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I’m touched to learn that this blog has just been listed in a roundup of the 60 Best Anthropology Blogs to Follow in 2026 (listed at #25). Thank…
For the last 6 years, I have been dealing with a health insurance claim for my wife’s hip operation in Thailand in January 2020. We were insured by…
This post examines how the new Syrian state seeks to reconstruct public memory through revisions of public-school curricula in a period of profound political and social transformation after…
Since Bashar Al-Assad was overthrown as President of Syria in early December 2024, the political situation in the country has been volatile. Although a new group of powerholders…
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum. The post Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art…
In women’s health, the problem sometimes starts before the diagnosis – on the claim form. CPT codes are how physicians indicate the services they provide so insurers can…
In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian and Svitlana are speak with Marie-Christine Ukelo-Mbolo Merga about Perspectives AlterEgauZ* at the University of Fribourg. The post Perspectives AlterEg…
In early 2026, the South African independent game company, Nyamakop, released “Relooted,” a horizontal, side-scrolling heist game with lots of cutscenes. In this Afrofuturist game, players recover loo…
When insurers only expect to keep you for a year or two, your long term wellbeing becomes someone else’s problem – usually yours! Insurance coverage often changes when…
David Beriss Our last, but perhaps most famous, winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest is none other than Carole Counihan, who comes in third place.…
The path from monogamy to opening up the relationship to polyamory is not an easy one. It exposes wounds…
A Case Study on Collaboration with UX and Data Science Introduction This post is related to two previous ones that may be of interest. The first is a…
It was announced on the 17th that a new series of the drama ” Midnight Diner,” starring actor Kaoru Kobayashi, is in production. This will be the first…
An animated peanut with a bowler hat and a white beard sits on one side of a campfire, opposite three smaller peanuts grinning back at him adoringly. Amid…
David Beriss We are happy to announce that Caroline Stahley, a graduate student in the Applied Anthropology program of the University of South Florida, has taken second place…
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…
There has been an outpouring of grief among Shi‘i Muslims across the world at the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. An anthropology of geopolitics that foregrounds relational geographies and…
David Beriss As I noted in my previous post, we had a tie for the winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. The tie is between…
David Beriss It is time once again to reveal the winners of the 2026 SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest! Our decisions this year were reached by a panel…
In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Paul O’Keefe. Paul worked for many years at in Kakkuma refugee camp in Kenya, including for the University of…
In this episode YAIM members retrace their perilous backway journey towards Europe in 2016/2017, across West African borders into Libya, highlighting the systemic […] The post JOU…
In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian and Monica are speaking about the various Initiatives for Refugees at University of Cologne with Ariane Elshof. Ariane works in the…
I am going to share a story with you. And then I am going to explain what was, for me, the most important part of my PhD research:…
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