Contentious Citizenship: Salvadoran Activism and Belonging Across Borders (U Arizona Press, 2026) reshapes how we understand belonging, identity, and political participation in the context of migration. Drawing on decades of…
The Portuguese colonial incursion in Orissa began around 1514, and Malaka port was a key trading link. Centuries later, they had the temerity to put the Jagannath shrine…
What if work isn’t just about what we do, but how we think about it? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell is joined by…
In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón people and broadcast their way…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Interviewer 0:08Welcome to sNAPAhots conversations with professional, practici…
el-Sayed el-Aswad Anthropology of arts studies different forms of art in different cultural contexts. Rather than tackling merely the ethical and beatific aspects of arts, it examines how…
Written by John P. Ruehl The Trump administration’s July 2025 decision to have the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative …
During my doctoral research, focused on neuroscience laboratories and their forms of engagement with other spaces in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, I have been observing how artists…
Masaharu Kawano at Tokyo Metropolitan University has translated and published my posts on formulating research questions and the literature review into Japanese. You can find links to these…
I don’t think Robinson had any like the same sort of commitment to the revolution… This, then, is the standard story, but there is much more to it,…
Hugh Macmillan Max Gluckman Berghahn Books, 2024 Anthropology’s Ancestors Series (vol. 6) 184 pages, 11 illus., bibl., index This biography of Max Gluckman (1911-1975) is part o…
Midway through a recent coffee with a brilliant colleague, our conversation turned, as they so often do, to the various […] The post Care, commons and thinking together:…
When CADS convened the first Leiden Anthropology Conference in 2020, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology – home to 57 people – aimed to create a…
When CADS convened the first Leiden Anthropology Conference in 2020, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology – home to 57 people – aimed to create a…
Solidarity with Palestinians has been met with disregard and accusations of a “lack of nuance” within many Northern European academic institutions. The post When calls for “nuance” are…
A post about sumo rankings and a fashion advertisement come together in a funny way on my fb, 4/29/26
This is a new open book publication of terms in Arabic and contemporary South Arabian languages for fish and marine animals. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0538
In Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences (Ohio State UP, 2026), Elena Foulis offers a practical guide for completing ethical fieldwork in Latina/o/e communities, emphasizing equitable and culturally…
A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka (U Washington Press, 2026) by Dr. Vindhya Buthpitiya is a groundbreaking ethnography that explores how, in the…
On any given day, at any given moment, blood flows through bodies, flesh and viscera, shaping our world from the inside out. The process is rather simple, I…
SAR to support three artists with new approach to legacy program Santa Fe, New Mexico—The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is pleased to announce the recipients of the…
In our most recent book review series, Allegra contributors thought together with authors researching Settler Colonialism, Borders and Empire. Fourteen […] The post Call for Reviewers: Solidarit…
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…
Drugs, Race, and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law examines how Britain reclassified racialised young drug runners as victims of “modern slavery”. Introducing the book, its author Insa…