Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
How to narrate queer lives without reproducing the epistemic violence of abstraction? In this article, we address several tensions between portraying, as necessarily reductive process of description and representation, and Queerness, as pe…
Drawing on the portrait of Vesta, this article explores the “politics of the pronoun” in two interrelated key ways. First, it analyses the stakes of using the portrait to convey a queer experience marked by disciplinary processes that seek…
This article engages with current debates in queer anthropology that interrogate gender and sexuality as discrete analytical domains and highlight their complex entanglement in colonial and capitalist structures of power. It focuses on the…
Losing a close relative in old age is nowadays a very common occurrence. But what does it mean in practice to organise a funeral for someone over 80, in a context characterised by the pluralisation of our relationship with death and the de…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
Uuri, kuidas täpsed ilmaprognoosid mõjutavad noorte sportimisvõimalusi Eestis. Olulised nipid ja info, et olla valmis igaks väljasõiduks ja laagriks.
The post Noorte Üritused ja Sport Eestis: Täpne Ilmaprognoos on Edu Võti first appeared on Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
Raadio teel juhitavad mudelid, tuntud ka kui RC-mudelid, pakuvad mitmeid võimalusi ja naudinguid nii lastele kui ka täiskasvanutele. Need mudelid hõlmavad erinevaid sõidukeid, sealhulgas autosid, laevu ja lennukeid. Käesolevas artiklis uurime RC-mudelite maailma, nende eeliseid ja puudusi ning anname näpunäiteid sobiva mudeli valimiseks. Mis on raadio teel juhitavad mudelid? Raadio teel juhitavad mudelid on mänguasjad […]
The post Uuri Kõik, mida pead teadma raadio teel juhitavatest mudelitest uudis first appeared on Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics.
This article explores the more-than-human political ecology of human-elephant conflict in North Bengal, India, by emphasizing Asian elephants’ (Elephas maximus) agency within a complex conservation landscape. Through a combination of ethnographic field…
This lecture was given on April 16th, 2026, at St Andrews University, as the 2nd Peter Gow Memorial Lecture. Its aim is not only to pay tribute to a great anthropologist who died prematurely, but also to explore a fundamental aspect of his work. Na…
O artigo analisa um episódio ocorrido na comunidade waiwai do Jatapuzinho, na Terra Indígena Trombetas-Mapuera, envolvendo o encontro do professor Renato Kanhera Waiwai com um antigo Pote de Pedra encontrado às margens do rio Jatapuzinho durante um…
Este trabajo presenta un análisis etnohistórico de los cambios en la jefatura awajún del Alto Marañón a inicios del siglo XX, centrándose en sus relaciones de dependencia, poder y trabajo forzoso con los comerciantes mestizos, en su mayoría patrone…
This paper analyzes two cases of resistance by Kukama workers within the debt slavery system of habilitación in the Peruvian Amazon during the first half of the twentieth century. It discusses the similarities and differences between the two cases,…
In so-called “French” Guiana, or Guyane, the Kali’na village of Atopo Wipi has fought for years against a hydrogen power plant being built on their land. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2024 in Guyane and Western Europe…
The central theme of this article basically resides in the relationship established by indigenous peoples between their hunting practices and the forest. Indigenous ways of connecting ‘hunting’ and ‘forest’ necessarily pass through other modes of k…
What to do with the problem of predation? This is not only a conundrum for anthropologists working in what has become known as animist societies. The gardening activities of the Awajún people of northern Peru’s high jungle are modelled on the teach…
This paper focuses on the bonds of kinship and care between humans, cultivated plants, and other-than-human beings in Indigenous gardens, myths, rituals, and shamanism, across Lowland South America. Drawing on Krahô ethnography and a review of ethn…
This article analyses territorialization ‘from-above’ and ‘from-below’ in Kamoethway, Tanintharyi Region in relation to the public authorities of the Karen National Union (KNU) and changing Myanmar governments. Fieldwork in Karen villages of the Kamoet…
As the aquifers beneath the San Luis Valley hit new lows, farmers and ranchers in this agricultural hub of southern Colorado are being encouraged to fallow their fields. With water scarcity as a push factor and renewable energy mandates as a pull facto…
Rewilding is increasingly popular as a new paradigm for conservation, advocating the return of an autonomous nature, the ‘wild’, in closer coexistence with people. This approach resonates with transboundary conservation initiatives like the Kavango-Zam…
En 2018 en France, deux épisodes d’intoxication alimentaire liés à des souches pathogènes d’Escherichia coli se sont suivis de mesures officielles visant à évincer les fromages au lait cru de l’assiette des enfants de moins de 5 ans. L’article s…
Pendant la pandémie de Covid-19, au Québec, certains ménages se sont tournés vers le jardinage alimentaire domestique, y compris des ménages en situations d’insécurité alimentaire. Cet article étudie la pratique du jardinage chez ces ménages, av…
En mai 2020, plusieurs médias internationaux ont publié des images de longues files d’attente lors de distributions de colis alimentaires gratuits à Genève, une des villes les plus riches du monde. Cet événement a rudement éprouvé le système d’a…
La cuniculture est régulièrement qualifiée, en France, comme une filière agricole « en crise ». D’une part, la baisse continuelle de la consommation de viande de lapin impacte les volumes produits et le nombre d’éleveurs et d’éleveuses de lapins…
This article examines the national school food program Qaliwarma in Peru, by analyzing the food-related issues as perceived by government authorities and the Maijuna and Napuruna indigenous peoples of the Amazon, who receive aid consisting of in…
Cette livraison de la revue Anthropology of Food s’est saisie de la notion de « crises » pour en interroger les contours initialement discutés au sein de l’atelier n°19 (Alimentation et crise) ayant eu lieu lors du congrès 2023 de l’AFEA à Paris…