Lessons From Lucy
Fifty years ago, the remains of an Australopithecus afarensis ancestor, named “Lucy” by archaeologists, rewrote the story of human evolution. This article was originally published at The Conversatio…
Fifty years ago, the remains of an Australopithecus afarensis ancestor, named “Lucy” by archaeologists, rewrote the story of human evolution. This article was originally published at The Conversatio…
Around the world, millions are forcibly displaced by conflict, climate change, and persecution. Some cross international borders, while others are displaced within their own countries. In We Wait for…
This text explores the evolution of digital inequality, highlighting how emerging phenomena pose new challenges to digital inclusion, particularly with the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI…
Have you ever thought about the power of questions in shaping your relationships? In this episode of This Anthro Life, we explore how Emmy-winning filmmaker Topaz Adizes uses…
On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is:…
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speaking-with-the-dead-an-ethnography-of-extrahuman-experience/ Kristina Wirtz: Congratulations on this lovely book, Matt! It is a fascinating and empathetic ac…
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World brings together a selection of writings spanning two decades by the renowned anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber. According to Danny Dorling’s revie…
LECKHNA PARAS CHAJED Gillian Keegan Secretary of State for Education House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Gillian Keegan, RE: A call to improve the quality of menstrual…
I happily share the following CMA announcement: 2024 COUNCIL FOR MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY AWARDS We’re delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Council for Museum Anthropology aw…
Celebrating SAFN’s Fiftieth Anniversary this Year! AAA Annual Meeting 2024 Tampa, Florida SAFN + C&A Joint Reception Friday, November 22 | 7:30 – 9:30 Tampa Convention Center…
Susan GreenhalghHarvard University The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as…
Our colleague Peter Finke will launch a new project on the production, processing and trade of food in Kazakhstan. The project offers a really generous 4 full years…
Japan SPOTLIGHT, November/December 2024 Issue (#158) Link: https://www.jef.or.jp/jspotlight/backnumber/detail/258/ Click the link above and scroll down to: Click, or follow the link below fo…
The silence around the salience of race in development and humanitarianism (see White 2002, Kothari 2006) has lately been interrupted by an increased attention to white saviourism, especially…
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna) about her…
In an effort to address toxic polarization in the U.S., an anthropologist of the “Trumpiverse” explains MAGA supporters’ thinking in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This article was…
Podcast with Luiz Alves Araújo Neto, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of Science and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz, Brazil, in discussion with Shagufta Bhangu, Lecturer…
https://press.umich.edu/Books/L/Learning-to-Love2 Jiarui Sun:. Throughout the book you have emphasized that New Life, the psychospiritual self-development program you studied, did not “have an…
As moose populations multiply in the Southern Rocky Mountains, decision-makers are questioning whether the animals are endemic or invaders. Archaeology can offer answers—and potential solutions. ✽ Alo…
Tribe-state relations are a foundational element of authoritarian bargains in the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf States. However, the structures of governance built upon that…
What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good conversation and indeed…
To A. and O., for better or for worse. The story I want to tell might seem to be about […] The post Meet the smugglers. Decolonising the mind,…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the first part of our November edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and…
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…