Skip to main content
A to Z entry list
Browse entries
About
Contact
Credits
Write for us
Support the encyclopedia
filter by subject
- Any -
Economics
Health
Kinship
Politics
Region
Religion
Theory
Sort by
sort by
title (asc)
title (des)
date (asc)
date (des)
Apply
Browse Entries
filter by subject
- Any -
Economics
Health
Kinship
Politics
Region
Religion
Theory
sort by
New to Old
A to Z
Apply
Politics, Region
Jean Price-Mars
L’anthropologue Jean Price-Mars est une figure importante de l’Atlantique noir. Diplomate, écrivain, homme politique et anthropologue, l’auteur a exercé une influence qui va au-delà...
May 2023
by Jhon Picard Byron
Region, Religion
Haitian Vodou
Haitian Vodou first took shape in the context of slavery. Once the religion of the royal family in Dahomey, in West Africa, it was then transformed by the slaves of the island of...
April 2022
by Laënnec Hurbon
Region, Religion
Vodou Ayisyen
Vodou ayisyen an pran nesans nan kontèks esklavaj la. Yon relijyon fanmi Wa nan peyi Dawome, nan Afrik oksidantal, esklav sou lil Dayiti yo te tranfòme l kòm yon zouti pou yo...
March 2022
by Laënnec Hurbon
Region, Religion
Vodou Haïtien
Le vodou haïtien a été formé dans le contexte de l’esclavage. Culte de la famille royale au Dahomey, en Afrique Occidentale, il a été transformé par les esclaves de l’île d’Haïti en...
November 2021
by Laënnec Hurbon
Politics, Region
Latin America
‘Latin’ America is a region constructed in a context of imperial rivalries and disputes about how to build ‘modern’ nations that made it an ‘other America’ distinct from ‘Anglo’...
January 2021
by John Gledhill
Region, Theory
Mediterraneanist anthropology
The Mediterranean is one of the most underrated areas in anthropological imagination. On the one hand, its shores have furnished the most complex formulations of the unfolding...
September 2016
by Naor Ben-Yehoyada
Region, Theory
Landscape
When we think about landscape, we tend to think of natural scenery, empty of people; of a view, spread in front of our eyes; or of a backdrop, a stage for people’s movements and...
September 2016
by Paola Filippucci
Top
top