Fight, Flight, freeze, Film
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze. The post Fight, Flight, freeze, Film appeared first…
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze. The post Fight, Flight, freeze, Film appeared first…
While Islamic family law in Pakistan has shown a jurisprudential trend towards strengthening women’s rights in divorce — including some aspects of women’s financial rights — recognition of…
Inquiries about an anthropologist’s purpose reveal a lot about why anthropology remains illegible to people working for the welfare of Muslims in Hyderabad, India. This blog post reflects…
Inquiries about an anthropologist’s purpose reveal a lot about why anthropology remains illegible to people working for the welfare of Muslims in Hyderabad, India. This blog post reflects…
Highlights from SAR’s 2026 Gala: Chaco Canyon & Chocolate Jun 23, 2026 2026 gala blog gallery photo 13 2026 gala blog gallery photo 3 2026 gala blog gallery…
My friend Mangombe dancing on his own one morning just because he felt like it Each trip I take to Cameroon (I must be near to my twentieth…
For a good memory post: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-master-of-canal-with-his-long-pole.html
Last Monday, I watched the riveting Cape Verde vs. Spain soccer match in a pub in central London as the World Cup debutantes shocked sports enthusiasts with a…
I carried both of my sons. But in order for my wife to become their legal parent, we both had to be fingerprinted by the FBI. When Stephanie…
Diasporic Bodies in Unification Time examines how state and religious discourse cast transnational migrants as emblems of a desired national future. It is also about how those national…
It was 38 degree Celsius, another day of scorching heat in Delhi in the month of June when I decided to go out and book my first order…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the June edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American…
Its not such a clever thing to treat trees like trinkets, but this one became a tourist attraction, and tourism, of course, often kills what it loves. The…
Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the University College London and a founder of the Global Informality Project. Her research focuses on informal practices, and…
In her recent publication, Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age, scholar Ayala Fader tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in…
Figure 1. Zak Choukri holding a fig in Aïn Berda, Morocco (2019). Photo by author. A note from Mecca Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an…
Book review –
“Mycelium is ecological connective tissue, the living seam by which much of the world is stitched together.” — Sheldrake, 2020 “Multispecies relationality tuned to the temporal and semioti…
After, let us say, a challenging semester, I was able to stay away from campus for a couple of relaxing and stress-free weeks. Upon my return (for a…
I am sharing the CFP on behalf of Tenno Teidearu (Estonian National Museum) who is the head of the conference committee for the 5th International Artefacta Conference: Sustainability…
Celia Lanza, Gabriela Scavenius, and Amanda Guzmán Co-written by a pair of undergraduates and their faculty adviser, this essay shares our hands-on research experience uncovering, interpreting, an…
Celia Lanza, Gabriela Scavenius, and Amanda Guzmán Co-written by a pair of undergraduates and their faculty adviser, this essay shares our hands-on research experience uncovering, interpreting, an…
Before you commission a single new study, institutional knowledge and existing research can give your product roadmap a head start. In Tuesday’s post, I made the case for…
Ten years after the Brexit Referendum, Tribal Politics by Sara Hobolt and James Tilley argues that the vote forged two issue-based identities that continue to shape UK politics.…