2025 SLA Conference!
Join us for the 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference! Focused on Imagination, Creation, and Critique, the conference will be held from May 29-31, 2025 at the…
Join us for the 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference! Focused on Imagination, Creation, and Critique, the conference will be held from May 29-31, 2025 at the…
Foreign policy played a minor role in the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in September. The vice presidential exchange between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz…
MAKE AMERICA THINK AGAIN. That’s the bumper sticker on my friend’s pickup and that’s what I hope for. I like evidence and data, and I detest TV talking…
En del ord er svært like på tvers av språk. Likheten kan komme av at beslektede språk har nedarvet de samme ordene fra et felles grunnspråk. Slektskapsordene mor,…
Leonardo Custódio Sometimes, when I think about multiple processes of communication in doing research, I feel as if I become […] The post Clocks appeared first on Allegra…
is 50,000 enough in Palestine? 60,000+ in Sudan? 73,000 in Russia-Ukraine? 300k+ in Syria? 6 mill in Congo? When does it stop? Let’s celebrate with some games, like…
Send us your best crop for Anthropology News! Ariana Gunderson SAFN Section EditorAnthropology News We hope you will consider submitting to SAFN’s online column in Anthropology News! This is a …
It was certainly unexpected, when a student assistant, screening Prof. Dr. Erwin Stresemann’s personal estate in our university archive, foun…
Podcast with Cecilia Van Hollen, Professor at Georgetown University, in discussion with Fabien Provost, social anthropologist, French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). This next epis…
A language scientist delves into historic and current efforts to catalog the planet’s 7,000-plus languages, uncovering colorful tales and Herculean challenges. ✽ As a scientist who has researched…
ByDavid EdgarPhD Anthropology “Aaah… ehhh… ohhhh…” says Pepe as he tries to find his own voice. Pepe is a dead hippopotamus—and the eponymous narrator of a wild, uncategorizable…
¡Hola mochuelos! De que voy a hablar hoy? De la muerte. Andaaaa con qué optismo me he levantado… Qué alegrÃa.Bueeeno, no es el tema más alegre del mundo.…
Queer men’s cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, safer sex, sexual racism and…
Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which explores the human connections that underlie our…
Áine Mangaoang: The nicest prison walls in the world? The prison begins, and ends, with the wall. Ten-feet tall, smooth […] The post Walls appeared first on Allegra…
At Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a new co-management plan brings together federal agencies and a consortium of Native American tribes—revealing deep tensions over land rights and…
Der Bedarf an der Stärkung von Antidiskriminierungsstrukturen an deutschen Hochschulen besteht seit geraumer Zeit. Auch wenn aktuelle Landtagswahlen und die Auseinandersetzungen an Hochschulen um Anti…
Tony Platt The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley Heyday, 2023 xxi + 289 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index At the American…
Kunskapskabarén är vetenskapsteater där klokskap från Åbo Akademi möter dårskap representerad av improvisatörer från Åbo Svenska Teater under åtta unika krogshower under temat Människan som kulturvare…
Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Cambridge UP, 2024). The conversation introduces listeners to the procedures involved in…
He was, quite politely, declining to come and talk in my Representations/Visual Anthropology class, and fair enough. I also appreciate the irony – surely fully intended – of…
Marie Gorm Aabo Even before I started my fieldwork on sound, tinnitus, and soundscapes, I had a feeling that I […] The post Gut Feeling appeared first on…
「Intersectionality in Japanese Deaf Communities」 Abstract: Are Deaf people in Japan simply disabled, or a linguistic minority, or both? Various physical conditions and individual situations combine…
I’m excited to announce that the Calm Tech Institute (CTI) just announced the launch of Calm Tech Certified™, a certification program designed to help companies create products that…