Nick Enfield’s book, Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists (MIT Press, 2022), argues that language is primarily for social coordination, not precisely transferring…
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks to…
Путин уже много лет пытается представить постсоветскую Россию как глубоко обиженную страну, которую неоднократно оскорблял и обманывал «Запад». Как Путин использовал эту аффективную риторику для подго…
Putin versucht das postsowjetische Russland seit Jahren als ein zutiefst gekränktes Land, das vom „Westen“ wiederholt beleidigt und betrogen worden sei, darzustellen. Wie hat Putin mit dieser Affektrh…
My (online) bank sent me the following five-pointed warning message about people online wanting to scam money from me, but there is something suspicious about this because each…
EXPANDING THE VISUAL FIELD: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN VISUAL SCHOLARSHIP, ARTS AND ACTIVISM The 2022 International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference invites abstracts for papers, photo essa…
Wir laden dich ein zur zweiten offenen Karrierewerkstatt mit dem Schwerpunktthema „Netzwerken“! Du promovierst oder bist als Postdoc tätig und hast Fragen rund um das Thema Karriereplanung –…
Im Innenhof des Cafés Liquidâmbar, nahe des Studierendentreffpunktes Praca da República in Coimbra diskutiert bei meiner Ankunft bereits ein Grüppchen überwiegend junger Leute über den Lithiumabbau i…
PART I Two Years Ago It was a hot day in July, and clocks were striking eight. It had been fifteen years since the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs)…
An experimental robotic pack mule, the Legged Squad Support System, walks alongside U.S. Marines on patrol. Sarah Dietz/U.S. Marine Corps Excerpted from War Virtually: The Quest to Autom…
What if the greatest legacy of uranium mining is not its localized radioactive toxicity, but the seemingly mundane set of bureaucratic practices it catalysed? In this post, I…
Drawing from my lived experience with Lake Trout as a member of NunatuKavut who grew up in southern Labrador and a student at a colonial university, I discuss…
Read Time:3 Minute, 29 Second Si esto fuera un artículo humorístico, empezaría hablando de cierta presidenta de cierta comunidad au…
How can you integrate archaeology and photography with ethnographic research to understand the experiences of clandestine migrants? Today we talk with Jason de Leon, professor of Anthropology and…
‘Call to Arms: Silver and Lead’ campaign review Posted December 10, 2034 by Julie Annie (staff writer at Génial Gaming) Answering the Call to Arms (yet again)…
Local food or not? Photo by David Beriss David Sutton In this fifth installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food I talk with longtime friend…
Filmmakers! Do you make films based on anthropological fieldwork and research? Submit your film to Journal of Anthropological Films – JAF. Do you have an academic career? Films…
I. That cloud hovering looks like it came all the way from Ukraine, sadness has darkened our skyline. The rain is hail shattering the landscape into pieces of…
The spectacle of Russia invading Ukraine has elevated tensions over Europe’s access to natural gas and may herald a sea-change in regional geopolitics of energy. But prior to…
Interview by Randeep Hothi https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-inheritance Randeep Hothi: The Inheritance is about many things — inter alia, your family’s migration to the US, your two parents a…
Ukraine und die EU: Über Diskriminierungen, Doppelmoral und Sippenhaftung für Tote Der Kommentar ist in der Wiener Zeitung am 22. 3. 2022 erschienen. Es ist erfreulich, dass die…
Read Time:6 Minute, 30 Second La ficción es, según la RAE, la acción y efecto de fingir, una invención, una obra narrativa que trat…
Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but…
Skill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill distinctions are used…