The Forward-Deployed Anthropologist
Long before “forward-deployed designers,” I spent two weeks watching enterprise sales reps. Here’s what I learned. At 9 a.m., notebook in hand, I settled in with Steve at…
Long before “forward-deployed designers,” I spent two weeks watching enterprise sales reps. Here’s what I learned. At 9 a.m., notebook in hand, I settled in with Steve at…
Av Sofia Carlström Det är lätt att se på försvaret som en miljö präglad av hårda värden, vapen och våld. Men mitt fältarbete bland totalförsvarets frivilliga kvinnor visar…
My dissertation, “Beyond the Plate: Culinary Violence and the Oaxacan Chef,” introduces the theoretical framework of culinary violence to examine how chefs navigate the limitations placed…
In October 2022, just as the monsoon was ending, Kalpana pulled me and my field partner, Sandeep, into her house in the rehabilitated village of Popharan, one of…
What if studying at UC Berkeley’s International House is more than just an experience—it’s a transformation? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell is joined…
A workshop report of Symbiotic Viruses, convened by Benjamin Hegarty and Frédéric Keck, and held at the Collège de France and Paris Institute for Advanced Study, 4-5 March…
This rather large post documents the construction of a new apartment complex (corrected name on the apartment signage:「フォレストグクリエオーレ城垣町 I II」or, Forest Creaole Shirogakicho I and II) in my…
Together with Cameron Harrington (Durham University), I’ve co-authored a new article on water weaponisation in the journal Political Geography. It is open access and free to access, and…
I’m fifty-six, and I came out at seventeen. I’ve been a bookworm for as long as I can remember, but until a few years ago I had never…
This is it! The time has come! After a year-long hiatus, Anthropolitan returns in print, reimagined and reworked to reflect its new ambitions. We were proud to launch the 2026 p…
In early 2026, as reports of the Nipah virus outbreak in West Bengal surfaced, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control responded with a swift escalation of prevention measures,…
When a company hits the scaling wall, the first instinct is usually structural changes like reorganizing, creating new roles, bringing in a senior hire. Org changes feel substantive,…
In this second part of the blog series, Abhimanyu and Anna revisit the multimodal outcomes of their experimental workshop, Sensing Darjeeling, proposing that each sensory experience found its…
By Arianna Squarcina – I recently discovered that my bag has a hole in it. Something sharp I threw in there must have caused the internal lining to…
SAFN is honored to recognize Mallory Rose Cerkleski with the 2026 Thomas Marchione Food as a Human Right Award for her ongoing research on food rationing, welfare, and…
SAFN is honored to recognize Mallory Rose Cerkleski with the 2026 Thomas Marchione Food as a Human Right Award for her ongoing research on food rationing, welfare, and…
What do we owe the people who hand us their stories? The post Notes From Unsettling Ground appeared first on Allegra Lab.
This article examines the flight of Israeli women and children after 7 October 2023 as a form of crisis-driven mobility that remains largely invisible to refugee and migration…
Canal do Búfalo[1] was a prominent Brazilian online community in the 2010s, composed almost entirely of men. In this forum, members symbolically identify themselves as “buffaloes,” drawing inspiratio…
One day, while out on a jalan-jalan (“walking for nothing”) with my camera I happened upon this very old sign. It was located on a storage garage at…
Somewhere between $20M and $150M in revenue, most technology companies hit a wall – or multiple walls – in their operating model. It doesn’t show up on the…
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Marvin Sterling Prof. Marcy Morgan was co-chair of my MA and PhD committees in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA. My MA thesis explored the experiences of African…
A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author. A note from Mecca…