Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
This essay rethinks Heimat through the figure of Heidi, not as a sentimental icon of Alpine innocence but as a conceptual prism through which to understand the contemporary weaponization of nostalgia. Drawing on theories of restorative nosta…
El artículo analiza las relaciones entre tiempo y emociones en la obra del escritor austrohúngaro Sándor Márai, centrándose en la novela El último encuentro (1942). Explora los vínculos entre acontecimientos históricos, políticos y ficticios…
This article is grounded in a longitudinal ethnographic investigation of half a dozen working-class neighbourhoods in a large town in northern England. That investigation focused on nostalgia and culturally informed perceptions of change. Re…
This essay reflects on the politics of abandoned buildings juxtaposed with memorials to a thriving industrial past whilst walking through Leith. I argue that these abandoned buildings reveal capitalism’s inherent obsolescence and counteract …