People before Markets:: An Alternative Casebook (Cambridge UP, 2022) presents twenty comparative case studies of important global questions, such as ‘Where should our food come from?’ ‘What should we…
In 2012, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review launched the Digital Editorial Fellows (def) Program for graduate students interested in enhancing their knowledge and ̷…
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring…
As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar (Cornell UP, 2024) in Qatar and elsewhere on the Arabian…
In The Incarcerations, Alpa Shah unpacks the plight of the Bhima Koregaon-16, a group of human rights defenders who were imprisoned without trial for an alleged plot against…
Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa’s urban population. Limited state capacity and widespread infrastructure deficiencies common in…
Today I talked to Benjamin Breen about his book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central, 2024). The generation that survived…
So many great lines of parody and insight: “Did anyone ask John F. Kennedy if he … ate potatoes every night”. Excellent soundtrack… I am interested to discuss…
A new book chronicles a Palestinian family’s life and connections to their land over decades under Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Excerpted from My Brother, My Land: A…
In Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science (University of California Press, 2024), Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She…
This essay joins ethnographic fieldwork with a visual storyboard to explore speculative futures that arise from ongoing processes of dispossession and loss in the foothills of the Andes…
By Ekaterina Thor – The Russian border. Since most countries decided to close their borders and most airlines chose to pull out their offers, going to Russia and…
Three anthropologists sit to talk about the evolutionary purposes of gossip. What role does gossip play in human societies? In this episode, Bridget Alex and Emily Sekine, editors…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Hae-Seo Kim – April 22, 2024 There is an underground cave … More
Colegio Jacinto Treviño Day Proclamation with former students of the Colegio, city officials, and historian De…
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Naila Kabeer discusses her new book, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, forthcoming from LSE Press in Septe…
In the epicenter of fast fashion, a small cohort of Chinese eco-friendly designers is amplifying the call for a less wasteful and environmentally destructive clothing culture. ✽ While…
After the end of the Maoist era in the People’s Republic of China, the rise of queer communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has generated growing public and academic…
Hip Hop is a musical genre and cultural movement that has been the birthplace of ingenious creativity and novel methods of music making that incorporate new and old…
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/moral-atmospheres/9780231210416 Patrick Eisenlohr: Moral Atmospheres is not just a rich portrait of the freewheeling mediascapes of a Lahore marketplace, it is al…
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30…
Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) (mamptu-Kalapuyan) is on the rise in the Salem area. Three sites are known to host the plant, Lake Labish, Minto-Brown Island Park
The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers used nationalized oil…