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Professor Karel Mulder sat at his desk, wreathed in the noble decay of academia—a kingdom of paper that had long since declared independence from any attempts at order.
Professor Karel Mulder sat at his desk, wreathed in the noble decay of academia—a kingdom of paper that had long since declared independence from any attempts at order.
What happens when the prediction fails, but the system marches on as if it hadn’t? When the algorithm forgets what the body remembers?
A filmmaker showcases archaeologists unearthing tiny lithics that evidence the presence of hunters from 13,000 years ago in what is today Michigan. ✽ Brendan Nash, a doctoral candidate…
In times of political upheaval and cultural turmoil, transformative spaces and interventions that are easily accessible seem rare …
In photo and video material of violent conflict, a phenomenon regularly occurs that needs interpretation: perpetrators of violence who appear to enjoy their actions, or bystanders laughing or…
ByZara KhanBSc Anthropology On February 27th, The Creative Collective hosted a creative ethnographic writing workshop, exploring two key questions: How can we write ethnography in creative way…
Why is investing in and accumulating gold perceived as prestigious, but extracting it is seen as greedy? The gold industry, alongside nation-states, has marginalized the artisanal and small-scale…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook onHumanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we are…
This workshop brings together presenters from four universities to explore innovative approaches to scholarly communication. Moving beyond conventional formats, the event highlights alternative, d…
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244471/making-a-mindful-nation Bingjing Yang: I thoroughly enjoyed reading your book and have started practicing mindfulness myself to better…
We have long lacked a biography of Erving Goffman. Partly this can be explained by Goffman’s direction for his papers not to be opened to researchers after his…
Just as “Der Optimismus ist Pflicht” (optimism is a duty) – as Popper is frequently (though perhaps apocryphally) credited with […] The post Soliciting Slaps – Notes from…
By Joost Blokker – Flower wreaths were placed at the Jewish Children monument in The Hague on Yom HaShoah, a day on which Jewish communities around the world…
In Decolonizing Ukraine: The Indigenous People of Crimea and Pathways to Freedom (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), anthropologist Dr. Greta Lynn Uehling illuminates the untold stories of Russia’s occupation of Crimea…
Camilla Annerfeldt joins to discuss Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides…
The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir (Wipf and Stock, 2024) is a narrative of a Christian family in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Based on diary…
The academic year is finally winding down and many of us are hoping to travel— for research, fun, or a … More
Too often these days our world, or community, is horribly divided and divisive. And not just by the actions of the present administration, but it seems everything and…
SAR Moments: Revisiting the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake AI Summary with minor edits by SAR Team …
Revisiting the Skeletons of Roopkund Lake AI Summary with minor edits by SAR Team Roopkund Lake Located in India’s Himalayan mountains is Roopkund, a small glacial lake that…
In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo…
Since 2018, personal data collected, stored, or otherwise processed in the European Union must comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). I would like to share some…
After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides. In the new book Something Between Us, he…
A personal note: Dr. Mark Bookman was an incredible scholar, the foremost expert on historical and contemporary disability issues in Japan, a wonderful and caring person any my…