Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Editor’s foreword Articles The Linear A tablets HT 102, HT 94 and HT 89: new data on different groups within Minoan society Alexander Akulov The Keftiw/Minoan language is a very close relative of Hattic. In the text of HT 102 are listed the following groups of people: sara/sarja, pani, dirina, and a group denoted by […]
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Legacies of colonial rule, continuing neocolonial extraction, and excessive carbon dumping have meant that the majority of those living in the Global South experience many of the consequences of climate change more acut…
On United States public lands, large-scale structural capitalocentric valuations are at odds with the embodied non-monetary valuations expressed by nature-based recreators. Valuing United States Forest Service lands through a capitalocentric lens does …
Appel à propositions de la revue Ethnographiques.org
Date limite de soumission : 1er décembre 2024
Coordination : Sophie Chevalier (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) et Alexa Faerber (Université de Vienne)
La ville est dans une large mesure infrastructurelle : l’environnement bâti des transports, des bâtiments résidentiels, commerciaux, religieux et administratifs, des équipements publics, mais aussi les canalisations d’énergie et d’eau ou les technologies de communication en sont[…]
Appel à propositions de la revue Ethnographiques.org
Date limite de soumission : 1er décembre 2024
Coordination : Sophie Chevalier (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) et Alexa Faerber (Université de Vienne)
La ville est dans une large mesure infrastructurelle : l’environnement bâti des transports, des bâtiments résidentiels, commerciaux, religieux et administratifs, des équipements publics, mais aussi les canalisations d’énergie et d’eau ou les technologies de communication en sont[…]
This article aims to discuss how Muslims participating in the Norwegian public debate experience what we refer to as representation work activism. Building on Conner’s and Rosen’s understanding of activism ‘as acts that challenge the status …
In recent years – in the context of debates on post-truth, Covid-scepticism and decolonization – the idea that science represents universal knowledge has been challenged from a variety of perspectives. Despite (or because of) this, science and the prom…
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Inspired by broader calls to decolonize knowledge, psychologists in Africa have recently started debating the necessity and feasibility of creating a distinctly African psychology as a new academic discipline and field of practice. Some view this idea,…
For astronomers in Africa, both amateurs and professionals, the universality of the scientific investigation of the universe holds out the promise of navigating inequalities on earth. Universality is attractive: it allows astronomers from Africa to ent…
This article examines how scientists sense the rewilding of wolves in Italy through camera traps. Specifically, I elaborate on two cases when footage of these elusive animals did not allow scientifically sound conclusions but instead lent itself to sto…
Science played a crucial role in the early days of Indian nationalism. This has not changed since India’s independence. With recent political transformations, the significance of science has acquired a new dimension. Contemporary apologists of Hindu na…
Covid-sceptics in the Czech Republic relate strongly to the idea of universal science. They understand this universality as emerging through the participation of ordinary citizens in scientific knowledge-making. Rather than then belonging solely to the…
How do we do an ethnography of universalities? Is it possible to reconcile local specifi cities with universalities through/in ethnography? That is the question the authors in this special issue ask and engage with. If ethnography is about specificitie…
In recent years, genomic medicine has invited critical attention for its potential to include diverse population groups and therefore expand the clinical relevance of global genome databases in diagnosing diseases. Population geneticists across the Glo…
This paper uses life-skills training courses and an automated therapeutic self-help app from Bengaluru, India, as lenses through which to investigate universalizing processes of psychology and therapy and some of its frictions. How is psychological uni…
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology