IN.FOR.BIO – our new 6-year One Health project
By Simon Hoyte & Jerome Lewis The world is waking up to the deep connection between human, animal, plant, and environmental health. The concept of ‘One Health’, coined…
By Simon Hoyte & Jerome Lewis The world is waking up to the deep connection between human, animal, plant, and environmental health. The concept of ‘One Health’, coined…
It’s this time of the year again, and Allegra will close shop for a much-needed period of rest (and some […] The post ‘TIS THE SEASON… appeared first…
Registration Now Open for 2026 Virtual Speaker Series, Curated by the School for Advanced Research and the Gilcrease Museum Santa Fe, N.M. — [December 17, 2025] — The…
Seems to be a perfect match for VAoJ! Sign language and home movies… The Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies (JISLS) held its first “Sign Language Research Seminar”…
In this text, we intend to revisit the well-known case of the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Souza Santos, following its unfolding since the accusations that surfaced after the…
In SAPIENS’ final year of publishing new stories, the magazine honors 10 standout contributions that carried anthropology into the hearts and minds of readers worldwide. ✽ As SAPIENS…
Just Transformations: Reimagining Sustainable Food Systems and CulturesThe Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), and the …
“The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits…
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…
An archaeologist studying 1,000-year-old dog burials reflects on the need for imagination in archaeology. ✽ WITH STEADY HANDS, a crouching archaeologist brushes away centuries of soil, revealing the…
Bonus link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI&list=RDlCpXMy5GalI
Between 1939 and 1945, the Nazis murdered nearly 300,000 disabled people: in gas chambers, by poison or overdose, or simply by leaving them to starve (Herzog 2025, 1).…
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/passport-entanglements/paper Dodom Kim: Passport Entanglements offers a vivid portrayal of the plights of the Indonesian caregivers and domestic workers in Hong K…
SAPIENS’ 2025 poet-in-residence situates her listening in Kashmir and Germany during and after her fieldwork, contextualizing her contributions to SAPIENS this year. If you missed Uzma Falak’s …
Sherry Fukuzawa, Associate Professor Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Mississauga In my fourth year undergraduate seminar course “Rethinking Anthropology from a Community Perspective” student…
The Bear, “family meal” Season 1 Finale “Braciole” Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/923617/the-bears-kitchen-lingo-explained/ David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) I last wrote about…
For as long as cats have coexisted with humans, they have been feared, revered and respected. They appear as dynamic hunters in Palaeolithic carvings and cave paintings; were…
Sanjaya Baru’s Secession of the Successful examines 200 years of Indian migration with a focus on the drivers and impacts of the recent exodus of the country’s elite.…
In spring of 2024, when green buds had already begun to appear even though light flurries were still falling in Rochester NY, I was slumped in the folding…
Beach fieldwork. Photo courtesy of Zaneta Thayer. Childbirth. What comes to mind when you read this word? SAR Senior Scholar biological anthropologist Wenda Trevathan observes that when childbirth…
Door Sam Heeremans – Ergens in hartje Jordaan woont een oudere, ietwat rommelige maar zachtmoedige man. De eerste keer dat ik er kwam om thuiszorg te brengen, lag…
An archaeologist unspools the story of a female leader buried over 1,000 years ago on the Tibetan Plateau. A TOMB IN THE HIGHLANDS In 2005, a truck rumbled…