What happens when the field is not entirely foreign but you might be? Dispatches from the Field
Tanzania is not my home country. But it is not an abstract elsewhere either.
Tanzania is not my home country. But it is not an abstract elsewhere either.
TGA Managing Editor Emma Backe interviewed Dr. Andrew Alan Johnson, an anthropologist who also serves as the Senior Historian for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII. They talk about working…
In Mexico, quelites refers to uncultivated edible plants. The word has a Nahuatl origin derived from kilitl, a term referring to these edible weeds. The earliest dictionaries of…
Omtale af: Udupa, S., & Hervik, P. (Eds.). (2026). Handbook on anthropology and artificial intelligence. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. Publishers page: https:…
Five-year collaboration, spearheaded by the School for Advanced Research, delivers free, practical tools as demand for culturally appropriate care grows SANTA FE, N.M. (September 8, 2…
El futuro no es lo que va a pasar, sino lo que vamos a hacer. El antropólogo Tim Ingold repite mucho que el futuro no es un problema…
painting by Rene Magritte. xx Excellent questions from my anth class today: “…a question related to Social Anthropology: how do we truly understand another person when we may…
8 September 2026 Sarbani Chakraborty Hoofbeats Tugbug, tugbug, tugbug… The deliberate percussion of hooves travels through a tree-lined residential colony in South Delhi. For a mo…
Debates about the future of work often center around reskilling adapting the workforce to fit capitalist proposals of what work should look like. Pre-digital examples include scientific management,…
by Reem Jazem In 2014, my biggest concern was when to get married. I was engaged in August, and my fiancé and I planned to have our wedding…
Ein persönlicher Nachbericht der zweiten Vorsitzenden Mona Stumpe über die Tagung „Religion and the Global Far Right“ an der Universität Tübingen (29. bis 31. Juli 2026) Wie greifen…
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-work-of-speechwriters/935FF2C17010D71BC33C9BA0C9603779 Adam Jaworski: Why is it useful to conceptually distinguish between elite language workers …
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world…
ByMartha HancockBSc Anthropology Alumna Content warning: discussion of death and grief experienced by trans+ and queer individuals. “Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality… tha…
What went wrong with global mental health? Under the Gaze of Global Mental Health: A Critical Reflection (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) critically examines how the globalisation of mental health…
What does medical anthropology look like in the twenty-first century? That is the central question of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century, a new edited volume by…
KI Slop ist überall. Übernimmt KI die öffentliche Sphäre? Bestimmt sie den Diskurs? Die einfache Antwort auf diese Frage ist: Nein! KI ist nicht und wird nicht autonom,…
آیا پرومته اول نمی‌بایست به صورتی هذیان‌گویانه تصور کند که نور را دزدیده و تاوان این جنایت را پس داده است تا سرانجام کشف کند که این شوق…
Image and text from The Japan Times, 9/5/26. United Nations – The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to adopt a new world map that makes the African…
اشاره: به همت سایت انسانشناسی و فرهنگ قرار است برای معرفی چهار جلد از تاریخ گیلان به خوانندگان فرهیخته، پیش‌گفتار این کتاب‌ها در چهار قسمت متوالی در سایت…
گروه نویسندگان رجِ بعدی: تأملی بر مجموعه داستانِ بوی یاسِ امین‌الدوله می‌آید نوشته زری پورجعفریان زهرا مینویی در ادبیاتِ داستانیِ امروزِ ایران، راه‌های گوناگونی برای روایتِ فروپاشی وجود…
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers (U Toronto Press, 2024) sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait…
فیلم مدفون (Buried) ساخته کارگردان اسپانیایی رودریگو کورتس، محصول سال ۲۰۱۰ است. کورتس که پیش از این فیلمهای کوتاه ساخته بود، با این فیلم به شهرت جهانی رسید…
The Conjurer by Hieronymus Bosch | Artist: Hieronymus Bosch | Year: 1502 در مطالعات انسان‌شناختیِ قدرت، دیر زمانی است که پذیرفته شده «تسلط» تنها از طریق اجبار اعمال…