“Most people are weird, and they need to work really hard to be like everybody else” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/ustaz-sabry/stability-as-a-utopia Individual humans are usually strange and peculiar …
“Most people are weird, and they need to work really hard to be like everybody else” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/ustaz-sabry/stability-as-a-utopia Individual humans are usually strange and peculiar …
Before my internship at Allegra Lab, I was unaware of most of the online platforms for anthropology. I had heard of sites such as Savage Minds, but I…
I’ve been exceptionally dismayed this year by the retrograde, anti-open-access, profit-oriented publication philosophy at the American Anthropological Association. Earlier this year they announc…
Rereading Jay Murphy’s book Artaud’s Metamorphosis and thinking about the 30,000 pages of notes Marx is said to have written in the last ten years of his life –…
Door Matthias Teeuwen Bij de openingsvoordracht van de ABv Dag van de Antropologie 2017 over solidariteit kreeg ik het gevoel dat ik dit allemaal eens eerder heb gehoord.…
This post is tied to our 2016 series on the Latin American pink tide, and it originally appeared on openDemocracy on 23 May 2017 (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Brazilian Workers’…
Humans have always had a special relationship with bees. And while the archaeological evidence is sparse, what does exist shows the richness of ancient human activities Earlier this…
One may recall a house with nostalgia, but the feelings of joy or melancholy with it have much to do with the memories of the people enclosed within…
There is a lot of innovative teaching being done in food studies and we like to feature it here whenever we hear about it. Last year we noted…
Sometime earlier this spring I asked the students in my Digital Cultures class to each write down a sentence (on a post-it) about what education was for. “Education is…
Ghost bike memorializing cyclist Tony Turner at the intersection of Roxboro Street and Chateau Road in Durham, North Carolina. What are the relationships between body, health, mobility and…
For those of us who live in numbers-oriented cultures, anumeric societies shed light on the unreal nature of seconds, minutes, and hours. Jane Barlow/Associated Press This article was…
Despite the recent announcement of a new haul of Homo naledi fossils, recovering ancient DNA is still proving as difficult as ever Despite what many people believe, paradigm-shifting…
If you’ve been hospitalized in Europe, North America, Australia or the Middle East in recent years, chances are that at some point a nurse from the Philippines has…
A typical paperback cover from the heyday of pulp fiction makes convention girls look carefree and glamorous. Some might have been and still be, but picking clients up…
Mexico-U.S. border at Tijuana. Credit: Tomas Castelazo, http://www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons a wall is not the answer A piece in TIME magazine on the U.S. Mexico border quotes…
Prof. Dr. Shalini Randeria gave the “Zukunftskolleg Lecture” at the University of Konstanz in Germany on May 4, 2017. Prof. Randeria is Rector of the Institute for Human…
Refugees of the neoliberal global economy, unaccompanied African minors are leaving for Europe in search of a brighter future. [pquote]This series of photographs—both bleak and hopeful—sheds light on…
If you’re familiar with anthro everywhere! you might know that we have a special page addressing where and how people are Applying an anthropological perspective outside of university. …