“In this subtle and beautifully crafted ethnography, Cearns invites us to travel through the many Cuban circuits of exchange that give shape to mutating histories of connection within…
After 27 years… The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation. Publication Day! This is the 30 year anniversary edition (well, 27 years) finally out…
Installation view of “Grounded In Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery,” at the Metropolitan Museum …
[From the SETI project, “A Sign in Space” (https://asignin.space/)] “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world — in order to set up a shadow world of…
RAPHAEL ARDANI The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP …
Jamila Rodrigues’s new book Sufi Women, Embodiment and the “Self”: Gender in Islamic Ritual (Routledge 2023) uses her dance and performance studies background to study women’s hadra or zikr experiences of a Naqshbandi Sufi…
In Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life (Duke UP, 2022), Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure…
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Antropologin kanske inte har alla svar, men vi är övertygade om att vi ställer några av de rätta och viktiga frågorna. Tvärvetenskap är ett steg i rätt riktning…
What is a Whisper Network? What can you gain from being in one, and what is expected of the network members? Not everybody is invited is into a…
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The root of the word morphine is Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams. Neil Gaiman’s contemporary reimagining of the character in his magnum opus Sandman likewise thrusts upon…
Postcard with interior view of the Colosseum by Francis Frith, circa 1870. In part one of this installment, I mentioned Leslie White’s call to expand the purview of…
Max Early at the 2019 Santa Fe Indian Market. It’s been 101 years since the …
On the Channel Islands, archaeologists draw lessons in sustainability from historic Chumash fishing practices. USING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE Off the southern California coast lies a little-known…
TARA MAYHEW Dear Dame Rachel, The Children’s Commissioner’s Big Ask Survey (2021) gave voice to children and revealed the state of their nation. Children said they want good…
This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as…
Pentecostal Christianity is flourishing inside the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. To find out why, Andrew Johnson dug deep into the prisons themselves. He began by spending two…
“On Vietnam Veterans’ Day, 18 August 2023, a national commemorative service will be held in Canberra to recognise the 50th anniversary of the end of Australia’s involvement in…
It was really great to catch up with a lot of people In Hsinchu last week, especially, after many years, the ever eloquent Ned Rossiter, and Brett Neilson,…
Brian Vallo at SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center. Photo: Adria Malcolm for The New York Times …
For decades, soldiers at the border between Attari, India, and Wagah, Pakistan, have staged an elaborate ceremony for onlookers. An anthropologist reflects on the ceremony as a legacy…
The following monologue was originally written in Portuguese for the ongoing theatrical project Dramaturgias da água e da seca (Water and Drought Dramaturgies), developed by Pavilhão da Magnólia,…