Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and…
Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and…
In Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox (Edinburgh UP, 2021), Hilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and indexical metaphysics that is paradoxical and can also be regarded…
This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or…
Retaining a youthful appearance is a laborious and painful exercise, often rife with invisible labor. Digital beauty tech has made it much easier. Rather than altering our own…
An archaeologist explains how studies of ancient DNA and objects reveal that expansive migrations led to much greater diversity in medieval Britain than most people imagine today. This…
I extend my thanks to those colleagues who have already voted, and to those who let me know they were supporting me. I always feel honoured to be…
Interview by Jessica Winegar https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/rommel-egypts-football-revolution Jessica Winegar: The study of sports has been somewhat marginal in the field of anthropology….
14 November 2022. The lecture room at the Münchner Volkshochschule (Munich adult education centre) was filled and…
DR SALLY-ANNE FRANCIS & DR SARAH YARDLEY “I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” (W.B.Yeats) “A rapid, focused ethnography…
Haiti is the target of an overwhelming number of internationally funded health projects. While religious institutions sponsor a number of these initiatives, many are implemented within the secular…
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
The Familiar Strange · Ep #99 The Conference Extravaganza: AAS &AAA: This month on TFS This week we’re back with a conference extravaganza! With the AAS and AAA’s…
Hey everyone — long time, no see! Not much has happened in the two years since I’ve updated this website — just a global plague, an attempted coup,…
TRIBUTE BY: Prof. Kaushik Bose, Head of Department, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore – 721102, West Bengal, INDIA. e-mail: kaushikbose@cantab.net DILIP MAHALANABIS (12th …
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, there has been an exodus of “Twitter executives on the front lines of protecting safety, security, speech, and accessibility. Some were fired, others…
Prof. P. C. Joshi Former Vice Chancellor I/C And Senior Professor Department of Anthropology University of Delhi, Delhi – 110 007 Email: pcjoshidu@gmail.com Study of monuments is part…
Hi all,There seems to be some kind of sporting event going on in Qatar this week & a settler colonial holiday is celebrated in the US-enjoy if you…
Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cornell UP, 2022) tells the story of Alexander Laban Hinton’s encounter with an accused architect of genocide and, more broadly, Hinton’s…
There’s a paid opportunity for a visiting fellow to work with CLEAR at Memorial University for 2 weeks-4 months on ocean-related research. Details of the competition are here:…
Ritual Shrine Offerings Among the Exotic Nacirema Tribe While it may seem that anthropologists have documented the most exotic rituals across the globe, the strangest rituals are still…
In Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022), Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have…
In Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh (Cornell UP, 2021), Kasia Paprocki challenges two well-worn assumptions about climate change and its relationship with the political…