Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
In light of the fact that nontraditional students (those age 25 years or older) outnumber traditional students on many US college campuses, it is important to understand their needs and experiences in higher education. A key characteristic distinguishi…
As American universities become more diverse, it is necessary to consider if existing pedagogies remain relevant and meaningful for all students. This paper examines service-learning, a community engagement pedagogy originally developed for white, midd…
This paper explains how to play and debrief the Exchange Game. Suitable for play in first year anthropology courses and in lectures on economic anthropology, the game reinforces core concepts including reciprocity, cooperation, and altruism.
Diyanet dans la Patrie, Diyanet dans le Monde. En guise d’introduction [Full text]
Samim Akgönül
L’instrumentalisation de la religion dans l’Empire ottoman à l’époque de l’expansion européenne …
Published: December 2018.
Published: December 2018.
Published: August 2018.
Published: August 2018.
Reviewed by Stella Gatto, independent researcher Paul Rabinow. Unconsolable Contemporary: Observing Gerhard Richter. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. 176 pages. Given the insurmountable number of publications already in circulation, contributing a…
Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen: Redaksjonelt
Marek Jakoubek, Lenka J. Budilova: Fredrik Barth og studiet av etnisitet
Linda Marie Dyrlid: «Polakken kan»
Knut Christian Myhre, Frode Storaas: Antropologi på film
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Editorial [Volltext]
Anne Beutter, Annelie Schramm und Benedikt Erb
Sufismus als Esoterik [Volltext]
Cüneyd Yildirim
Religion(en) im Mittelalter und…
Religion has often been a theme involving contradictory positions in popular culture. Whether we comprehend religion as explicit implications within products of popular culture, such as recognizable characters from known religions or through…
This article focuses on the differentiation between the two representations of Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Investigating the presentation of the imagery of the hero, this article uncovers the asp…
This article discusses technical features and perspectives of current “Virtual Reality” (VR) technologies and their potential impact on religious beliefs. The arising questions should be assessed in regard to the use of hard- and software de…
The study investigates how tenets, meanings and practices of Tibetan Buddhism are re-contextualized by non-Tibetan students of online courses offered by a major Tibetan Buddhist organization. The research adopts transcultural and translocal …
The Chinese born spiritual teacher “Dr. Zhi Gang Sha” makes up part of a growing global healers market and provides various techniques of purported ancient Chinese origin in his centres in Canada and in Europe. Most of his teachings belong t…
Dishonored is not only one of the most popular and original game series on the market, but from a religious point of view it has one of the most complex and original fictional belief systems. A character that particularly stands out is the O…
Izdano: prosinca 2018.
Izdano: prosinca 2018.
Featured image: Still from “The Origin Tapes” by contributor Beina Xu Before we can get beyond love, we would like to share how we got there. When we decided the twenty-ninth issue of InVisible Culture should address the idea of love, one of our m…
Laurel Ahnert is a lecturer in the School of Film, Media & Theatre at Georgia State University. She researches ethical questions raised by global documentary films and online media using phenomenology as her philosophical lens. Her work has appeare…
By Tiffany E. Barber In darkness, a live, punk-influenced sound score saturates a converted sixty-nine-seat black box theater in New York’s Lower East Side. The source: electric guitarist Chris Cochrane positioned upstage right.1 Upstage left, a spotli…
By Prerna Subramanian “To define what is real is to define what is human, if you care about humans. If you don’t you are schizoid…and the way I see it, an android: that is, not human and hence not real.”- Philip K Dick quoted by N Katherine Hayle…
By Laurel Ahnert The luster and gleam of the stone, though itself apparently glowing only by the grace of the sun, first bring to radiance the light of the day, the breadth of the sky, the darkness of the night. The temple’s firm towering makes …
By Beina Xu The Origin Tapes is an essay film borne from the discovery of a suitcase of unseen VHS tapes recording my family’s migration from China to the U.S. in the 1980s. They contained images of landmark moments in personal and collective history: …