The Tree
By the house where I lived as a child and up until my early teens, there was a tea tree forest under a canopy of huge stringy bark…
By the house where I lived as a child and up until my early teens, there was a tea tree forest under a canopy of huge stringy bark…
The ARHE Awards Committee is thrilled to announce the 2024 Policy Brief winner. The Committee was extremely impressed with the quality of submissions and examples of the power…
I love the idea of being content with the world around me, but that’s not the reality. Furthermore, my lens is broad enough that my own well being…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Mareike Winchell Jesús Valdivia planned to get his cows high. This, … More
A seminar in the Japanese – Finnish researcher exchange programme funded by ArCSII, Human movement between the Arctic and East Asia due to tourism and business is increasing.…
Isolated during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I started to follow on Twitter (the social media platform now called X) a few scientists who were dedicating…
Lived nearby the ruins as a kid in the 1960s, about 7 old chimney stacks, some of which provided my dad with bricks for his fireplace, while we…
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
What do folklore, folklife, folk music, folk medicine, folk belief, and folk horror have in common? Apparently, something, although just what is open to debate. It all hinges,…
This international workshop explored Indigenous economies in their disctinction from and connection to wider political-economic forces and developments.
In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) seem to be quite deeply ingrained in the cultural…
. Years later, the city was curated by someone enamoured of De Chirico and retro TV like Sesame Street – brought to you by the alphabet. Not alphabet…
#circa 1995. From the look of Daniel I knew that he had been away too long. -Maaaate, how are… His cutting off grunt and wave of shaky hand…
NightCafe prompt “Sweden cuts development aid”While the announcements of cuts that large INGOs like International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Save The Children International (SCI) have recently made re…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Interviewer 0:00[Onscreen NAPA Logo] Welcome to sNAPAshots conversations with …
Written by Keith Hart The classical liberal revolutions were sustained by three ideas: that freedomand economic progress require increased movement …
Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937–1946 (University of Wisconsin Press) first appeared in 2015 when it comprised of a hardback book, five CDs, and…
. I have memories of my grandfather telling stories in his kitchen in the seventies. I was 14, he tried to explain that if Cornflakes gave you a…
. The romanticism of those who would escape to a world without Skynet is Skynet’s greatest weapon. A scuzzy-screen fantasy for foot-soldier anarcho-neo-cons who are fully trained and…
I am so incredibly pleased to announce that Outward Spirals: A Guide to Shaligram Stones is now available for pre-order! This book is the culmination of my ethnographic…
Discover what sets the Michigan Wolverines apart in college football. In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell explores the innovative cultural strategies implemented by head…
Jon Kay is Director of Traditional Arts Indiana, an Associate Professor of Folklore, and Interim Executive Director of Arts and Humanities, all at Indiana University Bloomington. In this…
Jon Kay is Director of Traditional Arts Indiana, an Associate Professor of Folklore, and Interim Executive Director of Arts and Humanities, all at Indiana University Bloomington. In this…
In Revolution and Democracy in Tunisia, Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh present an interdisciplinary analysis of Tunisia’s rich history of protest, arguing that popular resistance has long shaped t…