Annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
Aquaculture, Nova Scotia. photo by David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food anthropology related phot…
Aquaculture, Nova Scotia. photo by David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food anthropology related phot…
ByBo YangPhD Anthropology On 17 May 2023, I found myself amidst the snow-capped peaks of a mountain rising 5,000 metres above sea level, marking the fourth day of…
Narrating the Many Autisms: Identity, Agency, Mattering by Anna Stenning (Routledge: 2024) Over the past few decades, narrative has become an increasingly popular medium for autistic people to…
An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failures through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurper, Three Ways to Fail: Journeys Through Mapuche Chile (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) invites readers to consider…
This was done as a sampler almost a year back – the longer version gets more into the Civil Rights Movement as well as the work of Theodor…
Warren Wilson College, This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND Amanda GreenEastern Kentucky University On Friday September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene dumped 12-20 inches of…
They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl […] The post Being Fungible – They Only…
This old poster is on a notice board outside the old council houses across the road from my flat – its survived 20 years or so I guess…
The Sundarbans: Where anthropology meets history in recounting the riverine delta – Sundarbans: Nơi nhân học gặp lịch sử trong việc kể lại vùng đồng bằng ven sông…
… is a first edition, from 1970, of what became the amalgamation of several chapters of “Be Here Now” by Baba Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert. I get…
From the Field: Before Human Ancestors Made Stone Tools …
An anthropologist witnesses the first integrated flight attempt of the world’s largest rocket—and the wide range of responses it elicited from people. This piece is part of a…
As the European Space Agency launches its flagship mission to explore Jupiter’s moons, an anthropologist explores the gap between launch enthusiasts and local residents. This piece is part…
An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about unequal access to the growing space economy on Earth.…
In a series of essays, a collaborative research project brings together “space anthropologists” to investigate how communities around the globe are grappling with the current boom in outer…
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…
On the podcast today I am joined by Presidential Scholar and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York, Alisse Waterston to talk…
The terms public, applied and professional anthropology are not recognised, in Italy, as separate fields of work and research. Unlike other national contexts, they are often used as…
By Maaike Matelski – This year marks the 15th anniversary of my first visit to Myanmar to do research on civil society under authoritarian rule. Since that time…
Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pages. Christy Spackman (Arizona State University) I recently returned from a tri…
https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/monuments-decolonized Sultan Doughan: There is so much material to mine and ask questions about in this wonderful book, Monuments Decolonized: Alg…
Saw a young lad today dressed in the full spiderman kit that seems to be a constant, yet one part of the cannon/lore/cult that I always think of…
A poet-anthropologist offers an “anti-glossary” to contest ways of knowing in social science that objectify people(s) into categories. “Emic/Etic” is part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and…
Sorry, had put this on youtube but not on here – multisocialmediafail# – but what a good talk!