Congratulations to the 2025 APLA prize winners!
The APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of … More
The APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of … More
گفتوگو با ناصر فکوهی، حمید رزاقى انسانشناسى سیاسى یکى از شاخههاى انسانشناسى فرهنگى است که موضوع مورد مطالعه در آن چگونگى پیدایش، انباشت، ذخیرهسازى و توزیع قدرت سیاسى…
کتاب «روایت فرهنگ عامۀ همدان (در دهه چهل و پنجاه)» گردآوری و تدوین: سید علیرضا هاشمی، توسط پژوهشگاه میراث فرهنگی و گردشگری در ۳۶۲ صفحه انتشار و با…
Centering collaborations and frictions around a Japanese town’s pottery industry, Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization (Routledge, 2024)n discusses the place of creative village policy in…
Der koreanische Präsident Lee Jae Myung schenkte Trump die Replikation einer goldenen Krone. Auf den ersten Blick vielleicht eine Ehrerbietung an den Liebhaber von Glanz und Protz, zeigt…
¿Pero cómo dices que no existen las energías? Eres antropóloga, ¿no lo has estudiado? Pues precisamente porque lo he estudiado. Las pseudociencias no tienen ningún sustento científico.…
Julia Faulhaber discusses the cultural embeddedness of stress as an emotion. Focusing on the case of Germany this essay…
La foto es de Paco Ezquerra Notes enviades a la gent de l’Observatori d’Antropologia del Conflicté Urbà l’abril de 2024. Sobre els determinants estructurals de la situació Manuel…
Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it…
As a year of multiple crises is coming to a close, I am a bit surprised that we have not heard more about the crisis of Think Tanks. The…
Vävning är en av våra äldsta hantverkstekniker för att framställa tyger. I många gamla myter världen över återfinns ofta vävning som metafor för den skapande kraften. I såväl…
What provisions does it take to live in temporal and spatial in-betweenness, never quite knowing when, or if, return is possible – or even where to? How do…
Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke argues that contemporary US elites claim the language of social justice and identify with progressive causes on one hand while reinforcing…
The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia (UCL Press, 2025) by Dr. Anna Shadrina examines the social production of ageing in post-Soviet Russia,…
The theme of this year’s American Anthropological Association meeting in New Orleans was “ghosts.” Never before had I seen contributors cling so tightly to the organizing theme of…
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…
Eine typische Frage im Rahmen von Beratungen zur Bewerbung ist: Wie verpacke ich meine Defizite? Die fehlende Berufserfahrung, die Lücke im Lebenslauf, das eine Kriterium aus der Stellenanzei…
An academic’s office. A chair and a desk with a colourful scarf as table cloth. On the desk, a laptop, reading lamp, and a few books. Hanging on…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apv.12445?domain=author&token=4C3TESRPRVSEVSXAETSN Abstract: This paper considers a course on critical thinking in Vietnam with a case s…
A phone full of photos of shelves full of food. Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
An anthropologist delves beyond simplistic portrayals of the anti-natalist movement to understand what motivates its adherents. ✽ Growing up in the atheistic milieu of China’s Cultural Revolution, my…
Lara Helmke explores an obscure threat to German democracy posed by 'blood and soil' inspired groups who withdraw from the democratic system and form ethnically homo…
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of…