Lisa Messeri on her book, In the Land of the Unreal
https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-of-the-unreal Stefan Helmreich: Your first book, Placing Outer Space, asked not only how place was imagined on and for such off-Earth entities as exoplan…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-of-the-unreal Stefan Helmreich: Your first book, Placing Outer Space, asked not only how place was imagined on and for such off-Earth entities as exoplan…
When concepts such as ‘participation’ that emanated from radical movements with the objective of transforming social relations and power structures are introduced and popularised in the public discour…
What fascinating parallels exist between the structure of bees in a hive and the potential for humanity to function as a superorganism? In this episode, we engage in…
Israel’s war on Gaza that erupted in 2023 continues a long history of systemic displacement of Palestinians. Over 2 million Palestinian refugees currently live in Jordan in indefinite…
The climate crisis is upon us. Extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and fires are increasingly wreaking havoc around the globe. Even in the cosseted…
Anthropology Careers Readiness Network (ACRN) and the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) …Present the following sessions, workshops and events! Day Events Tuesday 3/26 …
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/soundings-and-the-politics-of-sociolinguistic-listening-for-transnational-space-9781350331303 Leonie Schulte: Can you describe sounding and how as a conceptual le…
How can culture be authentic in the modern world? In The Poet’s Song: Folk and its Cultural Politics in South Asia (Rouitledge, 2023), Dr Priyanka Basu, a Lecturer in Performing Arts at…
If you are a congenitally curious person like me, you have probably asked yourself questions like: “What was it like on board a Japanese passenger ship in the…
People who have abortions are often thought of as inherently vulnerable. When retold without nuance, this narrative can be harmful to abortion-seekers, as well as to reproductive autonomy…
Join us at the SfAA Annual Meeting in Santa Fe for panels, presentations and events hosted and co-sponsored by the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA).…
By David Bond, Associate Director, Center for the Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College Anthropologist David Bond at a Press Conference with Community Leaders in St. Croix, US…
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-93323-8 Kristina Nielsen: Call Centers have been the study of multiple linguistic and cultural studies that often focus on the topic of outsour…
In their recently published book, Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacism and How It Can Be Stopped, Blee, Futrell, and Simi show how a constellation-based model…
Written by John Keith Hart Introduction The idea of a sexual division of labor rests on asserting that men and …
What people ultimately want from music-drama, audience research suggests, is to be absorbed in a story that engages their feelings, even moves them deeply, and that may lead…
Compliance, namely everyday accommodations, is a practice allowing us to work and live with others. Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, Will Rollason and Eric Hirsch’s edited volume Compliance: Cultures…
Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities (Routledge, 2023) explores the relationship between avatar and gamer in the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game World of Warcraft, to examine notions of…
At the much-noticed symposium on the Austro-German anthropologist Richard Thurnwald in Paris in July 2021, Thurnwald’s biographer Marion Melk-Koch (born 1954) presented him as an opponent of Nationa…
Aboveground, Manhattan’s Riverside Park provides open space for the densely populated Upper West Side. Beneath its surface run railroad tunnels, disused for decades, where over the years unhoused…
Jane preparing a cake with her son at home, Scotland (photo: Imogen Bevan) Bittersweet: Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland. Imogen Bevan. PhD in Social Anthropology,…
By Fridus Steijlen – When I arrived in mid-January in Ambon for my second year at Pattimura University I saw Christmas and New Year decor on the streets,…
Caty Borum‘s The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power considers how comedy intersects with activism and drives social change. Borum’s accessible text draw…