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The film presents a unique conversation between anthropologist Edvard Hviding and his long-term friend Vincent Vaguni, a community leader and sometime environmental activist from the remote village of Tamaneke in northern New Georgia, Solomon Islands. …

This observational anthrozoological ethnographic film documents the lives of Nepal’s working mules. The film finds a closeness with the mules; their sale in India, their journey to Nepal and their work in the huge brick factories of the Kathmandu valle…

“Curupira” was shot along the Javari Valley, the border region of Peru and Brazil. The story follows Arturo, a local riverine, as he paddles through the darkness in pursuit of the elusive Curupira — a mythological creature deeply ingrained in the regio…

In the mountainous interior of the Himalaya, a highland peasant transforms into a redeemer by cutting holes (chidra) in the social fabric to be delivered to the gods through his body as sacrificial victim. Closely observing this unique ritual-spectacle…

This observational anthrozoological ethnographic film documents the lives of Nepal’s working mules. The film finds a closeness with the mules; their sale in India, their journey to Nepal and their work in the huge brick factories of the Kathmandu valle…

The Klamath River of Oregon and California is one of the most important salmon runs in the United States. While diminished over the past 100 years, it still supports an abundance of life and diverse economies struggling over its future course. This is …

The film presents a unique conversation between anthropologist Edvard Hviding and his long-term friend Vincent Vaguni, a community leader and sometime environmental activist from the remote village of Tamaneke in northern New Georgia, Solomon Islands. …

Journal of Anthropological Films

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Since the early 2000s, armed attacks and inter-ethnic violence have increased in parts of northern Kenya’s Baringo County. This article examines how the Maa-speaking Il Chamus men respond to the growing insecurity as th…

Working collaboratively with students, lecturers, and others, to conduct digital ethnography enriches the ethnographies produced, expands pedagogical possibilities, and allows us to rethink how we teach and do research in anthropology. This Special Iss…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. Between the 1850s and 1950s, when abolitionism masked neoslavery and engendered displacement and forced labour migration in West Africa, Africans used forgery as a survival mechanism. They forged legal documents, claime…

This piece provides the opportunity to reflect upon the period of my master’s studies, undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first part, it highlights a project on ‘WitchTok’ that emerged through my engagement with the TikTok Ethnography Coll…

In this reflective piece, I explore my experience with different social media platforms and how they have shaped my identity as a first-generation Afghan immigrant in Finland. Using autoethnographic methods, I draw from personal memories and experience…

This reflective piece considers the pedagogical possibilities presented by centering collaboration in the process of teaching and learning anthropology. This piece explores the intimate, lived experience of an undergraduate student who completed their …

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. African youth became a central research theme in anthropology and related disciplines in the early 2000s, drawing renewed attention to the lives and aspirations of a segment of the continent’s population that, since the…