Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This paper explores the shifting practices in and between cartography and capitalism. It compares two road maps of the same territory created one-hundred years apart; a Gulf Oil map from 1915 and a Google Map from 2015. These representations of space s…
This article investigates the non-fiction book Black Hawk Down (1999) by Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down the movie (2001) directed by Ridley Scott, and the computer game Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (2003). The article suggests that while the movie and th…
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Situated within the transition experienced by our welfare states, citizens have become ever more involved in the re-use of derelict public housing stock throughout Europe. These citizens are tentatively to be called ‘citizen professionals’ in the urban…
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Over the last decade piracy has emerged as a growing field of research covering a wide range of different phenomena, from fashion counterfeits and media piracy, through to 17th century buccaneers and present-day pirates off the coast of Somalia. In man…
In this article we explore various constraints and potentials of academic publishing in the digital age. Advancement of digital platforms and their expansive reach amplify the underlying tensions of institutional and scholarly change. A key affordance …
Almost a decade ago I published an article (with Dr Kylie Brass) based on Australian Research Council-funded research1 about criticisms in the media and public sphere of ‘ivory tower’ academe, and how, under pressures of ‘relevance’, ‘accountability’, …
Get PDF: Chang, Abdul Haque. 2017. Of Gutka Chewing Piety and the Economic Exploitation of Fishermen of the Indus Delta in Pakistan. Global Ethnographic. Abdul Haque Chang haq.chang@gmail.com University of Texas at Austin Abstract This paper discusses …
Published: December 2017.
Published: December 2017.
Bildung allgemein partizipiert an sich global vollziehenden medialen Transformationsprozessen. Religionspädagogik und –didaktik sind, wie alle anderen Fachwissenschaften auch, herausgefordert, die Integration digitalvernetzter Medien in Theo…
Introduction to the special Issue “Religion to Go!”
Instagram has become one of the most popular social media with over 400 million users worldwide. Instagram is especially designed for mobile use: taking photos, editing and sharing. Many religious and spiritual leaders do use Instagram and a…
Education in general participates in globally occurring medial transformation processes. Religious Education and Didactics, like all other academic disciplines, are challenged to conceptualize and reflect the integration of digitally-network…
For the last seventy years, Chabad emissaries have been reaching out to Jews and spreading Judaism in a world of increasing indifference to Jewish law and tradition. Despite their strict Orthodox lifestyle, they are up to date broadcasting J…
Technologies used to represent texts are not hermeneutically neutral. Since technologies have illocutionary force, we should ask of any text, whether print or digital, In what ways are the associated technologies conveying meaning? In this a…
This article deals with the Augmented Reality (AR) smartphone game Pokémon Go which caused a hype among players in summer 2016. The author shows by citing results of an extensive online media search that various churches and religious commun…
The research of AR –technology in learning has indicated promising results, such as increased content understanding and student motivation. However, difficulties are reported as well, for example attention tunneling and usability difficultie…
The Message Has to Be Spread: On the Character and Significance of Media in the Dissemination of Sufi Content in the Turkish Republic [Full text]
Beatrice Hendrich and Dilek Sarmis
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Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen: Redaksjonelt
Ørnulf Gulbrandsen: Vold og ære, hevn og forsoning
Cecilia G. Salinas: Et antropologisk blikk på REDDs mulig grønnere fremtid
Brage Hammeren Pedersen: Fanget i …
Published: August 2017.
Published: August 2017.
The Unfamiliar
The Unfamiliar