Note for an anthropology of tourism development
Anthropologists, somewhat unconsciously, remained for a long time in the position of conservative culture camp commandants—overseers of a pickled-in-aspic view of ‘the native’ that was no…
Anthropologists, somewhat unconsciously, remained for a long time in the position of conservative culture camp commandants—overseers of a pickled-in-aspic view of ‘the native’ that was no…
Your article, Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal, has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, and is now available…
A possible issue I thought up in the last few days: Most large servers, phones, etc. are running Unix-based systems, and in Unix, time is counted as how…
In the early 1970s, the socialist state of Bulgaria was starting to develop a series of interconnected systems for the automated governance of different areas of social and…
Maria D. Vesperi and Emily Martin Like Democracy Now!, the news program that inspired our name, Anthropology Now suggests an assertion, an assessment and a demand. Yes, this…
Vanessa K. Valdés No, ra-san-blaj in Kreyòl. n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits; for example, fè yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, …
Photo caption: Ainu musician Oki plays the tonkori during a performance in New York on June 4, 2026. (Photo not for sale)(Photo courtesy of Richard Termine/The Japan Society)(Kyodo)…
Imagine that every time you poop, your hygiene routine involves depositing your used toilet paper into a toilet-side receptacle. As you wash your hands, the device mixes, processes,…
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/how-data-need-people/776A73CBBE3EAA67243A4830514F1F62 Grey Gundaker: Although sociology and history of science have been around a long time, it took a whil…
This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dalit Studies. We began with the significance of…
Becoming Utopia: History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest (U Nebraska Press, 2026) centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it…
ByAbira Pathak MSc Anthropology and Professional Practice Asking a crucial question to someone who has spent most of their career doing just that is a kind of wager. But as anthropologists-…
Carole McGranahan and Gina athena Ulysse Defined as assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits; for example, fè y…
In 1847 William Kuykendall (b. Virginia) arrived in Oregon. He married Margaret Jane Hines on 3/9/1848 and on June 1, 1850, they took a Donation Land Claim of…
Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political…
Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author Eduardo Albrecht to explore…
Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations (Leiden University Press, 2026) examines how Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure,…
Tachinomi Banpaiya Monzen Nakacho has been described as “a popular, ultra-cheap, no-frills standing bar (tachinomi) located in the traditional shitamachi (downtown) neighborhood of Monzen-Nakacho in…
Orihara Shoten is a liquor shop and a “standing drink bar” usually known as 立ち呑み屋 (tachinomiya). This shop many shelves with various kinds of alcohol and refrigerators filled…
ByGaia Baldi MSc Digital Anthropology The ruins of Colonia Varese behind a bathing establishment, photo by author. I cannot remember the first time the abandoned beh…
OK, so Inō Tadataka「伊能 忠敬」lived from February 11, 1745 to May 17, 1818. And he wasn’t really drinking with me at the izakaya (at least not in person).…
What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In this episode, Ishita Dey of Gastronomica…
Small drops form on my forehead. Slowly, they make their way down along my temples. The weather app on my phone shows a red alert. For days, I…