Mending, repairing, fixing, restoring, preserving, cleaning, recycling, up-keeping… an immense variety of more or less noticeable practices take part in the maintenance of objects, technologies and in…
Photo: John Hawks. Homo naledi has much in common with early forms of the genus Homo On this episode, Adam and Ryan dive into the complexities of our…
Photo: John Hawks. Homo naledi has much in common with early forms of the genus Homo On this episode, Adam and Ryan dive into the complexities of our…
Back in in 2015 Allegra published “The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology” – a list curated via a small-scale survey among junior and senior anthropologists. The list received…
The British Isles split from Europe several thousand years ago. Now, maritime archaeology is revealing a lost landscape on the seafloor The British Isles separated from the European…
Pulling up to a parking spot and finding a shopping cart there can be pretty frustrating. Why do people ignore the receptacle? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
I finally got to visit the planned worker community of Marktown in East Chicago this weekend. In 1917, industrialist Clayton Mark hired famed architect Howard Van Doren Shaw…
Der Spiegel, a well-thought-of magazine, ran in February 2017 a cover depicting the newly elected President Donald Trump, standing with one arm upstretched brandishing a bloody knife and…
I have never had interns before. In fact, I thought there was something wrong with using them. But I now have two. I will call them Jarvis Rochford and Donte Cole.…
An anthropologist joins demonstrators and asks, “What happens next?” A marcher makes their point with a sign at the 2017 March for Science in London. Aneil Tripathy I…
MSU Denver Professor Dr. Jeremy Stoll sits at his comic-cad booth at the DiNK Comic and Art expo in Denver on April 9. Photo by McKenzie Lange •…
We were told we would take a nice shower and we would see each other soon again. When I smelled the dead people I knew we would see…
Carrie Jenkins‘ new book is a model for what public philosophy can be. Beautifully written, thoughtful, and compellingly and carefully argued, What Love Is: And What it Could…
Stressfrei. Shopping rund um die Uhr. Shopping ohne Wartezeit. Mehrerer Shop in einem Überblick… Eine Haufen Sachen durch ein paar Klicks bestellt. So kauft man heute die Sachen…
Location: London Salary: £37,936 to £41,163 per annum (UCL Grade 7), inclusive of London Allowance. Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 24th April 2…
We recently received this call for papers for a graduate student conference that should be of interest to our members or their students. At the very end of…
Credit: Google Images Commons/Youtube government of deconstruct The Huffington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist Paul Stoller, professor at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. H…
With the Canadian Anthropology Society Conference next week comes CASCA’s Spring issue of the network’s newsletter, Culture. One item that caught our eye in this issue was Eric…
With the Canadian Anthropology Society Conference next week comes CASCA’s Spring issue of the network’s newsletter, Culture. One item that caught our eye in this issue was Eric…
How might thinking through repair in terms of space change how we think about – and practice – repair? In what follows, we describe four cases from our…
Gabriele del Grande is a journalist and human right activist, co-director of the documentary ‘On the Bride’s Side’ and founder of the blog Fortress Europe. He is now…
In recent years, several scholars of religion have moved away from the examination of discursive textual domains or the meaning of ritual practices towards analyzing the material worlds…