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…
In Tamil Nadu, the nine-night autumnal Navarātri festival can be viewed as a celebration of feminine powers in association with the goddess. Ina Marie Lunde Ilkama’s book The Play…
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities,…
Annual Billionaire Challenge / Local council administered: Every year all billionaires have a two-week window to file public exemptions before they are taxed half a billion for every…
Have you ever pondered how acknowledging and reframing past trauma could be transformative? In this riveting episode of This Anthro Life, we delve into the profound impact of…
In Contesting Moralities: Roma Identities, State and Kinship, Iliana Sarafian challenges established scholarly practices that attempt to define Romani identity, instead exploring how individuals navig…
“[T]he climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination.” Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2015), p.9. “We are…
Ledizioni Publishing Interview by Nicco La Mattina Nicco La Mattina: In Surfers Paradise, you describe how the figure of the surfer is characterized as a risktaker, emblematic of a…
Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of Puglia. The first came by land: a parade…
Through a creative focus on skin, in Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam (Duke UP, 2021), Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of…
On the podcast today, I am joined by Mai Corlin, who is researcher at the department of cross-cultural and regional studies in the University of Copenhagen. Mai will…
AAA invites members to join a Town Hall on Tuesday, February 27th from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. EDT, for a discussion of … More
Andrew MitchelPhD CandidateThe Ohio State University What does it mean to be an expert on food? This piece will argue that my scholarly work and the knowledge and…
In Sexuality and the Rise of China, sociologist Travis Kong examines the experiences of post-1990s gay men in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Through interviews and historical analysis,…
Asian Perspective, vol. 48, no. 1 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/919884 I have, for personal use only, a pdf copy of this article, which appears in Asian Perspective, vol. 48, no….
The DOPE Conference is back in person this year and I’ve put together a little zine (“Bacteria Farmers”) for a session on “Speculating on an Multispecies Urban Future”:…
How is the delicate balance between recording Micronesian cultural heritage, addressing community needs, and gaining international acknowledgment for preservation endeavors managed? Ashley in Micronesi…
“I cannot listen to the sound of the warplanes anymore, it sounds like they are flying over our roofs,” as a resident of a south Lebanese border village…