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Deep in the vault, I was surprised to find my first ever published essay starts with Derridaddy (basically a review essay – also with errors from the days…
Deep in the vault, I was surprised to find my first ever published essay starts with Derridaddy (basically a review essay – also with errors from the days…
Criminals and Gangmembers Anonymous, a 12-step recovery program, has proliferated in California’s carceral system. An anthropologist investigates the program, which sees criminality as a chronic addic…
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico City, the informal addiction…
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan Code: From Information Theory to French Theory Duke University Press, 2023 272 pages, 47 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index Editors’ Introducti…
https://beekeepingintheendtimes.com/Home Mira Guth: In the book, you write beautifully about the power of storytelling to both gather knowledge and incite action—from ethnographic stories of c…
The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to hospitals and never seen again. Social distancing…
Menghai Town (formerly Xiangshan Town), Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China Visited December 26, 2023 This is the twenty-sixth post in the series: Villages an…
In any kind of research, there is more than one way to interpret what we are observing. The Positivist intent though, would be to find the “correct” interpretation…
Author: Dr. Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her ethnographic work focuses on religion, pilgrimage, and politics in the Nepal Himalayas. Her research also…
Online submissions for the festival Days of Ethnographic Film (DEF) 2025 are now open. The event will take place at the end of FEBRUARY 2025 at the Slovenian…
We were on the bus, traveling through the borderlands between Osaka and Kyoto Prefectures when the imojōchū began to kick in. We had just finished an hour-and-a-half of…
I’ll never claim to be a poet, but my first publications were angry letters to the local papers, and meandering poems about building, trees and insects. It is…
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds remain less likely to enter university than…
Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial…
This basket was given to the Mission Mill Museum in the 1970s, probably 1974, by the McGilchrist family, they gifted a collection which was then
Nuogang Ancient Village, Jingmai Administrative Village, Huimin Hani Ethnic Town, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu’er City, Yunnan, China Visited December 27, 2023 This is the twenty-fifth po…
Mengben Village, Jingmai Administrative Village, Huimin Hani Ethnic Town, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu’er City, Yunnan, China Visited December 27, 2023 This is the twenty-third post in th…
We can smell summer. Or we smell like summer. Either way, for the Allegra collective, it’s now the start of a break until September. No new content will…
Journal: Public Anthropologist, https://brill.com/view/journals/puan/puan-overview.xml Guest editor: Angela Biscaldi (University of Milan) Format: We welcome both research articles (between 6000 and 9…
By Bariş Eser. Neither the student organizers nor the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Board of Directors (CvB) expected the outpouring of support upon the eviction of the first…
Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as…
This is something have been thinking about for a few years, since me essays about Reuben Sander and Jim Thorpe. Since the beginnings of amateur
Join us on “This Anthro Life” podcast for an enlightening episode titled “How to Heal Through Ayahuasca” with special guest Austin Mao, co-founder of Ceremonia and entrepreneur. Dive…
The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world’s foremost experts. If there’s one…