As the predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabic-speaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East, the Hui people in China have received relatively…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our October edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopolitical tools and spatial…
“In ‘The Working Day’, Marx reports that the appointment of Mr. H. S. Tremenheere as Commissioner of Inquiry coincides with the occurrence of “several public meetings and ……
A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with Marco Santello about his…
12 years in the making and my guide to Shaligram interpretive traditions has finally been published! It’s available from TLS Press on all platforms where books are sold!…
Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, and hierarchies. Walled-In: Arctic Housing…
Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi’s Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books…
Hey Adam! “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Dear brothers and sisters, today I would […] The post The Imam Chatbot: A Digital…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far,…
The following are speaking notes to an informal talk I gave in the UBC Anth Dept., October 9, 2024. Given time constraints the spoken version was condensed. Not…
We can strive to fix our healthcare system, but the influence of the food science industry in the U.S. is disastrous. If it remains unaddressed, will Americans ever…
This evening’s moth world visitor seems to be (fact check please) Lygniodes vampyrus. Is it an omen for the working day… https://wp.me/pcKI3-3sO . Previous visitors here, also in…
This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have…
After two decades of research, scholars find that Stonehenge’s giant Altar Stone came from northeast Scotland. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished…
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thousands of frozen human embryos…
A satellite image of hurricane Milton via PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/live-map-track-the-path-of-hurricane-milton My parents raised me to worry about hurricanes and hurricane season. …
A satellite image of hurricane Milton via PBS https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/live-map-track-the-path-of-hurricane-milton My parents raised me to worry about hurricanes and hurricane season. …
Budka, P. (2024). Notes on the transformation of a railway in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Paper at Vienna Anthropology Days 2024, Vienna, Austria: University of Vienna, 23-25 September.Co-chairing of…
The warm December sun had only recently risen over Miami Beach when I found myself in the bustling halls of Art Basel Miami 2021, one of the world’s…
A free online webinar by SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell to learn about how to write for the magazine and its peer publications. Ask SAPIENS is a series that…
Rajvir Rai, UCSB This case study examines language education at the University Basic School (UBS) in Accra, Ghana. A linguistic anthropological perspective is used to address concerns in public…
Key findings from the Norwegian case study component of the project 'Mobilization against Migration in Europe'.