In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo…
Since 2018, personal data collected, stored, or otherwise processed in the European Union must comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). I would like to share some…
After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he…
A personal note: Dr. Mark Bookman was an incredible scholar, the foremost expert on historical and contemporary disability issues in Japan, a wonderful and caring person any my…
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
What can soldier humour tell us about international relations? To begin with, humour is a universal social practice …
As the influx of processed foods threatens traditional diets in rural Mexico, an intergenerational community is forming to keep people healthy. Milpa is an ancestral way of farming…
Following a group of US Midwest farmers who purchased tracts of land in the tropical savanna of eastern Brazil, Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado (Cornell University Press,…
In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social…
Helping on a prescribed fire as a volunteer firefighter sometime in September, I felt the anticipation that had been building in our team dissipate as we learned that…
Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College) Several …
https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/common-circuits Biella Coleman: Drawing from fieldwork in three global cities and three hacker spaces, Common Circuits examines how hackers in these coll…
Hemangini Gupta‘s Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
Having interviewed incels, Jan Christoffer Andersen highlights variations in their ideologies and forms of subcultural involvement.
In the past decades, various forms of Buddhism have emerged in-between, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious and spiritual life in China. Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in…
Editors’ note: This reflection was written in conjunction with the author’s course, “History of Anthropology,” taught most recently in the 2025 spring semester at the University of Nevada,…
子計畫一The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia後殖民想像的文化批判在二十一世紀亞洲的意義和相關性Date & Time：2025/05/26 09:00-18:00Venue：R106A, HA Building 2, Guangfu Campus, NYCURegistration：https://…
Art x Research x Archives – Investigative Art and Creative Humanities Supervisor: Yoshitaka Mori Edited by Tokyo University of the Arts Future Creation and Inheritance Center Getsuyosha 2,400…
SAFN is happy to announce that we are extending the deadlines for submitting papers for the Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human Right Student Award and the two Christine Wilson Awards…
David Beriss Having posted the tied winners of this year’s SAFN Anthro Day Photo contest (which you can see here and here), it is time to post the…
We are excited to announce that the 2025 ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
Markus Holdo’s Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism examines how citizens engage with and leverage power through participatory institutions in capitalist societies. The book is meticulously res…
An archaeologist explains his team’s insights into how Quina scrapers in southwest China overturn long-standing assumptions about the region’s humans more than 50,000 years ago. This article was…
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. The dominant discourse about war is that soldiers…