Critique of Anthropology

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Subject: Anthropology

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Disenfranchisement and poverty in the post-settlement phase of Māori claims.
Toon Van Meijl16029Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Critique of Anthropology. 13 days ago

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Since 1995, Māori tribes have received NZ$ 4.6 billion in compensation for grievances concerning their dispossession in the colonial history of New Zealand, but studies of the influence of settlements on the ‘well-being’ of Māori beneficiaries are scarce. ...

April 27, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261446396 open full text
On being-with: Critical reflections on Heideggerian ethics in anthropological discourse.
Yasmine Eve Lucas1University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Critique of Anthropology. April 22, 2026

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The reception of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy within anthropology has often centred on his concept of being-in-the-world, a concept that has proven fruitful for exploring human entanglements with others and their environments. Much of this work draws on ...

April 22, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261446405 open full text
The bending of space-time in anthropology: An anti-heuristic proposal.
Diana Espírito Santo1Escuela de Antropología, 28033Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Critique of Anthropology. April 21, 2026

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In this article I explore two very different ethnographies in search of a heuristic or heuristics to understand temporality in each one of them. The first is of a UFO contact group in Chile, who insist that we exist in a sort of separate temporal frame ...

April 21, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261446410 open full text
Replacement anxieties: White power speculation and anthropology’s ancestral dramas.
Devin Proctor1Department of Sociology & Anthropology, 3202Elon University, Elon, NC, USA.
Critique of Anthropology. April 18, 2026

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Anthropologists disowned their race-science roots one hundred years ago and the field has been a charade since—according to today’s White power activists. Those activists do not spurn anthropology, but they do spurn ancestor worship of Franz Boas, charged ...

April 18, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261446404 open full text
The politics behind avocado production.
Denisse Román-Burgos11019University of Aberdeen, UK.
Critique of Anthropology. March 27, 2026

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This article ethnographically examines the formation ofautodefensasin the Mexican municipality of Tancítaro, and its ties to the avocado production industry. By conducting a political and processual analysis, this article pays close attention to the...

March 27, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261436187 open full text
Pure and impure risk: Integrating and adapting to landmine danger in Western Sahara’s pasturelands.
Matthew Porges16396University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Critique of Anthropology. March 26, 2026

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This article explores the multivalent relationship between nomadic pastoralists and unexploded ordinance (UXO) in Western Sahara. There are more than 7 million explosive remnants of war in the disputed territory, largely placed by the Royal Moroccan Army ...

March 26, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261436183 open full text
Misfits in the Polish Carpathians: Pastoralism, property, and spatial justice beyond redistribution.
Nicolette Makovicky1Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, 6396University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Critique of Anthropology. February 23, 2026

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 71-88, March 2026.
In this article, I examine the demand for spatial justice among shepherds in Highland Poland, focusing on the ‘misfit’ between the mobile, communal nature of traditional pastoralism and the static perceptions of landscape and property underpinning Polish ...

February 23, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261420919 open full text
Life polyrhythm: Fear, anger, and gratitude surrounding a Russian military base in post-Soviet Armenia.
Manon Borel127210Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Critique of Anthropology. February 23, 2026

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 38-53, March 2026.
This article explores the tranquility,hangist-ness, and the simultaneous roar of the Russian military landscape in Gyumri, Armenia’s second-largest city. It specifically examines residents’ encounters with the Russian military base and how these ...

February 23, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261420930 open full text
Dead bodies on edge: Misfitting graves and awkward repair on the Georgian – Turkish border.
Mathijs Pelkmans14905London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Critique of Anthropology. February 23, 2026

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 105-122, March 2026.
Questions of belonging are especially acute for border dwellers, who do not easily fit the exclusivist logics of the nation state. This certainly has been the case for inhabitants of Sarpi ever since their village was cut in two by the border separating ...

February 23, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261420943 open full text
The past in the present: The Russian exodus to Georgia and the temporalities of misfitting.
Giorgi Cheishvili1Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands2Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Critique of Anthropology. February 23, 2026

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 54-70, March 2026.
This article explores the experiences of Tbilisi residents and Russian migrants in the wake of the full-scale war in Ukraine and the subsequent Russian exodus to Georgia. Attending to the sense in both communities that history is repeating itself, the ...

February 23, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261420944 open full text
The intimate geopolitics of hosting Ukrainian refugees in Lithuanian homes.
Beatrice Juskaite16396University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Critique of Anthropology. February 23, 2026

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 20-37, March 2026.
The article examines the experiences of Lithuanian residents who hosted Ukrainian refugees in their homes in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. First, it argues that the commonly used migration and refugee terminology may be a ...

February 23, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261420949 open full text
Misfits: Towards a critical analysis of the in-between.
Mathijs Pelkmans, Giorgi Cheishvili14905London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK28125Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Critique of Anthropology. February 23, 2026

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 3-19, March 2026.
This introductory article introduces the concepts ofmisfitandmisfittingas a relational prism for analysing social life in conditions of uncertainty and indeterminacy. Drawing on ethnographic materials from ‘in-between’ places in a multipolar world, it ...

February 23, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261420938 open full text
Corrigendum to “Weeping as the Addolorata: Popular devotion at the margins of Europe”.

Critique of Anthropology. February 12, 2026

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 123-123, March 2026.

