JOURNEY OF A WOMAN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
from anthropology to human genetics Prof. Suraksha Agrawal Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Medical Genetics (retd.) Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow …
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Margaret Mead Imagined Different Futures
Anthropologist Margaret Mead (center), actor Robert Redford (left), and historian Lola Van Wagenen (right) attend “A Future With Alternatives,” a symposium held in 1978 in New York City.…
At the Heart of It All
For its practitioners, archaeology can feel like it is unearthing events deep in the past … until it doesn’t. What is the experience of researchers who discover their…
Gotong Royong: a recent flood and strong leadership strengthen a system of solidarity in Lombok
By Jop Koopman On the 6th of December 2021, a massive flood happened in the area of Gunungsari in West Lombok. Floods are not rare in the rainy…
Vânia Penha-Lopes, “The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation” (Lexington Books, 2021)
The Presidential Elections of Trump and Bolsonaro, Whiteness, and the Nation (Lexington Books, 2021) is a sociological analysis of the similarities between the elections of Donald Trump and Jair…
Kate Henley Averett, “The Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of Education” (NYU Press, 2021)
Homeschooling has skyrocketed in popularity in the United States: in 2019, a record-breaking 2.5 million children were being homeschooled, within an increasingly diverse subset of American families. In The…
From Amusement to Conscientization: The Purpose of Media Literacy in the Age of Misinformation
In one of my first classes in my Undergraduate program in Media Studies, our Professor displayed a prominent newspaper. The masthead and the front page borders were red…
The Cultural Anxieties of Xenotransplantation
In January, news broke that David Bennett Sr.—a 57-year-old man with a serious heart disease—received a heart from a genetically modified pig. The eight-hour operation, which took place…
Manoela Carpenedo, “Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil” (Oxford UP, 2021)
An unexpected fusion of two major western religious traditions, Judaism and Christianity, has been developing in many parts of the world. Contemporary Christian movements are not only adopting…
The Public Anthropologist Award 2022: Catherine Besteman!
APLA would like to congratulate…
Review: Cooking up a Revolution
Sean Parson, Cooking up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification. Manchester University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781526107350. Xi + 147 pp. David Sutton…
Aden in the mid-19th Century
James Vaughn, a physician stationed in British-controlled Aden in the mid-19th century, published an article in 1853 in the British Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions (12:226-229,385-388), w…
David Sutton on his book, Bigger Fish to Fry
Interview by Ariana Gunderson https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SuttonBigger Ariana Gunderson: You write that “cooking involves a code and its instantiations,” (Sutton 2021, 15). Do you c…
The ‘new sandwich generation’ in urban China
Author: Xinyuan Wang The recently released seventh national census in China shows that today’s China not only has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world (on…
What’s the Appeal of Deep Voices in Men?
Deep voices, like singer Barry White’s bass-baritone, are seen as appealing across a variety of cultures and sexual identities. POP-EYE/ullstein bild/Getty Images For many people, Barry W…
Nina Power, “What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents” (Penguin, 2022)
Something is definitely up with men. From millions online who engage with the manosphere to the #metoo backlash, from Men’s Rights activists and incels to spiralling suicide rates,…
Once Upon Time in Mount Bromo
Mount Bromo or in Tengger language spelled “Brama”, also called Tengger Caldera, is an active volcano in East Java, Indonesia. The mountain has an altitude of 2,329 meters…
Why organise a special section on decolonising Europe?
Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and Livio Sansone In recent years, problems linked to racism and the colonial past have appeared more markedly in the public sphere. There is…
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Introduction: Reducing Harm Responsibly? by Johannes Lenhard
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2021) estimated that, worldwide, 269 million people used drugs in 2018, a 30% increase since 2009. In the same period,…
Incarceration as Harm Reduction: The realities of lethal street-based opioid overdoses in neoliberal Philadelphia by Tali Ziv
Philadelphia is the poorest of the ten largest cities in the United States and has one of the highest rates of fatal opioid-related overdoses in the state of…
Afe Adogame, “Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures” (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Afe Adogame, Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and Religious Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual…
Academic Authority and Institutional Power in Anthropology
Recent events have raised perennial questions about academic authority and institutional power in anthropology. There are persuasive allegations about more than one famous anthropologist—most recentl…