Using a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, Liberating Fat Bodies: Social Media Censorship and Body Size Activism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) by Dr. Wesley Bishop & Dr. Bessie Rigakos explores the social…
A biological anthropologist reflects on how scientific research can be used to reaffirm or undermine Indigenous land ties in Argentina. ✽ In the early 1900s, two amateur archaeologists…
Walter Benjamin could be the Johnny Cash of social theory… Vincente Raphael had posted this relic from the Benjamin archive – a note on Marx which Benjamin wrote…
Daoming Town, Chongzhou [County-Level] City, Chengdu [Prefecture-Level] City, Sichuan, China Visited December 20, 2023. This is the first post in the series: Lowland Villages and Towns of South…
Daoming Town, Chongzhou [County-Level] City, Chengdu [Prefecture-Level] City, Sichuan, China Visited December 20, 2023. This is the first post in the series: Lowland Villages and Towns of South…
the conference proceedings are here: ISSH2024 Conference proceedings We made the National TV news and all with a report on the start of the conference. The last part…
Many museums are wrestling with returning looted or unethically obtained ancient objects. An archaeologist considers how a shift in public attitudes toward plaster and 3D copies could make…
An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s supplemental education industry. Like many parents in the United States,…
I’m seeking a lot of positive momentum in femtech, and the latest round of investment in Flo Health (and Pitchbook’s weekly newsletter) prompted me to pull my thoughts…
(Nota del equipo editorial): Nos complace presentar esta pieza publicada en español, previamente publicada en inglés, como parte del compromiso que ha asumido Engagement de ofrecer contenido en…
I’m glad to say I’ve achieved a goal to create walks in the East End of London. For these first walks I’ve focussed in the western area of…
By Jolene Lujan, Executive Administrator and Board Liaison The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is pleased t…
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) presents the 2024 SAR Humanities Festival: Food for Thought: lectures, discussions, film, and field trips investigating ancient and modern food systems, sustaina…
Degrowth scholarship calls for reducing less-necessary production in rich countries to enable faster decarbonization and reverse other ecological pressures. But how can this be achiev…
In Migrants and Machine Politics, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil examine how India’s urban poor navigate and shape political networks to secure representation and accountability within …
Jacob Ware discusses the threat of far-right terrorism in the run-up to the US elections in November.
Figure 1: The entrance of the museum at the metro station reads, “Learning is possible through encounters.” Multisensory Encounters with the “Others” Since February 2023, I hav…
In this episode of This AnthroLife, host Adam Gamwell dives deep into the concept of “cultural moats” and how tech giants like Apple leverage design, technology, and cultural…
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501776465/throw-your-voice/#bookTabs=1 Alex Warburton: Your two main sites, a puppet theater and a children’s group home, aren’t obviously connect…
Nguzunguzu is the traditional figurehead which was formerly affixed to canoes in the Solomon Islands. In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodolfo Maggio, a senior researcher at the University…
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on…
Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea: Silent Politics (Routledge, 2020) examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices…
Reflecting on the complexities of conducting research in a region gripped by administrative upheaval and political uncertainty, I write to open up this forum to fellow anthropologists and…
In this podcast, Ashis Roy (Psychoanalyst (IPA) and author of the recently published book Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationships (Yoda Press, 2024) is in conversation with Dhwani…