scientific processes and results through familiar cultural narratives and metaphors. Such narratives are often built on the premise that…
That a stroke is a disruptive event in many people’s lives is no secret. That it also represents challenges to the communal construction of narratives between couples is less explored, and is the subject matter of this paper. With a narrative theoretic…
In recent years, neuroscientific knowledge has been applied far beyond its context of emergence to explain human behaviour in general and to address a host of specific societal problems. In this article, we discuss the emerging research field of ‘neuro…
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