In 2013, as Syrians desperate to escape a brutal war fled the country, Brazil took the remarkable step of instituting an open-door policy for all Syrian refugees. Why…
Cover of the North County Times, 9/12/01. Photo: Ryan Anderson. There are a few different things that brought me to anthropology. One of them was 9/11. More specifically,…
Each year since 2005 the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) and the AAA have sponsored the Careers Expo at the AAA Annual Meeting. The Expo…
SAR field trip participants at Canyon de Chelly. About eighteen minutes outside of…
Does the transition from childhood to adulthood have to be so difficult? This question sent famed anthropologist Margaret Mead to American Samoa in 1925—and ignited decades of controversy.…
What are ‘real’ risks in life? What makes us afraid of the future and how do we perceive uncertainties? These cultural and philosophical questions came to my mind…
On a freezing February morning, I pulled my rental car into the small parking lot behind a sprawling Minnesota church. I had flown halfway across the country to…
Tiya Miles, 2007 An interview of Tiya Miles (History, Harvard), an SAR resident scholar in 2007-2008, appeared in the New York Times Book Review’s “By the Book”…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/personal-but-not-private-9780190076191 Interview by Elias Alexander Elias Alexander: In the preface of your work, you give us readers a wonderful ins…
On Time. My teacher and friend Don Miller passed away last month. We had published his book “Time and Time Again” in 2022. His memorial is on the…
Margaret Hillenbrand’s On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia UP, 2023) examines the negative cultural forms that have emerged in response to China’s exclusionary contemporary socioeconomic system. Hillenbrand considers…
Oracle Park, last game of the season, 2023. In the last post of this installment of the summer anthropologies series, I ended with the point that major league…
Hi all,This week’s #globaldev review ends on a paper from 2018 that introduces the concept of ‘oxygen of amplification’ which seems particularly relevant in the last few days.The…
Laura Nader, in a 2013 interview (De Lauri 2013)—the message of which is no less salient today—stated: “For me anthropology is the freest of scientific endeavors because it…
Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. James J. A. Blair probes the historical roots and current predicaments…
Across today’s America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down…
The International Labour Organization estimates that in Southeast Asia there are 30 million children engaged in paid work, 17 million in engaged in unpaid work and 50 million…
As part of our long term partnership with Japanese Arctic anthropologists, we are part of the ARCSII – funded Research Exchange Programme, led by Hiroki Takakura of CNEAS,…
Given how well-known the greatest hits are, it is fun to expand the famous quote just a little to see where Marx signals important transitions: here comes, for…
time: 13.30 Finnish, 11.30 UK, 18.30 Beijing time, 12 October 2023. Online at zoom, meeting id: 641 887 4740, password: 2023. For those in Rovaniemi: join us in…
Our monthly colloquium resumes this September. These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum to present and discuss…
This article reflects on the comparable dimensions of scholarly competition in what the author names “late post-revolutionary societies,” in this case China, France and the US. In this…
Ten years into the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, this new „The People’s Map of Global China“ country profile provides an overview of Sino-Swiss economic relations, Switzerland…
When amputation happens, it is an un-ignorable event. After the surgery, the person learns how to be an amputee, they learn to conceptualize their altered body. This work…