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After a long silence, there is finally some activity on antropologi.info! The blogging software I had been using since 2005 (!) is no longer maintained. It is called…
“Bright morning light on pond and path around the garden” https://www.flickr.com/photos/mi_shigapics/51427254438/in/album-72157712160299046 Thanks to Guven Witteveen for sharing this info through t…
The New Preachers of Egypt—so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help—came to prominence on the world’s first Islamic…
A linguistic anthropologist explores the queer Ballroom scene in San Juan—and how performers are incorporating critiques of colonialism into the art form. “READING” ABOUT HER FASHION I look…
Peasant Reserve Zones (Zonas de Reserva Campesina, or ZRCs in Spanish) constitute a legal framework established to organize territories historically inhabited by peasant communities in Colombia. Desig…
From large cities to small towns, “No Kings Day” will counter Trump’s birthday spectacle with people power. “Nah, he wouldn’t really do that.” I’ve lived in the Upper…
An archaeologist who studies past farming practices in the north coast of Peru argues these offer models for navigating current climate crises. ✽ SEEING THE NORTH COAST of…
Cartoonist Ricardo Caté of Santo Domingo/Kewa Pueblo in conversation with SAR advisory board member and award-…
Cartoonist Ricardo Caté of Santo Domingo/Kewa Pueblo in conversation with SAR advisory board member and award-winning author Douglas Preston. On a golden June evening in Santa Fe, the…
In this series we invite anthropologists to share stories of growth, change, and discovery throughout their careers. By reflecting on the life choices that shaped them, the unexpected…
UPDATE 6/18/25: It might be hard to see, but a pigeon picks the weeds and litter in search of food… Or th help clean the mess? Meanwhile (harder…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
Let’s be honest. Anthropology is plagued by dull, pretentious, and sometimes even meaningless prose: language that is at best imprecise and at worst incomprehensible. Now and then, examples…
Hội An is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Quảng Nam province in Central Việt Nam. In the daylight, Hội An dazzles with architectural riches reflecting its…
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/rainforest-radio Bernard Perley: You mention how radio as a medium introduced new domains for language use, but also as an affirmation of traditional forms of …
Alva Gotby‘s Feeling at Home explores the complex interplay of practical and emotional concerns that a home involves, which are often flattened in debates around housing justice. Showing…
A poet-anthropologist listens to an accidental field recording from Kashmir: What might be dismissed as noise becomes a way to unsettle the settled—making audible dispossession and theft, stealth…
Abstract: ‘An Archive of Archives Lost’ is an affective autoethnographic visual essay that examines the devastating impact of climate change through the lens of personal loss. The Philippines…
Kevin Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism (Verso, 2025) encourages to look again at the intellectual and political work of a figure some may assume…
Tamar Shirinian is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her new book, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke UP,…
Allegra are, as is the custom, taking a Summer break from 1 July to 1 September. During this time, we […] The post Summer break, reading break appeared…
Vilsoni Hereniko is visiting LMU as a CAS Visiting Fellow this summer.
An anthropologist explores how a phone call home may seem simple but carries layers of meaning for migrating nurses and their families in India. ✽ SOON AFTER I…
Digital Media Use in Early Childhood by Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Sonia Livingstone, Brian O’Neill, Kylie J. Stevenson and Donell Halloway examines how children under six interact with…