Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
In music streaming services like Spotify, discrete pieces of music no longer has a price, as has traditionally been the case in music retailing, both analog and digital. This article discusses the theoretical and practical implications of this shift to…
One of the most prominent features of digital music services is the provision of personalized music recommendations that come about through the profiling of users and audiences. Based on a range of “bot experiments,” this article investigates if, and h…
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An interesting feature introduced by the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies since 2012 is Scholarly Viewpoints that showcase opinions, comments, ideas, and viewpoints of well renowned scholars on the Asia Pacific region pertaining to their respective academic discipline. This additional feature will further add value to the journal’s uniqueness as a scholarly journal. Interviews … Continue reading →
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The subject matter of this special issue is anything but new: religious diversity has already been widely discussed in theology, philosophy, history and sociology. (Too) many times, however, diversity has been measured against the yar…
SAMAJ-EASAS Series
Series editors: Alessandra Consolaro, Margret Frenz and José Mapril.
This thematic issue is the fifth in a series of issues jointly co-edited by SAMAJ and the European Association for South…
SAMAJ-EASAS Series
Series editors: Alessandra Consolaro, Margret Frenz and José Mapril.
This thematic issue is the fifth in a series of issues jointly co-edited by SAMAJ and the European Association for South…
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This article investigates how a digital turn and digital copies have influenced ideas, roles and authorities within a national museum sector. It asks whether digital mu-seums and their digital reproductions expand and/or challenge a traditional cul-tur…
Lists of wonders have circulated for millennia. Over and over, such inventories of spectacular man made constructions have been rewritten, re-edited and reimagi-ned. Both the wonders and the lists of wonders, preferably of the seven, have had a profoun…
This article discusses copies within the field of art museums by way of mapping strategies for copy practices. This mapping leans heavily towards parts of the wri-tings of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004). Against the backdrop of this theoretical premise, t…
Paintings in museums might occasionally be replaced by a photoprint mimicking the original. This article is an investigation of what constitutes a good reproduction of an artwork (oil painting) that is meant to be displayed. The article discusses what …
Copies are defined by their relation to an original. The understanding and evaluation of this relationship has been changing over time. A main argument of this article is that originals and copies are phenomena with no “natural” or essential meaning ou…
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Published: April 2017.
Published: April 2017.
Extended deadline for manuscript submission: October 30, 2017 Send manuscripts at compaso@compaso.eu For our Winter 2017 issue, we invite research articles and notes that explore how we are being aged from outside the contours of our bodies, through the presence and absence of interaction with others, in materially and technologically organized activities, by living in […]
Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen: Redaksjonelt
Gunnar M. Sørbø: Kriser og kriger – er det bruk for oss nå?
Ada I. Engebrigtsen: Kampen om mobilitet og sted
Ingjerd Hoëm: «Hva er en krise?»
Finn Sivert Nie…
This paper introduces the interdisciplinary field of Critical Future Studies (CFS). CFS investigates the scope and constraints within public culture for imagining and debating different potential futures. It interrogates imagined futures founded – ofte…
Get PDF: McCartney, Patrick. 2017. Politics beyond the Yoga Mat: Yoga Fundamentalism and the ‘Vedic Way of Life’. Global Ethnographic. Patrick McCartney Visiting Fellow, Australian National University psdmccartney@gmail.com Abstract This article…
Get PDF: McCartney, Patrick. 2017. Politics beyond the Yoga Mat: Yoga Fundamentalism and the ‘Vedic Way of Life’. Global Ethnographic. Patrick McCartney Visiting Fellow, Australian National University psdmccartney@gmail.com Abstract This article…
While overhunting and climate change have been the major hypotheses to explain the late-Pleistocene New World megafaunal extinctions, the role of introduced disease has only received brief attention. Here, we review pre-Columbian diseases endemic t…
While overhunting and climate change have been the major hypotheses to explain the late-Pleistocene New World megafaunal extinctions, the role of introduced disease has only received brief attention. Here, we review pre-Columbian diseases endemic t…
With the emergence of the neologism ‘intangible cultural heritage’ in 2003 and the adoption of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Law of the People’sRepublic of China in 2011 various popular religious practices in China which used to be consi…