SAFN 2025 AAA Annual Meeting Program and Special Events
We look forward to seeing many of SAFN’s members at the AAA meeting in New Orleans. For those of you attending the event, we are sharing a list…
We look forward to seeing many of SAFN’s members at the AAA meeting in New Orleans. For those of you attending the event, we are sharing a list…
A paleoanthropologist reflects on England’s oldest human cranium—and what its changing interpretations say about science. ✽ Southeast England. 400,000 years ago. A young woman squats by a river…
Paying attention to gender relations in north-eastern Gabon leads to an emphasis on ethnography's propensity to provide access to the ‘minor mode of reality’: what flaws, signs of…
In November 2023, during the first phase of the genocide in Gaza, I published a text in Allegra Lab, asking […] The post Humanitarianism Hijacked: Israel’s instrumentalization of the humanitaria…
Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare by Nora Kenworthy (MIT Press: 2024) One chilly winter day, I (the author of this review) was standing in line…
A visual anthropologist explores how divine cattle collide with urban realities in Kathmandu, revealing contradictions between ancient values and contemporary lifeways. ✽ In the haze of dawn, Kathmand…
To register, visit: https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/register/
“This exhibition was not aimed at inviting people into the Ballroom space as that’s not my responsibility, but to share some of the aesthetic tools from the culture…
In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans,…
Keith Hart 6th November & Paolo Virno on 7th November. Death is sad, but I imagine them plotting strategies on storming heaven and would love to read their…
“We are the only people in the world who feel very happy when a typhoon comes. Do you know why? […] The post Enactment of Hope in Sit-in…
How do we know through atmospheres? How can being affected by an atmosphere give rise to knowledge? What role does somatic, nonverbal knowledge play in how we belong…
Merle Lüdike explores how intersectional and decolonial feminisms converge, clash, and transform struggles against colonial patriarchy…
Our Primary Expertise argues counter to the longstanding trend in the field by seeing religion as mundane and not unique, which means that the field’s research and teaching can…
Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker, eds. 2024. British Culture After Empire: Race, Decolonisation and Migration Since 1945. […] The post British Culture After Empire: Race,…
We are in Ruzaevka, a small town near Saransk, the regional capital of Mordovia, Russia. Ham radio operator Dmitry Pashkov, photographer Sergei Karpov, and I climb the roof…
A former National Health Service doctor and multidisciplinary scholar explores how Black women in the U.K. manage reproductive risks and anxieties. ✽ I sit at my laptop, debating…
Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of…
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…
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. I love the Norse mythology. I really do,…
We are a group of scholars and researchers who work with gig and platform worker unions in India in various capacities. We form the India chapter of the…
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Courtney Manthey, The University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA; The University of Montana, USA Christopher Lynn, The University of Alabama, USA Fieldwork is often described as anthropology’s ri…