Radical nationalism is on the rise in Europe and throughout the world. Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe (Princeton University Press, 2024) provides an in-depth account of the ideas…
The tension between binary thinking and the fluidity of identity has long been featured in discussions of definition in computational practice within galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Nowhe…
Every engineer studies failure. Shouldn’t LLM integrators do the same? It’s now been exactly 70 years since the term “artificial intelligence” was coined. AI first joined the technical vocabulary…
Facing an increasing aging population and other societal shifts, people are looking beyond traditional family-based mortuary practices. ✽ It’s August in Tokyo—hot and muggy, as usual. So I’ve…
How do corporations use theater to reconcile the crises of late capitalism? In our latest interview on Ethnographic Marginalia, we speak with Dr. Sarah Saddler about her new…
Looking at the way people divide work in hunter-gatherer societies can tell us something about the evolutionary origins of gender roles. When it comes to the division of…
By Sam Stella HBO For all of its twists and turns, the American television drama, The White Lotus, has never yet taken off into the… How should we…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
Lost in Paradise, anytime, anywhere (and online) In the morning light, yoga-clad tourists on vespas wind their way through the traffic in Ubud. We are in Bali, in…
In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Duke UP, 2024), Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Through fieldwork…
Data centers are in the news. You have probably read or heard about them. It’s as if with the snap of a finger the news cycle has changed,…
https://www.routledge.com/Power-Affect-and-Identity-in-the-Linguistic-Landscape-Chinese-Commun/Yao/p/book/9781032341064 Paul Gruba: Could you briefly define linguistic landscape and perhaps te…
How do we acquire knowledge about societies? Does how we acquire social knowledge shape what we know? How conscious must we be of our own experiences as we do our…
Today I’m speaking with Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday…
As a digital anthropologist, studying all digital technology from a human-centric approach allows me to focus on how the technology impacts the humans who use it and human…
“KG＋” is a public art festival that first started in 2013 with the aim of discovering and supporting upcoming photographers and curators with 2025 being the 13th anniversary…
Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the elephant in the room in every classroom. However, this is even more of a concern…
Three plamts behind the family of three, all enjoying the cherry blossoms… See also: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/04/2025-expected-beauty-and-awe-of-cherry.html
Every Thursday at 9 o’ clock in the morning, housewives from a residential neighborhood on the outskirt of Jakarta gather at their usual spot at the “Love Earth”…
Utterances like “um,” “wow,” and “mm-hmm” aren’t garbage, they keep conversations flowing. This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. …
Walk with a linguistic anthropologist through the sounds, politics, and fabulosity of a kiki ball in Puerto Rico. Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ballroom scene”…
Claire Mercer‘s The Suburban Frontier examines African suburbanisation and the emergence of middle-class culture through a case study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Drawing on ethnographic data col…
In the contemporary world, ruins, rubble, and decaying material have become increasingly iconic landscapes. They can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven…