Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
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While population ageing is not a recent phenomenon, the contemporary context, marked by both a global ecological crisis and a transformation of health policies, gives a renewed centrality to age-related food issues. The accele…
À partir du matériau recueilli dans le cadre d’une thèse en sociologie portant sur l’émergence de l’alimentation sans gluten en France et en Allemagne (2022), cet article montre comment les personnes sensibles au gluten cherchent à objectiver un…
A partir de nos missions de terrain au Cameroun et au Nord-Congo, nous exposons les dimensions symboliques et économiques de la consommation de la viande de brousse issue de la chasse chez les Ba’Aka, peuples chasseurs cueilleurs, et dont l’accè…
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…
La restauration scolaire en France bascule à la fin du XXe siècle d’un modèle artisanal et quasi familial des cuisines sur place à un modèle industriel fondé sur les cuisines centrales qui fait disparaître des écoles une fabrication culinaire, i…
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in a correctional facility for male juveniles (aged 12 to 21) in Ghana, this article elaborates on institutional responses following two attempted escapes in 2018 and in 2021. The institutional resp…
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Collaborative research on museum collections is standard today in ethnographic museums, where the power of interpretation, questions of expertise and ownership rights are critically discussed as necessary steps towards decolonizing western museums and …
The Ethnologisches Museum houses collections from the Indigenous Mapuche people, acquired since the mid-nineteenth century, primarily from what is now Chile. In a collaborative project with representatives of the Mapuche, we aim to analyze the signific…
Collections play a crucial role as a meeting point between community stakeholders, guest researchers, international fellows and museum staff, while also carrying the traces of a violent (colonial) past. Conceived as a cross-disciplinary open conversati…
The Global Culture Assembly (GCA) is a collaborative initiative that seeks to redefine museum governance through inclusive, horizontal and cross-cultural participation. Emerging from the 2022 Humboldt Forum’s opening symposium, the GCA has evolved thro…
This article describes a long-term, process-oriented collaboration between the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and the Kotiria community of Macucu in Colombia. This cooperation has evolved into a deep relational engagement in which cultural objects are se…
The Kribi Archives project is a collaborative project aimed at revitalizing a neglected local archive in Kribi, Cameroon, and transforming it into a sustainable, community-driven space for historical engagement, research and artistic exchange. Rather t…
In 2024, the Mazatec writer and librarian Gabriela García came to Berlin to study the Mazatec collection in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Acquired by the museum from Wilhelm Bauer in 1903 and 1908, this ethnograph…
This article examines the complexities and structural challenges of collaboration in ethnographic museum work through a case study of the Collaborative Museum (CoMuse) project at the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin. …
Within the ‘Collaborative Museum’, the podcast ‘Going Against the Grain’ (German: Gegen die Gewohnheit) tells its audiences about the collaborative projects of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst. Reflecting on both their guid…
Museum practice has been shaped decisively in recent years by a ‘collaborative turn’. Celebrated with optimism and critiqued with wariness alike, collaboration has become central to how anthropological museums approach their work. Beyond individual col…
‘Shiva Linga kosh: Visual Research on the Provenance and Meaning of a Sacred Artefact from Nepal’ explores the origin, provenance and cultural significance of a copper-gilt, four-faced chaturmukha Shiva Linga kosh (cover) housed at the Museum für Asiat…
This article aims to formulate and frame the digital strategy of the Collaborative Museum conceptually and to outline the main lines of its immediate implementation plan from a reflexive perspective. The digital strategy is presented as a practice, ‘a …
A community museum is currently being established at the Niwan Nha Cultural Centre in the Guatemalan village of Yalambojoch. Through a collaboration with the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, copies of stone sculptures collected for the museum by Eduard Se…
Based on the Uyghur collection from the late 19th century that is housed within the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, the project asks what objects, both those held at the museum and contemporary objects, mean for Uyghurs living in the diaspora today. The …
Ethnographic and non-European art collections currently form a field that is particularly prominent in the public eye, since the methods of curating, exhibiting and working with cultural belongings have undergone significant changes over the past twent…
What traces of colonial and Nazi violence can be found in the Humboldt Forum exhibitions? How relevant is this heritage for democracy today? In the collaborative project ‘Intertwined Memories,’ people from Berlin’s diverse urban society, international …
This article describes a collaborative educational and artistic project developed by the Instituto Colombiano de Anthropología e Historia (ICANH) and the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. Protective stone figures from the Parque Arqueológico de San Agustín…
A collection of late 19th-century mats originating from the Lamu Archipelago in northern Kenya – globally unique, as they bear interwoven poems – is today kept in the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin. The project ‘Talking Mats: Interwoven Histories – Co…