From Bin to Bank: Recycling Household Waste in Urban Indonesia
Every Thursday at 9 o’ clock in the morning, housewives from a residential neighborhood on the outskirt of Jakarta gather at their usual spot at the “Love Earth”…
Every Thursday at 9 o’ clock in the morning, housewives from a residential neighborhood on the outskirt of Jakarta gather at their usual spot at the “Love Earth”…
Utterances like “um,” “wow,” and “mm-hmm” aren’t garbage, they keep conversations flowing. This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. …
Walk with a linguistic anthropologist through the sounds, politics, and fabulosity of a kiki ball in Puerto Rico. Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ballroom scene”…
Claire Mercer‘s The Suburban Frontier examines African suburbanisation and the emergence of middle-class culture through a case study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Drawing on ethnographic data col…
In the contemporary world, ruins, rubble, and decaying material have become increasingly iconic landscapes. They can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven…
Rene Gomez was one of the most renowned potato curators at the International Potato Center (CIP, Centro Internacional de la Papa in Spanish). [1] Potato curators provide reliable…
On the May 12th, 2025 cover of Time Magazine, you will see a picture of a white wolf below the bold word Extinct slashed through with a red…
Page 99 of my dissertation, “Language, Identity, and Belonging: An Ethnography of Deaf Immigrants in the Northeast United States,” falls towards the end of its first ethnographic chapter.…
Written and created by Priscilla Telmon, Vincent Moon, Adrien Goua The acacia can be found all over the world, but …
Congratulations and many thanks to the co-editors, Jennifer McGuire and Christopher Tso, on putting together and releasing the Japan Anthropology Workshop Newsletter (#53) “…continuing with our …
Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been written on the interaction of missionaries with local…
The authors reframe the crime-terror nexus to gain a deeper understanding of recent trends in which jihadi organisations recruit from street culture and criminal environments. …
How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government control? This new edited volume brings together a diverse group of…
On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampere University. Tuomas is joining me to…
. For example—close the CIA Pine Gap secret spy base in Central Australia, recently expanded according to Denis Doherty in 2024: https://www.anti-bases.org/pine-gap-threatens-gaza-china-and-au…
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, Italy. 292 pages. Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University)…
SAR Now: An Artist’s Journey of Heritage, Storytelling, and Language Preservation …
SAR Now: An Artist’s Journey of Heritage, Storytelling, and Language Preservation “Standing Rock” 2024, Ink and gouche on archival watercolor paper by Sheridan MacKnight …
Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’s right to…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the March edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Biosocieties…
An anthropologist reckons with how digital media has changed youth gang culture dynamics—and what can be done to combat the spread of deadly rumors. ✽ In 2019, Luis…
ByDaniel SorungbeAffiliate Anthropology I told the #Institution I would document some of my London experiences to promote studying abroad… I doubt this is what they had in mind,…
The atmosphere of anxiety concerning the Anthropocene amplifies when considering how its eerie and unwieldy forces affect our bodies. Across posthumanist, science studies, and new materialist discours…