Farming Fantasies “There will come a day,” proclaims the player character’s grandfather in the popular video game Stardew Valley, “when you feel crushed by the burden of modern…
When the Grand Ronde Reservation was created some 32 tribes were moved, or resettled, onto the reservation. Conditions on the reservation were not good for
Have you ever felt successful on the outside but empty on the inside? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell speaks with Dr. Nethra Samarawickrema…
4th Conference on Food & Communication Food for All: Media, Communication and Food Democracy University of Lille, France, 10-12 September 2025 The 4th Conference on Food & Commu…
I wish I could say the 99th page of my dissertation was somehow at least partiallyilluminating about what I tried to say with my doctoral research, but alas.…
A 19th-century prophetess reportedly bore a serious message from the ancestors to her Xhosa people amid British colonial assault. The written archives judged her—but much still remains unknown…
von Iuditha Balint © Roland Gorecki Spätestens zu Beginn der #IchBinHanna-Bewegung wurde einer größeren Öffentlichkeit deutlich, wie prekär es angesichts des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes u…
Graham Macklin discusses the growing threat of saints culture in far-right online groups.
Read Time:3 Minute, 19 Second Desde hace unos años la discusión entre los partidarios de que la tortilla de patatas lleva cebolla y los…
Abstract The escalation of war in Ukraine in 2022 triggered a global show of solidarity with Ukrainians escaping the country. […] The post Narrative Abandonment. Suffering and the…
Written by Keith Hart National capitalism starts unravelling in the 1970s In the early 1970s, the United States’ losing war …
Lohnt sich Reise nach Bali? Ist die indonesische Insel Bali tatsächlich “die Insel der Götter” wie sie oft genannt wird oder eher Touri-Hype? Um es gleich vorweg zu…
Femizide sind ein universales Phänomen. Die philologische Art der Erkenntnis kann der Problematik anders begegnen als die Justiz. Um die systemischen und die individuellen Dimensionen tödlicher geschl…
Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and niqab. British Bangladeshi Muslims in the…
A field-trip through the Amazon in the context of the project “Intertwining the historic collections of Spix and Martius”
In this audio file, I reflect on my fieldwork in Palestine. Using commitment as a frame, I address how it […] The post An audio note on Commitment…
Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Oslo, dog den 27 november. Han var bara 62 år gammal, och ändå var hans bortgång inte helt oväntad. Han hade redan haft att…
By Freek Colombijn – “Yes, I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying, Crying, Crying!” (King Crimson, Epitaph, 1969) Thomas Hylland Eriksen, one of the greatest anthropologists of our time…
Podcast with Marissa Mika, writer and editor, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King’s College, London. In this episode we travel to Uganda to hear the…
You’ll see them in film, k-dramas, music videos, webtoons and video games: narrow Seoul alleys (골목길), old restaurants with peeling wallpaper, protagonists drown…
El-Gedaref: A Vital Agricultural Hub Shaped by Migration Located in eastern Sudan, El-Gedaref State is an agricultural powerhouse serves as a critical crossroads for migration, particularly during regi…
The other day a friend asked me about recommendations for development-themed Substacks and rather than responding to him directly, I decided to share my favorite “blogs-send-out-as-newsletters” resour…
The interaction of toxins on the production end and consumer end of fashion consumption. Have we ever considered how our clothes could impact our health? Could something as…
In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced […] The post Pasts Cast in Concrete and…