Scary Christmas
In the spirit of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993) and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” (Book by Dr. Seuss, 1957 and TV Special 1966)… I call…
In the spirit of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” (1993) and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” (Book by Dr. Seuss, 1957 and TV Special 1966)… I call…
Wandering through the central streets of Tehran, you will invariably come across the ubiquitous street booksellers and their stalls. As […] The post Street Books in Tehran: Collective…
Sophie Warth We are pleased to announce Sophie Warth as the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson undergraduate writing award. She won with a paper entitled “First Meals…
After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. Peer reviews came back…
Keywords: Feminism, emotion, methods, ethnography It was a hot sweltering Sunday afternoon in the bustling city of Karachi. I had […] The post The Ethics of Researching the…
The Eastern edges of the European Union stand as landscapes of transformation and socioeconomic and cultural flux, situated between shifting empires and layered histories. Their in-betweenness mirrors…
A team of archaeologists working in Southeast Asia is pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives to challenge traditional archaeological timeline…
A fascinating interspecies relationship can be seen among the horse breeding pastoralists in the Altai and Saian Mountains of Inner Asia. Growing up in a community with close…
Farming Fantasies “There will come a day,” proclaims the player character’s grandfather in the popular video game Stardew Valley, “when you feel crushed by the burden of modern…
When the Grand Ronde Reservation was created some 32 tribes were moved, or resettled, onto the reservation. Conditions on the reservation were not good for
Have you ever felt successful on the outside but empty on the inside? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell speaks with Dr. Nethra Samarawickrema…
4th Conference on Food & Communication Food for All: Media, Communication and Food Democracy University of Lille, France, 10-12 September 2025 The 4th Conference on Food & Commu…
I wish I could say the 99th page of my dissertation was somehow at least partiallyilluminating about what I tried to say with my doctoral research, but alas.…
A 19th-century prophetess reportedly bore a serious message from the ancestors to her Xhosa people amid British colonial assault. The written archives judged her—but much still remains unknown…
Graham Macklin discusses the growing threat of saints culture in far-right online groups.
Abstract The escalation of war in Ukraine in 2022 triggered a global show of solidarity with Ukrainians escaping the country. […] The post Narrative Abandonment. Suffering and the…
Written by Keith Hart National capitalism starts unravelling in the 1970s In the early 1970s, the United States’ losing war …
Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. British Bangladeshi Muslims in the…
A field-trip through the Amazon in the context of the project “Intertwining the historic collections of Spix and Martius”
In this audio file, I reflect on my fieldwork in Palestine. Using commitment as a frame, I address how it […] The post An audio note on Commitment…
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Oslo, dog den 27 november. Han var bara 62 år gammal, och ändå var hans bortgång inte helt oväntad. Han hade redan haft att…
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Oslo, dog den 27 november. Han var bara 62 år gammal, och ändå var hans bortgång inte helt oväntad. Han hade redan haft att…
By Freek Colombijn – “Yes, I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying, Crying, Crying!” (King Crimson, Epitaph, 1969) Thomas Hylland Eriksen, one of the greatest anthropologists of our time…
Podcast with Marissa Mika, writer and editor, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we travel to Uganda to hear the…