Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddhist revival in China, illustrating the lives of…
Sherry Fukuzawa, Associate Professor Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Mississauga In my fourth year undergraduate seminar course “Rethinking Anthropology from a Community Perspective” student…
The Bear, “family meal” Season 1 Finale “Braciole” Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/923617/the-bears-kitchen-lingo-explained/ David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) I last wrote about…
For as long as cats have coexisted with humans, they have been feared, revered and respected. They appear as dynamic hunters in Palaeolithic carvings and cave paintings; were…
Sanjaya Baru’s Secession of the Successful examines 200 years of Indian migration with a focus on the drivers and impacts of the recent exodus of the country’s elite.…
In spring of 2024, when green buds had already begun to appear even though light flurries were still falling in Rochester NY, I was slumped in the folding…
Beach fieldwork. Photo courtesy of Zaneta Thayer. Childbirth. What comes to mind when you read this word? SAR Senior Scholar biological anthropologist Wenda Trevathan observes that when childbirth…
Door Sam Heeremans – Ergens in hartje Jordaan woont een oudere, ietwat rommelige maar zachtmoedige man. De eerste keer dat ik er kwam om thuiszorg te brengen, lag…
An archaeologist unspools the story of a female leader buried over 1,000 years ago on the Tibetan Plateau. A TOMB IN THE HIGHLANDS In 2005, a truck rumbled…
After much deliberation, here is my hot take on AI: we desire it, but we don’t actually need it. The fact that something is technically possible doesn’t automatically…
What companies can learn from past products we love — an alternative gift guide for retro tech From left to right: Sony Handycam, Gameboy Color Pikachu Edition and the Canon PowerShot…
It’s clear Natalie’s “build-it-from-scratch” spirit never took a coffee break. From steering engineering teams and scaling organizations from zero to 300 people (not a typo) to pioneering new…
ByHayley SohBSc Anthropology As a child, I grew up during the explosion of Britain’s ‘soft power’: One Direction was the most popular boy band with their throngs of…
An anthropologist traces how transgender women navigate state-sponsored religious programs aimed at “rehabilitating” LGBTQ+ Muslims. ✽ Dora and I walked through the quiet nighttime streets of Chow Ki…
“Create A More Positive Rehoboth” was a decades-long goal for progress and inclusiveness in a charming beach town in southern Delaware. Rehoboth, which was established in the 19th…
https://www.sup.org/books/asian-studies/contesting-inequalities Yajie Chen: Even though I am familiar with the context and with some of the activist groups, you gave such vivid accounts of the…
ByNeusha KarshenasMedical Anthropology IBSc Walking through central London, I look around at the shiny buildings despondently. This was just the flare-up of a dysphoria that’s always been humm…
In today’s episode, we talk to Tom Bratrud about his ongoing, long-term work with city-dwellers who migrate to rural parts of Norway. This research forms the basis of Tom’s forthcoming…
The APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of … More
Centering collaborations and frictions around a Japanese town’s pottery industry, Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization (Routledge, 2024)n discusses the place of creative village policy in…
Julia Faulhaber discusses the cultural embeddedness of stress as an emotion. Focusing on the case of Germany this essay…
Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it…
As a year of multiple crises is coming to a close, I am a bit surprised that we have not heard more about the crisis of Think Tanks. The…