Today I’m speaking with Asad L. Asad, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday…
As a digital anthropologist, studying all digital technology from a human-centric approach allows me to focus on how the technology impacts the humans who use it and human…
“KG＋” is a public art festival that first started in 2013 with the aim of discovering and supporting upcoming photographers and curators with 2025 being the 13th anniversary…
Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the elephant in the room in every classroom. However, this is even more of a concern…
Three plamts behind the family of three, all enjoying the cherry blossoms… See also: https://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2025/04/2025-expected-beauty-and-awe-of-cherry.html
Every Thursday at 9 o’ clock in the morning, housewives from a residential neighborhood on the outskirt of Jakarta gather at their usual spot at the “Love Earth”…
Utterances like “um,” “wow,” and “mm-hmm” aren’t garbage, they keep conversations flowing. This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. …
In der bitterbösen Satire “The White Lotus” über privilegierte Hotelgäste spielen Tiere eine besondere Rolle. Ihre Inszenierung in der Serie destabilisiert die anthropozentrische Perspektive, auf der …
Walk with a linguistic anthropologist through the sounds, politics, and fabulosity of a kiki ball in Puerto Rico. Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ballroom scene”…
Claire Mercer‘s The Suburban Frontier examines African suburbanisation and the emergence of middle-class culture through a case study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Drawing on ethnographic data col…
In the contemporary world, ruins, rubble, and decaying material have become increasingly iconic landscapes. They can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven…
Rene Gomez was one of the most renowned potato curators at the International Potato Center (CIP, Centro Internacional de la Papa in Spanish). [1] Potato curators provide reliable…
On the May 12th, 2025 cover of Time Magazine, you will see a picture of a white wolf below the bold word Extinct slashed through with a red…
Page 99 of my dissertation, “Language, Identity, and Belonging: An Ethnography of Deaf Immigrants in the Northeast United States,” falls towards the end of its first ethnographic chapter.…
Written and created by Priscilla Telmon, Vincent Moon, Adrien Goua The acacia can be found all over the world, but …
Congratulations and many thanks to the co-editors, Jennifer McGuire and Christopher Tso, on putting together and releasing the Japan Anthropology Workshop Newsletter (#53) “…continuing with our …
Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been written on the interaction of missionaries with local…
The authors reframe the crime-terror nexus to gain a deeper understanding of recent trends in which jihadi organisations recruit from street culture and criminal environments. …
Politischer Protest im popkulturellen Mainstream – der Rapper Kendrick Lamar nutzte die Halftime Show des diesjährigen Super Bowl für einen sneak diss gegen Trump.
امید و ناامیدی دو همسایه و دو سرزمین همجوار با مشترکات زیاد هستند. فقط نوع نگاه است که انسان را در جایگاه یا در سرزمین امید ساکن میکند…
بزرگترین وظیفۀ تفکر فلسفی که در طول تاریخ، در قامت دانش متافیزیک بازتاب یافته است، همچون حفر چاه در سرشت واقعیت است. تفکر در چنین پویشی، به سمت…
سال جدید برای مردم ما با دغدغهها و فشارهایی بیش از پیش و بیسابقه در چند دهه اخیر آغاز میشود. از یک سو، فشارهای اقتصادی که کمر طبقه…
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