Anti-Semitic or philo-Semitic? Backward or modern? Locally rooted or diasporic? “Polishness” is too often flattened to an oversimplified list of either-or propositions. But a critical look at the…
A Special Ethnographic Collection on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28). By Emily Hite (Saint Loui…
The first three Weatherhead resident scholar fellows on the new campus of the School of American Research in 1974. Left to right: Edwin L. Wade (1973-5), Joann W. Kealiinohomoku…
When Michael F. Brown accepted the role as president for the School for Advanced Research in 2014, he committed to leading the institution for ten years. True to…
It’s 2025. You and your spouse are sitting down to some serious education. You ask, “So what do you feel like?” Your spouse says “how about Bernie and…
Statement of solidarity with Students for Palestine Gaza Solidaarisuus Camp
P. Laviolette, Masaryk University, Brno When we were about fourteen years old, my two best mates and I ventured over to the house of one of our teachers…
A Paleolithic archaeologist sets out on a journey in search of the first cyborg, making discoveries that end up very close to home. These days, a mention of…
I am eager to share the following call for CMA award nominations. Check it out and nominate the wonderful colleagues in your world. –Jason Michael M. Ames Award…
By Katie Foster, University of Georgia, United States Each year, the annual meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), known as the Conference of…
By Beatriz Lima Ribeiro, Indiana University Bloomington, United States In this essay, I explore the connection between two key global environmental forums: UNFCCC Conference of the Parties 28…
By Emily Hite, Saint Louis University, United States “Nature is a leader.” “Water is a victim.” “Gas is a fugitive.” These narratives were reiterated by politicians and indust…
By Bea Addis, Washington University in Saint Louis & Samara Brock, Yale University, United States. Focusing on both the location of this COP as a backdrop as well…
by Emilia Groupp, Stanford University, United States What if the solution to climate change was as easy as building giant space mirrors that reflect sunlight away from the…
During a semester (and a year, and a period) filled with woe, my graduate course was one of the most meaningful and rich educational experiences of my career.…
In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners’ everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in…
Since Israel’s invasion of Gaza on October 27th, launched in response to an attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7th, there have been thousands of demonstrations held…
Bogdan Drazeta, PhD, Department of Ethnology and Anthropoloy, University of Belgrade Teaching at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, which is a part of the Faculty of Philosophy…
Seagull Books congratulates Sumanta Banerjee on being honoured with the Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar Gold Plaque by the Asiatic Society. A distinguished cultural historian and journalist, Suman…
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520389380/heavy-metal-islam Lara Sabra: Your book has shown that especially in the Middle East, which suffers from censorship and authoritarian regimes, art ca…
There are too many things needing to be written about. Many of them are grim. Here I want to begin the work week with positivity. This past semester,…
ByDavid EdgarPhD Anthropology A cacophony of drumming, chanting, and explosions drifts through my window. I grab my camera and run into the street. It’s las barras: fervent football…
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay’s book The Gravity of Hope (Crossed Arrows, 2023) is a non-fictional account of women’s lives who sometimes endured, often resisted and ultimately coped with marital violence as best…
My newest walk is Campaigning for the Abolition of Slavery: Central London Landmarks, which illuminates the many efforts to end slave-trading and slavery in Britain (and the world!)…