Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s ...

Begin the week with listening. Begin the week with love. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/... #anthropology #listening

Covid-19 and a refurbished realist dualism. Read this #openaccess article by Eldar Bråten here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... #anthropology #covid19 #dualism

Gabriel the killer | OtherwiseMag 'Why am I feeling sympathy for him?' - a piece by Alba Gutiérrez González in the Graphic issue

"Young people find themselves searching for a good life holding on to guns, knives and machetes." And their mothers? See and read in @otherwisemag: www.otherwisemag.com/gabriel-the-... #anthropology

Midweek check-in! ✨
In case you missed it: the OEA has new entries on #DeepSea, #Technology, #Sustainability, #Time & more!

The OEA is a growing #OpenAccess resource making #Anthropology accessible to all - experts and non-experts worldwide.

Explore all entries here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com

Check out this #OpenAccess article by Luminiţa-Anda Mandache! The author proposes the term “anthropology of the popular” to describe an approach that uses ethnographic methods to reveal and address social divisions and polarization.

#OA #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology

A group of Mākereti's descendants and members of her community, standing a line in an ornate room in front of rows of dark, wood-pannelled seating. Credit: Fisher Studios

This weekend, it was very special to witness the award of a posthumous MPhil in Anthropology to pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura @ox.ac.uk

Mākereti began her studies at Oxford almost 100 years ago, exploring the customs of her people of Te Arawa from a female perspective.

Dementism: A New Line of Inquiry in Dementia Studies From a Social Psychological Perspective The progression of dementia often leads to significant life changes, with particular emphasis placed on memory decline and increased forgetfulness. People living with dementia (PlwD) are frequently s...

New #OpenAccess article "Dementism: A New Line of Inquiry in Dementia Studies From a Social Psychological Perspective"

Too often dementia is reduced to memory loss. This article offers a new framework for #Dementia studies, centering dignity, inclusion & personhood.

doi.org/10.1111/jtsb...

alert! An #openaccess special issue on the phenomenology of travel and tourism. www.mdpi.com/journal/huma... #anthropology #phenomenology #tourism #openaccess

Marriage Matters Statistics show steep declines in formal partnerships in Uganda. Yet marriage, commitment, love and relationships still matter profoundly to individuals, family, generations, friends and wider…

#openaccess #anthropology
Interested in love and belonging in Uganda? Read "Marriage Matters," edited by Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika, and Nanna Schneidermann: bit.ly/4kZqLkQ

Corbu's boars | OtherwiseMag 'Soon, in the name of the capitalist order, the straight line became a way of acting and being present in the world' - Jacek Wajszczak's piece in the Graphic issue

on winding paths and straight lines. As always, a wonderful and affectively insightful piece in @otherwisemag: www.otherwisemag.com/corbus-boars
#anthropology

Cultivating Compassion | The Migration Menu This week, James and Luke were invited by Amal Abeyawardene, secretary of the British Maha Bodhi Society, to visit the London Buddhist Vihara, the oldest...

on food offerings in the oldest Buddhist temple outside of Asia. Listen here: themigrationmenu.com/episode/cult... #anthropology #food

2024 Bateson Prize winner, Naisargi Davé, talks about "indifference as a way of understanding interspecies relationality, the relationship between ethics & politics in anthropological thought, & her approach to the craft of ethnographic writing" in this @culanth.bsky.social interview. #Anthropology

In The Myth of 'Risk-Free' Gold, Giselle Figueroa de la Ossa "unpacks how colonial histories and racial and class hierarchies shape who is allowed to desire and accumulate gold today." @sapiens.org #OpenAccess #Anthropology

Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology - Allegra Lab Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work  “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison with far too much

"To rethink citation is to rethink the very conditions under which we are allowed to know, to remember, to speak as anthropologists. Citation is not merely a scholarly apparatus; it is a declaration of allegiance. A tracing of kin..." @allegralab.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...

Annual Meeting - Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

@appliedanthro.bsky.social The call for papers for SfAA Annual Meeting 2026 is now open! More details here: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti... #anthropology

#OpenAccess book alert! 📖📖📖

"A Long Journey Home" traces powerful personal narratives from #Colombia, where decades of conflict have uprooted lives and disrupted the meaning of #home.

