Senegalese Football’s Impossible Dream
After a sixteen-year absence, Senegal’s football team returned to the World Cup, but their sporting success belies the risks and uncertainties of an unequal global sports industry. A…
Author: Alexandra Frankel
Posting at the Margins
The “memeification” of political discourse in the 2018 Mexican presidential elections. Brandon Hunter-Pazzara “Okay, let’s start the memes,” posted a member of a community Facebook page in the…
Lewis Henry Morgan
Bernard Perley© 2018 Cite as: Perley, Bernard. 2018. “Lewis Henry Morgan.” Anthropology News website, May 23, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/AN.874
Love, Kinship, and Ceremonial Observance
How do I explain to my soon-to-be college graduate that she has to go to her graduation ceremony? My invocations of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner are…
Anthropological Invigoration
How do you balance a commitment to the discipline of anthropology with recognizing and valuing insights that are relevant and challenging but come from outside anthropology? How might…
Natasha Raheja
Natasha Raheja’s short film Cast in India calls attention to the connection between New York’s iconic manhole covers and the workers in India who make them. This is…
Black Women and the Fight against Sexual Violence
We cannot fully comprehend today’s activism without the complex histories of Black women’s struggles against sexual violence. Several years ago I interviewed a retired scholar who was one…
Gastronomie, Inegalité, Fraternité
For French chefs, inequality begins in culinary school. The kitchen is heaving with activity—it is a Friday and we are in the middle of another practical exam. The…
Disciplinary Violence
#MeToo is an opening for change—but can anthropologists look beyond the media moment to confront sexual violence and transform the discipline? Those who speak up to share stories…
The Invisible Walls of the Whisper Network
#MeToo makes us all responsible for confronting sexual harassment. Let me begin by saying that it has been difficult for me to write about #MeToo. Although the topic…
Sexual Violence in the Clinics and the Courts
Medico-legal systems must change how they respond to victims. Many survivors of sexual assault neither seek out health care nor report to law enforcement, yet these two institutional…
The Disavowal of Henrietta Schmerler
Anthropology’s decades-long misrepresentation of this story of sexual violence should inform the discipline’s relationship to #MeToo. This is the story of a story that matters to us. In…
What’s in Your Bag, Anthropologists?
What’s In Your Bag, Anthropologists? Do you have a field notebook you can’t do without? A set of tools of sentimental value? A camera that has never let…
Call for Proposals
With our upcoming annual anthropological gathering in San José this November, Anthropology News will focus on all things Silicon Valley. We are inviting proposals for feature articles by…
Awkward Anthropological Moments
In honor of recent National Awkward Moments Day, March 18, AN invited anthropologists to share their awkward, amusing, embarrassing moments and learning experiences from the field. Read about…
Plumbing the Depths in Lahore
Waste water inspections open up questions about bureaucratic processes and interactions. In the summer of 2015, the top tiers of the Punjab political and civil administration met in…
If “Water Is Life,” Shouldn’t We Know How to Measure It?
An anthropologist sets out to create a cross-culturally valid household water insecurity scale. We all know that fieldwork can entail the unexpected, and often these surprises can delay…
Performing Water Rights on Cochiti Dam
Artistic performance opens up questions about water rights and social justice. [pquote]They were still left with an earthen dam structure that bisects their homelands and signifies sustained disposses…
Fish, Flows, and Desire in the Delta
In the wetlands, claims about environmental and economic change are rooted in broader assertions about livelihood and belonging. The dirt road vanishes into a muddy track. The two…
Arctic Weather Words
In northern Greenland, the words people use to describe the sea ice and weather provide insight into the ongoing effects of climate change. The hunters and fishers of…
A Common Cause
Bernard Perley © 2018 Cite as: Perley, Bernard. 2018. “A Common Cause.” Anthropology News website, March 12, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/AN.792
Christine Schreyer
Christine Schreyer is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on created language communities and the revitalization of endangered languages….
Call for Proposals: Awkward Moments
For National Awkward Moments Day, March 18, AN would like to hear about your awkward, amusing, embarrassing moments and learning experiences from the field: Have you accidentally uttered…
Migration as Clickbait
The demonization of young migrants and their families may be shocking, but these policies and practices are neither new nor surprising. On October 24, 2017, United States Customs…