Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This film is about gold– a global commodity shaping local livelihoods and landscapes across the world. It is about the people who risk their lives in the narrow underground mines and about their struggles for a better future. It is a participatory proj…
Gold is the cornerstone of Suriname’s economy, attracting many Brazilian migrants who seek to improve their lives. Building on a friendship spanning over fifteen years, miner Pretinha and anthropologist Marjo embarked on a collaborative film project fo…
As a seemingly cheap, abundant and easy to extract resource, sand is a key ingredient in many construction materials, most notably concrete. Minding Sand follows the sand mining industry along the beaches of Sierra Leone and the struggles associated wi…
The release of our first 2025 issue on 22 April, coordinated by our new editorial team, coincides with Earth Day 2025. This issue presents five films that take a close look at natural resource extraction worldwide, including gold, copper, oil, sand and…
In this article I place into dialogue the challenges of the circular economy (CE) with Political Ecology by using the notion of autonomy. I examine two circular food initiatives in the capital city region of Brussels, Belgium, a cooperative supermarket…
Folklore is a thriving cultural treasure, laden with fascinating stories, myths, customs, and rituals influenced by a particular locale or community. This post delves into the enigmatic world of folklore, from the mythical creatures of European folklore to the spiritual rites of African traditional religions, to the captivating legends of Native American tribes. The Alluring […]
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This article explores how Czech women navigate polyamory, a relationship style in which loving multiple partners is acceptable. It examines how women in these relationships understand their experiences and how polyamory shapes their self-identities. It…
This article is a symmetrical ethnography of globalisation in progress. From a material-semiotic, localised perspective, I focus on the until recently isolated Indian region of Zanskar. I explore the ways in which new actors – the Zanskar Highway, new …
Ideas, practices and rituals associated with death are a classic area of study in the social sciences and humanities. The anthropology of death, as a specific sub-discipline of anthropology, examines how individuals and societies around the world respo…
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The reshaping of global production through platform capitalism has been the subject of numerous studies around the world. Across these, it has been common to observe similar characteristics of this model of management and labour control via …
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This study explores how social media analytics (SMA) advances political ecology (PE) through a case study on Polish discourse around waste-to-energy facilities (March 2020–June 2023). Using a social media listening platform (SMLP) for sentiment analysi…
What does it mean to die well? How does assuming responsibility for killing an animal feel?Who gets to decide who dies, who lives, and who kills? While orienting oneself to regenerating life is typical among small-scale diversified farmers, killing and…
Based on a walking ethnography, this photo essay employs sensory ethnography to explore multispecies relationality in steljniki, plots of land traditionally used for grazing and the harvesting of common bracken. Through work in subsistence-based extens…
Alava, Henni. Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion. Bloomsbury. 2022. 288 pp. ISBN: 978-1-3501-7580-8 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-3501-7583-9, ISBN: 978-1-3501-7582-2 (ebook).
Huttunen, Laura and Gerhild Perls (eds). An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. Berghahn. 2023. 298 pp. ISBN: 978-1-80539-072-5 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-80539-364-1 (ebook).
Sanjeev Routray The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2022. 347 pp. ISBN: 9781503630840 (cloth); ISBN: 9781503632134 (paperback); ISBN: 9781503632141 (E-book)
In Volume 48, Issue 3 of Suomen Antropologi, we published a Lectio Praecursoria by Ioana Țîștea, entitled ‘Creolising Nordic Migration Research: Entangled Knowledges, Migratisations, and Reflexivities’. In the lectio, Țîștea was drawing direct attentio…
On a cold December evening, in the thick cloud of cigarette smoke and clatter of the cocktail shaker, two women, Suvi Rautio and He Beili tell stories of what it means to see through the eyes of an anthropologist. Speaking to a crowded room of seventy …
This article presents an ethnographic analysis of the care and attention between other-than humans and musicians in the contemporary improvised music scene. From dominant Western perspectives, ethical relations are considered in anthropocentric terms: …