Hide Press Release (6 Less Words) Hansjörg Dilger, Kristian Petersen, Werkstatt Ethnologie Viviana Ponce de León. Photo credits: Miriam Tamayo. The anthropological film project “Healing Landscapes in B…
APLA and PoLAR are pleased to announce our special event at the 117th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association! Technology and New Media have become central players in the…
At the 2018 AAA meetings, APLA will be offering two Early Career Mentoring events; these events are free and open to all conference attendees, but please RSVP by…
The story of the settlement of Oregon is largely one of victimization. The pioneers, settlers in many stories are escaping taxes and lack of opportunities in the east.…
Very cool conference logo It is time to start thinking about the best annual food studies conference. The annual meeting of the Association for the Study…
Anne Brackenbury, Executive Editor at University of Toronto Press, and co-editor of the ethnoGRAPHIC Series, sat down recently with Kendra Boileau, Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief at Penn State…
My heart was broken not by leaving individual people, but by leaving something much bigger. It takes us too long in anthropology to learn that the communities we…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. John Postill about his new book, The Rise of Nerd Politics (Pluto Press). Remember us? We used to be called Savage…
First Peoples populated America long before Europeans arrived to stake their claim. We have largely forgotten this legacy. A mapping tool is looking to change that — Read…
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration series from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the American Anthropological Association and This Anthro Life…
Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration series from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the American Anthropological Association and This Anthro Life…
“Money cannot be the reason why you make art. Artwork can be sold and should be sold because artists need to make a living. But they should not,…
What is home? Is it a physical space, a set of relationships, or a state of mind? SAPIENS host Esteban Gómez follows Amy Starecheski, a researcher who has…
Wer sind eigentlich die knapp 30 Seniorprofessorinnen und –professoren an der Goethe-Universität, die sich auch nach ihrer Pensionierung noch in der Lehre engagieren? In einer mehrteiligen Serie werde…
By Helen Lackner. The Geneva ‘consultations’ on 6 September between the two Yemeni warring parties failed to happen. According to the media, it was because the Huthis failed…
In August, I visited the town of Campbell, a former hub of Ohio’s steel industry. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company established operations there in 1902, on the banks…
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This year’s annual meeting for the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) had an intriguing new component: an exhibition on the histories of STS in flux internationally,…
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298712/sounding-islam Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim Ben Ale-Ebrahim: In Sounding Islam, one of your primary arguments is that anthropologists of religion should foc…
Die Depression ist scheinbar auf dem Vormarsch: Jahr für Jahr werden mehr Menschen mit der Krankheit diagnostiziert und die großen Gesundheitsorganisationen schlagen längst Alarm, welche Folgen das fü…
by Paul Robert Gilbert **This is the first of three posts on student experience in higher education; the next two posts will published on October 15th and 22nd.** There is…
Since Theodore Roosevelt all but four presidents—Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush—have used the Antiquities Act to enlarge or dedicate new national… — Re…
Here’s the first part of the journal round-up for September. This month, American Anthropologist features a Special Section on Medical Anthropology in “World Anthropologies” and Etho…