Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Cet article propose une ethnographie des pratiques d’entraînement en qigong (discipline corporelle chinoise) développées par le professeur et ancien moine-combattant Shi Yanlei. Celles-ci ont été observées à l’occasion d’un camp d’été de deux se…
From 1919 through the early 1950s, agricultural scientists affiliated with the University of California and agricultural scientists setting up settlements in Mandatory Palestine traveled between California and Palestine on a series of research trips. B…
The gold rush in the Faleme catchment between Senegal and Mali involves artisanal miners from the sub-region, European and American multinationals, and medium-sized Chinese companies. These miners, with their disproportionate financial and material res…
Journal of Extreme Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
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
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Justice in the Anthropocene’ is animated by the central intuition that the new anthropology of justice should be brought into closer conversation with current debates about the Anthropocene. Unpacking this ass…
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
In this article, ‘the offing’ is used as a metaphor to think about demands for justice. The offing literally refers to the most distant part of the sea in view, while the phrase ‘in the offing’ means that something that is about to happen, or about to …
Justice entrepreneurs are increasingly being proclaimed as ‘game-changers’ within global development discourses coalescing around ‘sustainability.’ With the leveraging of digital solutions for social service provision during the Covid pandemic and the …
The extension of wind power and the installation of wind turbines in the low-mountain regions of Germany against the background of the national transition to renewable energies is meeting with opposition from some nature conservationists, who perceive …
Starting from the premise that modern legal institutions are increasingly challenged by the temporal and spatial implications of Anthropocene phenomena, this article shows how various civil-society actors struggle for a more just approach to coal-exit …
This study examines Thurnwald’s colonial ethnological activities in the years 1935 to 1945, also taking into account the U.S. context. The first part deals with Thurnwald’s academic position at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and his attemp…
This article follows Mihnea Tănăsescu’s (2022) call for critical scholarship on rights of nature to examine empirically how and why such rights are used. It does so using the example of resistance to mining in the Ecuadorian Íntag region. Drawing on fi…
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Book review of “Haller, Tobias, Karina Liechti, Martin Stuber, François-Xavier Viallon, and Rahel Wunderli (eds.). Balancing the Commons in Switzerland. Institutional Transformations and Sustainable Innovations. 2021. London: Routledge.
This special issue of the Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology focuses on assembly practices as a tool for collective decision-making within human groups that claim multiple forms of political autonomy from States. The aim of this dossier is to …