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ByDamian SabatiniPhD Anthropology I used to visit a coffee shop a few streets away from Hackney Central Station in London back in March 2025. There were film posters and…
ByDamian SabatiniPhD Anthropology I used to visit a coffee shop a few streets away from Hackney Central Station in London back in March 2025. There were film posters and…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the July edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Cultural…
July is South Asian Heritage Month in the UK and worldwide, celebrating the history and culture of the region and its influence in Britain. To mark the occasion,…
When a video game development company creates a skin, a character, or a bundle of digital items, it is not merely producing aesthetics or playable experiences—it is also…
ByLily WellsBSc Human Science Time does not move cleanly through a city. It accumulates unevenly, settling into buildings, street names, and the habits of everyday life. In Bristol, the…
“An outpouring of books on the Sundarbans delta and other Bengal waterways immerse us in a new ecological analytic. An amazing liquid world churns at the end of…
It is a winter day. Workers at the dump are busy emptying trucks, sweating profusely as the sun beats down on all of us. The smell of the…
Tea Towel from Scott Barton’s Exhibit “Buried in the Heart: A Repast for Angels and Martyrs.” LindenSculpture Garden https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=B8ru5vyK3da David Sutton In this installme…
“Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire provides commentary on the politics of the February Revolution in France (1848), leading onto an analysis of the to-ing and fro-ing of Louis Bonaparte (the…
Review of Sustainable Consumption and Everyday Food Practices in Europe. Edited by Virginie Amilien, Monia Saïdi, and Matthieu Duboys de Labarre. London: Routledge, 2026. Xiii + 258 pp. ISBN…
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/being-understood/?SF1=work_id&ST1=CVIEW-67dd512c2ee28 Tsung-Lun Alan Wan: In your book, your discussion of signing songs really stood ou…
R.L. Huang’s “The Language of Liars” is an anthropological parable for our times. But in ways that exceed anthropology and linguistics. First, it is…
AI, Automation and War explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping military decision-making through new alliances between armed forces and technology companies. King’s sociological approac…
ByJoe PainterAnthropology PhD student, NERC London DPT Taken by the author Deprived these days of loose changeand splurged gossip, no longer fat on 20psor strictly necessary calls, her…
“The displacement of Marxist categories in the discussion of hybridity also alibis and parallels the displacement and replacement of third worldist solidarity work and internationalist politics…
‘In Paul Rabinow’s monograph Symbolic Domination (1975) the anthropologist examines the history of a Moroccan village and its dominant lineage descended from a seventeenth century saint S…
By Yuting FuMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology MOTHERS This piece is a response to Temporalities, the theme of our 2026 print issue, which you can read here.
You probably don’t think much about the electrical grid—until the lights go out. The vast network that powers our homes, hospitals, schools, and communities is one of the…
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images. | ©YANAGI MIWA Photo and text source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/07/10/art/…
An Essay in Quotes Privilege in Practice “only within anthropological study has it been able to convey the richness and diversity of Native societies” (Bea Medicine 2001, 28).…
This is a fascinating history of a Jewish scholar who worked on the Wehr Arabic dictionary. https://qantara.de/en/article/islamic-history-scholar-sabine-schmidtke-holocaust-reshaped-knowledge-prod…
It’s a Ramadhan morning in the port city of Mombasa, early April 2023. I’m standing behind an audience of about 100 people who have turned up to a…
Click on the article to see a clear view. Source: https://japantoday.com/category/politics/trump-says-japan-rather-iran-in-gaffe-over-missile-attack-on-u.s.-ship (July 9, 2026)
This article is a part of a series about stuckness in science and technology. Read the introduction to the series here. If you are one of the millions…