“The Iran War Is Taking the Color Out of Japan’s Best-Known Snack Bags”
Text and photo from The New York Times online, 5/13/26. The food giant Calbee said shortages of naphtha, a crude-oil derivative used in inks, were forcing it to…
Text and photo from The New York Times online, 5/13/26. The food giant Calbee said shortages of naphtha, a crude-oil derivative used in inks, were forcing it to…
Authors: Lisa J Hardy & Nox Chetcuti In a room at a juvenile detention center an Auricular Acupuncture Technician (AAT) […] The post Health justice two ways: examples…
In this episode of AntroPodi Renata Lisowski speaks about her autoethnographic research of UMK online fan-culture, particularly the making of Youtube reaction videos. Renata Lisowski has combined her…
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Donna Haraway opens When Species Meet with the proclamation that “human genomes can be found in only about 10 percent of all the cells that occupy the mundane…
What if the future isn’t something we predict, but something we design? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell is joined by Carissa Carter and…
In June 2025, I gave the keynote “Community-led Digital Sovereignty: Insights and Lessons from an Indigenous Initiative in Remote Canada” at the International Digital Security Forum (IDSF) in…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/access-is-capture/paper Zhenzhou “Andy” Tan: Your ethnography of experiments with technology in public education in urban Los Angeles not only convincingly rebuts…
By Sara Niva – It’s a Wednesday afternoon and I’m walking home from the gym with a successful workout in my pocket and a pleased smile on my…
Time: Thursday, 9 July 2026 Venue: MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S. While the existence of the research group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Afric…
Ikanum is a Chinuk wawa word referring to Oral histories. It has become an operative word from the Grand Ronde tribe, the basis of their Indigenous theory of…
How Can Anthropologists Study Public Militarization? By Klas Lundström Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Sweden’s peace movement during the country’s hasty integration into NATO, this essay exam…
Door Minke Wiersma – Wanneer de tijd op 14:20 springt op het digitale klokje op mijn nachtkastje, weet ik dat het tijd is voor mijn favoriete moment van…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
With the global rise of illiberalism in the twenty-first century, the reputation of Viktor Orbán’s regime has far exceeded Hungary’s actual geopolitical and economic weight. During late-socialism and…
In one testimony from Colombia’s armed conflict, a parrot named Lola repeated the phrases she heard around her: “Paraco asesino” (“paramilitary murderer”), “Viva la guerrilla” (“long live the…
What a joy to be hugged, celebrated, and criticized by stellar colleagues who intimately know the stakes of invoking Marx in more than a fleeting way in anthropology;…
In Salem, the state capitol is a number of camas fields, perhaps the most native of them is the two fields at the state fairgrounds. The Fairgrounds encompasses…
What if true healing and self-discovery required breaking the boundaries between science and spirituality? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell sits down with Austin…
I participated as a mentor in this great colloquium. Lots of great people, great research, great presentations, great discussions… Here was the original call: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.bl…
Studies on public responses to terrorism find that right-wing extremist attacks, relative to Islamist extremist attacks, tend to receive less media coverage, are less likely t…