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…
This episode featured a conversation with Ramnarayan Rawat, K. Satyanarayana, and Sanal Mohan, three scholars in the burgeoning field of Dalit Studies. We began with the significance of…
ByAbira Pathak MSc Anthropology and Professional Practice Asking a crucial question to someone who has spent most of their career doing just that is a kind of wager. But as anthropologists-…
Carole McGranahan and Gina athena Ulysse Defined as assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits; for example, fè y…
In 1847 William Kuykendall (b. Virginia) arrived in Oregon. He married Margaret Jane Hines on 3/9/1848 and on June 1, 1850, they took a Donation Land Claim of…
Una de les heterotopies de Vjeko Sager Notes per Oriol Pasqual, col·lega i amic de l’OACU, enviades el novembre de 2025. Sobre el concepte d’heterotopia Manuel Delgado Els…
Near and Desired Things: Shamanism in Late Imperial Local Siberian Museums (Cornell University Press, 2026) reveals nineteenth-century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political…
Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China: Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations (Leiden University Press, 2026) examines how Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure,…
Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author Eduardo Albrecht to explore…
Tachinomi Banpaiya Monzen Nakacho has been described as “a popular, ultra-cheap, no-frills standing bar (tachinomi) located in the traditional shitamachi (downtown) neighborhood of Monzen-Nakacho in…
Hoy me gustaría hablar sobre qué es la tecnocasta desde un punto de vista de un antropólogo principiante. Que es la tecnocasta me ha llevado a la curiosidad…
Im Gespräch gibt die Musikwissenschaftlerin Miriam Akkermann über ihre Forschungsprojekte zum Zusammenhang von Musik und Schlaf Auskunft. Warum wirken Schlaflieder und warum kann ein Schlaflied politi…
Orihara Shoten is a liquor shop and a “standing drink bar” usually known as 立ち呑み屋 (tachinomiya). This shop many shelves with various kinds of alcohol and refrigerators filled…
Im Gespräch gibt die Musikwissenschaftlerin Miriam Akkermann über ihre Forschungsprojekte zum Zusammenhang von Musik und Schlaf Auskunft. Warum wirken Schlaflieder und warum kann ein Schlaflied politi…
ByGaia Baldi MSc Digital Anthropology The ruins of Colonia Varese behind a bathing establishment, photo by author. I cannot remember the first time the abandoned beh…
OK, so Inō Tadataka「伊能 忠敬」lived from February 11, 1745 to May 17, 1818. And he wasn’t really drinking with me at the izakaya (at least not in person).…
What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In this episode, Ishita Dey of Gastronomica…
Small drops form on my forehead. Slowly, they make their way down along my temples. The weather app on my phone shows a red alert. For days, I…
ByJeehwan Cha MSc Digital Anthropology My first visit to the UCL campus was on a cloudy day in early September 2025. When I asked whether there was a…
طرح موضوع کتاب پرارج «مشروطهی ایرانی» اثر ماشاءالله آجودانی پژوهشگر تاریخ معاصر ایران برای نخستین بار در سال ۱۳۸۲ توسط نشراختران – تهران منتشر شد و تا سال…
Elliðaey Island, in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago off the coast of Iceland, hosts one of the world’s largest populations of Leach’s storm-petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous), a small seabird specie…
Unbeknownst to each other, my much missed brother and I each got Enfield’s about the same time (his a continental) and might have shared notes if he’d rode…
در سدۀ شانزدهم میلادی در عمق سبزیِ جنگل، دختری خوگرفته و آموخته از زندگیِ زیسته به مردی شوریدهسر برمیخورد که سودای عشق و آفرینش در سر دارد. روایتی…