Why do some of our identity-defining commitments resist reason and critical reflection, and why do we persist in them even when they threaten our happiness, safety, and comfort? Paul…
image created with Dall-E: a small, diverse team of journalists in a newsroom with a Miami color palette, pop art style. Hallo! Wir sind ein engagiertes Kollektiv, gemeinsam…
12.2.2024 *** English version *** ***Pour la version française, visitez le blog Academia*** Als Vorstand der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA) beobachten wir mit große…
nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496235466/ Interview by Steven Feld Steven Feld: Congratulations on Sensing Others, which I found a thoroughly rich inquiry into how Batek “voice their ow…
In her stunning new book, Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times (University of California Press, 2019), Amira Mittermaier, Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology at the…
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks to…
India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India…
It was 2009 when, while living in a squatted house in the Montreuil, a leftist banlieue on the East side of Paris, I was asked how it was…
How is technology transforming end-of-life care experiences, and why are AI and automation crucial in reshaping the funeral industry? In what ways are cultural norms around grieving shifting,…
Eine kritisch-feministische Ethnografie neoliberaler Strukturen an Berliner Universitäten Text von Maja Heining und Nadja Kasolowsky (Freie Universität Berlin) Foto: Martin Fischer, CC BY-NC 2.0 D…
Som elev i den norske skolen blir en gjerne bevisstgjort konseptet stavelse gjennom klappelek. Men det er mer å lære om stavelser utover hvordan en kan dele opp…
On the podcast today, I am joined by Professor Anru Lee, who is professor of anthropology at John Jay College, the City University of New York. Anru will…
The Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS) at Birzeit University in Palestine has launched “Women’s Testimonies from Gaza”, a project aiming to amplify the voices of women in Gaza living…
Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 A Photo Exhibition by Lucile Druet and Steven C. Fedorowicz 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 ルシル ドルーエとスティーブン C. フェドロウィツによる写真展 2024 Febr…
ByMichael GirlingMSc Human Evolution and Behaviour, 2023-24 The process of ageing is a universal phenomenon affecting all living organisms and recent research highlights how stress exposures w…
By Alejandro Camargo, History and Social Sciences Department, Universidad del Norte, Colombia. “In the depths of the river, our hands are our eyes.” Catching bagre pintao (Pseudoplatystoma mag…
By Laura Betancur Alarcón (Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems-IRI THESys at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Ana María Arbeláez-Trujillo (Water Res…
By Maira Hayat, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. The three essays by Habib, Alarcón and Arbeláez-Trujillo, and Mamidipudi take the reader to worlds of…
By Colleen Linn, Wayne State University. Groundwater is difficult to observe (Ballestero 2019, Walsh 2018), and is an elusive substance despite being the most relied upon drinking water…
By Peter Habib, Department of Anthropology, Emory University. I came across it on a blazing Monday, tucked away next to a small dikkān (corner store) and a complex…
By Sita Mamidipudi, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Too Salty Najma and her family are Muslim fishworkers who live half a mile away from…
By Sayd Randle, College of Integrative Studies, Singapore Management University. Walking along a covered aqueduct’s path through the desert, water can seem remarkably contained, cleanly se…
By Melisa Escosteguy (Non-Conventional Energy Research Institute-INENCO-CONICET, Universidad de Salta) and Maria Labourt (Department of Sociology, University of Southern California). Transform…
Now available in German: part 2 of Galumalemana Steven Percival’s educational story “Seu and the ruffled bird catcher”.