By Ton Salman People celebrate, joke and banter. Hunger, disaster, conflict, violence, repression, all ruin people’s lives and cause enormous pain. But people will not cease to honor…
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (Special Issue) Representing suicide: Giving voice to a desire to die? Ian Marsh, Rachel Winter,&n…
Read Time:3 Minute, 36 Second Andalucía, como es bien sabido por todos, es la puerta Sur a Europa, y como tal es paso “obligatorio”…
In Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century, readers find a wide range of texts on Muslim Americans’ experiences with questions of marriage and…
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile is a writer, musician, broadcaster, and curator from the Aran Islands. Working bilingually in Irish and English, she is drawn to voices, contemporary and historical,…
Come oh villagers, come to the port Carry your sickles and scythes, sticks and rocks Come to the port, our city has fallen!! Our little city by the…
Last year, the Allegra Lab began a thematic thread showcasing a selection of the wonderful “academic fictions” written by students as an assignment for the course on “Cities,…
In Genre Publics: Popular Music, Technologies, and Class in Indonesia, Emma Baulch explores the interconnections between the Indonesian public sphere and popular music. This is a rich contribution to…
The anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo approaches ethnography as not just the depiction of a world but as what addresses and displaces both the writer and the reader, where ethnography…
Since SAPIENS launched in 2016, several social media outlets have been central to the magazine’s promotion strategy. Every week, we publish multiple posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram…
Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form…
Read Time:10 Minute, 18 Second Hoy tengo el placer de cruzar unas palabras con Manuel Carmona, del que podría decir muchas cosas, p…
John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia both relates the history…
Dear NAFA Friends, A new year for all of us, a new year for the Nordic Anthropological Film Association – NAFA, so here we send a new reminder…
The sky island of Dzil Nchaa Si’an is more than a mountain. It is a significant landmark in Arizona for Apache tribal members to collect medicinal plants, perform…
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started more than two years ago, time has been put on hold and precarity has become an even more common feature of life globally.…
Read Time:6 Minute, 17 Second Una vez más la ciencia avanza hacia el conocimiento. Este año ha comenzado con la noticia de que la E…
The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In…
Herring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the Northern…
Nach dem russischen Angriff auf die Gedenkstätte Babyn Jar erklärte Präsident Selenskyi umgehend, es drohe die Gefahr, dass der Holocaust sich wiederhole. Ist das bloßer Krieg der Worte…
Packed with beautiful imagery, but also hard scientific facts, Jackie Higgins’s book Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses (Atria Books, 2022) explores how we process the…
Una de las representaciones tradicionales del Ánima Sola Comentario enviado a Sibila Vigna, cuando era doctoranda, en agosto de 2012. Testimonios del remordimientoManuel Delgado Me parece genial que…
The Visual Research Network, in association with the Estonian National Museum, will hold the 3rd edition of the VRN residency and conference in Tartu, Estonia from June 12th…
Hallo. Ich bin Julia. Und ich kann hellsehen. Glaubst du nicht?Hier ein Test. Ich gebe dir eine Denkaufgabe – und ich weiß schon jetzt ganz genau, was du…