#OA #Anthropology #MigrationStudies #RefugeeStudies

Marriage Matters Statistics show steep declines in formal partnerships in Uganda. Yet marriage, commitment, love and relationships still matter profoundly to individuals, family, generations, friends and wider society...

📖 New #OpenAccess book! "Marriage Matters" explores #love, commitment & belonging in #Uganda.

Edited by Lotte Meinert, Julaina A. Obika, and Nanna Schneidermann; Published by
@uclpress.bsky.social

#OA #Anthropology
uclpress.co.uk/book/marriag...

33 | 2024 Re-orienting the Himalayan Borderlands Revue anglophone promouvant l'étude des rapports entre société, culture et politique en Asie du Sud, à partir d'enquêtes de terrain et dans une perspective comparative

Check out the latest issue of the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ)!
Special Issue: Re-orienting the Himalayan Borderlands
Edited by Aditya Kiran Kakati, Mélanie Vandenhelsken & Bernardo A. Michael

Read it here #OpenAccess: journals.openedition.org/samaj/9869

#OA #Anthropology

So happy to present the publication of this special issue on gender and medicine.
It compiles 12 peer-reviewed articles for the "Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology" with historical and contemporary perspectives on this topic.
The entire issue is open access:
curarejournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

On love and war: in #Cambodia, deminers’ #love for landmine-detecting rats transforms former enemies into collaborators.

Read more about #postwar #ecology, #nonhuman #love and the concept of "metta" in this new #OpenAccess article by Darcie Deangelo!

#Anthropology #OA

A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s ...

"What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically?" Listen in to this Anthropod episode with Dr. Omar Kasmani, to "trace the hopes, heartbreaks, and potentialities that love can hold for field research and ethnographic writing."
@culanth.bsky.social www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s ...

www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

American Ethnologist | AAA Ethnology Journal | Wiley Online Library What makes for a successful submission to American Ethnologist? As with article submissions to any anthropological journal, there are several measures you can take to strengthen your article's chance....

Kicking off the week with some editorial insights into writing and publishing, by the editors of American Ethnologist @amethno.bsky.social #Anthropology
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New publication alert 📚🎙️ The September issue of American Anthropologist is hot off the press with an exciting collection of articles 📣🔬 Congratulations to the authors and editors 👏👏 Check it out👇 #Anthropology @amanthro.bsky.social @americananthro.bsky.social

Anthropologies in/of the Black Mediterranean Abstract: This article draws on ethnographic elements collected in the heterogeneous field of African music and dance in France and French-speaking Switzerland, as well as on a previous literature on...

ever wondered how pop music and dance performances shape relations of the afro-european matrix? see here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... #anthropology #music #mediterranean

Julija Kekstaite, Soline Ballet, and Ava Zevop: Fabricating political imagination in contemporary art ‘peripheries’. Postcolonial and postsocialist encounters in Slovenia and Lithuania The Eastern edges of the European Union stand as landscapes of transformation and socioeconomic and cultural flux, situated between shifting empires and layered histories. Their in-betweenness…

uncovering jewels from last year... "a duality of political imaginaries: remnants of collapsed past utopias colliding with the alluring yet hollow promises of contemporary global capitalism." quoted from focaal blog: www.focaalblog.com/2024/12/03/j... #anthropology

on "what it means to live in urban peripheries like Ennore, places experiencing unprecedented levels of industrial expansion and petrochemical pollution" see this wonderful article by Rishabh Raghavan: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca... #anthropology #openaccess

Stockholm nostalgia | OtherwiseMag 'As a child I thought there were deer among the acacia trees' - Oana Lohan's piece for the Graphic issue

"Nostalgia accompanies us throughout our lives, bringing us comfort, joy or sadness, or all of the above, at the same time." On nostalgia-inducing things, by Oana Lohan, see here: www.otherwisemag.com #anthropology

Check out the August issue of Current Anthropology with a range of articles on work and labor, state-society relations and politics, climate events, and human-animal kinship. @wennergrenorg.bsky.social #anthropology

Re-upping our latest entry on the Deep Sea, where Marta Gentilucci highlights #anthropology 's "shy yet critical approach to the deep sea as an ethnographic site–one imbued with meanings that shift depending on who encounters it, with what tools, and through which mediations." #OpenAccess