Teaching Food Anthropology on the Road
Jennifer Jo Thompson (University of Georgia) Each summer since 2014, I’ve taught anthropology on the road with the University of Georgia’s Interdisciplinary Field Program (IFP)—a domestic field pr…
Jennifer Jo Thompson (University of Georgia) Each summer since 2014, I’ve taught anthropology on the road with the University of Georgia’s Interdisciplinary Field Program (IFP)—a domestic field pr…
When governments declare a climate “emergency,” they rarely name the real emergency at play – colonialism. Crisis-oriented language transforms centuries of dispossession, extraction, and ecological de…
John Tolan’s Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present offers a sweeping account of Islam’s evolution, highlighting influential figures, sectarian divisions, and global expansion. Though it…
With all the difficult geopolitical news related to Greenland, the obvious anthropological gaze on autonomy is from the ground, based on people’s lived experience on land and sea.…
Introduction In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Reddit user shared an unusually intimate post about their relationship with Replika, an AI chatbot[1] designed for companionship: “I…
Political mobilisation against trans people has escalated exponentially since the pandemic. This serves a clear far-right and reactionary agenda, but as demonstrated by the ca…
A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically. In The Pandemic Workplace: How We Learned to Be Citizens in the Office (U Chicago Press,…
The Modern has seen better days. Astronomical sums would buy it. Raju is caretaking, but, well, unlike most of Kolkata which has a certain sheen of relevance and…
Allegra Lab · The Hilde Domin Training Programme at University of Konstanz with Judith Beyer and Leila Dedial This is […] The post The Hilde Domin Training Programme…
Performing Power by Marcus Morgan develops a comprehensive theory of social performance, showing how it shapes the exercise of (and struggles over) power, in politics and beyond. Analytically…
The open access Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe (Bloomsbury, 2025) offers readers a state-of-the-art guide to the public debates and scholarship on religious heritage in contemporary…
By the time panic buttons were installed in buses, taxis, and autorickshaws starting in 2012, their deployment in Delhi’s public transit vehicles had already been under discussion for…
Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2026 The Anthropology and Environment Society of the American Anthropological Association is pleased to announce the 2026 Rappaport Student Prize competition. Appli…
The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line (U Chicago Press, 2025) is a compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal. In a world…
A free e-book version of Delta Futures is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier (U…
Based on a unique survey of the Norwegian LGBTIQ+ population following the Oslo Pride terrorist attack, Birgitte P. Haanshuus and Øyvind Bugge Solheim examine the consequences…
Settler colonial terror in a question Amidst arranging a backpack with her family during a short trip away, an inquisitive […] The post Go to Palestine—And Go with…
Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. […] The post Ethnography of an Int…
Plantations have been the privileged tool of colonial rule and extraction in Mozambique for more than one hundred years despite never having delivered sustained economic or social benefits.…
Introduction This essay is an inquiry into projects, the model of agency that projects presuppose, and the limits of that […] The post Projects and Anti-Projects appeared first…
When I began doctoral fieldwork in 2022 in Unity Colony[1]—a low-income informal settlement (or Jhuggi Jhopdi Cluster) in south Delhi—just over a year after the pandemic’s second wave…
What lies ahead?Reimagining the world. Only that.– Arundhati Roy, Azadi On 11 November 2024, I sat in the audience at […] The post Radical Friendship and Anti-Heroic Practice:…
We are pleased to invite you to Remembrance & Resilience, a special series hosted at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), co-sponsored by the National Association for the…