Winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2025
The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2025 is Elliott Prasse-Freeman for his book Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar (Stanford University Press, 2023). Elliott…
The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2025 is Elliott Prasse-Freeman for his book Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar (Stanford University Press, 2023). Elliott…
Dental modification was common across ancient societies, but perhaps none were more avid practitioners than the Maya. They filed their teeth flat or pointy, polished and drilled them,…
Warum mein neuer Job mich fand – und nicht umgekehrt von Dana S. Atzpodien Ich habe an der Universität Münster im Fach Politikwissenschaft mit einer kumulativen Dissertation zum…
A moose mating ritual “Sorry, what did you say?” asked the company CEO during a meeting about new regulatory requirements. […] The post Seeing Treaty Rights: The cumulative…
Read Time:21 Minute, 2 Second Los Países Bajos fueron un legado patrimonial de los Austrias desde 1496, aunque sus relaciones estarían …
No, you can’t! My wife has just politely asked if she can take a picture of a mural in a Korean restaurant we pass in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi.…
“Gaming” is conceptually branching out. It “virtually” overlaps with museum visuals and actively engages with lived cultures and heritage. Both developments point out that perhaps even with the…
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…
A group of forensic anthropologists argues their field must reject the myth of pure objectivity and challenge systemic inequities through advocacy and activism. ✽ WHEN A PERSON DIES,…
A little after 1 am on Feb. 15, 2021 during a frigid storm, the Texas electric grid came close to […] The post Deregulated Grids, Natural Gas and…
مقدمه جوامع مدرن با محوریت قرار دادن مفهوم دولت ملی، یعنی با تأکید بر مشروعیت یافتن قدرت سیاسی از پایۀ اجتماعی، مسئولیت سنگینی را بر دوش حاکمان گذاشتهاند…
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بخش سیونهم/ سرمایهداری (Capitalism)/ دان روز/ برگردان: ناصر فکوهی سرمایهداری از محدودیت پذیرفتن در قالب تعاریف میگریزد. گاه سرمایهداری را نوعی کارآفرینی آزاد نامیده و آن را بهمثابۀ…
Read Time:8 Minute, 28 Second Madrid tiene los mimbres para ser una ciudad con posibilidades reales de ofrecer una vida digna a sus hab…
Regulation in images While in the Western European/American context, regulation is the stuff of big companies, in Poland it is […] The post Regulation (Un)Done: Introduction appeared first…
Home gardener Calvin harvests mustard greens for friends from church. Photo by Aimee L. Trojnar. PhD thesis by Aimee L. Trojnar, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, 2024.…
https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/pacific/uneven-connections Ira Bashkow: Uneven Connections is a fascinating study of mobile phones in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Phones used to be exp…
Article by R V Bianchi: Marxist Political Economy and Tourism “The dearth of Marxist theorising in tourism remains something of a mystery, not least given that it has…
Using an original poetic form, a poet chips away at a difficult history—becoming an agent of her own remaking and more than just an estranged daughter. “Debitage” is…
Sideways Migration: Being French in London (Routledge, 2025) examines the relationship between migration and socioeconomic status. In particular, it charts a set of middle-class aspirations that lead people to…
Revolutions in technology are fundamentally transforming what it means to be human. Or are they? As Webb Keane points out, before humans consulted ChatGPT, they propitiated oracles. Before they fell…
There are many books giving advice about research methods on the market, but The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2019) is the first monographic marriage of comparative and interpretive…
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Boy Scout . The image above is on repeat – uncanny since now they’ve all got patched in – the ‘same’ publicity photo was again released by HS…