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By Santiago Camara – Anthropologists are frequently told that “everything is data”, even the lack of data can be used to create an argument or come to conclusions.…
Critical scholars recognize humanitarianism as a racializing project rooted in colonial and imperial relations, in which classifications of aid workers as ‘international’, ‘expat’, ‘national’ and ‘loc…
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo214237970.html Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli Bonnie Urciuoli: What arguments in your book seem relevant right after Trump’s victor…
In the latest edition of Ethnographic Marginalia, we talk with Roxani Krystalli about her new book Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question (Oxford UP, 2024). Roxani describes the…
ELI SHLEIFER Matthew Rycroft CBE, Permanent Secretary Home Office, 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF April 2024 Dear Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE,  …
We’re just under a month from the submission deadline for proposals to the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s 2025 Conference: Imagination, Creation, Critique. As you work to prepare your prop…
Each of us is endowed with an inheritance–a set of evolved biases and cultural tools that shape every facet of our behavior. For countless generations, this inheritance has…
An Unholy Rebellion, Killing the Gods: Political Ideology and Insurrection in the Mayan Popul Vuh and the Andean Huarochiri Manuscript (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) is the first comprehensive comparison of two…
Our ideal candidate will be engaged in environmental change and/or coupled human-environment systems research. This hire is specific to applicants who are Black or a Person of Colour.…
Our ideal candidate will be engaged in environmental change and/or coupled human-environment systems research. This hire is specific to applicants who are Black or a Person of Colour.…
The German governing coalition explicitly considers refugee integration to be a humanitarian project based on an obligation to care for others because of their shared humanity. Notably, however,…
Cornell University has been in the news for suspending the British-Gambian student Momodou Taal for his lawful involvement in protests […] The post Against racist blackmail on US…
In 1966 Benedict Anderson published ‘The Languages of Indonesian Politics’, a seminal paper exploring the development of Indonesian as a new language for talking about national politics. In…
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Election Thoughtsby Morris W. Foster, SAR President I imagine that each of you has thoughts about what the rec…
Podcast with Chen Ying, Lecturer, National University of Singapore, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). In her ethnogra…
Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Press, 2023) challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways…
“I do wonder how safe this is for me. I mean, sharing these things.” The room felt small as he […] The post Between Borders and Ballots appeared…
Since 2021, along with the British and Australian governments, the Canadian government has relaxed immigration policy for Hong Kong immigrants. This policy offers an unconventional path with lowered…
Ellen Messer On 7 September 2024 the world lost a champion hunger fighter and passionate promoter of education incentivizing kindness and community service. Alan Shawn Feinstein (ASF),…
Researchers refute a popular idea that black-furred squirrels behave more aggressively than gray ones—and suggest the myth stems from some people’s racist attitudes. SQUIRREL CHATTER A few years…
On Saturday of Labor Day Weekend 2020, a situation was rapidly deteriorating north of Fresno, California. Sometime around 6pm on September 5, the Creek Fire started, gained momentum,…
Dear APLA members and friends, Writing to you on the eve of a hugely consequential election, I want to take … More