In Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger (Duke UP, 2025), Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua,…
Note to self. A debate could be had as to whether the imputation of a local slave trading regime is imposed or copied from outside. No less than…
I received the following message (posted below) from a colleague who is not a friend. I had sent the colleague a message asking if they might offer a…
Å lese nynorskromanar i norsktimane er fint, men dersom føremålet er at bokmålselevane skal bli trygge nynorskskrivarar med gode haldningar til sidemålet sitt, har det vel så mykje føre…
The Nippon Steel SGL Stadium Amagasaki opened on March 1, 2025 as the home ball park for the Hanshin Tigers farm team, known as 二軍 (ni-gun, 2-gun), the…
Notes per Carla Rivera, col·lega de l’OACU i doctoranda, enviades el desembre de 2025. Oriol Bohigas i el monument Manuel Delgado A propòsit de la influència que…
Written by Gary M. Feinman As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus …
Aquesta foto la vaig fer de la Diagonal al poc d’obrir-se el tram al mar el febrer de 1999. Notes per Carla Rivera, col·lega de l’OACU i doctoranda,…
This piece is one branch of Becoming-With, a multispecies collective autoethnographic project developed with Dani Dilkes, Mandy Penney, and our four mushroom companions (Lion, Pearl, Blue, Pink); from…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The last hereditary Welsh prince, Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis castle as a craggy fort in the 13th century; the estate was his reward for abandoning…
I hope I am wrong about this: the new EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation requires anyone shipping packaged goods to register with the authorities in each country…
If you saw the film Injustice, about deaths in UK police custody, and then Ken’s UltraViolence, or saw any Migrant Media stuff, or if you just want something…
Caption: Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport | TOKYO CUSTOMS HANEDA…
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…
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…