Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article deals with the complexity of relations of urban dwellers with the natural environment. It explores a rich variety of practices in engaging with non-built environments developed by the population of mining cities in the Murmansk…
Scientific research and public debate on biodiversity loss (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), climate change (IPCC 2007), and other environmental issues have led to a renewed discussion of what needs to be done about the place of humans…
It is widely held that a new image of the world—a colour photograph of the planet Earth rising beyond the shadow of the moon, as captured by a pair of American astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission of 1968—was one of the most influential force…
HARVEY, DAVID. Social Justice and the City. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009 (Revised Edition). Pp. 354. ISBN: 978-0-8203-3403-5. FAINSTEIN, SUSAN. The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010. Pp. 224. ISBN: 978-080144655…
KHOSRAVI, SHARAM. Illegal Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 176. ISBN: 978-0-230-23079-8.
GISA W ESZKALNYS. Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010. Pp. 214. ISBN: 978-1-84545-723-5.
Why would anthropologists pay attention to planning research? The symposium, ‘Planning for People’, held in Helsinki on May 3rd 2011 demonstrated that there are many reasons. Most obviously, anthropologists have to deal more and more with t…
The seminar was dedicated to examining the types of transformations that have recently taken place in feminism in Latin America and in the global justice movements, as well as envisioning possible future processes and shifts in relation to …
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Published: December 1995.
Published: December 1995.
This paper presents a simulation of world-systems theory’s iteration model of early human societies. The polities modeled are composed of sedentary foragers and/or simple horticulturalists that rely upon basic subsistence technologies and display low l…
Kinship is an essential factor in human social life. Many years of research devoted to develop a better understanding of kinship bear witness to this fact. Important advances were made on conceptual, modeling and empirical grounds. Computational social…
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In ’Costume Cinema and Materiality: Telling the Story of Marie Antoinette through Dress’ a materiality-based approach for analysing film narratives through costumes is examined. Sofia Coppola’s film Marie Antoinette (2006) serves as the empirical start…
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With Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological view that human beings ’take in’ the world and experience themselves as subjects through their bodies as a starting point, players in both men’s and women’s teams, kit men, purchasing managers, sporting dir…
The story of fastskin swimsuits reflects some of the challenges facing the impact of technology in postmodern culture. Introduced in 1999 and ratified for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, fastskin swimsuits were touted as revolutionising competitive swim…
This article discusses the mobilization of the nation for fashion, based on how the relationship between fashion and nation unfolds in the case of fashion design practice and the fashion industry in Denmark. The otherwise globalized fashion industry is…
Fashion and retail ought to be a happy marriage. Yet several entrepreneurs in the field of fashion speak of a climate that is difficult to penetrate because of economic and cultural factors. For example, the chain store concept is an expression of the …
Today’s clothing industry is based on a system where clothes are made in ready-to-wear sizes and meant to fit most people. Studies have pointed out that consumers are discontent with the use of these systems: size designations are not accurate enough t…
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This article presents a case study of the development of a local cultural form – Shanghai Yueju – caught up in the rapid urban redevelopment of post-socialist China. Using Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of ’habitus’ and ’distinction’, it analyses the proce…
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This paper deals with the development of ’art clusters’ and their relocation in the city of Shanghai. It first looks at the revival of the city’s old inner city industrial area (along banks of Suzhou River) through ’organic’ or ’alternative’ artist-led…