Global Ethnographic

We are currently welcoming submissions for future editions of Global Ethnographic, an open access online multimedia journal focused on anthropological perspectives. We are interested in 1,000 – 3,000 word essays that draw on first-hand ethnographic fieldwork research, engage with social phenomena in critical ways, and address themes that are of interest to both academics and [...]

PDF Vasquez, Carla R. 2013. Opening the Lunchbox: What Distinction Looks Like from the Playground. Global Ethnographic. Carla Rey Vasquez   Victoria University of Wellington, M.A. Abstract Through an ethnographic investigation of school lunchboxes, this paper explores how health, gender, and ethnicity are understood through children’s interactions. It examines the way children construct, affirm and/or [...]

PDF Mason, P. 2013. Intracultural & Intercultural Dynamics of Capoeira. Global Ethnographic. Paul H. Mason Department of Anthropology Macquarie University Abstract In the port-cities of Brazil during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a distinct form of combat-dancing emerged from the interaction of African, European and indigenous peoples. The acrobatic movements and characteristic music of this [...]

PDF Watanabe, F. 2013. Red Wave Art In Oceania. Global Ethnographic. Fumi Watanabe Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science & at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. watanabefumi81[at]gmail.com Abstract This paper draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted at the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture between 2004 and 2011. It describes the [...]

PDF Nishimura, Y. 2013. Reconstructing Minority Identites in 21st Century Japan. Global Ethnographic. Yuko Nishimura Professor, Komazawa University, Tokyo Introduction In 1968, Shintaro Ishihara (now the governor of Tokyo) stated, ‘there is no other country like Japan, people who are virtually mono-ethnic, who speak the same language which is like no other country’s and which [...]