Multimodal Anthropology Talk – Tuesday, March 25 @ 3 pm EST
SAR Moments: Evolution, Exercise, and the Human Body with Dr. Daniel Lieberman AI Summary Why do humans struggle with exercise despite its well-documented benefits? And how did physical…
SAR Moments: Evolution, Exercise, and the Human Body with Dr. Daniel Lieberman AI Summary …
“On the form, I ticked that I had got enough pads. I ticked that I had been instructed. I ticked that I had applied for microloans, more than…
This Chicago event on women’s health was centered around two panels, one on transforming patient care with AI, and another on policy & advocacy for women’s health.
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By Radhika Moral, Department of Anthropology, Brown University Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2024 Roy A.…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
How much of our identity is shaped by genetics, and how much by society? In Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins, Shoumita Dasgupta examines how genetic science can…
An article in the Baltimore Banner by Rona Kobell (https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/hampton-national-historic-site-east-towson-URF5WGM5TZCAZMJAZBGRU7JYMY/) reminded me about the…
An anthropologist reflects on the racist undertones of some U.S. efforts to eradicate the spotted lanternfly, an insect from Asia deemed invasive. ✽ A bright red flash whips…
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative […] The post An ode to being wrong…
What historians of science do is social and cultural history, but of a sort that is sometimes harder to look […] The post Soviet Russian and Armenian Radio…
This article provides a brief look into the ways identity can be constrained with regard to biometric technology. It discusses technological limitations where biometric identification systems may fai…
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2025 APLA Book Prize in … More
My dissertation Making Chinese Orthodox explored the Chinese Orthodox Church as a site of interaction between Russian and Chinese states. Page 99 comes at the end of the…
To bring some post/decolonial history to a walking-tour literary festival, I’m offering Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. The novel’s protagonist is Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who comes to …
In two erasure poems, a poet-anthropologist imagines alternative futures using text from the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar, through which the British “sold” Kashmir to a despotic Dogra ruler.…
The podcast, A Day in the Life of a Digital Anthropologist, takes listeners on a journey into the daily lives of digital anthropologists and explores what it really…
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By Jaime Landinez, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2024 Roy A.…
A Reckoning in Seven Movements I. To Begin With Fire There are nights I wake with my hands curled into fists,nights when I cannot unclench my teethbecause somewhere…
Administration has a difficult history in South Africa: apartheid was centrally an administrative project, through segregation and exclusion. Areas of […] The post A Crisis of Fiduciary Regulati…
The vast majority of people who stream themselves playing videogames online do so with few or no viewers. In Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch (MIT…