Studying Historical Artifacts on YouTube
A new community of YouTube creators are using video to give audiences a close-up view of antique garments and accessories. Can they inspire museums to invest in new…
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Black and Indigenous Futures
In this final webinar of the series, archaeologists, artists, and cultural theorists turn to questions of what’s next in the struggle for the recognition and promotion of Indigenous…
Amish Camels
The image above, a drawing from the 1850s, epitomizes how the camel has been imagined for everyone in America, the West and just about everywhere outside the area…
When Kinship Is Traced Through Women, Their Health Follows
Among the ethnically Mosuo community in China, some groups are matrilineal, meaning inheritance passes from mothers to their children rather than from fathers to sons. Patrick Aventurier/Gamm…
Vernacularizing Bureaucracy and Quantifying Violence
Omri Grinberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa) will talk about “Vernacularizing Bureaucracy and Quantifying Violence: The Writing of Palestinians’ Testimonies in Israeli …
A4Kids: A space for experimentation
The Anthropology 4 Kids book “What is a nation?” begins like this: This book is a game. We are going to invent a new nation together and, at…
Phil Zuckerman, “Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment” (New York UP, 2020)
Phil Zuckerman’s book, Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment (2nd ed.) (New York University Press, 2020), points out that religious conservatives… Visit New…
Robert Launay, “Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder” (U of Chicago Press, 2018)
Take a look at a globe. Europe is there in big letters, and, to us, this hardly merits a passing thought. But Europe is a concept, a construct,…
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo …
Pythagorus in Egypt
The Greek mathematician Pythagorus, considered the founder of mathematics, left his home in Samos for Egypt in 535 BCE. A decade later he was captured and taken prisoner…
Adam Brisley: Ethics and the Anthropological Worker
Contemporary anthropological praxis sits at the intersection of two ethical traditions. Many anthropologists are equipped with both a sophisticated understanding of the ethics and politics of rep…
De ondergang van de yup: The Nest en het failliet van het neoliberalisme
Door Peter Versteeg Veranderen, verandering – waarom willen we dat eigenlijk? Weten we werkelijk waarom we soms ons leven om willen gooien of zijn onze motieven ten diepste…
What Is Vaccination Equity?
Born in Mexico, Rosario (a pseudonym) has worked as a cleaner in the Los Angeles public hospital system for more than three decades. But despite meeting California state…
Wednesday Round Up #42
This round up brings research papers, but first a taste of sublime. Chasing the Sublime The video features one of the better definitions of human agency I’ve heard…
A4Kids: how it all started
“Anthropology for kids” as a research project I spent most of my life doing two things – raising children and moving from country to country. I’m an eternal…
Karen Stollznow, “On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Whether framed as complaints about cancel culture or as increased awareness of prejudice, stories about offensive language are common in our daily news cycle. In On the Offensive: Prejudice…
Justin O’Connor and Xin Gu, “Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China” (Intellect Books, 2020)
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China (Intellect Books, 2020) is an exploration of China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative…
Notes From and For the Frontlines of Academic Restructuring
Originally posted 20 December, 2020 by Arts Squared. Since first published, the University of Alberta’s General Faculties Council rejected the ‘Executive Dean’. However the position…
Notes From and For the Frontlines of Academic Restructuring
Originally posted 20 December, 2020 by Arts Squared. Since first published, the University of Alberta’s General Faculties Council rejected the ‘Executive Dean’. However the position…
How to write a thesis, according to Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco, in How to Write a Thesis (from this excerpt): The language of the thesis is a metalanguage, that is, a language that speaks of other languages. A…
Call for Submissions: African Diaspora Anthropological Poetry/Prose
Our team—Christine Weeber (poetry and copy editor at SAPIENS), Justin D. Wright (poet-in-residence at SAPIENS), and Leah Zani (poetry editor at Anthropology and Humanism)—seeks poetry and experimental…
Putting anthropology to use: Insights from researching violence prevention interventions in Mumbai’s urban poor neighborhoods
Ketaki Hate and Proshant Chakraborty: …
#AisforAnthropology: In Conversation with Nika Dubrovsky (I)
On a February Thursday afternoon, Nika Dubrovsky and Allegra assistant editor Emilie Thevenoz sat down together over Zoom. The chat covered the pedagogical concepts and ideas that guide…
Kamran Khan, “Becoming a Citizen: Linguistic Trials and Negotiations in the UK” (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019)
Citizenship is acquired and constructed through various mechanisms, including language tests, that require individuals to demonstrate a sufficient national identity. For some recent migrants,… Visit New Books in Anthropology for…