The Role of the Anthropological Survey of India in Shaping Indian Anthropology Introduction The Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI), established in 1945, stands as a cornerstone in…
Some time ago, I noticed that the Alberta Geological Survey had produced an extension to the game Minecraft. I was curious about it, since it allowed players to…
Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia (University of Michigan…
In Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Lina Pinto-García delves into the relationship between war and disease, focusing on Colombian armed conflict and…
A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglements, Vote of Faith: Democracy, Desire, and the Turbulent Lives of Priest Politicians (Fordham UP,…
In Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons (Duke University Press, 2025), anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines rumba as a way of knowing the embodied…
Amidst the proliferation of material technologies developed to solve the problems of planetary climate change and carbon emissions, the technoscientific community increasingly champions a new molecula…
The CIA brags about the US being the largest weapons exporter/producer – Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est? From their very own world factbook. that one browses over coffee…
Professor Karel Mulder sat at his desk, wreathed in the noble decay of academia—a kingdom of paper that had long since declared independence from any attempts at order.
What happens when the prediction fails, but the system marches on as if it hadn’t? When the algorithm forgets what the body remembers?
A filmmaker showcases archaeologists unearthing tiny lithics that evidence the presence of hunters from 13,000 years ago in what is today Michigan. ✽ Brendan Nash, a doctoral candidate…
In times of political upheaval and cultural turmoil, transformative spaces and interventions that are easily accessible seem rare …
In photo and video material of violent conflict, a phenomenon regularly occurs that needs interpretation: perpetrators of violence who appear to enjoy their actions, or bystanders laughing or…
ByZara KhanBSc Anthropology On February 27th, The Creative Collective hosted a creative ethnographic writing workshop, exploring two key questions: How can we write ethnography in creative way…
Why is investing in and accumulating gold perceived as prestigious, but extracting it is seen as greedy? The gold industry, alongside nation-states, has marginalized the artisanal and small-scale…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook onHumanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we are…
This workshop brings together presenters from four universities to explore innovative approaches to scholarly communication. Moving beyond conventional formats, the event highlights alternative, d…
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244471/making-a-mindful-nation Bingjing Yang: I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book and have started practicing mindfulness myself to better…
We have long lacked a biography of Erving Goffman. Partly this can be explained by Goffman’s direction for his papers not to be opened to researchers after his…
Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with […] The post Soliciting Slaps – Notes from…
By Joost Blokker – Flower wreaths were placed at the Jewish Children monument in The Hague on Yom HaShoah, a day on which Jewish communities around the world…
In Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), anthropologist Dr. Greta Lynn Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Crimea…
Camilla Annerfeldt joins to discuss Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides…
The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary…