Let there be Light: Frontiers of techno-Solar Capitalism
I grew up in an area surrounded by miombo woodland, located approximately 200 kilometres southeast of Lake Tanganyika. In the early 1990s, when I was five, my father…
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Remembering Oscar Salemink (1958-2023)
by Ellen Bal, Freek Colombijn, Ton Salman, Irene Stengs and Marjo de Theije – Our friend, former colleague, and eminent anthropologist Oscar Salemink passed away on 23 September…
My time as a care worker and how it made me an anthropologist.
This story is inspired by a project organized by the Society for the Anthropology of Work: “Jobs we had.” Work was simply something most of us knew was…
Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home
I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push out of each…
Understanding Tribal Signals: A Conversation with an Evolutionary Anthropologist
The episode emphasizes how understanding our innate human drives and dispositions is critical, as awareness allows us to work with them constructively. In particular, humans have a “tribe…
Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge – review
In Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge, João Biehl and Vincanne Adams assemble reflections on the role of anthropology in understanding healthcare in today’s world of…
Do Strict Criminal Penalties Protect Animals From Abuse?
In Mexico, a growing animal protection movement often promotes harsh criminal punishment for those who abuse animals. But are these strategies working, or do they lead to further…
Review Plenary DGSKA 2023 “Contested Knowledge: Museological Perspectives”
The plenary “Contested Knowledge: Museological Perspectives” at the 2023 meeting of the German Anthropological Association…
Past and Present Approaches to the Management of Red Deer
An archaeologist weighs the pros and cons driving debates around the rising population of Scotland’s renowned animal and explains what historical archaeology could add to the conversation. This…
Naveeda Khan, “In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South” (Fordham UP, 2023)
Based on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South (Fordham UP,…
Cultural Relativism
Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresse…
“The Day I Discovered I Was Collaborating on a Eugenics Project”: On Imponderables in Collaborative Research
The title that opens this reflection is a statement by computer scientist Sandra Avila, who is also a co-author of the lines that will flow here. Her account…
Stephanie Love takes the page 99 test
It was late winter of 2020. I stood near the entrance of a residential building in Oran, Algeria’s second-largest city. I snapped a picture of a spray-painted message:…
NGOs & Developmental Economics – Do Traditional NGOs Fulfil Their “Job Descriptions”?
When I first learned about Non-Governmental Organizations – abbreviated as NGOs – in developmental economics, they struck me as organizations that fill in the gap to promote fairness…
Queering Science: A view from the bench (London, UCL, Nov 29, 2023)
Drs. Max Liboiron and Alex Bond will discuss theorizing and practicing queering science from two different but overlapping perspectives.
Queering Science: A view from the bench (London, UCL, Nov 29, 2023)
Drs. Max Liboiron and Alex Bond will discuss theorizing and practicing queering science from two different but overlapping perspectives.
Star Girl: Making the prize-winning Kayapó-language film "Nhakpoti"
Over years and across long distances, an international filmmaking team collaborated to bring to life the origin story of how agriculture came to Kayapó communities, Indigenous peoples in…
Damani Partridge, “Blackness As a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin” (U California Press, 2022)
In this bold and provocative new book, Blackness as a Universal Claim: Holocaust Heritage, Noncitizen Futures, and Black Power in Berlin (University of California Press, 2023), Damani Partridge examines the possibilities…
If we had time to study, we might study this…
I was asked yesterday how I might explain the attraction of current right wing ideas and autocracy…: >> How do you explain the attraction of current right wing…
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Hi all,Another busy week with stories from Sudan, Myanmar, Venezuela, Mozambique, Jamaica, India, the US & Uganda & people that deserve our attention, compassion + engagement from young…
Alba Griffin, “Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm. Reading the Walls of Bogota:…
Ep#106: MeTooAnthro and the Witch Hunt trope
The Familiar Strange · Ep#106: MeTooAnthro and the Witch Hunt trope Trigger Warning: Please note that this episode makes mention of Sexual Assault and sexual violence. In this…
Ep#106: MeTooAnthro and the Witch Hunt trope
The Familiar Strange · Ep#106: MeTooAnthro and the Witch Hunt trope Trigger Warning: Please note that this episode makes mention of Sexual Assault and sexual violence. In this…
2023 ARHE Policy Brief Award Winners
The ARHE Awards Committee is thrilled to announce the 2023 Policy Brief winners. The Committee was extremely impressed with the quality of submissions and examples of the power…