This year, we at Somatosphere are trying an experiment in academic mentorship. Two of our regular contributors and editorial collaborative members, Emily Yates-Doerr and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, are hosti…
I was used to seeing the sand coated in washed up Styrofoam, thongs, coconut shells, and water hyacinth. However, on this day I was greeted with tractors, preparing…
Surely we have heard and seen enough by now that any lingering “optimism” about Trump governing as an anti-interventionist in foreign affairs has totally evaporated. What Trump promised…
Nahaan, a Tlingit-Inupiaq-Paiute tattoo artist, inks a woman’s face. Nahaan To celebrate her graduation from the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Alaska Native Studies program in 2012, Mar…
Science and Technology Studies (STS) can engage with social movements in a variety of forms. STS scholarship has provided methods, theories, and concepts related to how information and…
I was an American. In the United States, dead bodies are taboo. They are immediately separated from the living in funeral parlours where they are kept in refrigerators.…
I was an American. In the United States, dead bodies are taboo. They are immediately separated from the living in funeral parlours where they are kept in refrigerators.…
Editor’s Note: This post was co-written with Timothy Gitzen. When is a face not a face? With the launch of the iPhone X that boasts facial recognition capabilities,…
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
by Rebecca Prentice, Hannah Amey, Maeve Devers, Rifka Fehr, Olive Howland Milne, Alfred Lewis, Phoebe Marsh, Joana Pereira and Amelia Yates As eight first-year anthropology students and one lecturer a…
Much to our pleasure we got many positive responses following the publication of our series, ‘thinking with dementia’. Some of these responses suggested novel directions in which we…
How do anthropologists go about data management? In the second contribution on our series on impact, Peter Pels reflects on the international uptake of the “Leiden statement”.
By now, we all know the power that probiotic foods and probiotics in general have on our overall health. Digestive health is a hot topic in the wellness…
Cultural anthropologist, Robbie Davis-Floyd, is considered by many as the Queen of Childbirth Studies. A Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of…
Store strømmer av mennesker flytter til byer i håp om å få et bedre liv. De håper på en jobb, et sted med mindre sosial kontroll, følelsen av…
David McMurray Anthropology, emeritus Oregon State University I am a product of the Upper Midwest with its (waning) Scandinavian and German influences. I am entangled in “milk culture,”…
The vast majority of disabled people in the Global South inhabit rural worlds and their experiences are shaped by material, relational, and social specificities of rurality, and yet…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/talking-like-children-9780190876982 Interview by Shannon Ward Shannon Ward: Most chapters of your book illustrated the enactment of “aged agency” t…
Der derzeitig am Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung der TU Berlin als Gastprofessor arbeitende Politikwissenschaftler Samuel Salzborn gilt als einer der renommiertesten Experten zum Antisemitismus. S…
Today we pass on the job advert of colleagues at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. They search for a new person responsible for the world’s top Russian…
As Rama becomes more and more the icon of “virile Hinduism” and the symbol of a new kind of hegemonic, patriarchal, masculinity, so Krishna is held up as…
Wie wir Venezolaner*innen im Exil behandeln, wird den Entwicklungsverlauf ihres Landes und der umliegenden Region bestimmen. Rund 3,4 Millionen Venezolaner*innen sind bereits vor dem wirtschaftlichen…
Frauen*kampftag 2019
Frauen*kampftag 2019