What Do You Mean by Abolition?
A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…
What Do You Mean by Abolition?
A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…
What Do You Mean by Abolition?
A collaboration between abolitionist groups in California educates and acts for a more just future. Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary…
Lightning strikes, or how an object of global health is made by Megan Vaughan
When we were children my mother always told us there was nothing to fear from thunderstorms. But it was hard not to notice that she did so whilst…
Girls, Gadgets, and Gatekeepers: What is Ethical Feminist Fieldwork When Working with Children?
There is no Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent body in India. The ethics of research are left to the purview of researchers, their supervisors, and departments. Therefore,…
Taxpayer’s Playlist
Filing personal tax returns, with the power of Spotify Matti Eräsaari, University of Helsinki Anna-Riikka Kauppinen, University of Cambridge In May 2020, ahead of the deadline for filing…
Archaeology in the Ashes of Notre Dame
The Notre Dame fire was devastating but has opened the door to research on building materials now available for study. Aurélia Azéma/Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques The…
De la idealización del pasado como constructo social
Al albor de muchas ideologías (y qué decir de los distintos nacionalismos) se alude a determinado momento histórico como justificante romántico de determinadas reivindicaciones. Digo momento histórico…
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” (HarperCollins, 2017)
Economist, data journalist, and best-selling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz uses data from the internet to gain new insights into the human psyche. In his new book Everybody Lies: Big Data, … Visit New…
Can We Fix Social Media?: A Discussion with Christopher A. Bail
In an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media…
3500 year-old honeypot: oldest direct evidence for honey collecting in Africa
Before sugar cane and sugar beets conquered the world, honey was the worldwide most important natural product for sweetening. Archaeologists at Goethe University in cooperation with chemists at…
What Do You Mean by Abolition?
Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary social and racial justice movements in various global contexts, for example, appearing in debates in…
Espacio público: idealismo y verdad
La foto procede de flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/ Final de la intervención en el Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura y Diseño Arquine, México DF, 11-12 de marzo de 2013, al que acudí invitado…
Special Focus: Engaging ‘The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology’
Why have Black ancestors been largely excluded from anthropology’s intellectual history and canon? In this series of pieces, Tracie Canada engages the authors of the 2018 volume The…
Reassessing AAA’s Strategic Priorities
Image description: A man wearing a yellow collared shirt, tie, and glasses smiles. He is visible from the shoulders up.Caption: Ed Liebow, AAA Executive Director The Association stands…
Reassessing AAA’s Strategic Priorities
Image description: A man wearing a yellow collared shirt, tie, and glasses smiles. He is visible from the shoulders up.Caption: Ed Liebow, AAA Executive Director The Association stands…
Reassessing AAA’s Strategic Priorities
Image description: A man wearing a yellow collared shirt, tie, and glasses smiles. He is visible from the shoulders up.Caption: Ed Liebow, AAA Executive Director The Association stands…
Wednesday Round Up #45
Adding is favoured over subtracting in problem solving Consider the Lego structure depicted in Figure 1, in which a figurine is placed under a roof supported by a…
The Struggles of a “River People” in Assam
A member of the Mising, a tribal, Indigenous community in Assam, India, explains how erosion displaced people along the banks of the Brahmaputra River. Nimisha Thakur One night…
“Escaping from Quarantine” from Quarantined: My Ordeal in Uganda’s Covid-19 Isolation Centers by Jimmy Spire Ssentongo
Few published works of creative non-fiction exist on COVID-19 in Africa. With the publication of QUARANTINED, Ugandan intellectual and philosopher, Jimmy Spire Ssentongo has painted a behind-the-scen…
3500 Jahre alter Honigtopf: Ältester direkter Nachweis für Honig-Nutzung in Afrika
Bevor das Zuckerrohr und die Zuckerrübe die Welt eroberten, war Honig weltweit das wichtigste Naturprodukt zum Süßen. Den ältesten direkten Nachweis für die Nutzung von Honig in Afrika…
Anthropology in Public Sphere: Global Peace and Development
Prof. K. K. Misra Former Vice-Chancellor Utkal University of Culture Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Many significant events of the present era demonstrate that Anthropology has established a firm grip…
Xth ICAES, New Delhi, December 1978
Arbind Sinha Advisor MICA, Ahmedabad Email: arbind21@gmail.com India’s hosting of the Xth Congress of Anthropology in 1978 was not a coincidence. From the mid-1900s, world anthropology not only…
Del perder oportunidades por encima de nuestras posibilidades
En ocasiones, por no decir siempre, para que un discurso resulte falaz solo necesita desarrollarse y ser desmontado al ser respondido. A veces ni esto se necesita y…