On a sunny, stifling afternoon, my friend, an Ayurvedic doctor, ushers me into a scantily furnished examining room of his clinic in central Kerala, South India. There, a…
Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city? In Market Cities, People Cities:…
Are market cities better than people cities? Does the satisfaction that residents take in their city vary from market city to people city? In Market Cities, People Cities:…
How does music link people across time and space? How do singers modulate their repertoires to forge links with audiences both within and across local, regional and national…
How does music link people across time and space? How do singers modulate their repertoires to forge links with audiences both within and across local, regional and national…
Graduate Students! Are you doing or have you recently completed research related to food and human rights? Food security? Food justice? Do you consider that these and related…
Students! Are you writing great research papers on food and/or nutrition? Want fame and recognition? We want to hear from you! The Society for the Anthropology of Food…
In the study of epidemiology, one has an opportunity to learn about communicable and non-communicable diseases. This curriculum is usually pursued on the graduate level and…
Innovations in Anthropology Series Welcome to the Innovations in Anthropology Series, a blog series devoted to profiling the teaching, production, and dissemination of anthropological knowledge. Wheth…
Writing, Editing, & Brand Transformation Post-Doc with Anthrodendum Field of Specialization: Anthropology Unit: Anthrodendum Category of Appointment: Transformational Track (TT) Rank/Position Tit…
Organizational culture is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. At last week’s Society for Applied Anthropology … More
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/between-the-andes-and-the-amazon Interview by Diego Arispe-Bazan Diego Arispe-Bazan: In between each chapter you feature ethnographic reflections that focus on the co…
Why are stand-up comedians better anthropologists than, well, anthropologists? And what happens when a Danish anthropologist takes the mic? Anthropology News recently decided to no longer accept prank…
Umm Adnan,[i] like many women I met during my research on Down Syndrome and kinship in Jordan, was extremely protective of her son Adnan. The youngest of four,…
Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and…
Michael Walzer once began a book with the advice of a former teacher to “always begin negatively”. Tell your readers what you are not going to do and…
“Im Fall des überwertigen Realismus kann davon gesprochen werden, dass Werte, Anpassungsforderungen bzw. der Status quo lediglich aufgrund ihrer bloßen (als unerschütterlich wahrgenommenen) Existenz …
Nihad M. Farooq. Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940. 280 pp., 9 halftones, notes, index. New York: New York University Press, 2016. $30 (paper) In…
Women are having a moment. At President Trump’s State of the Union address, Democratic women wore white as a nod to suffragists and female leadership, and Nancy Pelosi’s backclap went…
Eva Bartlett, reporting from Venezuela, is a freelance journalist with extensive experience in the Gaza Strip and Syria. See her website, In Gaza, for more of her work,…
The Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice at Clemson University has a new certificate program in business anthropology and … More
“A lot of what individual white anti-racists, as I called them, but also the broader policy frameworks are struggling with is the question of how do we enact…
Im heutigen Interview mit mit der Religions- und Islamwissenschaftlerin Assia Harwazinski (Tübingen) geht es um die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und Zugänge von Islamwissenschaft und Rel…