Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article will analyze the ongoing culture-led regeneration processes of abandoned, informal and vacant areas, often considered by residents, local associations, and public officials to be urban voids. Our territorial framework is in Marvila, a semi…
Cultural diversity in Hong Kong has increased dramatically following a series of reforms in population and immigration policies after the unification of Hong Kong in 1997. Since then, cultural clashes between Hong Kong locals and mainland Chinese peopl…
This paper proceeds from the assumption that the Anthropocene is characterized by a profound impurity and ‘messiness’. It argues that in order to be able to better tackle the immense complexity of the contemporary world, Cultural Studies needs to be mo…
Appel à propositions de la revue ethnographiques.org Date limite de soumission : 12 septembre 2022
Coordination : Audrey Higelin (Sophiapol, Université Paris Nanterre) et Laurent Amiotte-Suchet (Haute école de santé Vaud, Lausanne).
Lorsqu’il élabore le concept d’institution totale, à la suite d’un terrain en hôpital psychiatrique au milieu des années 1950, Erving Goffman le circonscrit ainsi : « On peut définir une institution totale comme un lieu de résidence et de travail où un grand nombre[…]
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
My purpose in this paper is, first, to explore metaphorical recursiveness in Yaminahua, i.e. the latter’s folding of the common binary structure: {(x) things + (y) words} into the threefold scheme: (A) things + (B) external analogies + (C) internal…
This article is based on fieldwork among the Guajá people, a small indigenous group of Tupí-Guaraní speakers inhabiting the eastern portion of Brazil’s Amazon region. Aiming for an ethnographic definition of kinship, this article engages in issues …
This paper describes the history of the Villas Boas brothers of Brazil and their role in establishing and administering the 26,000-square-kilometer Xingu Indigenous Park in the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso. Many anthropologists came to work in th…
Over the past decades, museums, particularly the large Euro-American ethnographic ones, have had trouble developing adequate presentations of Amazonian cultural productions. To some extent, this failure can be seen as a side effect of a more genera…
This essay describes one recent Ayoreo film and its production in order to reflect on the wider significance of lowland South American Indigenous cinema and analyses of it today. Informed by the authors’ roles in the collaborative editing of the fi…
In terms of the pan-Amazonian social paradigm that transforms affines into kin and assimilates them into the consanguineal unit, Eastern Tukanoans must be regarded as exceptional. This paper explores a foundation myth that allows us to better under…
Der GEBETOMAT [Volltext]
Jakob Eißner
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Dominika Hadrysiewicz, Mareike Ri…
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Oliver Krüger, Virtualität und Unsterblichkeit – Gott, Evolution und die Singularität im Post- und Tr…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The call to decolonize African Studies has a profound influence on the field, with varying degrees of success. This article addresses this topic in relation to the author’s personal experiences in the publishing industr…
Como escapar da censura quando a arte gráfica se encontra sob vigilância em um governo autoritário? De que tipos de subterfúgios os artistas podem lançar mão para fazer valer a sua mensagem, para se fazer entender por seu público? Essas são duas questõ…
Se è vero, come diceva Aristotele, che non si può pensare senza immagini poiché le immagini sono il corpo visibile delle idee e queste prendono letteralmente forma nella nostra mente attraverso un profilo figurativo contestualmente a quello verbale, pe…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
This article analyzes interlinguistic translation in Beauty [Nosilatiaj. la belleza] (2012), film written and directed by Daniela Seggiaro. The film allows us to study the relationship between Wichí (phenomenon of code-switching and code-mixing) and Sp…
Il presente lavoro analizza il ruolo che la rivista modernista Contemporânea ha svolto nel divulgare le teorie iberiche nell’area lusitana, tra il 1922 e il 1926, per promuovere la ripresa economica e lo scambio interculturale tra Spagna e Portogallo, …
El mito de la Malinche, asociado históricamente en México con el imaginario de la “mujer indígena traidora”, se ha consolidado como un poderoso símbolo en los discursos de las artes visuales, escénicas y literarias, algunos de los cuales se revisarán e…