Who wants to go to Essex? A walk in Rochford town and by the River Roach
My title is a paraphrase of Margaret Thatcher’s dissing of Hackney, but prejudice against Essex is knee-jerk amongst loads of middle class folks who didn’t like her. Much…
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A Letter to the Secretary of Health and Social Care
ELLA ADENIKE ODUTOYE House of CommonsLondonSW1A 0AA Dear Steve Barclay, Gender bias is an issue that has burdened health care services for decades, as you said when announcing…
Remembering my Friend, Véronique Amenan Akpoueh (d., Aug. 3, 2023)
Ours was not an ordinary friendship. Race, class, religion, citizenship, educational background, and (for fourteen years) parental status divided us. Language brought us together. Curiosity and inte…
Bianca Vienni-Baptista et al., “Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research” (Bristol UP, 2023)
Bianca Vienni-Baptista, Isabel Fletcher, and Catherine Lyall’s Foundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research (Bristol University Press, 2023) is a groundbreaking reader designed to lower the barriers to interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity…
Olga Fedorenko, “Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads” (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
An ethnography of advertising in postmillennial South Korea, Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads (U Hawaii Press, 2022) details contests over advertising freedoms and obligations among divergent…
Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 1)
View from the upper deck of Oracle Park, 2023. Photo: Ryan Anderson. A couple months ago, just after the 2023 baseball season started, I was sitting in the…
2023 ARHE Policy Brief Award
We are excited to announce that the 2023 ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
Decolonising the medical curriculum: how do we get students involved?
LAUREN PEREIRA-GREENE 134 74 Huntley Street Building UCL Medical School London WC1E 6AU Dear Professor Faye Gishen, I am a third-year medical student, currently completing an…
Tamara J. Walker, “Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad” (Crown, 2023)
Part historical exploration, part travel memoir, Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad (Crown, 2023) reveals poignant histories of a diverse group of African Americans who have left…
Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, “Families on the Edge: Experiences of Homelessness and Care in Rural New England” (MIT Press, 2023)
An intimate account of rural New England families living on the edge of homelessness, as well as the practices and policies of care that fail them. Families on the…
Towards a Subjective Phanerology of Small Marsupials
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, UMR CESCO, CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Center of Sustainability and Applied Ecology, Santiago, Chile; Institute of Ecology and Biodive…
Connect the Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck
In Connect the Dots: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, Christian Busch contests the notion of blind luck, arguing that adopting a “serendipity mindset” towards all social and prof…
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, “Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America” (UNC Press, 2023)
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America (UNC Press, 2023) examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the healthcare system in the…
Michael Baltutis, “The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance” (SUNY Press, 2023)
Michael Baltutis’ book The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance (SUNY Press, 2023) details the textual and performative history of an important South Asian festival…
Drawing More-than-Human Kinship
Introduction In my work as an anthropological ethnographer and illustrator, I have been working to connect seemingly disparate disciplines together—at times, even as a messy and rough bricolage.…
Scratching out a living: The Medieval Female Proletariat – A guided walk
As part of the Totally Thames Festival to be held in September 2023 I’m offering a walk I created, Scratching out a living by the river: The Medieval female…
The Persistence of Fukushima’s Fisherfolk
In a new book, an anthropologist with long-term ties to northeastern Japan shares stories of how fishing communities have continued making a living in uncertain waters after the…
Courtney Adams Wooten, “Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women’s Reproductive Choices” (Utah State UP, 2023)
Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Womens’ Reproductive Choices (Utah State University Press, 2023) examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa) have positioned women who choose not to…
sNAPAshots: Natalie Muyres
Transcript 0:00[NAPA Logo] Welcome to sNAPAshots conversations with practicing professional and applied anthropologists. Let’s meet our next guest Natalie Muyers. Natalie Muyres 0:21Hi, I’…
Anthropology Meets Journalism: How Two Fields Can Save Each Other
In this episode, Emily Kennedy shares her unique journey of discovering the concept of ethnographic journalism. Journalists now face unprecedented issues like harassment, lack of public trust, and…
On the Quandaries of Aquatic Forensics
A team of scientists, including an anthropologist, explains the challenges and methods for locating, identifying, and retrieving human remains from underwater. This article was originally published a…
A Human Economy for Emergent World Society
Written by Keith Hart World society has been formed as a single interactive network in our time. Universal means of …