Gold Glimmers in the Amazon – The Anthropology Newspaper

For centuries, explorers have searched the Amazon for treasures. Today, gold lures thousands who dream of finding their own fortunes, or at least a better life.
Michael Klingler

Early in …

Humanity’s Surprising Variety of Approaches to Toilet Training

[no-caption] David D/Flickr This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. Are 2-year-olds too young to start toilet training? …

Post date 1st March 2018
Post author By Alma Gottlieb

Book Forum: Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay by Andrés Romero

Introduction Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay (2018) is a masterful undertaking on the anthropology of disaster and its everydayness. An ethnograp…

Post date 20th December 2019
Post author By Andrés Romero

Toxicity by Danny Hoffman

1. Toxicity names forces for which there is no remediation. Ibrahim is a tour guide in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. His carefully crafted tour takes you around the…

Post date 16th October 2017
Post author By Danny Hoffman

Animating Stories of Global Migration

Who gets to tell the story of human migration around the globe? And what kind of story is it? The Story of Migration, an animated short illustrated by…

Post date 19th August 2021
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