Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalism held sway as the dominant political…
As an ethnography of a Japanese dairy farm while having theoretical values going beyond the specific context, Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of…
An archaeologist with expertise in human origins assesses the accuracy of a 2022 film about Homo sapiens who encounter Neanderthals. This article was originally published at The Conversation…
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving…
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Trigger Warnings – presenter discusses atrocity prevention, and briefly delineates …
Weber, Karl, ed. (2023) Food, Inc.2. Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food. NY: Hachette Book Group-Public Affairs. ISBN: 9781541703575. 336 pages. Ellen Messer Cover design…
University of Chicago Press Amanda Weidman: First of all, thank you for this beautiful, ethnographically and sonically rich work! You’ve brought together ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropolo…
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Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about…
Door Sam Heeremans – Gisteren wandelde ik met Marlies over de vestingwallen van een prachtige kleine stad in Nederland. Ze wist me alles te vertellen over de stad,…
Cup Noodles Museum, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan: https://www.cupnoodles-museum.jp/en/osaka_ikeda/
Många i Dagens Nyheters läsekrets har väl antingen ingen aning om vad antropologi är för något, eller kanske en dimmig uppfattning om att antropologer är något slags postmoderna…
Många i Dagens Nyheters läsekrets har väl antingen ingen aning om vad antropologi är för något, eller kanske en dimmig uppfattning om att antropologer är något slags postmoderna…
Palestinian narratives of their own dispossession are routinely dismissed—making witnessing Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Palestine that reignited in 2023 an urgent task. But witnessing is not enough….
[Hmongtown Marketplace], Frogtown [Neighborhood], Saint Paul [City], Ramsey County, [State of] Minnesota, United States. Visited October 18-19, 2017. This is the fifteenth post in the series: V…
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as…
Ariana GundersonIndiana University I recently had the opportunity to share the importance and joys of our discipline of Food Anthropology with sixteen middle schoolers who visited Indiana Universi…
How does poetry help us understand people better, using words that touch our hearts and reveal hidden feelings? In this captivating episode of This Anthro Life, we engage…
Zhaicong [Natural, Dong] Village, Tongle Miao Ethnic Township, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou [Prefecture-Level] City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Visited July 18, 2018. …
Last year I was very fortunate to have been invited to curate the exhibition Then and There, Here and Now: Samoan Portraits.
Sociologist Neil M. Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between. In 2022, Los Angeles became the US…
Dr. SunAh M. Laybourn’s Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants (NYU Press, 2024) explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, the largest population of adult transnational adoptees in the…
[Near] Madeng [Bai] Town, Jianchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited June 5, 2023. This is the thirteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
Human rights are avowedly universal but must be translated by local activists to make sense in specific contexts, a process Sally Engle Merry called vernacularization. Human rights progress…