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Recent developments in anthropological methods for the study of complex societies
The focus of traditional anthropology has been on the “simple and primitive” tribal societies that still exist. The question of how anthropology can...
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The Evolving Culture Concept in Psychiatric Cultural Formulation: Implications for Anthropological Theory and Psychiatric Practice
For thirty years, psychiatrists and anthropologists have collaborated to improve the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. This collaboration has...
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Fear and Vulnerability: Anthropological Approaches
Human beings are vulnerable creatures: They are vulnerable and susceptible, in some situations their lives prove fragile and breakable, they can be...
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Center and Periphery: Anthropological Theory and National Identity in Portuguese Ethnography
While in some central European countries and the USA, anthropology developed as a research on non-Western societies and cultures, in peripheral...
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The uses of class: A Latin American anthropological reading of Marxist debates in the twentieth century
The article takes up six Marxist-inspired debates that substantially impacted Latin American anthropological thought toward social classes in the...
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The child everyone has inside: anthropology and the labor theory of value
This paper revisits the debate on the relevance of the labor theory of value for the anthropological task. It argues that the labor theory of value...
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The moral and political challenges of Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance
This paper explores a series of challenges presented by Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance viewed in the context of the normative and political...
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Technomolecular flows in coastal cities: an anthropological approach to new materialist ethics of the anthropogenic microscale
Urban life is crisscrossed and affected by events and matter in various scales, of which the microscopic has been only partly addressed in...
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From Herder to Strecker: Birth and Developments of the Anthropological Notion of Culture in Germany
Austrian and German anthropological traditions are considered in view of the influence they had on global anthropology. The chapter is built around...
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Mobility and interlinkage: the transformation and new approaches for anthropological research
Mobility and interlinkage have become the most important characteristics of our time. The mobility and interlinkage of people, material and...
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Center and Periphery: Anthropological Theory and National Identity in Portuguese Ethnography
While in some central European countries and the USA, anthropology developed as a research on non-Western societies and cultures, in peripheral...
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Natural and cultural longevity zones from an anthropological and geographical viewpoint
There are natural and cultural variables that have an impact on the longevity of older adults. In the case of the former, it is necessary to know and...
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Understanding Archaeological Theory
Initially I hadn’t planned to explore theoretical archaeology. I used to believe that the prime duty of archaeology was to unearth and investigate...
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Academics with Clay Feet? Anthropological Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Twenty-First Century African Universities
Clay feet are heavy and disabling, sadly in the decolonial scholarly battlefield which otherwise requires all-weather feet suitable for ongoing...
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Electricity as a Field for Anthropological Theorising and Research
What is electricity? Is it a natural force, a technology, or an infrastructural system? Is electricity a flow of electrons or an electromagnetic...
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A way out of the predicament of social sciences in the 20th century: a dialogue with Clifford Geertz’s essay “Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture”(Part II)
Clifford Geertz’s essay, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture” comprehensively explored the basic problems encountered in the...
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From Saint to Anthropological Specimen: The Transformation of the Alleged Skeletal Remains of Saint Erik
Erik Jedvardsson, king of Sweden, was slain in c. AD 1160 and has been venerated as a saint since the end of the twelfth century. It is clear from...
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The predicament of social sciences in the 20th century: a dialogue with Clifford Geertz’s essay “Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture” (Part I)
The theorization of social sciences in the 20th century walked forward with difficulty. Clifford Geertz’s essay, “Thick description: Toward an...
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Karl Polanyi against postcolonial theory: beyond Eurocentric anti-Eurocentrism
Postcolonial theory has been at the forefront of attempts to remedy the problem of Eurocentrism. This article argues that postcolonial theory has not...
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Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory
Geographic information systems (GIS) has been used in archaeology for four decades, and colloquially appears to have become a main tool in the...
