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“Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire provides commentary on the politics of the February Revolution in France (1848), leading onto an analysis of the to-ing and fro-ing of Louis Bonaparte (the…
“Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire provides commentary on the politics of the February Revolution in France (1848), leading onto an analysis of the to-ing and fro-ing of Louis Bonaparte (the…
Review of Sustainable Consumption and Everyday Food Practices in Europe. Edited by Virginie Amilien, Monia Saïdi, and Matthieu Duboys de Labarre. London: Routledge, 2026. Xiii + 258 pp. ISBN…
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/being-understood/?SF1=work_id&ST1=CVIEW-67dd512c2ee28 Tsung-Lun Alan Wan: In your book, your discussion of signing songs really stood ou…
R.L. Huang’s “The Language of Liars” is an anthropological parable for our times. But in ways that exceed anthropology and linguistics. First, it is…
ByJoe PainterAnthropology PhD student, NERC London DPT Taken by the author Deprived these days of loose changeand splurged gossip, no longer fat on 20psor strictly necessary calls, her…
“The displacement of Marxist categories in the discussion of hybridity also alibis and parallels the displacement and replacement of third worldist solidarity work and internationalist politics…
‘In Paul Rabinow’s monograph Symbolic Domination (1975) the anthropologist examines the history of a Moroccan village and its dominant lineage descended from a seventeenth century saint S…
By Yuting FuMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology MOTHERS This piece is a response to Temporalities, the theme of our 2026 print issue, which you can read here.
You probably don’t think much about the electrical grid—until the lights go out. The vast network that powers our homes, hospitals, schools, and communities is one of the…
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images. | ©YANAGI MIWA Photo and text source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/07/10/art/…
An Essay in Quotes Privilege in Practice “only within anthropological study has it been able to convey the richness and diversity of Native societies” (Bea Medicine 2001, 28).…
This is a fascinating history of a Jewish scholar who worked on the Wehr Arabic dictionary. https://qantara.de/en/article/islamic-history-scholar-sabine-schmidtke-holocaust-reshaped-knowledge-prod…
It’s a Ramadhan morning in the port city of Mombasa, early April 2023. I’m standing behind an audience of about 100 people who have turned up to a…
Click on the article to see a clear view. Source: https://japantoday.com/category/politics/trump-says-japan-rather-iran-in-gaffe-over-missile-attack-on-u.s.-ship (July 9, 2026)
This article is a part of a series about stuckness in science and technology. Read the introduction to the series here. If you are one of the millions…
ByAlessandro PatelBSc Anthropology This poem grew out of fieldwork around the Brunswick Centre, where I was exploring how residents experience a building that places domestic life above comme…
Image from https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/everybody-artifact-history-disability-america Thanks to Mori Soya Sensei for sharing information about this exhibition from Corbett OToo…
Histories from Chemawa Indian School Volume 1 is a fully reedited set of 3 histories from the Quartux Journal blog. The essays are, William John Harris, Political Cartoonist…
Chapter 15 of “Celebrating Transgression Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Culture: A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Köpping” Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk…
Reading Don’s Value and Worthlessness (hereafter VAW)has been one of the peak experiences of my intellectual life. VAW promises to become one of the key texts in the…
It was an early crisp morning in late April 2023, I climbed into the back seat of the Hilux with the other field scientists, heading to the day’s…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-avatar-faculty/paper Jie Wu: Your framework draws on anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, communication, and game studies. How do you navigate …
ByHyden (Ke Shi)MA Ethnographic and Documentary Film Memory Murmur Memory Murmur is a multimodal zine exploring temporality through two veteran oak trees on Sandy Heath, England. The oaks…
“Corpographies of Public History: The Sequester of Statues in Flagstaff Gardens, Barrackpore, West Bengal” Asian Review of World Histories ISSN: 2287-9811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/…