Worker declines rescue in Magdalen Nabb: Sex work in fiction
Efforts to save migrants and sex workers also appear in ordinary fiction (by which I mean not melodramas produced by moral crusaders) and some authors have a fine-tuned…
Efforts to save migrants and sex workers also appear in ordinary fiction (by which I mean not melodramas produced by moral crusaders) and some authors have a fine-tuned…
Over the last three decades, India’s occupation of a large portion of Kashmir has brought political strife, widespread oppression, and violence. David Williams/SAPIENS On a hot sunny day…
As anthropologists, we frequently teach about power dynamics and social inequality in our classrooms. Especially in the context of efforts to decolonize anthropology, many of us reflect on…
As anthropologists, we frequently teach about power dynamics and social inequality in our classrooms. Especially in the context of efforts to decolonize anthropology, many of us reflect on…
“Most people are weird, and they need to work really hard to be like everybody else” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/ustaz-sabry/stability-as-a-utopia Individual humans are usually strange and peculiar …
“Most people are weird, and they need to work really hard to be like everybody else” Listen: https://soundcloud.com/ustaz-sabry/stability-as-a-utopia Individual humans are usually strange and peculiar …
Before my internship at Allegra Lab, I was unaware of most of the online platforms for anthropology. I had heard of sites such as Savage Minds, but I…
I’ve been exceptionally dismayed this year by the retrograde, anti-open-access, profit-oriented publication philosophy at the American Anthropological Association. Earlier this year they announc…
Rereading Jay Murphy’s book Artaud’s Metamorphosis and thinking about the 30,000 pages of notes Marx is said to have written in the last ten years of his life –…
Door Matthias Teeuwen Bij de openingsvoordracht van de ABv Dag van de Antropologie 2017 over solidariteit kreeg ik het gevoel dat ik dit allemaal eens eerder heb gehoord.…
This post is tied to our 2016 series on the Latin American pink tide, and it originally appeared on openDemocracy on 23 May 2017 (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Brazilian Workers’…
Es gibt in China 10.000 Scheidungen pro Tag. Dass bei diesen Zahlen auch viele Kinder betroffen sind, die danach bei nur einem Elternteil aufwachsen, ist klar. Die Betroffenen…
Humans have always had a special relationship with bees. And while the archaeological evidence is sparse, what does exist shows the richness of ancient human activities Earlier this…
One may recall a house with nostalgia, but the feelings of joy or melancholy with it have much to do with the memories of the people enclosed within…
There is a lot of innovative teaching being done in food studies and we like to feature it here whenever we hear about it. Last year we noted…
Sometime earlier this spring I asked the students in my Digital Cultures class to each write down a sentence (on a post-it) about what education was for. “Education is…
Ghost bike memorializing cyclist Tony Turner at the intersection of Roxboro Street and Chateau Road in Durham, North Carolina. What are the relationships between body, health, mobility and…
For those of us who live in numbers-oriented cultures, anumeric societies shed light on the unreal nature of seconds, minutes, and hours. Jane Barlow/Associated Press This article was…
Primero que nada les ruego que reparen en la primera palabra del título. Es autónimo, no autónomo, así que este artículo no habla de ese héroe de nuestro…
Despite the recent announcement of a new haul of Homo naledi fossils, recovering ancient DNA is still proving as difficult as ever Despite what many people believe, paradigm-shifting…