This article describes the creation of a collaborative initiative started by PhD students interested in mental health issues in Latin America. It reports on its first workshop “Mapping…
Die Zahl der Flüchtlinge und Migranten, die über das östliche Mittelmeer nach Europa gelangt ist, ist 2015 stark angestiegen und anschließend genauso rapide wieder gesunken. Vertreter von Politik…
A new study claims that the Nikumaroro Island bones are those of the famous aviator. But some researchers remain skeptical From the headlines last week, you would think…
A new study claims that the Nikumaroro Island bones are those of the famous aviator. But some researchers remain skeptical From the headlines last week, you would think…
In U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (University of Arizona Press, 2017) editors Karina O. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, and Ester E. Hernand… Visit…
Just a short announcement to point out that a couple of names have disappeared from our sidebar as we move to make our list of authors better reflect…
Panel Organizers: Jeremy Trombley (SUNY Cortland) and Angela VandenBroek (Binghamton University) Sites of digital technology development are immersed in competing techno-utopian and -dystopian ideolog…
After six days of patiently waiting, during which 25% increments of Sierra Leone’s 7 March presidential vote were gradually released, on the evening of 13 March, chair of…
There seems to be one thing that Egyptian dictator as-Sisi and ISIL agree on: Mohammed Morsi must die. ISIS was the first to voice this position, in a…
Indigenous Australians created elaborate rock art, as shown here in Arnhem Land. P. Taçon This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative…
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.com/foc…
International Communication Association (ICA) 2018 Pre-Conference “Articulating Voice. The Expressivity and Performativity of Media Practices” May 24, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic Conferen…
…A Quick Manifesto by a group of Anthropology and Global Studies students at the University of Sussex As both consumers of knowledge capital, and investors in our own education, we…
In Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain, Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu contribute to analyses of the political effects of austerity by looking at…
Waste water inspections open up questions about bureaucratic processes and interactions. In the summer of 2015, the top tiers of the Punjab political and civil administration met in…
by Jesse Jonkman ‘Let’s not fool ourselves, the Colombian state always tries to shut the door to the poor man in order to lead him to war.’ Manuel*…
By: Darren Byler In early March 2018 the influential Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut gave a series of readings in Seattle. Unlike in years past when Uyghur celebrities had…
Online ethnography, where researchers may never share a physical space with the participants in their research, is finding its methodological feet. Combine that with an analysis of these…
I caught up with the creators of The Mission Marie-Marguerite Sabongui and Benedict Moran via Zoom in Istanbul to learn more about their UN sitcom project. We discussed…
Gerard H.Gaskin; Food For Thought: Viewers examine a detailed exhibit on the culture of food and the way humans interact with it. The Longyear Museum of Anthropology officially…
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS My first encounter with a group of preppers in St. Louis, Missouri, started at the bar of a restaurant about a decade past its prime.…
Es ist ein warmer Sommerabend des vergangenen Jahres, als in einem kleinen Dorf in einer der Forschungsregionen des DFG-Projekts „Partizipative Entwicklung ländlicher Regionen“ ein Projekt zum Erhalt …
An anthropologist sets out to create a cross-culturally valid household water insecurity scale. We all know that fieldwork can entail the unexpected, and often these surprises can delay…
As blogger Rhiannon and I slog through the end of the semester, we’re striving to post at least 1 blog post per week. Despite our want to continue…