Going Native
A picture may be worth a thousand words, a cartoon even more. Bernard Perley combines his professional training in fine arts, architecture and anthropology with his Native…
A picture may be worth a thousand words, a cartoon even more. Bernard Perley combines his professional training in fine arts, architecture and anthropology with his Native…
Recently received conference announcement and call for sessions that should be of great interest to FoodAnthropology readers! Call for sessions Third International Conference on Food History and Cultu…
There are multiple answers to the question of where we come from: early hominins, monkeys, primordial goo, or the Big Bang, to name a few. Today’s answer, though,…
On September 22, 2016 Indiana University’s Center for Eighteenth Century Studies held the 2016 Kenshur Prize celebration at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. The museum was an…
Hi all, This is officially the 200th link review, but last week’s post already marked the official anniversary of curating development, ICT4D and higher education content since 2011.…
We welcome papers and performances (including artworks, films and media experiments) that map, trace, and critique ecologies of toxicity.
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Paul M. Rabinow, who is a Professor of medical and sociocultural anthropology at the University…
War criminal notes. Someone scratched out his eyes. Apparently when the note is wet and rubbed with a coin, the ink comes off. Still legal tender – money…
Last month, a New York Post article about video games being like “digital heroine” for kids caused a bit of an uproar. The article describes a young boy losing…
The recent announcement by the Yamal government to artificially reduce the number of reindeer in the Yamal-Nenets Okrug by a quarter of a million animals has caused a…
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to dberiss@gmail.com or…
Sarah Madsen Hardy and Marisa Milanese have recently written about the potential for students to become active and entrusted members of public intellectuals through a recent overview of…
The current issue of New Genetics & Society is a special issue, entitled “Private, the Public, and the Hybrid in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking.” As Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkener and…
Before we arrive in Minneapolis for the 2016 AAA Annual Meeting, I share a story that provides formative history, and which may help you understand the storied land…
Vorlesung “Visuelle Anthropologie in Zeiten zunehmender Digitalisierung“, Wintersemester 2016/17, am Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie der Universität Wien Philipp Budka Ziele D…
It’s once again time for us to help your eardrums get some anthropological loving in collaboration with our dear friends, New Books in Anthropology. Below you’ll find a…
Av Ola Gunhildrud Berta Alle som går bachelor i sosialantropologi har hørt mange historier om hvor slitsomt det er å være … More
The textbook narrative of human history tells us that between 70,000 and 60,000 years ago our earliest modern human ancestors traveled out of Africa on a journey that…
Bruggen slaan Door Marit Timmerman. ‘Building bridges’. Met deze term heeft Freek Colombijn mij drie jaar geleden tijdens een open dag overtuigd om antropologie te gaan studeren. Nu,…
We are seeking opinion columnists to write engaging commentary for the Anthropology News website in 2017. Do you want to provide an anthropological perspective on “hot topics” in…
I began research on food access in Washington, D.C., knowing that I wanted to learn about a) what people were eating b) where they were shopping, and c)…
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
What can anthropology offer high school students? Two teachers answer the question. Anthropologists across the discipline despair at how little-known the field is, how it’s often confused with…