Guns and Almond Milk (book review)
Twenty years ago, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures was published. The catchy title ensured that the book became one of the first modern classics of aid worker…
Twenty years ago, Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures was published. The catchy title ensured that the book became one of the first modern classics of aid worker…
Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (U California Press, 2017) is a lively, readable exploration of “chosen” identity, kin, and community in a global era.…
Écriture – a creature is writhing in meaning, and having writh, moves on. . The performance given in a talk of a class is so much more animated…
Join us in this dynamic episode of This Anthro Life as we sit down with Sean Confer, CEO of International House at UC Berkeley, to explore the art…
Centaur Solutions For Customer Support: Amplifying AI Efficiency with Human Empathy When customer service systems are poorly planned, people can get trapped in automation loops. This results in experie…
There are stranger things in spave than Yuri would believe, one of course is the functionaries that were taking care of Neil Armstrong. I lived for a while…
View/Download the transcription for this episode. For this episode of Platypod, I interviewed space anthropologist Savannah Mandel about her new book Ground Control: An Argument for the End…
Exhibition by Anna Stammler-Gossmann As humans, we have adopted a linear “take, make and throw away” approach, in contrast to the circular processes observed in nature. In the…
Recurring tropes about fragmented communities living on frontier forestlands living in Southeast Asia are that they are either guardians of flora and fauna their destroyers. In much analysis…
By the house where I lived as a child and up until my early teens, there was a tea tree forest under a canopy of huge stringy bark…
The ARHE Awards Committee is thrilled to announce the 2024 Policy Brief winner. The Committee was extremely impressed with the quality of submissions and examples of the power…
I love the idea of being content with the world around me, but that’s not the reality. Furthermore, my lens is broad enough that my own well being…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Mareike Winchell Jesús Valdivia planned to get his cows high. This, … More
A seminar in the Japanese – Finnish researcher exchange programme funded by ArCSII, Human movement between the Arctic and East Asia due to tourism and business is increasing.…
Isolated during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, I started to follow on Twitter (the social media platform now called X) a few scientists who were dedicating…
Lived nearby the ruins as a kid in the 1960s, about 7 old chimney stacks, some of which provided my dad with bricks for his fireplace, while we…
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
What do folklore, folklife, folk music, folk medicine, folk belief, and folk horror have in common? Apparently, something, although just what is open to debate. It all hinges,…
This international workshop explored Indigenous economies in their disctinction from and connection to wider political-economic forces and developments.
In Japan, a country popularly perceived as highly secularized and technologically advanced, ontological assumptions about spirits (tama or tamashii) seem to be quite deeply ingrained in the cultural…
. Years later, the city was curated by someone enamoured of De Chirico and retro TV like Sesame Street – brought to you by the alphabet. Not alphabet…
#circa 1995. From the look of Daniel I knew that he had been away too long. -Maaaate, how are… His cutting off grunt and wave of shaky hand…
NightCafe prompt “Sweden cuts development aid”While the announcements of cuts that large INGOs like International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Save The Children International (SCI) have recently made re…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Interviewer 0:00[Onscreen NAPA Logo] Welcome to sNAPAshots conversations with …