This fieldnote examines Iran’s internet shutdown — 2,100 hours accumulated over an eighty-eight-day near-total blackout, the longest documented outage in contemporary world history — not as a technica…
By Nancy Hakizimana – The first man in recorded history did not pursue the first woman. He did not write her a letter, he did not rehearse a…
This article examines the McArthur River Mine Native Title compensation ruling as a landmark case in the recognition of Aboriginal cultural harm in Australia. The post The Cost…
This essay ethnographically examines the maintenance of small-scale digital publishing infrastructures and the shifting culture of software work under generative AI. The post Code from nowhere appeare…
Why should the figure of the middleman matter for scholars of global health? The short answer is: they are impossible to avoid. The long answer is as follows:…
Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused […] The post Perfect Victims and the Politics…
What do you call a practice that is neither traditional nor modern, neither fully inside medicine nor fully outside it? In Türkiye, the answer arrived in the form…
To celebrate our 2026 printed issue of Anthropolitan, we held a competition, asking members of the UCL community to create images which hold our theme of temporalities. Here…
On World Usability Day in 2023, I gathered my User Experience team for an AI Learning session. Members of my team had been experimenting with Adobe Firefly and…
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze. The post Fight, Flight, freeze, Film appeared first…
While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of…
Inquiries about an anthropologist’s purpose reveal a lot about why anthropology remains illegible to people working for the welfare of Muslims in Hyderabad, India. This blog post reflects…
A partir de una re-lectura actual de George Orwell y de las derivas autoritarias contemporáneas, este artículo analiza siete mecanismos que pueden conducir a una sociedad hacia el…
Highlights from SAR’s 2026 Gala: Chaco Canyon & Chocolate Jun 23, 2026 2026 gala blog gallery photo 13 2026 gala blog gallery photo 3 2026 gala blog gallery…
My friend Mangombe dancing on his own one morning just because he felt like it Each trip I take to Cameroon (I must be near to my twentieth…
¿Es el éxito una cuestión de esfuerzo o un reflejo del privilegio? El discurso de la meritocracia funciona a menudo como un relato que legitima la desigualdad estructural.…
For a good memory post: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-master-of-canal-with-his-long-pole.html
Last Monday, I watched the riveting Cape Verde vs. Spain soccer match in a pub in central London as the World Cup debutantes shocked sports enthusiasts with a…
I carried both of my sons. But in order for my wife to become their legal parent, we both had to be fingerprinted by the FBI. When Stephanie…
Diasporic Bodies in Unification Time examines how state and religious discourse cast transnational migrants as emblems of a desired national future. It is also about how those national…
Vamos a embarcar en el navío Madera de deriva, flotado por la compañía Libros del Innombrable (2025). Lo vemos a lo lejos, recortado por el arrebol, y algo…
It was 38 degree Celsius, another day of scorching heat in Delhi in the month of June when I decided to go out and book my first order…