What Bigfoot Teaches Us About Public Mistrust of Science
In the 1960s, credentialed scientists, including physical anthropologists, hunted for the legendary Sasquatch. How did they fall for the hoax? ✽ In the late 1960s, Bigfoot seemed to…
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A Caste Theory of Asylum Management?
The theoretical framework I wish to introduce here is somewhat experimental in nature. I was trained in sociology in Delhi University, where I completed my masters before heading…
Kapitalismuskritik als Sprachmagie
Im August 2019 besuchte ich in Nairobi eine Veranstaltung mit dem klangvollen Titel Why does nobody speak about capitalism in Kenya? Die Veranstaltung war das Ergebnis einer Kooperation…
SAR Announces 2023-2024 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2023-2024 Native Artist Fellows …
Amanda Cullen takes the page 99 test
Frankly, I was hoping that page 99 of my dissertation would capture the voices of one or more of my participants. Unfortunately, what I arrived at was the…
Feeling What We Are/A’yel jtaleltik
An anthropologist and writer from the Tseltal community speaks back to a colonialist history of suppression—instead claiming his identity, language, and people. “Feeling What We Are/A’yel jtalel…
Maitrayee Chaudhuri and Manish Thakur, “Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions” (Orient Blackswan, 2018)
We live in times where theory is often understood as irrelevant in the real world. It appears to have no practical results. This has been further complicated in…
Osman Balkan, “Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe” (Cambridge UP, 2023)
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in countries…
Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, “Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology” (Polity Press, 2023)
Objects generate time; time does not generate or change objects. That is the central thesis of this book by the philosopher Graham Harman and the archaeologist Christopher Witmore,…
The future comes for Vogue…and the rest of us
A power struggle is playing out at Vogue. Several things hang in the balance. The future of a publication that helps construct our sense of taste. The future of…
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Banderas indígenas: Recubrir, aglutinar, disolver
En marzo de 2023, en Santiago de Chile, como equipo de IndiGen nos reunimos con colegas de Chile y de Bolivia para reflexionar sobre…
Andrew Snyder, “Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro” (Wesleyan UP, 2022)
Critical Brass: Street Carnival and Musical Activism in Olympic Rio de Janeiro (Wesleyan University Press, 2022) tells the story of neofanfarrismo, an explosive carnival brass band community turned activist musical movement…
Han Yu, “The Curious Human Knee” (Columbia UP, 2023)
Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Yet, as The Curious Human Knee (Columbia…
Antropologins största gåva är något av en evig gåta
Gustaf Redemo: Åren på resande fot i antropologins land har delvis gjort mig till en främling. Ibland känner jag mig mer befryndad med mina invandrade elever än de…
Marius Wamsiedel, “The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania” (Lexington, 2023)
Marius Wamsiedel’s book The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients: An Ethnography of Triage Work in Romania (Lexington, 2023) is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers…
Tessa Farmer, “Well Connected: Everyday Water Practices in Cairo” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water…
Excavating a 19th-Century Detroit Saloon
A filmmaker highlights the work of urban archaeologists digging a woman-owned business opened in the late 1800s. In this short documentary, Wayne State University archaeologist Krysta Ryzewski and…
Hiking Trails, Sustainable Tourism, and Bedouin Heritage
Ben Hoffler is the co-founder of several hiking trails in the Middle East, including the Sinai Trail, the Red Sea Mountain Trail, the Wadi Rum Trail, and the Bedouin…
Arseli Dokumaci, “Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds” (Duke UP, 2023)
For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes…
The right to dignity: Housing struggles, city-making, and citizenship in urban Chile
How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they constitute themselves, and demand…
Why Nahua Pilgrims Carry Thousands of Papers Up Sacred Peaks
Along mountain pilgrimages, two anthropologists learn how an Indigenous Mesoamerican religion helps people practice a reciprocal relationship with the Earth. Based on Pilgrimage to Broken Mountain: Na…
Memorializing Eruption
Perched on a makeshift stage, a trio dressed in wool ponchos sings pirekuas, the region’s most acclaimed and loved musical genre in a mix of Purépecha and Spanish.…
Where did all the gyoza go?
The frozen gyoza vending machine that appeared in my neighborhood last year is now empty. No gyoza, no product descriptions. I inquired at the small, narrow izakaya to…