A Conversation with Artist/Anthropologist Cherie Li
ByAoife DonnellanPhD Anthropology Visual artist and anthropologist Cherie Li’s practice is concerned with capturing the minutiae of sociality, intimacy, and joy. Her work grounds ephemeral exp…
ByAoife DonnellanPhD Anthropology Visual artist and anthropologist Cherie Li’s practice is concerned with capturing the minutiae of sociality, intimacy, and joy. Her work grounds ephemeral exp…
Is intelligence determined by genetic predisposition? What about gender identity, musical skills, violence, or political orientation? Ne…
May 23, 2025 / 6:00pm -7:30pm / Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University / In person only / No registration required Responding to the record low birthrate and…
For the Society of Cultural Anthropology “Unconference” this year, I designed a DIY installation to share zines I’ve collected over the past decade, including dozens made by st…
An anthropologist investigates the impacts of increasing Chinese migration to and investment in Africa. In the last two decades, an unprecedented wave of Chinese investment and migration to…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
Come gather with us for another AnthroKino in which we’ll watch State of Address. The screening will be followed by […] The post ANTHROKINO: STATE OF ADDRESS appeared…
Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison […] The post Beyond the Footnote: Citation as…
David Beriss Last week we announced the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. You can read that post here. We had a tie for first…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/kill-talk-9780197808023 (Author’s Note for Context: The preface and introduction of Kill Talk make clear that this book does not claim to…
The Doshisha University Institute for the Liberal Arts in cooperation with the University of Bremen (Germany) is initiating the first colloquium for young researchers in the field of…
Moving between shower drains, aqueducts, rain gardens, and even kitchen sinks, Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2025) traces the enormous urban…
English:Our network member, Pascal Honisch, joined a radio discussion on SWR Kultur Forum alongside Dr. Thomas Schriefers and Prof. Miriam Österreich to explore the history and future of…
This article addresses an understudied issue in the current remittance scholarship in the Chinese context, and explores how overseas remittances reconfigure rural livelihood dynamics in the historical…
Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon (2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the…
John Hutnyk Tomar naam amar naam Vietnam Vietnam Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinemaDownload
Somatosphere welcomes you to the April edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American…
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. Commenting on my research for the WarFun project,…
By Aleeha Ali I fear there will be war. I, from a continent away, think of my parent’s house. My family lives in a large city near the…
David Beriss The time has come to reveal the winners of this year’s glorious SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest! Our decision this year was reached by a panel…
What is the growing appeal of fascist idealism for young people? Why is radical nationalism on the rise in Europe and throughout the world? In Living Right: Far Right…
It is late March 2022, and as always the weather is sunny in Tucson, Arizona. But a big meeting gathers a binational party inside an air-conditioned building on…
The contortions of Empire got a new lease of life in recent years, again, ugh, over and over, the deeply problematic desire to lord it over others as…
Photo: Akilah Martinez, photo by Ivan Nasitima The School for Advanced Research…