Call for Submissions to 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 [...]

Opening the Lunchbox: What Distinction Looks Like from the Playground

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 [...]

Intracultural and Intercultural Dynamics of Capoeira

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 [...]

Red Wave Art in Oceania

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 [...]

Reconstructing Minority Identities In 21st Century Japan

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 [...]

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Teaching Anthropology in Schools

PDF Hendry, J. 2013. Teaching Anthropology In Schools. Global Ethnographic. Joy Hendry Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes University MacGeorge Fellow, University of Melbourne In the autumn of 1910, anthropology was offered for the first time as a subject examined at the Advanced (A) level of the General Certificate of Education to pupils in their last two [...]

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Welcome to Global Ethnographic! We’ve Launched, January 2013!

2-Format Publishing: Global Ethnographic is finally here! After years of planning and development our readers are now invited to share our vision. Read on and browse the site to see how you can: Scribble on us, Share us, & Push the Possibilities of Academic Publishing Whether academics or interested public readers, by publishing our articles [...]

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Link to our facebook page. We are also tweeting and re-tweeting great content and links on twitter @globalethno GE Online: A new way to engage in research Global Ethnographic (GE) crosses borders, disciplines, and topics to bring you the new and exciting ethnographic research and content from all corners of the world. Our content and features are adapted specifically for [...]

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Global Ethnographic is a new online magazine-journal designed to popularize and disseminate anthropological perspectives. Engaging articles, photographic exhibitions, films and features provide the general reader with new ways of interpreting current issues, topics, human relationships and own and other identities. We bring together an exciting range of contributions from anthropologists and social/behavioral scientists on a [...]

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