Cultural Role of Cities
The Cultural Role of Cities: From Civilizational Lighthouses to Engines of Change When we think about cities, we often default to the “bricks and mortar” view—the skyscrapers,…
The Cultural Role of Cities: From Civilizational Lighthouses to Engines of Change When we think about cities, we often default to the “bricks and mortar” view—the skyscrapers,…
Introduction: Contextualizing the Theory The “Hindu Method of Tribal Absorption” is a foundational concept in Indian anthropology, primarily attributed to Nirmal Kumar Bose (1901–1972). First pre…
The Theoretical Foundations of Indian Sociology: A Comprehensive Analysis of Cultural Traditions, Power Dynamics, and Sacred Structures The study of Indian civilization underwent a seismic shift in the…
Ubusuna Shrine, Shirogaki-cho, Kadoma-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan One of two small hand-made signs at our neighborhood shrine. The Tondo Festival (とんど祭り) is conducted annually on January 15 to coincide…
Sonali Thakkar The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought Stanford University Press 288 pages, notes, bibliography, index As a title…
ByAlessandro PatelBSc Anthropology Waterloo Station at 6pm on a Friday. The departures board flickers in that slightly impatient way station boards do, the crowd breathes in and out,…
At lunchtime on university campus one thing stands out: the boterham (sandwich). Coming from Japan’s elaborate bento culture, I was puzzled that so many students eat the same…
https://www.plutobooks.com/product/audit-culture/ Ilana: Reading about audit culture as a professor feels so much like a fish being told “notice this water.” What inspired you to compare…
Anyone who knows Venezuela knows that things happen fast there. It is a function of the hectic pace of urban life in a society that is highly subject…
Ching Kwan Lee’s Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle combines history, ethnography and sociological analysis. According to Lucas Tse, the author’s account of political tra…
A best yet marston mat helicopter landing pad from the stranded bunnies section of Apocalypse Now Redux (2001 edition). Not in any of the other editions, for reasons…
This is a (hopefully) weekly update about events in Porgera. A few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley…
This year I used StoryGraph to track my reading daily, and then I went back to LibraryThing to track my reading over time. LibraryThing is great: fully featured…
Joshua Farrell-Molloy elucidates how masculinity helps explain performances of militant republican aesthetics by Irish far-right actors, who bind a revolutionary past to conte…
by Sophie Leegwater – A few minutes before 4:30 pm on a Monday afternoon in early January 2024, I hop into the yellow cab that takes me to…
Essays written in preparation for my Comprehensive exams, nearly 20 years ago. Anthropology and Government Policy Part of the government’s role regarding Indian people was to figure out…
Sylvester Woodbridge, a Presbyterian pastor, may have been one of the first to suggest a plan for the initial California Reserves. This certainly helped the effort for writing…
Hewett, E. L. (n.d.). Edgar L. Hewett points in the distance while giving an archaeological tour of the southwest (PAAC.056.0047a) [Photographs, photographic prints]. New Mexico History Museum. …
At the 2025 AAA Meetings in New Orleans, APLA demonstrated its vitality as a section committed to both critical scholarship … More
For technology leaders and founders, a perspective on people is something you want in the room every step of the way. Anthropology – and human-centered design more broadly…
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…
You have seen this: 「Deconstruction: Demolishing a Showa Era House in the Neighborhood (this post is still under construction…)」 https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/09/deconstruc…
From February 13 to 29 May 2026 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. What is critique, and what might […] The post WHAT is critique? EASA LAWnet…
On January 3 2026, after the strike on Venezuela, Trump called up what I assume is now his second most favourite programme Fox and Freinds to say: “I…