The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet
At the Sima de los Huesos (“Pit of the Bones”) archaeological site in Spain, researchers recovered DNA from 417,000-year-old hominin fossils that may be the ancestors of Neanderthals.…
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness with Charles Foster
Charles Foster set out to answer one of the most perplexing questions of all – what sort of creatures are we humans? – in one of the most…
Master’s Student position: Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut
In partnership with the Nunatsiavut Government, we are recruiting a Master’s student to work on the project Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut.
Matching Reading to Energy Levels: Reading Strategies of a PhD Student in Anthropology
Anders Norge Lauridsen: Not that long ago, one of my supervisors held an informal presentation about his reading strategies. It was part of a series of lunch seminars…
69 Recall this Buck 4: Daniel Souleles on Private Equity (JP, EF)
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, an… Visit New Books…
Jonatan Leer and S. G. S. Krogager, “Research Methods in Digital Food Studies” (Routledge, 2021)
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in food an… Visit New Books…
Devin J. Vartija, “The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The…
Living Water, living with lively waters (part 2)
In What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, geographer Jamie Linton (2010: 14) describes “modern water” as the following: “an abstract, isomorphic, measurable quantity that may…
Living Water and the politics and anti-politics of water in Jordan (Part 1)
We are often told that Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries on the planet and it is hard not to recognize the truth of this…
Moving Towards Disability
December 3rd is the UN’s International Day for People with Disabilities. The theme of 2021 was “Building Back Better: toward a disability-inclusive, accessible and sustainable post COVID-19 World”.…
Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, “Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique” (U Georgia Press, 2021)
In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique (University of Georgia Pr… Visit…
Hiring two research assistants in Indigenous quantitive methodologies
CLEAR is hiring two part-time research assistants to help study Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies.
The State of Emergency, Coercive Medicine, and Academia
“Two weeks to flatten the curve,” is what we heard across Canada1 just after March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization unilaterally declared a global “pandemic” according to…
Ancestral Lines: Return to Uiaku
Morning on Ganjiga beach March 2020. I had been in Uiaku for just over a week, but already established a pattern of sorts. Each evening after visitors had…
What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling
An Indigenous Pantaron Manobo man sports a pendant necklace imbued with sacred power. Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio Within days of its release last June, the Netflix animated series…
De la ley mordaza y sus sombras
Read Time:2 Minute, 35 Second Uno tiene la sospecha, y tal vez el acontecer de los tiempos y los sucesos puedan darle la razón, de …
Joseph C. Ewoodzie, “Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South” (Princeton UP, 2021)
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (Princeton Press, 2021) uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in…
Beyond potential: the structural issue of gender diversity in esports
Based on his fieldwork in Berlin, Tom Legierse cautions that although esports are heralded as potentially gender inclusive spaces, in reality gender discrimination is still deeply ingrained in…
On the Edge of the Body
By Renata Carvalho Anthropology’s many attempts of conceptualising the body into clear and useful analytical categories has raised significant ontological questions that problematise the very basi…
تهران؛ شهری با آسمان ِ کوچک
اینجا تهران است. بهار آمده و پرندهها، البته آنهایی که از زمستان سیاه و پدیدهی مرسوم وارونگی زنده مانده اند در حال خواندن ترانه های بهاری هستند. از…
معرفی و بررسی کتاب پاره های انسان شناسی جنگ و شهادت (بخش دوم)
انسان شناسی جنگ و شهادت، میثم مهدیار و سیروس ذوالفقاری، تهران، سوره مهر، ۱۳۹۸ این کتاب مجموعه مقالاتی است در حوزه فرهنگ شهادت و ایثار با نگاه انسان…
تنهایی در شهر
احساس تنهایی حس آشنایی است که هرکس در زندگی حداقل یک بار آن را تجربه کرده است. در ظاهر امر، این مسئله ای عاطفی و روانشاختی است که…
Wider die Natur? Bemerkungen zur #Jagd
Sind die Menschen erst durch die Jagd zu Menschen geworden? Handelt es sich um ein evolutionäres Erbe, Tiere töten zu wollen, oder zeigt sich in der Allgegenwart der…