The Grid: The Invisible System Running Your Life.
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…
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…
Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s and have been frustrated to find their carefully engineered stoves abandoned…
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…
In BDSM Practices in Poland: Barbed Wire Floggings, Rope Orgasms, and the Problem with Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), cultural anthropologist and cultural studies scholar Jay Szpilka analyzes the way that BDSM is…
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/…
ByApril (Junhan) HuangBA Media On Arrival Detergent, and a mixture of brewed coffee. As I inhale the air in the corridor, I know I am back again, and…
The editors of the Journal of Anthropological Films (JAF) are pleased to announce the release of the latest issue (Volume 10, No. 1). Read the editorial here and…
Are you a visual ethnographer who conducts cutting edge research through film? Do you want to join one of Europe’s largest anthropology departments with a vibrant visual anthropology…
In Queer Conflict Research, editors Jamie J. Hagen, Samuel Ritholz and Andrew Delatolla map an emerging field at the intersection of security studies, conflict research and queer theory.…
People form a visual impression of a product in about 50 milliseconds, and after judging its credibility based on its appearance, they begin to assess the rest. Does…
By Alexander Kotskii – Homo Stupifactus To taste the fruit, or chew on leaves instead, To think of stepping out beyond the shade, To roast some meat and…