On the podcast today I am joined by Christof Lammer, a social anthropologist based at the University of Klagenfurt and inherit fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin. Christof is joining…
As anthropologists work with collaborators in evoking alternatives to capitalist fascisms, they increasingly engage multimodal registers; games, design, graphic novels and sou…
How and why do local political processes in rural Nepal become an arena for political mythmaking? And, how do political myths obscure their own historical construction, thereby making…
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Santa Fe Wasn’t Always “The City Different” AI Summary How Pueblo Revival Architecture Drove Santa Fe Style Santa Fe may be known today for its world-famous adobe contours…
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…
What does ‘heritage’ mean for different stakeholders? How can we problematise and decentre heritage from a multi-disciplinary perspective?
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…