France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. Postcolonial France: The Question of Race and the Future of the Republic (Pluto Press,…
Foto de Oliver Wilke Notas de la clase de l’asignatura Nous entorns religiosos, del Màster d’Antropologia i Etnografia de la UB, del día 22/4/13 LA SECULARIZACIÓN COMO SUBJETIVIZACIÓN …
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our second podcast episode explores how UK anthropology departments hire. Every … More
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V. schreibt zum dritten Mal ihren Dissertationspreis aus. Dieser Preis soll der besonderen Anerkennung herausragender wissenschaftlicher…
How much caffeine is in a cup of tea? Is it more than coffee? If your morning routine is anything like that of most adults, you may find…
Understanding Sudanese politics is like a long-distance relationship. You never fully appreciate the relationship until you are living with the … More
Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, Aniket De’s book The Boundary of Laughter: Popular Performances Across Borders in South Asia (Oxford UP, 2022) explores how spaces of popular performance have changed…
A bioarchaeologist reflects on how a team of scientists investigated various elements that contributed to the destabilization and ultimate breakdown of Mayapán. This article was originally published …
Steve Lekson briefing members at Chetro Ketl Chaco Canyon and the so-called “Chaco Phenomenon” have long evoked intense interest among SAR members. Our long tradition of annual Chaco…
What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of…
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons (NYU Press, 2022) could not have…
خاطرت ما، در نهایت، اصلی‌ترین عناصری هستند که هویت‌مان را می‌سازند. و اگر روایتی پیوسته و شخصی از تجربه زندگی‌مان، نتوانسته باشد خاطراتی هویت‌ساز برایمان به وجود بیاورد،…
تداوم فرهنگ موسیقایی ساسانی تا سده پنجم هجری[۱] مهشید فراهانی چکیده موسیقی دوره ساسانی یکی از وجوه فرهنگی بارز این دوره است که به سبب نام‌هایی چون باربد…
نوشته: ایوان پین دانیل، برگردان: فردین علیخواه تعارضاتی بین آزادی زنان و برتری مردان چه در سطح گروه رومبا و چه در سطح تحلیل رقص،…
An archaeologist navigates her dad’s passing by using the methods of her discipline to preserve his office and gain insight into the mysteries of his personality. ✽ In…
In the summer of 2022, I went to Europe for a full-time volunteering position to help the refugees in MSF. After talking about how the nonprofit functions, I…
In the early spring of 2022, the Russo-Ukrainian war began. Having heard of the refugees' tragic experiences, I was overwhelmed with sadness and sympathy. These people not only…
In the summer of 2022, I went to Norway as a full-time volunteer for an international nonprofit. What's more, as a person who is in love with tennis…
SAPIENS’ poetry editor and inaugural poet-in-residence break down what makes certain poems anthropological and explore how poetry has the potential to transform ways of thinking and being in…
Bioethics must burn before it can be reimagined to enable the flourishing of all humans, and not just the ones that align with or are presupposed by its…
Sarah Chinnery, via Trove I spent this week fascinated by the photography of Sarah Chinnery. Her images of PNG, famous anthropologists, flower still lives, street scenes, and friends…
Alex W. Barker, who joined the SAR board of directors in August, has been appointed by President Biden to the federal government’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC). Alex…
In July 2022, Cheryl Schmitz spoke to Sarah Hanisch about her new book Searching for Sweetness: Women’s Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho (Hong Kong University Press, 2022).
Interview by Karen Strassler https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823298693/orphaned-landscapes/ Karen Strassler: You are writing about a moment of profound destabilization and disorientation: …