Where Cultures Collide
For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, we’re meeting at a crossroads of cultures—past and present—in search of humanity’s collective destination. Culture is a force that makes…
For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, we’re meeting at a crossroads of cultures—past and present—in search of humanity’s collective destination. Culture is a force that makes…
A Song Namacurra onoloba nikayedhoNamacurra asks for helpFrelimo onoguliya mathaka na atxinaFrelimo is selling our lands to the ChineseNafuna minivedele manera adhouweWe want to find a way for…
Each day weaves its own tale, and no two days unfold alike in the Mandal Valley. The Mandal Valley is like any central Himalayan valley, rich and teeming…
An SLA Online Conversation Friday, April 4, 2025 12pm to 1:30pm Central Time (UTC-6) Register for the Zoom meeting at: https://tinyurl.com/slaonline2 This online panel gathers several established ling…
More scholars of language on Trump and Trumpism Send us yours to be added! Sorry Not Sorry: Political Apology in the Age of Trump Jan David Hauck Teruko…
Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, and Fiona Wright https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487548841 We’re delighted to announce the publication of our new edited volume,…
By Sumin Myung, Cultural Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology…
Polly Katherine Lewis passed on March 8, 2025 from COPD complications after a two decade long struggle. Polly was born May 22, 1947 in Vallejo, CA. Her father…
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to … More
Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai’s Shore (Cornell UP, 2024) reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are…
Robertsport, Liberia 2017 Preamble: My desk is facing the beach and ocean. I am currently on the small Indonesian island of Sumba, and my Californian neighbour is hitting…
Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different reality, facing dangerous injuries, few pro-career opportunities,…
I recently (and finally!) got to talk at length with author Cory Doctorow, who famously coined the perfect term for when technology platforms and products rapidly decline in…
To be updated regularly. Last update March 21, 2025 Contact: Heath Cabot (heath.cabot@uib.no) Have you found yourself under attack within … More
Letter from APLA President: Call for Action and Help March 21, 2025 Dear APLA Members and Friends, As you know, … More
Below is a video conversation about the 2024 book prize winner, Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity and the Rise of Youth … More
Diplomatic pressures on countries in West Africa to cooperate on migration-related issues has been high, and growing, in recent years. Numerous policy initiatives underscore this, going back to…
Boaters of London is an ethnography that delves into the process of becoming a boater, adopting an alternative lifestyle on the water and the political impact that this travelling…
Access to Justice, Digitalization and Vulnerability by Naomi Creutzfeldt, Arabella Kyprianides, Ben Bradford and Jonathan Jackson examines individuals’ experience of seeking justice in housing a…
By Emma Pask, University of Chicago / Aarhus University Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2024 Roy…
As part of my pre-work for the No Patient Left Behind program, I’ve obtained a new certification entitled Biotech Unveiled: Understanding the U.S. Biomedical Innovation Marketplace and its…
In social scientific projects, methodology and ethics are inextricably linked. In this blog post, I explore how the ethnographic interview contains possibilities for both connection and rupture with…
One might ask, what about everything else?
KRÖNIKA. Med den mänskliga friheten följer ett ansvar. Den kapitalistiska världsordningen, som koloniserat snart sagt alla fysiska och mentala livsvärldar, har fört oss till en återvändsgränd. Vi behö…