How does language shape our understanding of experiences? How do we navigate trauma and find growth amidst adversity? Join us in this thought-provoking episode of This Anthro Life…
A famed anthropologist’s controversial research in American Samoa reveals the biggest questions about growing up and being human. This special SAPIENS podcast season, co-hosted by Doris Tulifau and…
Dr Pierce Salguero talks with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon, a postdoctoral fellow at Ryukoku University and an ordained priest in the Shingon Buddhist tradition. Our conversation touches on…
From the overloaded courts with their constantly changing dates and appointments to the need to prove oneself the “right” kind of asylum seeker, the asylum system in the…
It’s 3 in the morning. I’m sitting at the end of the hallway of the boomerang-shaped intensive care unit (ICU) where I work, looking into the darkness beyond…
From my first steps towards considering how Black Americans hear and represent themselves in musical sound, I have wanted to address the question of how Black musicians can…
A tribal scholar from the state of Nagaland in India engages with the loss of traditional cultural practices and locates the creation of a new world order where…
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als Mitarbeiter*in für Kunstvermittlung mit dem Schwerpunkt auf digitale und hybride Vermittlungsmethoden bei der Stadt Bochum und eine Praktikumsstelle im…
Author: Dr. Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her ethnographic work focuses on religion, pilgrimage, and politics in the Nepal Himalaya…
Diversity according to whiteness is not about who should occupy the spaces of public discourse, so much as it is about who should have the power to decide…
Though plants are indispensable for human survival, their contributions to human existence and history are often underappreciated. To underline some of the contributions of plants to wider environmen…
I start with the question, why was it necessary, from 2008, for Mondi South Africa to spend R50 million (USD 8 million) a year on a nutrition intervention…
Over the past five years I have been conducting research on everyday eating and the emergence of Non-Communicable Diseases in the West African city of Dakar, Senegal. Working…
Skin, nose, mouth In a remote church building in the Southwest of Kenya, Arthur Ouko was training farmers on ‘responsible use of pesticides.’ He was instilling the importance…
Kinshasa, its traffic and street vendors, receded as we drove past the international airport on the national road following the Congo River. “It’s been recently re-asphalted”, said the…
An accessible and engaging introductory text on homelessness and housing policy, this timely book uses a sociopolitical framework for understanding issues of homelessness in the United States. The…
Im vergangenen Juni wurde der 17jährige Nahel in einer Pariser Banlieue von einem Polizisten erschossen. Seit den 1970er Jahren rufen Polizeigewalt und der sie ermöglichende struktureller Rassismus im…
Eindrücke von der 20. EASR Konferenz — Bericht von REMID Mitglied Evelyn Reuter Vom 4. bis zum 8. September 2023 fand in Vilnius (Litauen) die 20. Konferenz der…
Carta adreçada a la Ben-Gurion University del Negev, declinant una invitació acadèmica en solidaritat amb el poble palestí, rebuda el juliol de 2010. ……. To Dani FilcDepartment of Politics…
Lebanese white grapes, for wine and arak. Photo: B for Bacchus. Samira BecharaUniversity of New Orleans I am a budding historian researching wine in Lebanon, particularly French policy…
This is an excellent Youtube talk by Ahmad al-Jallad on the evidence from the rock inscriptions and graffiti from the Arabian Peninsula. Also check out his excellent book…
Hi all,My favorite quotes from our alumni meeting last week were from a student who described our course far better organized than meetings she has experienced in the…
La foto procede de yesbuts.wordpress.com Fragmento de una conferencia en la Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, junio de 2006 EL SER COMO POSICIÓN Y EL ESPACIO COMO POSIB…
What can collaborative research with Colombian campesino leaders teach us about building peace? In this episode, I talk with Angie Lederach, author of Feel the Grass Grow: Ecologies of…