On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tampere University. Tuomas is joining me to…
How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government control? This new edited volume brings together a diverse group of…
. For example—close the CIA Pine Gap secret spy base in Central Australia, recently expanded according to Denis Doherty in 2024: https://www.anti-bases.org/pine-gap-threatens-gaza-china-and-au…
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, Italy. 292 pages. Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University)…
SAR Now: An Artist’s Journey of Heritage, Storytelling, and Language Preservation “Standing Rock” 2024, Ink and gouche on archival watercolor paper by Sheridan MacKnight …
SAR Now: An Artist’s Journey of Heritage, Storytelling, and Language Preservation …
Martha S. Jones grew up feeling her Black identity was obvious to all who saw her. But weeks into college, a Black Studies classmate challenged Jones’s right to…
Somatosphere welcomes you to the March edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Biosocieties…
An anthropologist reckons with how digital media has changed youth gang culture dynamics—and what can be done to combat the spread of deadly rumors. ✽ In 2019, Luis…
ByDaniel SorungbeAffiliate Anthropology I told the #Institution I would document some of my London experiences to promote studying abroad… I doubt this is what they had in mind,…
The atmosphere of anxiety concerning the Anthropocene amplifies when considering how its eerie and unwieldy forces affect our bodies. Across posthumanist, science studies, and new materialist discours…
Christian Jankowski, “Let’s get physical/digital”, 1997 Fragmento de “De la estructura al acontecimiento”, texto en el catálogo de la exposición. Revolving doors, Fundación Telefónica, Madr…
JAWS / AJJ Joint Conference 2025 Session 14 – Reflecting and Revisiting「Teaching Japan」 University of Hyogo – Kobe Campus for Commerce Building 5 April 5, 2025, 15:40 –…
A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. As the 2024 poet-in-residen…
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An anthropologist investigates the ongoing impacts of the U.S.-based United Fruit Company’s fraught 1940s preservation of an ancient Maya site in Guatemala. The United Fruit Company was a…
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…
This episode features Suvi Rautio’s (University of Helsinki) lecture at the Finnish Anthropological Society’s annual meeting on April 27th, 2025. Suvi discusses love letters between her Ch…
Pores compose materials around us such as gypsum, clay, lead, concrete, whose strength and durability are paradoxically analyzed in their capacity to resist porosity, or contain. Anthropogenic engagem…
The Right-wing Terrorism and Violence (RTV) dataset tracks severe right-wing attacks in Western Europe since 1990. The latest report shows a significant decrease in such viole…
After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. My goal at the time was to work in conservation, ecology, and organismal biology.…
Here was a curio – a blogpost filler from September 2005 – a negative review of Critique of Exotica by Narcus Breem in 2001, with my reply at…
A scientific protocol for how to identify microplastics from non-plastics using a full range of senses