February 12, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261426136 open full text
Monumental events: Imaginaries, materialities, and temporalities in Latvia’s monument removal.
Elīna Troščenko1University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Critique of Anthropology. February 02, 2026

Critique of Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 89-104, March 2026.
Through the case of the Victory Monument in Latvia, in this article I explore how symbolic reorderings take place at specific historical moments. This article investigates how monuments can become epitomes of contemporary political and societal ills and ...

February 02, 2026 doi: 10.1177/0308275X261420923 open full text
Corrigendum to “(Re)visiting the ‘-lands’: Conservationland and its multilevel bureaucrats in international biodiversity conferences”.

Critique of Anthropology. December 23, 2025

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December 23, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0308275X251410386 open full text
Credit labour: Navigating household debt in Southern Europe.
Theodora Vetta, Irene Sabaté Muriel1Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Geography and History, 16724University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Critique of Anthropology. November 14, 2025

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In dialogue with scholarship on social reproduction and debt, this article discusses the financialization of domestic economies through the concept of credit labour. Based on comparative research in Southern Europe (Greece and Spain), we analyse the ways ...

November 14, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0308275X251393012 open full text
The legal life of anthropological theory: Limits to the ideal of being useful.
Ola Gunhildrud Berta11658Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Critique of Anthropology. September 15, 2025

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This article critically examines the impact of anthropological theory on land relations and chieftainship in the Marshall Islands. Anthropologists steeped in lineage theory developed models of a feudal system centred on land as private property that ...

September 15, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0308275X251380367 open full text
Peronist bodies: The populist and antipopulist semiotics of protest.
Owen McNamara26659Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Critique of Anthropology. July 02, 2025

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This article draws upon a Peronist street march to foreground the role that bodies play in determining protests’ meanings. In it I argue that the social histories that accumulate in bodies shape how protests, protesters, and political causes are ...

July 02, 2025 doi: 10.1177/0308275X251355708 open full text
Utopian disjunctures: popular democracy and the communal state in urban Venezuela.
Wilde, M.
Critique of Anthropology. October 24, 2016

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October 24, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16671787 open full text
Claiming belonging, constructing social space: citizenship practices in an Afro-Bolivian town.
Sturtevant, C.
Critique of Anthropology. October 18, 2016

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October 18, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16671789 open full text
Fluid Landscapes, Sovereign Nature: Conservation and Counterinsurgency in Kashmir.
Bhan, M., trisal, n.
Critique of Anthropology. October 18, 2016

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October 18, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16671786 open full text
Fast Time Religion: News, Speculation and Risk in India.
udupa, s.
Critique of Anthropology. October 07, 2016

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October 07, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16654550 open full text
Actor-Networks, Waves and Verticality: Tracing HIV/AIDS Activism from late Apartheid to the Present in South Africa.
Powers, T.
Critique of Anthropology. October 07, 2016

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October 07, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16671788 open full text
'State Bureaucrats and 'Those NGO People: Promoting the idea of civil society, hindering the state.
Drazkiewicz-Grodzicka, E.
Critique of Anthropology. July 04, 2016

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July 04, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16654553 open full text
Ambiguous Longings: Nostalgia as the Interplay between Self, Time and World.
Lems, A.
Critique of Anthropology. June 30, 2016

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June 30, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16654549 open full text
Mobility of the elderly in Peru: Life course, labour and the rise of a pensioner economy in a Peruvian peasant community.
Vincent, S.
Critique of Anthropology. June 21, 2016

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June 21, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16654551 open full text
Vice or coping Mechanism? Bridging Political Science and Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Corruption.
Bodruzic, D.
Critique of Anthropology. June 21, 2016

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June 21, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16654552 open full text
States of Violence: Indigenous Women Migrants in the Era of Neoliberal Multicriminalism.
Speed, S.
Critique of Anthropology. June 20, 2016

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June 20, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16646834 open full text
Lifting the Loincloth: Reframing the Discourse on Gender, Identity, and Traditions - Strategies to Combat the Lingering Legacies of Spectacles in the Scholarship on East and East Central Africa.
Fourshey, C. C., Gonzales, R. M., Saidi, C., Vieira-Martinez, C.
Critique of Anthropology. May 20, 2016

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May 20, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16646833 open full text
Malinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an Unfinished Project in Economic Anthropology, Part II.
Cook, S.
Critique of Anthropology. May 18, 2016

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May 18, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16648750 open full text
Aid Work as Moral Labour.
Fechter, A.-M.
Critique of Anthropology. May 10, 2016

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May 10, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16646837 open full text
Moral sentiments in Aidland: Aid and Development as Moral Experience.
Nouvet, E., Jakimow, T.
Critique of Anthropology. May 10, 2016

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May 10, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16646838 open full text
Extra-ordinary aid and its shadows: The work of gratitude in Nicaraguan humanitarian healthcare.
Nouvet, E.
Critique of Anthropology. May 10, 2016

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May 10, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16646835 open full text
Gaji Sejuta: Moral experiences and the possibilities for self in a community-driven development program in Indonesia.
Jakimow, T., Harahap, A.
Critique of Anthropology. May 10, 2016

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May 10, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0308275X16646836 open full text
Malinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an Unfinished Project in Economic Anthropology, Part I.
Cook, S.
Critique of Anthropology. December 21, 2015

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December 21, 2015 doi: 10.1177/0308275X15615926 open full text
Dark Matter: Toward a Political Economy of Indigenous Rights and Aspirational Politics.
Goodale, M.
Critique of Anthropology. December 21, 2015

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December 21, 2015 doi: 10.1177/0308275X15619017 open full text