As a brand new book on The Rise and Fall of the Department for International Development hits virtual & physical bookshelves these days, my colleague Pascal Corbé of…
The one thing I am urgently trying to write is a text on the need for time (I don’t have time to write it, so there’s the problem).…
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.html Unburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…
Marine Weather Warnings, via NOAA, https://marinenavigation.noaa.gov/weather-warnings.html Unburying the lede: This post is about efforts to sever the financial, and therefore mutual aid, links pr…
Crystal Wilkinson‘s Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts illuminates the lives and culinary culture of Black Appalachians over five generations through a blend of family recipes, memoir and regiona…
Read the transcript here. This was meant to be a podcast about making podcasts. But in the end, this podcast is really just a conversation between two people…
At the heart of Buenos Aires lies the lovely Calle Florida. The experience of walking through this street that is exclusively dedicated to pedestrians was anything but lovely…
The decades out-of-date genetics taught in most U.S. schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. A biological anthropologist calls for change. ✽ On a lengthy bus ride…
Speaking with Professor Shalva Weil, one receives a glimpse into the wider world. Through her family ties, her personal journeys, and her research, she has gained, and shares,…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Interviewer 0:00[On Screen Image: NAPA Logo] Welcome to sNAPAshots: conversati…
Written by Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of …
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…
Welcome to the second part of our second round of “In the Journals” for September. Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers: Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unhea…
Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society we often encounter situations where the boundaries between these two categories become difficult…
In this colloquium session, Dennis Zuev and Madlen Kobi will provide insights into a recently published Special Issue for the journal Visual Studies. This special issue provides insights…
Elina Choi and Joshua Babcock Image by Wolf for Pixabay AI anxieties are widespread today. But how new are these concerns? Generative AI technologies have come on the scene relatively re…
SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives. ✽ when the writing is done reference room locked index cards slotted library doors bolted when the…
A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and insight, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon (Berghahn Books,…
From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous…
Watch the recently released trailer for WOVEN. The short film is coming out soon.
Today, we’re excited to bring you something a little different. Recently, we’ve been sharing a lot of episodes and shorts inspired by the work I’ve been doing alongside…
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The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over four…