De man met de rode jas: Over de grenzen van empathie
Door Minke Wiersma – Wanneer de tijd op 14:20 springt op het digitale klokje op mijn nachtkastje, weet ik dat het tijd is voor mijn favoriete moment van…
Door Minke Wiersma – Wanneer de tijd op 14:20 springt op het digitale klokje op mijn nachtkastje, weet ik dat het tijd is voor mijn favoriete moment van…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
With the global rise of illiberalism in the twenty-first century, the reputation of Viktor Orbán’s regime has far exceeded Hungary’s actual geopolitical and economic weight. During late-socialism and…
In one testimony from Colombia’s armed conflict, a parrot named Lola repeated the phrases she heard around her: “Paraco asesino” (“paramilitary murderer”), “Viva la guerrilla” (“long live the…
What a joy to be hugged, celebrated, and criticized by stellar colleagues who intimately know the stakes of invoking Marx in more than a fleeting way in anthropology;…
In Salem, the state capitol is a number of camas fields, perhaps the most native of them is the two fields at the state fairgrounds. The Fairgrounds encompasses…
What if true healing and self-discovery required breaking the boundaries between science and spirituality? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell sits down with Austin…
I participated as a mentor in this great colloquium. Lots of great people, great research, great presentations, great discussions… Here was the original call: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.bl…
Studies on public responses to terrorism find that right-wing extremist attacks, relative to Islamist extremist attacks, tend to receive less media coverage, are less likely t…
Migration studies can learn from architecture by attending not only to movement, borders, and routes, but also to the built environments where displacement becomes materially durable. The post…
https://academic.oup.com/book/62559 We may not always be aware of it, but language practices have profound impacts on health outcomes. This is the central insight of our new edited volume,…
Creativity is often imagined as a deeply human capacity: a moment of inspiration, a flash of originality, or an individual act of expression. Yet in contemporary digital environments,…
The Portuguese colonial incursion in Orissa began around 1514, and Malaka port was a key trading link. Centuries later, they had the temerity to put the Jagannath shrine…
What if work isn’t just about what we do, but how we think about it? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell is joined by…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Interviewer 0:08Welcome to sNAPAhots conversations with professional, practici…
el-Sayed el-Aswad Anthropology of arts studies different forms of art in different cultural contexts. Rather than tackling merely the ethical and beatific aspects of arts, it examines how…
Written by John P. Ruehl The Trump administration’s July 2025 decision to have the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative …
During my doctoral research, focused on neuroscience laboratories and their forms of engagement with other spaces in the city of Bogotá, Colombia, I have been observing how artists…
Masaharu Kawano at Tokyo Metropolitan University has translated and published my posts on formulating research questions and the literature review into Japanese. You can find links to these…
I don’t think Robinson had any like the same sort of commitment to the revolution… This, then, is the standard story, but there is much more to it,…
Hugh Macmillan Max Gluckman Berghahn Books, 2024 Anthropology’s Ancestors Series (vol. 6) 184 pages, 11 illus., bibl., index This biography of Max Gluckman (1911-1975) is part o…
Midway through a recent coffee with a brilliant colleague, our conversation turned, as they so often do, to the various […] The post Care, commons and thinking together:…
When CADS convened the first Leiden Anthropology Conference in 2020, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology – home to 57 people – aimed to create a…