Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The emission of pollutants from industrial, extractive (mining and hydrocarbons), and corporate agricultural activities exacerbates environmental degradation, endangering sustainable living conditions for humans and more-than-humans. Growing concerns r…
Some agencies tend to view wildlife as resources to harvested and potential threats to be controlled in the name of public safety. Due to a long history of hunting for conservation, this view intersects with the structures and ways the agencies work. H…
The study highlights the development of the genre of church carols in the work of Ukrainian priests as a component of the spiritual song culture of the 17th – 19th centuries with a possible specification of their authors. A review of the scientific wor…
Christine Yano has recently retired as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She has conducted research on Japan and Japanese Americans with a focus on popular culture. At the University of Hawaii, she taught a course called ‘Applied/ …
The classroom – and a first seminar or tutorial in specific – affords a seemingly infinite number of starting points, invitations, orientations, and departures. This report reflects on the introduction as a pedagogical tool of, for, and as ethnography,…
In recent years, online approaches to teaching anthropology have become popular in higher education. In this exploratory account, we consider how student understanding of anthropological ideas differed in online vs. face-to-face modalities of an anthro…
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
How does asking loved ones to help you die, to help you commit suicide, bend the limits of our relationships and perhaps of care itself? This paper traces the aesthetic and affective considerations of those deciding to die resist against depersonalizin…
The brown bear reintroduction program in the Pyrenees was launched in 1996, once their population was considered extinct in the central parts of the mountain range. The increasing number of livestock casualties caused by bear attacks forced the public …
Dans cet ouvrage, Alizée Delpierre, chercheuse au CNRS, poursuit son travail sur les domesticités avec l’objectif de dessiner de façon globale une sociologie historiquement ancrée des travailleurs et travailleuses domestiques à travers le monde…
Cet article entend explorer les ressorts de la participation familiale au fonctionnement de l’institution psychiatrique, pensée essentiellement comme manière de configurer les relations en vue de “traiter” les personnes malades. Le travail effec…
Alors que le mouvement animaliste se politise en Occident, il reste principalement compris comme un mouvement de promotion du véganisme. Cette vision s’écarte de la volonté d’émancipation animale dont se revendiquent les militants de la cause a…
Dès le début du mouvement des Gilets jaunes, les chercheuses et chercheurs sont partis dans des interprétations très diverses et parfois contradictoires. Dans cet article, nous proposons une revue de la littérature, aussi exhaustive que possible…
This article aims to reconstruct Pierre Bourdieu’s contribution to the analysis of the sociologist’s role in society, starting from two levels of responsibility that run through his work. The first is related to scientific quality. According to …
En 2021, Frédéric Lordon publie : Pleurnicher le vivant. Ce texte au ton provocateur qualifie les « penseurs du vivant » – considérés comme héritiers d’une vision politique latourienne de la nature – de « radicaux de l’insignifiance ». Il décl…
Journal of Business Anthropology
Journal of Business Anthropology
This essay will provide a series of concrete cases that reflect particularly successful or rewarding projects that anthropologists I interviewed worked on. These cases provide a window into the uniquely valuable contributions of anthropology when appli…
Organizational research on data sharing in inter-organizational contexts is limited, giving little insight into why data is or is not shared, often bypassing social and cultural norms, values and perspectives, and issues of power, (dis)trust, and (un)w…
Technological incubators are commonly regarded as important infrastructures that nurture nascent business ventures, meant to create conditions for innovation and regional economic development. However, in China, such an incubator functions as a perform…
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: vii-ix
Journal Name: Museum WorldsVolume: 12Issue: 1Pages: 261-279