Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This article analyses political posters from the 1960s to the 1990s in Latin America, uncovered by the exhibition Thinking Inside the Box, as a Strategic Communications tool. A discussion of visual communications theory summarises that the relevance of…
Este ensayo desarrolla un ejercicio interpretativo sobre los nombres de Malintzin utilizando el concepto de heterónimo junto con los postulados de Bolívar Echeverría sobre su figura en sus conceptos de mestizaje cultural y codigofagia; las propuestas d…
This essay examines Andean ritual practices in the early colonial period as long-term survival strategies through changing social conditions. These human behavioral patterns are contextualised within a wider moral economy, where ethical obligations, an…
Este dossier enfoca en la “relacionalidad” ecológica y sociocultural, así como en los ritmos y las dinámicas espaciotemporales de las prácticas festivas y rituales en las áreas de montaña iberoamericanas. Con relacionalidad medioambiental entendemos ep…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
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Through an ethnography of culinary offerings dedicated to Earth-Beings, this essay explores the speculative thought of Andean herders in Jujuy (NW Argentina) as they reflect on their relations with Pachamama and the “modern” rituals of politicians and …
En un contexto de desencanto global, crisis ecológica y agotamiento neoliberal, las narrativas contemporáneas deben repensar formas de habitar el mundo más allá de la catástrofe ambiental. Este ensayo ofrece un acercamiento preliminar y especulativo a …
El escrito indaga en la relacionalidad ambiental ejercida por una población de la estepa patagónica argentina. Es un caso con prácticas productivas que los trasladan entre la estepa y la montaña por la trashumancia, que nuclea a la población que celebr…
El artículo analiza etnográficamente el ciclo ritual agrícola de la comunidad aymara de Socoroma en el norte de Chile. Se describen cinco festividades, Difuntos, Pachallampe, Carnavales, Cruces de Mayo y San Isidro, que estructuran el calendario festiv…
Este artículo examina cómo las fiestas andinas, en especial en la comunidad Kayambi, funcionan como espacios de expresión política donde se negocian identidades y relaciones de poder. Desde un enfoque etnográfico, se analizan los efectos de la evangeli…
Among popular beverages associated with Puglia’s Salentine sub peninsula are coffee with ice and coffee with ice and almond lymph. The origin of the first is attributed to the patriarch of a family of coffee roasters in the city of Lecce who int…
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print.
This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an expe…
Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned a doctorate in French literature at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, 2017), where her dissertation examined comparative approaches to epic, with particular attention to French and Turkic traditions. In this context, she developed a specific interest […]
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This article examines dropout from therapeutic communities for addiction treatment through the lens of institutional escape. In conventional treatment research, dropout is framed as evidence of patients’ non-compliance, lack of motivation, o…
From 1920 through 1932, Soviet biomedical propaganda disseminated via Udmurt literature including through periodicals, novels, plays, and poetry aimed to instil sanitation values and advance modernisation. This propaganda targeted the Indig…
This essay belongs to the essay series ‘The Anthropologist’s Toolkit: Reflections on Ethnographic Methodology’. In this series, authors peer into the anthropologist’s toolkit to reflect on what ethnographic methodology constitutes in all it…
This essay is based on the 2025 Westermarck Lecture, delivered at the 50th anniversary meetings of the Finnish Anthropological Society. My deepest thanks to the organisers, staff, and participants of that conference, including Sarah Green, …
Faced with limitations to transnational transactions, Chinese students in Russia engage in informal currency exchanges. Through fieldwork in a Siberian city, we discovered how, against the backdrop of sanctions, fluctuating official exchang…
Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Since the earliest colonial encounters in Greenland, place-based Inuit knowledge of seal skin processing has been applied and regenerated within a web of regional, national, and global relations. These relations have not only affected metho…
The winds are changing at Suomen antropologi: Journal of Finnish Anthropological Society! My service as editor-in-chief is coming to an end at the end of this year and I am proud to announce the appointment of the incoming editors-in-chief,…
This paper examines how a group of women’s rights activists in Iran who identify as Muslim represented themselves prior to the emergence of the 2022 Mahsa Movement, and why they were reluctant to adopt the labels ‘feminist’ or ‘Islamic femi…
Anthropologists compare – it is at the heart of what we do as we try and make sense of, describe and explain human social being in all its diversity. But the use of comparison extends far beyond anthropology. Indeed, it seems ubiquitous acr…