Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the political impact that this travelling…
Access to Justice, Digitalization and Vulnerability by Naomi Creutzfeldt, Arabella Kyprianides, Ben Bradford and Jonathan Jackson examines individuals’ experience of seeking justice in housing a…
By Emma Pask, University of Chicago / Aarhus University Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2024 Roy…
As part of my pre-work for the No Patient Left Behind program, I’ve obtained a new certification entitled Biotech Unveiled: Understanding the U.S. Biomedical Innovation Marketplace and its…
In social scientific projects, methodology and ethics are inextricably linked. In this blog post, I explore how the ethnographic interview contains possibilities for both connection and rupture with…
One might ask, what about everything else?
KRÖNIKA. Med den mänskliga friheten följer ett ansvar. Den kapitalistiska världsordningen, som koloniserat snart sagt alla fysiska och mentala livsvärldar, har fört oss till en återvändsgränd. Vi behö…
SAR Moments: Evolution, Exercise, and the Human Body with Dr. Daniel Lieberman AI Summary Why do humans struggle with exercise despite its well-documented benefits? And how did physical…
SAR Moments: Evolution, Exercise, and the Human Body with Dr. Daniel Lieberman AI Summary …
“On the form, I ticked that I had got enough pads. I ticked that I had been instructed. I ticked that I had applied for microloans, more than…
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By Radhika Moral, Department of Anthropology, Brown University Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2024 Roy A.…
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…
How much of our identity is shaped by genetics, and how much by society? In Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins, Shoumita Dasgupta examines how genetic science can…
An article in the Baltimore Banner by Rona Kobell (https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/hampton-national-historic-site-east-towson-URF5WGM5TZCAZMJAZBGRU7JYMY/) reminded me about the…
An anthropologist reflects on the racist undertones of some U.S. efforts to eradicate the spotted lanternfly, an insect from Asia deemed invasive. ✽ A bright red flash whips…
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […] The post An ode to being wrong…
What historians of science do is social and cultural history, but of a sort that is sometimes harder to look […] The post Soviet Russian and Armenian Radio…
This article provides a brief look into the ways identity can be constrained with regard to biometric technology. It discusses technological limitations where biometric identification systems may fai…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2025 APLA Book Prize in … More
My dissertation Making Chinese Orthodox explored the Chinese Orthodox Church as a site of interaction between Russian and Chinese states. Page 99 comes at the end of the…
To bring some post/decolonial history to a walking-tour literary festival, I’m offering Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. The novel’s protagonist is Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who comes to …