“After one candidate, the only one in a suit, described the many virtues of community involvement, a heckler shouted, “Frank, what clubs are you part of in the…
When Frantz Fanon (1961) framed the legitimacy of anti-colonial armed struggle in The Wretched of the Earth, he likely did not imagine that his arguments would resonate, some seventeen…
ABSTRACT: This project began as a 35 mm film photography collection to document the presence of waste in the Northwest border of Tunisia, as the materiality of waste,…
I like this sentence, but think it has to be cut because it really has no actual content in the context—though I am a bit grumpy to have…
AUTO-PAGE-TITLE “You have to face the person,” Ellma [1] told me when I asked her how to break spells. “You must tell the person three times: ‘You are…
Dr. Prashant Khattri Department of Anthropology University of Allahabad, Prayagraj-211002 prashant_khattri2002@allduniv.ac.in S Source-…
The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous din to those who live and work with…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
Our healthcare system often overlooks or undermines women’s unique experiences. We spend many more years in ill health than men, and it’s time to change that. In bringing…
A legal scholar turned anthropologist connects South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past to corruption she witnesses while shadowing parole officers. ✽ I am sitting in the back of…
The Problem With iPad-only Controls in Hotel Rooms — And How to Get It Right In Hospitality aloft hotel interfaces Picture yourself checking into a hotel during a work trip.…
As all-out genocidal violence against Palestinians continues in Gaza, an anthropologist calls attention to how the Israeli state operates through quieter, bureaucratic means to displace and dispossess…
From the mid-2000s, Senegal has had an anti-trafficking law to prosecute emigration attempts and activities that relate to facilitating passage out of the country. Implemented following Senegal’…
In his book, Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Kevin Donovan argues that East African decolonization was not coterminous with political…
Counihan, Carole, and Susanne Hojlund eds. Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability. University of Arkansas Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN 9781682262658 Krishnendu Ray (NYU) How does one w…
Page 99 of my dissertation drops the reader into what I call a “technological (dis)connective happening.” It captures a moment during the pandemic, when offline events moved online.…
Dr. Vijay Kumar Bodh Assistant Archaeologist Archaeological Survey of India Shimla Circle, Himachal Pradesh vijay.bodh@yahoo.in Human…
On the podcast today I am joined by Kirin Narayan, emerita professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Kirin is joining…
The last adventure and post in the VAoJ Hiroshima Research Trip Arc is about my tour of the sake breweries in Saijō-chō in Higashihiroshima. I left the big…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm…
This is the third post in the VAoJ Hiroshima Research Trip Arc. The day’s main event (7/8/25): the baseball game between the host Hiroshima Carp and the visiting…
-Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick How could language endangerment, which many scholars see as an alarming problem, be largely invisible to the people whose languages are being…