SLA Call for Nominations
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites nominations for four positions this fall. We encourage you to consider nominating yourself or another member. Each position has a three-year t…
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology invites nominations for four positions this fall. We encourage you to consider nominating yourself or another member. Each position has a three-year t…
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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…
After the deadly 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, South Korea faced a failure of prevention—and mourning. A group of anthropologists explores how grief was managed, marginalized, and ultimately erased,…
Produced, Directed and Written by John Williams Co-Producer and Co-Director: Yu Iwasaki 2024/86 min./Japan/Bilingual version (Japanese with English subtitles, English with Japanese subtitles) …
Adam Raz, 2024. Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property. New York: Verso. Adam Raz’s Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property is a […] The post Pillaging Palestine: Policy, Property, and…
In a 1992 New York Times op-ed, Paul Lewis denounced the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to exempt genetically engineered crops from case-by-case review. He likened modern…
Liberals—defined as people with progressive social beliefs who generally support capitalism implicitly because they don’t know what it is or because they have a poor understanding of it,…
Arinel Paddock SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Undergraduate Student Award is Arinel Paddock, for their essay “Who’s Afraid of Gefilte…
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691245034/code-work?srsltid=AfmBOoqR3xSPmEWlLgW2WQSbpHmIHhAiNmVkPChA7mQ5sTmoaGH_4Ebm Ilana Gershon: What insights into coding and Silicon Valley…
SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to a chorus of dreams in her field recordings from Kashmir. ✽ “Dreaming has a share in history.” —Walter Benjamin, Dream Kitsch …
In memory of Sabine Luning(30 August 1959 – 6 March 2025) whose support and input has shaped our thinking in […] The post Alternatives to Extractivism. A manifesto…
The path from monogamy to opening up the relationship to polyamory is not an easy one. It exposes wounds…
The Getty Foundation partners with people and organizations in Los Angeles and around the world by awarding grants that support art historical scholarship, conserve art and architecture, increase…
Hanshin beat the Yokohama Baystars three games in a row in the Central League Final Climax Series. The Japan Series starts on October 25. Still waiting to see…
Here is a link to an online seminar held on October 15th by the Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, which is titled: From…
The photo and caption say it all… Source: https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/msdf-new-sub-launched
In Rejkjavik, the well-known Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed a beautiful house that is all about Nordic countries cooperation, the “Nordic House”. We had the honour to be…
Mohini Mehta Doctoral Fellow, Uppsala University (Sweden) Email ID: mohinimehta1@gmail.com Delhi, often imagined as a cosmopolitan city that thrives on diversity, is also a site where deep-rooted…
Field Narratives of Kashmiri Pandits from Jagati, Jammu and Delhi-NCR Ashani Dhar Assistant Professor Department of Economics Shyam Lal College University of Delhi Email: ashani.dhar@shyamlal.du.ac.in…
“They should know better.” Well, they don’t. What now? I see a lot of rhetoric these days about how certain people in certain political cults–oh, you know the…
Contesting Indonesia by Kirsten E. Schulze proposes a compelling framework of a national imaginary for understanding Islamist, separatist, and communal violence in Indonesia, grounded in interviews an…
A former National Park Service anthropologist reflects on the vital role of cultural anthropology to the agency’s mission—and what might be lost if the Trump administration’s cuts to…
Queens without a Kingdom worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities is a fascinating study of nuns in the Tibetan Buddhist nunnery of Khachoe…