Gathering Impressions of London’s Walthamstow Wetlands
ByPhoebe Hamilton-JonesMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology alumnus Standing on the exposed edge of Lockwood reservoir on a bitingly cold, grey day, the noise I am struck by first…
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Reconceived Values and Debilitating Village Forest Councils in Himalayan India
BySahib SinghPhD Anthropology ‘We will not give our Jal, Jangal, Zameen [water, forest, land]!’, the reverberations of which trailing off from an initially rising crescendo infectiously permea…
Protected: The Advent of the Adversary: Negative power in certain religio-therapeutic systems
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Homebrewing Asia: How Dungeons & Dragons in Singapore is remaking Western fantasy
ByKellynn WeeMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Can you choose your race? This may be a thorny issue with many, but in the land of table-top role-playing game Dungeons…
Political Ecology and Power Generation in North London
ByRachel ParsonsMSc Anthropology, Environment, and Development On a mild day, upwind, there’s not much that would give it away. Only the small, thin puffs of white smoke floating…
What we tweet about when we tweet about the weather
ByIsabelle CottonMSc Digital Anthropology alumnus If you’ve spent any amount of time with a British person you’ve heard it: weather-talk. It permeates any and all conversation; “Lovely day,…
Decolonising the Digital: Collaborative approaches to virtual heritage
BySidali SidMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Virtual reality was once a dream confined to science fiction and futurism, promising endless worlds at the touch of our synapses. These…
The Desk: Work at home during the pandemic
ByRebecca EmpsonProfessor of Social Anthropology, UCL Women of all ages have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. We hear this every day in the media but what does…
PAPER
ByAlice Riddell, Chloe Dominique, Emilie Glazer, Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou, and Victoria TeccaPhD Anthropology Introducing PAPER, Power and Politics of/in Ethnographic Research; a timely and i…
Reflections on Stress and Place in the Time of Coronavirus
ByThea ProsserBSc Anthropology Two aspects of my anthropology course sprung to mind when I was reflecting upon the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown which I have experienced in…
The Haunting Past of Anthropology: Why it is important for the present
BySteven LiuBSc Anthropology When I was asked about my major in university in front of a room of relatives, everyone at the dinner table fell into an embarrassing…
Fracturing Anthropologies: Making it matter
ByPepe WeischerBSc Anthropology Answering the question “what is anthropology?” should be easy enough for someone who has been studying it for the past year. If friends and family…
Baking and Breaking Bread: The COVID-19 lockdown’s obsession with sourdough
ByIzzy DaviesBSc Anthropology As this article will demonstrate, in times of chronic waiting due to social exclusion, people seek out tasks that give structure and integrate them into…
Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic: The privilege of social distancing
ByMai PedersenBSc Anthropology When the coronavirus first broke out, what really struck me was the amount of panic that spread across the world and how varied the initial…