Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen—not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state patrimony?…
November 9th, 2016 found me as shocked and depressed as any Hilary Clinton supporter — and not only because the xenophobic, racist, sexist, and generally despicable Donald Trump…
Table of Contents By Layla El-Dakhakhni, with editing by Erdanya Anderson What is Accuracy? What is Rigour? Science requires accuracy and rigour, but how are these qualities built?…
I was picking up an order on 67th st and Columbus Ave when I saw the guy get on my bike and start to ride away. I got…
For some time now I have been interested in why social scientists and humanities scholars pay so little attention to rivers that run dry. By length, these rivers…
This is almost live (well, the pdf of the main is live – check it out) …an amazing collection of 45 papers for the fourth International Conference on…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/visualizing-latinx Karen Mary Davalos: Visualizing Latinx could not be more timely, although I can imagine some readers thinking about the creative arts as esoteric …
To what extent do measurements from an electroencephalography headset provide evidence of the aesthetic contemplation state of the person wearing it? In the 2015 neuroaesthetic research project Action…
By Alanis N..Cruz Soto For a long time, I did not understand why my hair bothered me so much. It was not just my hair. It was everything…
In John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian’s Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), the authors put forward…
From Operator to Orchestrator: Automating the work that keeps leaders from customers The line I won’t cross It seems like half the posts on LinkedIn today (at least…
Tanzania is not my home country. But it is not an abstract elsewhere either.
TGA Managing Editor Emma Backe interviewed Dr. Andrew Alan Johnson, an anthropologist who also serves as the Senior Historian for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. They talk about working…
In Mexico, quelites refers to uncultivated edible plants. The word has a Nahuatl origin derived from kilitl, a term referring to these edible weeds. The earliest dictionaries of…
Omtale af: Udupa, S., & Hervik, P. (Eds.). (2026). Handbook on anthropology and artificial intelligence. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Publishers page: https:…
Five-year collaboration, spearheaded by the School for Advanced Research, delivers free, practical tools as demand for culturally appropriate care grows SANTA FE, N.M. (September 8, 2…
painting by Rene Magritte. xx Excellent questions from my anth class today: “…a question related to Social Anthropology: how do we truly understand another person when we may…
Debates about the future of work often center around reskilling adapting the workforce to fit capitalist proposals of what work should look like. Pre-digital examples include scientific management,…
by Reem Jazem In 2014, my biggest concern was when to get married. I was engaged in August, and my fiancé and I planned to have our wedding…
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-work-of-speechwriters/935FF2C17010D71BC33C9BA0C9603779 Adam Jaworski: Why is it useful to conceptually distinguish between elite language workers …
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world…
ByMartha HancockBSc Anthropology Alumna Content warning: discussion of death and grief experienced by trans+ and queer individuals. “Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality… tha…
What does medical anthropology look like in the twenty-first century? That is the central question of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century, a new edited volume by…