Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Laos is a country of seven million people in Southeast Asia, with its largest urban centre having a population of just under one million people. At a time of rising inflation and growing awareness of climate change, this article investigates how urban …
This paper reflexively unpicks digital ethnographic methods employed during ongoing online fieldwork on ‘digital deaths’. To do so, this research delves into the digital afterlife, exploring the fate of online traces and social media profiles after dea…
Stoetzer, Bettina. Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin. Duke University Press Books. 2022. 243 p. Part of the book series, Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices, edited by …
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding (eds.) Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations. Canon Pyon, UK: Sean Kingston Publishing. The RAI Country Series, Volume Three. 2021. 152 pp. ISBN: 978-1-912385-30-0 (paperback); ISBN: 978-1-9…
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
A lectio præcursoria is a short presentation read out loud by a doctoral candidate at the start of a public thesis examination in Finland. It introduces the key points or central argument of the thesis in a way that should make the ensuing discussion b…
Each year just before the New Year, our hometown library—the Helsinki Metropolitan Area Library Network (Helmet 2024)—issues a curated 50-book reading challenge. To celebrate a new year, Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Societ…
We are once again delighted to bring you a new issue of Suomen antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. This issue marks our final contribution as your editors-in-chief. Two years ago when we took over the journal, our primary a…
We are pleased to announce the latest publication of the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1.
All articles in this latest issue can be accessed via this link.
We take this opportunity to thank our contributors, reviewer…
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Le concept de care occupe une place centrale dans les débats actuels en sciences sociales sur l’évolution et la viabilité des mondes contemporains. Né dans le sillon des réflexions féministes états-uniennes sur le développement moral et cognitif des enfants (Gilligan 1982), il a été élargi et reformulé, par la sociologue Arlie Hochschild[…]
sacrificial text ritual performance ancestor worship keying device imperial metaphor Huizhou Through the lens of performance study, this article analyzes five sacrificial texts that are read or sung in ritual performances worshipping ancestors (and dei…
Templestay engaged Buddhism South Korea (un)happiness branding wellness tourism This article examines Templestay, a short-term retreat program held for laypersons at Buddhist monasteries, as a form of wellness tourism amid the prevailing social malaise…
Bhojpuri folksongs Hindi literature Anglo-Indian literature ethnography migration indentureship orality This article examines Bhojpuri folksongs that have migrated from north Indian villages to overseas locales, or that have migrated from oral traditio…
How can researchers working both within and external to academia in all disciplines and areas of research recognize knowledge produced in other spheres and engage more ethically and collaboratively with that knowledge and those who create and circulate…
Cet article s’intéresse aux relations entre un coach et son groupe de body-builders examinées à la suite d’une enquête ethnographique de longue durée dans une salle de musculation du Sud de la France. Les aspects alimentaires des régimes qui son…
El desarrollo surge como un campo de acción específico después de la Segunda GuerraMundial, marcado por la descolonización, principalmente, en Asia y África. Estacreación forjó una línea imaginaria divisoria entre países, configurando a algunos como“de…
Presentación Año XXII N° XXXV// Diciembre 2023
Prólogo PUBLICAR Año XXII N° XXXV// Diciembre 2023
In the last three decades, museums and museological practices that are fundamentally based on Western knowledge systems have been strongly questioned by a collective that includes Indigenous Peoples, political activists, representatives of civil societ…
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 article seeks to bring value to the claims of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil through ‘encyclopedias’, libraries or dictionaries, forms of expression that indicate respect for elders and ancestors. It is developed within the political context of a st…
At a time when public and political opinion towards forced migration is negatively inclined, many museums in Europe are applying a collaborative approach to address the stories of forced migrants (Boersma 2023; Sergi 2021). Through participatory projec…