Covid-19 is a pandemic that has to be approached as syndemic. This is what Yasar Abu Ghosh convincingly argues in this deeply disturbing and profoundly illuminating collective volume,…
Magdalena Maria Turek is an independent research scholar. She received her PhD from Humboldt University, Germany, and was a Research Fellow with the Robert H. N. Ho Family…
Report｜The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia 2025-05-26 Topic｜The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia Date/Time｜2025/5/26 09:00-18:00 (T…
The FemTech founders I’ve spoken to express a sense of urgency to identify a collaborator who will build and scale their solution – typically a technical co-founder or…
An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of food processing and dietary diversity—practices often led by women—that were just as crucial to humans surviving and thriving as hunting. ✽…
When Swiping Supplants Scissors: The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens — and how Designers Can Help The history of technology is full of innovators who got their start creating with their hands.…
The Demystifying Language Project brings together New York City high school and college students with linguistic anthropologists to make research on language and power available for broad audiences.…
One early morning in August 2024, I boarded a coach bus in downtown San Francisco. We drove over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, past Reno, and through the Pyramid…
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SANTA FE, N.M. (July 8, 2025)—The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Timothy R. Pauketat as the new Director of SAR…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Elias Aguigah On 20th July 2025, Frantz Fanon would have turned 100 years old. Despite having died at only 36 years of…
The 99th page of my dissertation is nestled within Chapter 3: When Words Fail: Therapeutic Aspects of Visual Arts—my favorite chapter. Conveniently, by explaining this chapter, I also…
Ungendering Menstruation by Ela Przybyło discusses why and how menstrual pain needs to be incorporated into discussions of gender, embodiment, and disability. Honing a “cranky” approach to being a menstruating body…
on journal articles versus a really good longer piece of work: a few admonitions if you were mad enough to be seeking advice from me (needless to say,…
Anthropological histories of the COVID-19 pandemic exceed the virus and epidemiological trends. Although its catastrophes have escalated globally, they have not unfolded homogeneously. The intensitie…
An anthropologist compares her early motherhood in London with child care experiences in a hunter-gatherer community of Central Africa. ✽ Bebuna, a woman in her 60s, sits in…
After the outbreak of the 2011 Syrian War, a number Syrian-Armenians who had lived in the territory for generations, fled to the Republic of Armenia. This book traces…
Now that I’ve mentioned it to her, Ms. Pacidal—an Amis Indigenous woman in her 80s—starts to fiddle with the watch on her left hand. It has a black,…
by Peter Versteeg (on behalf of the SpW team)— Between the blues and living easy, the summer break is at our doorstep. We asked the SpW team what…
A Tanzanian poet unseats the illusionist tale of the mission museum of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien in Germany. ✽ brick and mortar like skin and bone wisps…
Ajoy Kumar Ghosh and Ho Chi Minh are the smoking communists, with Congress Socialist, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, wistfully concerned for their health. 🙂 Ho Chi Minh visited Calcutta,…
IMG-20250713-WA0000Download Many thanks to Amitava Ganguly, Abhijit Roy and translator Shuddhayan Chatterjee.
Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro’s subúrbios, the city’s expansive and sprawling peripheral communities. Based on…