L’Età dello sterminio. Exterminations by ugo bardi – a prophetic book-
Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives
Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives
Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives
This review essay undertakes a critical analysis of the work Social Education: theories and scopes for socio-educational research and intervention (Rebolledo-Gámez & Cárdenas-Rodríguez, 2025). The methodology is based on an in-depth revi…
Youth participation is an essential pillar in democratic consolidation, as it promotes critical citizenship, civic habits, and institutional legitimacy. However, there are numerous structural obstacles that limit its real impact, such as adu…
What is proposed here is an epistemological, ethical, and political commitment to inhabiting digital practices with awareness and creativity, with the intention of politicizing technologies without disembodiment. It is based on the premise t…
This study reviews the scientific literature on the relationship between participation in physical and sports activities and the psychological well-being of young people. Such activities foster self-acceptance, positive interpersonal relatio…
Après l’accord bilatéral du 25 janvier 1965 entre les gouvernements français et yougoslave, les entreprises de Belfort-Montbéliard, et en premier lieu Peugeot, intensifient leurs recrutements en Yougoslavie. Lors des examens d’embauche, les crit…
Se constituer dans la liminalité : le cas de « Chypre Nord » [Full text]
Julie Alev Dilmaç
Existing through Liminality: The Case of Northern Cyprus
Ce numéro problématise le rapport au terrain en Turquie, en montrant comment celui-ci (re)configure les recherches et la posture du chercheur ou de la chercheuse en retour. Il aborde la recherche en train de se faire en Turquie en ta…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article critiques dominant development frameworks by examining the ≠Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari, who despite winning one of South Africa’s largest post-Apartheid land claims, remain marginalised and impove…
This article recuperates an overlooked history of a photographic archive created in 1965 to document the cultural diversity of the Portuguese colonies for an ethnological museum in Lisbon during the concluding decades of the country’s last colonial reg…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Uganda has been home to a myriad of communities of Somali origin for over a century. Pioneering Somali-Ugandans can trace their arrival to the early days of the colonial administration. A second wave of Somalis migrated…
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This article reads Finnish linguist and ethnographer Matthias Alexander Castrén’s published letters as travel writing influenced both by imperialist discourses and the tradition of Finnish travel writing. The article examines the letter formulae and th…
The image of Steppe Ukraine as a historical region has mainly been constructed based on narratives originating from urban centres that are often perceived as alien to this territory and people. Being one of the most industrial and urbanised parts of Uk…
The article aims to unsettle the meaning of gender assignment for Ukrainian variants of the dragonslayer wonder tale of ATU 312D, “Kotyhoroshko”, which is represented by a child hero through a post-structural deconstruction on four levels: language, jo…
This study analyses the rules of circulation of money (and wealth in general) in Qing-era (1644–1911) Chinese texts on the supernatural. It is based on the popular collections of stories by writers Pu Songling, Ji Yun and Yuan Mei.Ever since the 19th c…
The Sundarbans, which stretches from the Bay of Bengal over parts of India and Bangladesh, is the largest mangrove forest in the world, constantly in flux due to the erosion and cyclones that can drastically reshape the land. This article explores how …
Forests are one of the most commonly recurring settings of folktales and oratures. In the popular imagination, forests are often seen as the site of the unknown, the non-human, enchanting and, mystifying, however, in the northeastern cultures of India,…
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This article investigates a religious group in contemporary northeast China. The group is formed by ritual experts and adherents of a traditional folk belief in animal spirits. The group runs as an institution providing aid to those who need psychologi…
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This article reads Finnish linguist and ethnographer Matthias Alexander Castrén’s published letters as travel writing influenced both by imperialist discourses and the tradition of Finnish travel writing. The article examines the letter formulae and th…
The image of Steppe Ukraine as a historical region has mainly been constructed based on narratives originating from urban centres that are often perceived as alien to this territory and people. Being one of the most industrial and urbanised parts of Uk…
The article aims to unsettle the meaning of gender assignment for Ukrainian variants of the dragonslayer wonder tale of ATU 312D, “Kotyhoroshko”, which is represented by a child hero through a post-structural deconstruction on four levels: language, jo…