Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article draws on ethnographic field research in Buka, Bougainville, in order to address the question of multiple models in spatial orientation and the factors that constrain their relative salience. With respect to different Polynesian settings (T…
Different voyaging communities in the Pacific use a variety of non-instrument navigational techniques for way-finding across long distances. The use of a star compass has been well documented for several groups. Wind compasses are less well documented …
Recent decades have seen a revival of interest in traditional voyaging equipment and techniques among Pacific Islanders. At key points, the Oceanic voyaging revival came together with anthropological interests in cognition. This special issue explores …
De Turquie, de Russie et d’ailleurs [Full text]
Olivier Bouquet
Une autre histoire des relations russo-ottomanes [Full text]
Etienne Forestier-Peyrat
Scien…
De Turquie, de Russie et d’ailleurs [Full text]
Olivier Bouquet
Une autre histoire des relations russo-ottomanes [Full text]
Etienne Forestier-Peyrat
Scien…
Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen: Redaksjonelt
Michael Herzfeld: Barth’s Boundaries: Anthropology in the World
Cicilie Fagerlid: Skjermet sammen – sameksistens på folkebiblioteket
Eldar Bråten: Kritisk realistisk antrop…
Published: April 2016.
Published: April 2016.
by Madimabe Geoff Mapaya Abstract Music pedagogy places a premium on written notation, sometimes to the detriment of orality. This, in the main, explains the disjuncture between South African university-based music education and music praxis obtaining within black communities. It is for this reason that most African students coming from an oral tradition background struggle to […]
Editorial [Volltext]
Anne Beutter, Moritz Klenk und Stefan Schröder
Spirituality as peace work [Volltext]
Annalena Groppe
Grenzen religionswissenscha…
According to Victor Turner, all liminality must eventually dissolve, for it is a state of great intensity that cannot exist very long without some sort of structure to stabilize it. This paper takes his lead and attempts to describe the liminal status …
This article seeks to explore temporal reconceptualizations and forms of nostalgia that first-year university men are experiencing and creating. It will explore the ways that time can be conceived of in relation to the present and a future that is not-…
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Malian migrants and migration brokers in Mali, Algeria, Morocco, and France, this article investigates life in exile on the edge of Europe. Zooming in on the experiences of interlocutors in Morocco and Algeria, the…
This article explores the role of narrative and narrativity in stabilising identity in an exile setting, read here as a way to avert what Bjørn Thomassen calls the ‘danger’ inherent to liminality. It does this by analysing the shape and visualscape of …
In this paper I investigate how an international border is ‘revitalised’ in political discourses as opposed to lived experiences. Based on narratives I have collected from border dwellers on both sides of the current border between Latvia and Russia an…
No abstract available.
Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen: Redaksjonelt
Jorun Solheim: Bringing it all back home – familien som generativ kulturell formasjon i det moderne
Tatiana Wara, Mai Camilla Munkejord: Naturen som rekreasjon og heteroseksuell roma…
SAMAJ-EASAS Series
Series editors: Alessandra Consolaro, Margret Frenz and Roger Jeffery.
This thematic issue is the fourth in a series of issues jointly co-edited by SAMAJ and the European Association for South A…
SAMAJ-EASAS Series
Series editors: Alessandra Consolaro, Margret Frenz and Roger Jeffery.
This thematic issue is the fourth in a series of issues jointly co-edited by SAMAJ and the European Association for South A…
No abstract available.
This article discusses the benefits of analysing photography as mediated, reproduced and entangled in media systems, and consequently as part of a larger media culture. Moreover it combines technological considerations drawn from media archaeology with…
How ritual human sacrifice helped create unequal societies Ritual human sacrifice played a central role in helping those at the top of the social hierarchy maintain power over those at the bottom. This is the central finding of a study published today in Nature. Researchers from the University of Auckland’s School of Psychology, […]
Researchers find differences between ethnic groups living as farmers and those engaged in traditional hunter-gatherer activities Scientists have long thought that the rate with which mutations occur in the genome does not depend on cultural factors. The results of a current study suggest this may not be the case. A team of researchers […]
High-resolution, aerial imagery bears significance for researchers on the ground investigating how remote, ancient Maya civilizations used and conserved water. Collection, storage and management of water were top priorities for the ancient Maya, whose sites in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala were forced to endure seven months out of the year with very […]
Hundreds of iconic moai statues stand testament to the vibrant civilization that once inhabited Easter Island, but there are far fewer clues about why this civilization mysteriously vanished. Did they shortsightedly exhaust the island’s resources? Were they decimated by European illnesses and slave trade? Or did stow-away rats devastate the native ecosystem? Such theories have […]