My Afro is my Crown
By Alanis N..Cruz Soto For a long time, I did not understand why my hair bothered me so much. It was not just my hair. It was everything…
By Alanis N..Cruz Soto For a long time, I did not understand why my hair bothered me so much. It was not just my hair. It was everything…
In John Charles Simon and Jennalee Donian’s Understanding Laughter and Humor: Why We Laugh, Why We Don’t, and Why It Matters (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), the authors put forward…
From Operator to Orchestrator: Automating the work that keeps leaders from customers The line I won’t cross It seems like half the posts on LinkedIn today (at least…
Tanzania is not my home country. But it is not an abstract elsewhere either.
TGA Managing Editor Emma Backe interviewed Dr. Andrew Alan Johnson, an anthropologist who also serves as the Senior Historian for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. They talk about working…
In Mexico, quelites refers to uncultivated edible plants. The word has a Nahuatl origin derived from kilitl, a term referring to these edible weeds. The earliest dictionaries of…
Omtale af: Udupa, S., & Hervik, P. (Eds.). (2026). Handbook on anthropology and artificial intelligence. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Publishers page: https:…
Five-year collaboration, spearheaded by the School for Advanced Research, delivers free, practical tools as demand for culturally appropriate care grows SANTA FE, N.M. (September 8, 2…
painting by Rene Magritte. xx Excellent questions from my anth class today: “…a question related to Social Anthropology: how do we truly understand another person when we may…
8 September 2026 Sarbani Chakraborty Hoofbeats Tugbug, tugbug, tugbug… The deliberate percussion of hooves travels through a tree-lined residential colony in South Delhi. For a mo…
Debates about the future of work often center around reskilling adapting the workforce to fit capitalist proposals of what work should look like. Pre-digital examples include scientific management,…
by Reem Jazem In 2014, my biggest concern was when to get married. I was engaged in August, and my fiancé and I planned to have our wedding…
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-work-of-speechwriters/935FF2C17010D71BC33C9BA0C9603779 Adam Jaworski: Why is it useful to conceptually distinguish between elite language workers …
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world…
ByMartha HancockBSc Anthropology Alumna Content warning: discussion of death and grief experienced by trans+ and queer individuals. “Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality… tha…
What does medical anthropology look like in the twenty-first century? That is the central question of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century, a new edited volume by…
What went wrong with global mental health? Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) critically examines how the globalisation of mental health…
Image and text from The Japan Times, 9/5/26. United Nations – The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African…
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers (U Toronto Press, 2024) sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait…
We live in a fragile world. This much is evident as stories abound of natural disasters that wipe out communities in an instant. How can we survive the…
In the Anthropocene, a question has become increasingly urgent: What does it mean to be human? Set against the backdrop of southern Chile’s conservation frontier, Alterhumanism: Becoming Human…
On a crypto builders’ night in late September 2023, I lingered in the crowd after the event. It was hosted in a crypto company’s newly renovated office in…
Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice (Temple University Press, 2026) investigates how communities in Central Valley, California deal with Valley Fever, a painful illness…
In one of the oldest streets in Tehran’s city centre, an informal pharmaceutical marketplace unfolds amidst a crowded street, where ‘dalals’[1] (brokers) stand on the pavements, hands brimming…