Professor Merrill Singer Department of Anthropology University of Connecticut Asserting the Manhattan Project, the effort that developed the first nuclear weapons, as a model for addressing global cli…
Professor James Fairhead Department of Anthropology University of Sussex As a coalition builds to escalate war in Syria and neighbours, several of our princes and politicians have been…
Professor Hans A Baer School of Social and Political Sciences University of Melbourne Various scholars and climate activists have proposed a framework for climate change campaigning based on…
Professor Dominic Boyer Director, CENHS, Rice University http://culturesofenergy.org/ Even if one were the sort who believed that war solved anything, there would still be the issue of identifying…
On Sunday 7 July 2015, the Cameroon Radio and Television in its weekly Sunday Program, Cameroon Calling, broadcasted what shocked the public audience. It had chosen as its…
door Dirk de Hoog De faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen dreigt flink te moeten bezuinigen en dus ook de afdeling Sociale en Culturele Antropologie. Sommige mensen vrezen zelfs dat die…
This Allegra focuses on an exciting new feature incorporated into our beloved website a while back: namely Projects! What this feature entails are collaborations – events, even research ventures…
The blog harvest was rich again this week at the Savage Minds ranch. Help me find more blogs by sending me links at rebecca.nelson.jacobs@gmail.com. HuffPost featured this article…
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
There aren't many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there's no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they're less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
FoodAnthropology recently posted the call for papers for the 2016 ASFS/AFHVS/CAFS conference, which SAFN is also sponsoring and which, if you are looking for an excellent reason to…
Christine Hong View on Amazon In her new book, Identity, Youth, and Gender in the Korean American Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Dr. Christine Hong explores the lives of female…
In the weeks leading up to the publication of Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture by Robert J. Muckle and Laura Tubelle…
By Emma Louise Backe Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.” -The First History Man What are the roots that…
Arlene Davila View on Amazon In Latinos Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People (University of California Press, updated ed. 2012) Arlene Davila, Professor of Anthropology at…
In our 2-day workshop – Grounding (Im)mobilities – Embodiment, Ephemera, Ecologies – at the ICS in Lisbon this past September, more than 30 anthropologists gathered to problematise the (im)material di…
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
The presence of large groups of ex-combatants is often seen as a major challenge to post-civil war stability. Experiences of ex-fighters engaging in different forms of violence have…
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…
By Theodoros Rakopoulos I wrote chapter 8 of the book Economy For and Against Democracy, edited by Keith Hart and published last month by Berghahn Books – you…