What is the right way to live? This is an old question in Western moral philosophy, but in recent years anthropologists have turned their attention to this question…
The Nain community freezer and local hunters and fishers provide nearly all samples for monitoring plastic ingestion by animals, which creates a sampling design that prioritizes and accurately…
In this Mad Max–like California landscape, artists and activists are inventing renewable alternatives to the capitalist system that’s developing but also destroying the region. ✽ Dusk at the…
The Nain community freezer and local hunters and fishers provide nearly all samples for monitoring plastic ingestion by animals, which creates a sampling design that prioritizes and accurately…
White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space (Policy Press, 2024) examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute…
Societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose. ✽ In his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, economist Adam…
The Manumea is an endemic bird of Sāmoa, currently on the brink of extinction. How can museums help to protect it?
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored…
What does it mean to speak about the cloud? While the term tends to conjure images of fluffy white objects, the cloud in technological terms is a complex…
Philippe Descola The Composition of Worlds: Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier Polity Press, 2023 224 pages, bibliography, notes, index In April 2023 the French Minister of the Int…
Diego Arispe-Bazán: The argument of the book hinges on the concepts of communicative care and convivencia (living together). How did you identify these phenomena ethnographically, and how have…
In Digital Contention in a Divided Society, Paul Reilly examines how social media influences political engagement in Northern Ireland, analysing digital interactions during the Union Flag Protest (201…
Tracing women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant…
Do newborns think-do they know that ‘three’ is greater than ‘two’? Do they prefer ‘right’ to ‘wrong’? What about emotions–do newborns recognize happiness or anger? If they do,…
No Olympics Because of the money-suck, the corporate sponsorship (riotinto making the medals in London), the fake moralism about drugs, the ‘security’ policing, the clearing of the inner…
A couple of weeks ago, a coyote climbed the fence into my mother’s backyard and attacked one of her dogs, Cujo. The coyote only stopped its assault when…
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Losing a pet has always been a unique kind of pain. No set rituals exist to help provide closure when pets die, there are no readily shared passages…
What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic (ILR Press, 2024) goes beyond the stereotypes and captures the diverse ways Americans view work as a part of a good…
A horse goes into a bar… Bartender: “you’re in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?” Horse “I don’t think I am” – and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gmPrP93TRA For now, I am done with social media. Nobody seems to care or appreciate the effort. But I will continue, albeit in a reduced capacity, to post…
Is a green future possible? In Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (Duke UP, 2023), Alice Mah, a Professor in Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow examines the practices…
A social scientist goes behind the scenes at a breeding center in Portugal to explore the challenges and ethical dilemmas of reintroducing the Iberian lynx. ✽ Soon after…
Very different very the same – distraction is not just distraction, it is systematic and you probably miss the point of blaming the lower orders for rioting at…