Jelle J. P. Wouters’ book In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India (Oxford UP, 2018) declutters and reconceptualizes the top-down notion of conceptual… Visit…
We welcome you all to the 40th NAFA International Ethnographic Film Festival! The event will kickstart on the 29th of September with a series of seminars about the…
Himalayan travelogues are full of stories. For the most part, those stories fall into a specific genre, one that I tend to refer to as “my magical adventure…
Mithun Sikdar Superintending Anthropologist Anthropological Survey of India, Mysore. Email:msikdar@hotmail.com Human existence has never had a chance to stay in a state of tranquillity. Do we reall…
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Hi all, Just when I thought ‘well, looks like one of those normal weeks featuring saving philanthropy, Australia being a dick, digital #globaldev being complicated & more staggering…
Survival. Perhaps the word carries more weight today than ever. We are all engaged in this exercise of collective survival. Many of us have found ourselves forced to…
Social Science & Medicine Turning suffering into side effects: Responses to HPV vaccination in Colombia (open access)Maurizia Mezza, Stuart Blume How do unpleasant post-vaccination symptoms…
The highlights of August’s In The Journals (Pt.1) are: a Colloquy in Cultural Anthropology on “L’enfer, c’est les autres”: Proximity as an Ethical Problem during COVID-19″; a “doubl…
Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in early August, the world has been transfixed by images from the streets of Kabul: Taliban fighters proudly patrolling the capital atop…
“Put your phone away!” “Why are you always on your phone?” “Being on your phone this much isn’t healthy!” These are words we all have probably heard before…
When selecting resident scholars from the many who apply, SAR places special emphasis on applicants’ demonstrated ability to write in…
[no-caption] The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Unearthed from the graves…
A new publication on Arctic Indigenous Peoples from The Sámi Council and German Arctic Office (at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research) was…
A POTTED HISTORY OF THE 1990S BRITISH (SOUTH) ASIAN UNDERGROUND This is from Mix Mag. Fantastic to see. Except for the annoying subscribe pop ups, the content and…
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we think about care. Care work has long been devalued – the daily labors of sustaining the well-being of individuals and community…
Howard speaks to Juha Kaakinen, CEO of Y-Foundation, a global leader in implementing the “Housing First principle” and a clear example of how genuine progress can be made…
What if a country had a great public health system? What if that country had a veritable army of public health nurses? What if those public health nurses…
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous museum practices
Watch the recently released trailer for Sina ma Tinirau. The animated short film will come out later this year.
Diabetes can present additional complications for patients in times of stress, such as during evacuations after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. Joe Raedle/Getty Images “Doctors do…
Big cats—tigers, leopards, and lions—that make prey of humans are commonly known as “man-eaters.” Anthropologist Nayanika Mathur reconceptualizes them as cats that have gone off the straight ……
In 2009, the Taiwan High Speed Railway Company (THSR) claimed that severe land subsidence in Changhua and Yunlin counties was compromising and damaging the structural integrity of the…
Google’s attempt to translate can be charming at times and completely wrong as well. Here is how Google translated a post on Facebook about an old article regarding…