Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist from the University of Washington and author of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh, published by University…
Roluah Puia’s book Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India (Cambridge UP, 2023) illuminates our understanding of the relationship between orality and nationalist politics.…
Sommerpause Nach einer erfolgreichen ersten Phase verabschiedet sich der boasblog Researching Capitalism in die Sommerpause. Wir sind im Oktober 2023 mit neuen Beiträgen zum Gens Manifest und der…
Individuals can assume—and be assigned—multiple roles throughout a conflict: perpetrators can be victims, and vice versa; heroes can be reassessed as complicit and compromised. However, accepting this more…
Hi all,Me & the blog are officially on our summer break, but some interesting readings have been piling up so I want to share them as well as…
By Maya Daurio, University of British Columbia § “Welcome to another day in paradise,” said the man introducing that week’s visiting pastor to the congregation at the Poudre…
In Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity, Wei Yu Wayne Tan considers what it meant to be blind in Tokugawa Japan (from 1600 to 1868), including how a strong guild structure p…
by Pia Kristine Raahauge Beiermann – In recent years, I have come to collect a particular kind of encounter. Whenever someone casually asks about my plans for the…
An anthropologist working in Baltimore argues that safety for Black communities requires an end to policing. That also means taking a hard look at how policing intersects with…
We have been fighting to make it to the summer break and, look, there it is, the summer holidays are within reach! Allegra has rolled down the shutters,…
Wakako Zake (ワカコ酒, or “Wakako’s Sake,” BS-TV Tokyo) is one of the longest running (now in its 7th season) and my favorite meshi tero (loosely translated “food terrorism”…
On April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private American aerospace company that was founded in 2002…
After third months of research for my biography of Marshall Sahlins, I have finally arrived at an important milestone: Sahlins’s birth! I’ve done a lot of work on…
SAPIENS is seeking poetry submissions for a curated collection that will publish in early 2024. Deadline September 15, 2023. SAPIENS magazine invites creative works for the upcoming poetry…
Retailers are selling medallions cherished by Catholics who favor conservative gender roles. Are secular buyers sporting anti-feminist symbols? ✽ The online retailer Awe Inspired Jewelry offers a God…
Several weeks into my fieldwork at one of the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDA) in Telangana, a federal state in India, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I…
door Bram van der Heijde – Als ik mensen vertel over mijn baan krijg ik vaak dezelfde vraag terug: “Oh, dus je bent eigenlijk niks meer gaan doen…
Written by a lawyer who works at the intersection between legal education and practice in access to justice and human rights, this book locates, describes and defines a…
Contemporary agroecological farming is a knowledge-intensive form of production that can maximize the productivity of energy flows, which are central to the productive forces. Cumulatively, it is sugg…
I am very happy to have got this out, thanks to all at and in the journal: Please email me to get a pdf if you have not…
Trigger Warning: This article addresses power abuse in academia and describes some such extreme boundary violations explicitly and in detail.1[1] Abstract: The author examines how, under which promoti…
Upon her arrival in Madrid, Anita felt free. Having grown up in rural Ecuador as the youngest of seven siblings, her life so far had been shaped by…
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our fifth podcast episode explores how South African anthropology departments hire. … More
Interview by Diego Maria Malara https://www.routledge.com/Spirited-Histories-Technologies-Media-and-Trauma-in-Paranormal-Chile/Santo/p/book/9781003140818 Diego Maria Malara (DMM): You are k…