Inspired by her work with long COVID patients, in Invisible Illness: A History, from Hysteria to Long COVID (U California Press, 2026) medical anthropologist Dr. Emily Mendenhall traces the story…
Political Undesirables: Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq (Stanford UP, 2025) considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews…
“I don’t know how to explain it”, Caro told me in an interview, “but you develop a sense [Gespür] for when you can keep standing in front of…
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their best intentions, they often perpetuate…
Vor einigen Tagen las ich auf Zeitjung einen Artikel zu Career Catfishing. Generation Z akzeptiere Jobangebote, unterschreibe Verträge und erscheine dann einfach nicht mehr zum ersten Arbeits…
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Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your professional and academic background, what brought you to SAR and how long you have been here? Prior to arriving at…
MARIA: Portrett av Marie Epeyubs Datter, malt av Mathias Blumenthal, 1747. Foto/ill.: Adnan Icagic/Universitetsmuseet i Bergen. I disse dager utspiller det seg et drama av historisk betydning på…
New article – this is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperatives, the article works through meaning…
Amelie Harbisch’s Making Refugees’ Political Agency Visible refigures refugees from passive subjects to political actors within global immigration systems. Grounded in practice theory and ethnographic…
In einer Zeit, in der rechte Parteien erstarken und sich die politische Mitte ihnen zunehmend annähert, verändert sich das gesellschaftliche Klima spürbar. Dazu zählt die wachsende Salonfähigkeit von…
Notetaker bots in a Google Hangouts meeting Have you ever been on a work call which looks like this? You’re there to see one individual, but multiple chatbot notetakers…
Sambusas, Somali restaurant, Minneapolis, 12/25. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food ant…
Stuck in the Turing Matrix: Inauthenticity, Deception and the Social Life of AI Samuel Gerald Collins The Turing test may or may not be a valid test…
Welcome to Platypus in 2026! Last year, we published over 65 posts, almost a quarter of which were also in a second language, and maintained a readership from 175…
Ein realistischer Weg für Geisteswissenschaftler:innen zwischen Forschung, Politik und Öffentlichkeit Viele Geisteswissenschaftler:innen verfolgen politische Debatten, lesen Policy-Papers,…
This is a (hopefully) weekly update about events in Porgera. A few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley…
Ein Gastbeitrag von Juliane Karakayali und Vasilis Tsianos für den ReGA-Newsletter (12/2025) Weltweit hat die extreme Rechte der Wissenschaft den Kampf angesagt. Forschung wird grundsätzlich unterstel…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
Preventing Violence by Keir Irwin-Rogers, Luke Billingham, Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon, Susan McVie and Tim Newburn examines the UK’s public‑health approach to reducing violence and challenges to imp…
Was sie über Aufgaben, Organisationskultur und Passung erzählen können – und wo ihre Grenzen liegen In mehreren Workshops hörte ich die Einschätzung, es lohne nicht, Stellenanzeigen zu les…
Page 99 of my dissertation, titled “Hearing Voices as Social Agents,” involves the observation that sparked my interest in auditory verbal hallucinations in the first place: those who…
“¿Era esto acaso lo que era ser salvado? ¿Tener azúcar, pastillas y rezos?” La gente blanca destruye el bosque porque no conoce el bosque-dijo Delfín-. Es fácil…