The Many Lives of a Face Mask
An anthropologist explores how the COVID-19–era surgical face mask went from a health precaution to a fashion choice among women in Peshawar, Pakistan. ✽ ON A HOT AFTERNOON…
An anthropologist explores how the COVID-19–era surgical face mask went from a health precaution to a fashion choice among women in Peshawar, Pakistan. ✽ ON A HOT AFTERNOON…
In the era of ‘new’ and subtle forms of racism, it is important to remember that people’s lives increasingly take place online where racism remains overt. Fully comprehending…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Mandy Muise. Muise is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt…
On Monday, April 14th, my stomach sank as I read an e-mail from the principal investigators of a large-scale, multi-institutional project funded by the United States Department of…
Lee Johnson 2025 Mixing Memory & Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica & Miami, Florida: Ian Randle Publishers. xxi + 334 pp 6″x…
The members of the curatorial collective share personal insights into the exhibition project and their individual approaches.
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753119/satirical-tibet/ Shannon Ward: In the Introduction, you discuss zurza as a uniquely Tibetan genre of humour. Can you say more about how you first dis…
The members of the curatorial collective share personal insights into the exhibition project and their individual approaches.
The members of the curatorial collective share personal insights into the exhibition project and their individual approaches.
There is a narrow canal (水路, suiro) behind my house that runs parellel with the Neyagawa River for several kilometers. The canal serves as the border between Neyagawa-shi…
Through her field recordings, SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to murmurings of clay, debris, and time in Kashmir’s Tsaar. ✽ 1 The shared taxi meanders through Tsaar— resting…
If you work at a university, you’ll know that Open Days are an important recruitment event. Universities here in Aotearoa are facing increasing financial challenges (a result of…
Just recently, I joined a science comedy debate where Team Biology went head-to-head with Team Tech. The motion? That biology is winning the race against technology. And while…
Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023).…
Alana Lentin‘s The New Racial Regime interrogates contemporary modes of weaponising race to uphold white supremacy, from the the “war on woke” and its countermovement to the backlash…
Bettina Ng’weno is Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, DavisNairobi, known as the Green City in the Sun, has taken shape through…
The members of the curatorial collective share personal insights into the exhibition project and their individual approaches.
Alex Mayhew’s Making Sense of the Great War examines how British soldiers coped with the horrors of the trenches during the First World War. Delving into primary sources…
In many parts of Africa, investments and migration from China have sparked tensions with local residents—but some Chinese migrants are finding a welcoming community in Mandarin-speaking Zambian Witnes…
Growing public outrage with the political responses to conflicts and complex emergencies have led to increasing calls for solidarity with affected populations that identify a shared humanity. Disencha…
The docu-fiction film explores the changing meaning of Rapanui wooden sculptures. The trailer is now available online.
In a new squib on SubstackTM this morning (which I admit I did not read all of because, due at work and there is a techno-paywall requiring download…
Why a Product Leader Is More Critical Than a Tech Co-Founder Late last year I had the opportunity to provide guidance to a femtech founder who wanted to…
Two ethnographic filmmakers enter the government maze in India, documenting how citizens make claims on the state while imagining alternate bureaucratic encounters. ✽ Enter the Reception Room, and…