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In January of 2026, I found myself as an instructional assistant in a fifth-grade English Language Arts class, where I would work with small groups to improve students’…
In January of 2026, I found myself as an instructional assistant in a fifth-grade English Language Arts class, where I would work with small groups to improve students’…
The School for Advanced Research adds far-reaching expertise in public policy, business, philanthropy, technology, global health, Indigenous leadership, and the arts as the Santa Fe no…
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Edited by Claire – but if you need the pdfs and cannot get them through the usual ways, email me to send em. Robinson Crusoe: After the Island
In light of knowledge about the perpetrators of far-right extremist attacks in Norway, Alida Skiple questions the Norwegian strategy to prevent radicalisation and identifies a distinct set of…
What a Piece of Work is a… Meowth?That’s right: We’re talking about language and personhood among humans and pocket monsters. by Erika Alpert I’ve had a few encounters…
My first visit to Suzuden in the Yotsuya neighborhood in the southeastern part of Shinjuku ward in Tokyo was in July, 2024, after I gave a guest lecture…
It is the third of our four days at the 2026 ST&HV Science and Technology Studies (STS) School. We file past laboratories populated by white-coated researchers and take…
Photo and headlines on display at「Daruma」: Arnold’s 1985 Visit to Japan: During his visit, Arnold heavily promoted the premier of his action film Commando (1985)… a moment from…
The admittedly slow, difficult, work of reading for the detail, while still critical – albeit of a ‘very heterodox Marxism’ – is still the criteria by which it…
Previous「Daruma」on VAoJ: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2019/08/izakaya-darumain-monzen-nakacho.html
“I just looked at the land and started building”. Our group of guests from Norway and Finland in our NAPA project “empowering green transition from the grassroots” sits…
“When we first met, we found ourselves working at the harbor’s edge—One cam gaffs the shirt. The swimmer beaches us: one arm free, the other digs.” Candy at…
Text and photos by Kara Nichols The Edwards Plateau Research Group’ Paint Rock Project is a collaboration between Native American communities and curious archaeologists. Since the first dig…
Food justice is defined as the understanding that our food system is unequal and that something needs to be done about it. But how can we create a…
Alternative Ending: Previous「Daruma」on VAoJ: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2023/07/vaoj-s2023rt-arc-arrival-in-tokyo.html
Author’s editorial prelude: In what follows, I open up insight into a micro-moment of everyday scholarly life which shows itself through the body; like that slightly deeper breath…
In Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar, Maryam Al-Kuwari challenges the assumption that modern state-building has diminished the relevance of tribal identities in…
Thirty years of this book. Reminded today that it’s circa 700 rupees from Bloomsbury India if you like that sort of thing (real life copies I mean): The…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2026 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Patricia Mathu. Mathu is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Purdue University. Her dissertation foc…
Dear readers and followers you may have noticed that in the last years, activity on this blog has become less, while the content of what has been posted…
“Most of these other agency heads are, in my opinion, car salesmen. They would sell anything and would probably also somehow sell their grandmother’s washing machine, probably also…
Americans are more isolated, polarized, and depressed than ever in recent memory, and yet many citizens share a deep desire for community and friendship across political lines and…
The Great Replacement theory is sanitized and mainstreamed in political debates through the policy proposal of ‘remigration’. As the conspiracy narrative is translated into the more palatable language…