Prof Mukul Sharma is a professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. His formal training is in Political Science and has worked as a special correspondent with a…
Last year we had to cancel the danjiri festrival because our neighborhood leader was in poor health. No one knew if we would be able to do it…
Online seminar on October 15th, 2025 at 7am Finnish time. From the Arctic toAustralia: Four Perspectiveson Forest Sentience
Indignity: A life Reimagined by Lea Ypi explores the period of transition between the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Enver Hoxha’s communist regime in…
Folks who were around Portland in 2020 recall that there were a good number of protests in the area. Statues in several communities were being pulled down. Teddy…
I am delighted to share this invaluable resource from my friend and colleague, Dr. April K Henderson. April has written the most thoughtful and practical advice I’ve seen…
Professor John Charles Ryan and post-doctoral researcher Dr. Francis Joy are both members of the Arctic Anthropology research team based at the Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi. During 2024 and…
Terri gave me this large stone when we met up in 2022 at the Conference on Iroquois Research (Figure 1). [i] That year […] The post Weight appeared first on Allegra…
Note: This post contains images of skin wounds. If you are dermatophobic, read/view at your own discretion. You may instead listen to the post. An entry into the…
Jon Kay with Jason Baird JacksonIndiana University Bloomington Jon Kay is Director of Traditional Arts Indiana and an Associate Professor of Folklore at Indiana University Bloomington. In this…
Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization by Harry Yi-Jui Wu (MIT Press: 2021) Harry Yi-Jui Wu’s Mad by the…
A recap of an engaging breakfast event organized by Women’s Health Advocates (WHA) in Chicago and sponsored by PACE Healthcare Capital. I am still buzzing from the incredible…
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainians have been gathering to support the war effort by creating camouflage nets for fighters on the frontlines. ✽ On a hot…
Youtube class video (click here) or follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN37UsIvVIg&t=13s Contents The Dual Mandate: Geographical and E…
by Sam Heeremans – Wanderer, there is no roadyou make the road by walking.– Antonio Machado Gloomy days beget a little life reflection. I bought a pumpkin a…
Click here for the youtube video or follow the link: https://youtu.be/ygsf5vb7NC8 Contents I. Introduction: Conceptual Framework and Historical Overview of Indian Society II. The Struc…
Click here for a the youtube class lecture of the material (or follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqaDtCHDXQ0&t=78s) Contents
Class lecture Youtube video (click here) Introduction: The study of Indian society and culture by anthropologists has never been a singular, unified intellectual endeavor. Spanning more th…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
Before, times like these have come before Times when we witnessed hurricanes that never stopped uprooting trees We thought that we had learned how to travel the road to…
A Postscript Note: I finished writing this piece prior to the Israeli-US attacks on Iranian cities and nuclear facilities, which killed over a thousand people. There is, therefore,…
“History is what hurts,” stated Frederic Jameson; “it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis” (1982, 102). And the situation…
The reception of Haddon’s journals reveals the value of ethnographic archives for research and community empowerment.
My dissertation, Being Both: Negotiating Identity, Surveillance, and Belonging within Queer Middle Eastern and Queer Muslim Communities in the United States, explores how queer Muslims and queer Midd…