Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about…
Liebe Leser:innen, wir machen heute eine kleine Pause und sind am Mittwoch wieder mit einem Artikel für Sie da. Wir wünschen Ihnen allen ein schönes Osterfest!
Door Sam Heeremans – Gisteren wandelde ik met Marlies over de vestingwallen van een prachtige kleine stad in Nederland. Ze wist me alles te vertellen over de stad,…
Cup Noodles Museum, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan: https://www.cupnoodles-museum.jp/en/osaka_ikeda/
Många i Dagens Nyheters läsekrets har väl antingen ingen aning om vad antropologi är för något, eller kanske en dimmig uppfattning om att antropologer är något slags postmoderna…
Många i Dagens Nyheters läsekrets har väl antingen ingen aning om vad antropologi är för något, eller kanske en dimmig uppfattning om att antropologer är något slags postmoderna…
La imagen está tomada de http://raregazz.net16.net/?p=1264. Artículo aparecido en el suplemento de cultura de El País, Babelia, con motivo de la aparición de cuatro libros en los que la…
La foto és de Esther Navalón Wanba Article publicat a El Periódico de Catalunya, el 28 de desembre de 2000, poc després de la posada en marxa de…
Palestinian narratives of their own dispossession are routinely dismissed—making witnessing Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Palestine that reignited in 2023 an urgent task. But witnessing is not enough….
[Hmongtown Marketplace], Frogtown [Neighborhood], Saint Paul [City], Ramsey County, [State of] Minnesota, United States. Visited October 18-19, 2017. This is the fifteenth post in the series: V…
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as…
Ariana GundersonIndiana University I recently had the opportunity to share the importance and joys of our discipline of Food Anthropology with sixteen middle schoolers who visited Indiana Universi…
How does poetry help us understand people better, using words that touch our hearts and reveal hidden feelings? In this captivating episode of This Anthro Life, we engage…
Zhaicong [Natural, Dong] Village, Tongle Miao Ethnic Township, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou [Prefecture-Level] City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Visited July 18, 2018. …
Last year I was very fortunate to have been invited to curate the exhibition Then and There, Here and Now: Samoan Portraits.
Die Schriftstellerin und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Ifunanya Madufor arbeitete im Rahmen des Projekts „The Collaborative Museum“ mehrere Monate als Fellow am Ethnologischen Museum. Während sie dort Arte…
Writer and cultural scientist Ifunanya Madufor worked as a fellow at the Ethnologisches Museum for several months as part of the project „The Collaborative Museum“. While researching Nige…
Dr. SunAh M. Laybourn’s Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants (NYU Press, 2024) explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, the largest population of adult transnational adoptees in the…
Sociologist Neil M. Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between. In 2022, Los Angeles became the US…
Wie und warum konnte ein ungewöhnlicher Streik japanischer Busfahrer:innen weltweit bekannt werden? Und was bedeutet der Ruf nach „Streiken wie in Japan“?
[Near] Madeng [Bai] Town, Jianchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited June 5, 2023. This is the thirteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
Human rights are avowedly universal but must be translated by local activists to make sense in specific contexts, a process Sally Engle Merry called vernacularization. Human rights progress…
An anthropologist in the West Bank explains how Israel’s prison regime dehumanizes Palestinians, who nevertheless dream of freedom and resist erasure. CAMERAS ON CARCERAL VIOLENCE In December 2023,…
Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city’s so-called superficial spaces to…