What’s in Your Bag? 2019 Edition
From Amann, Jordan, to marine environments of the Dominican Republic, anthropologists open their field bags to reveal notebooks, recording equipment, reminders of home, and even a speargun. What’s…
Author: Alexandra Frankel
Encounters with Lunar Dust
From Neil Armstrong’s footprints to future missions to Mars, contamination fears and policies lie at the heart of our cosmic explorations. The stiff, gray cardboard box sat calmly…
When Women Take Up Space Not Built for Them
It is not enough to be intentional and intersectional in research settings. We must rework the spaces of the academy and knowledge production to better acknowledge and suit…
From Mexico to the Moon
Five stories about Mexican entanglements with outer space. Paloma Romano Andrade, La alegoría mexicana en el cosmos. Winner of first place in the “juvenile” category of the Third…
The Moon as Metaphor in Migration Research
Chinese migrants are influential players in the Made in Italy fashion sector. They are also perceived as unfamiliar and alien, inauthentic producers of uniquely “Italian” merchandise. I figure…
Finding Home
As Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon my mother leapt toward marriage in Tehran. The night of the moon landing fell in the middle of a hectic week…
Curating African Cosmos/Stellar Arts
From ancient stone reliefs to contemporary works of art, African artists have looked to the sun, moon, and stars for inspiration. We have all experienced the wonder of…
Yugoslav Peasants Land Apollo 8
Is there salad on the Moon? Down on Earth, Yugoslav peasants argued the question. On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 became the first manned spacecraft to venture around…
What Are Anthropologists Reading, Watching, and Listening To This Summer?
Deborah Thomas As editor of American Anthropologist, much of my summer reading ends up being article submissions, from which I learn a ton! Aside from that, however, I…
Stonewall Mythology
How we tell the story of Stonewall matters. This June marks the fiftieth anniversary of the riots at The Stonewall Inn in New York City. The days-long series…
CFP: What’s in Your Bag, Anthropologists? 2019 Edition
Do you have a field notebook you can’t do without? A set of tools of sentimental value? A camera that has never let you down? Diapers for the…
Work for a Life
For students moving from studying anthropology to working in Silicon Valley, how can learning from worker struggles and solidarity movements in anthropology make their work more ethical? Anthropologis…
Refusal as Care
It was my second time attending the neighborhood association meeting in the community where I was doing fieldwork. The association president had invited me, saying he thought it…
How to Spark Joy by Tidying Up Your Thesis
Before we can begin revising your thesis, you must make the decision that you want to revise it. Once you make that step, this process will only need…
The Figueroa Flock
In Queens, a pigeon is one of the multispecies family. Emily Leshner and Ben Boteler Negrito lives the life of a typical New Yorker; he wakes, eats, goes…
South America’s Golden Fleece
In the Andes, a fine fleece is highly prized. Yet, scientists’ understandings of genetic variation and classification diverge sharply with local herders’ relations with their herds. The guanaco,…
Performing Penguin Care
In the bright waters of the aquarium, penguins and their keepers propose a fishy utopia. Pushing through the glass doors of the aquarium, it’s always the smell that…
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Lynne Goldstein
Lynne Goldstein has enjoyed a distinguished archaeological career, and numerous archaeological projects, publications, and committees benefit from her dedication and enthusiasm for the field. During h…
Anthropology…in Theory
Bernard Perley © 2019 Bernard Perley is Maliseet from Tobique First Nation in New Brunswick, Canada. He teaches courses in linguistic anthropology and Native American studies at the…
Observations on Rastafari Cosmopolitics from the Caribbean
Rastafari-grounded and Caribbean imaginative reinventions have long influenced the evolution of Caribbean ethnography. They could inspire a decolonial anthropology for this century. “I am Ethiopian j…
Resisting Indigenous Erasure from Alcatraz Island to Elizabeth Warren
A critical look at anthropology and 50 years in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty (1969–2019). Indians must be redefined in terms that white men will accept, even if…
The Way We Were?
The radicalism of the 1960s transformed anthropology. But ours was not the racist, exoticizing, colonial project it was imagined to be. The 1960s—Vietnam and resistance to the war;…
Upsetting the Canon
Teaching anthropology offers a site for critical intervention. So what should we be reading with our students? A critical and reflexive anthropology requires, beyond the self-indulgent condemnation of…