Tachinomi Banpaiya Monzen Nakacho has been described as “a popular, ultra-cheap, no-frills standing bar (tachinomi) located in the traditional shitamachi (downtown) neighborhood of Monzen-Nakacho in…
Orihara Shoten is a liquor shop and a “standing drink bar” usually known as 立ち呑み屋 (tachinomiya). This shop many shelves with various kinds of alcohol and refrigerators filled…
ByGaia Baldi MSc Digital Anthropology The ruins of Colonia Varese behind a bathing establishment, photo by author. I cannot remember the first time the abandoned beh…
OK, so Inō Tadataka「伊能 忠敬」lived from February 11, 1745 to May 17, 1818. And he wasn’t really drinking with me at the izakaya (at least not in person).…
Small drops form on my forehead. Slowly, they make their way down along my temples. The weather app on my phone shows a red alert. For days, I…
ByJeehwan Cha MSc Digital Anthropology My first visit to the UCL campus was on a cloudy day in early September 2025. When I asked whether there was a…
Elliðaey Island, in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the coast of Iceland, hosts one of the world’s largest populations of Leach’s storm-petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous), a small seabird specie…
Unbeknownst to each other, my much missed brother and I each got Enfield’s about the same time (his a continental) and might have shared notes if he’d rode…
Q&A with the editors on the book’s origins and the collaborative process behind uncovering a largely unwritten history.
Drawing from our recent collaborative publication titled Ethnographic reporting meets engaged journalism and offers untapped resources in Facts and Frictions, Adam Gamwell and Emily Kennedy explore ho…
Inequality: The View from Manywheres by Séamus Power explores competing perspectives on economic inequality, capitalism and social mobility through a lens of anthropology and cultural psychology. Powe…
This article is the first article in a series about gig and platform worker unions in India written by members of the Labor Tech Research Network[1] . Read…
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BySam WilkinsBASc Arts and Sciences 15th November 2025 Today, Knighton Woods is alight with orange and yellow leaves, raining down from the trees and carpeting the paths. …
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript 0:00[On screen image] sNAPAshots Logo Interviewer 0:08Welcome to Snapchashots:…
a pop up from some old search topic reports JF saying the following: “In his conference presentation John Hutnyk (see this volume) indicated that even to discuss music…
Image: Inō Tadataka (1745-1818), the famous Japanese surveyor and cartographer whose bronze statue resides in the Tomioka Hachiman Shrine grounds in present-day Monzen Nakacho, joined…
By Sagarika Raje WadiyarMA Material and Visual Culture every day, everywhere we stand in a house of loss residing under a shelter of pain of grief of heartbreak of shame…
For more than a century, SAR Press has published scholarship that continues to change how we understand people, culture, history, and place. Since its earliest archaeological publicati…
This is the story of how the World Health Organisation (WHO) came to partner with Interpol and the pharmaceutical industry to fight a war against fake drugs. This…
By Peter Versteeg, on behalf of the SpW team – Good people, Summer has arrived – sing cucu and drink saison! We look back at a fruitful year…
Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons draws on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why governments and corporations have failed to take meaningful action on the climate crisis:…
ByLara Scott-Rule BSc Anthropology with Year Abroad I’ve always said, if you don’t look in the mirror, you don’t feel any different. It’s just, you look at yourself and you think, who are yo…