In Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal (Stanford University Press, 2020), Hanna Garth examines the processes of acquiring food and preparing meals in the midst of food…
I never normally get hooked on TV shows, I’m more of a movie person. I like to know the endings and I’m usually too curious to wait 6…
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Susannah Crockford. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Susannah Cr…
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Susannah Crockford. This post is a part of the Embodying Reciprocity series. Susannah Crockford is a post-doctoral researcher at Ghent…
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
Covid-19 infections and deaths in Brazil continue to grow at an alarming pace: at the time of publication (8 July 2020), the Latin American country has recorded over…
Gebäude, die auf den zweiten Blick verwirren, können so schlecht nicht sein. Dieses Parkhaus in der Berliner Peripherie ist ein Beispiel dafür. Es ist ein Zwitter (ist der…
by Adrian Schlegel The year 2020 might fill our descendants’ history books with the rampant phenomena that emerged around the COVID-19 pandemic. The global health crisis, aggravating social…
Vorsorge ist wichtig und gut. Das zeigt sich vor allem in Zeiten der Pandemie. Doch was ist mit den Gefahren, die Vorsorge erst hervorbringt? Nicht nur Franz Kafka…
La foto és de Nate Robert Consideracions per a Marta López, estudiant del Màster en Antropologia i Etnografia de la Universitat de Barcelona La veritat com allò que…
As we experience the uncomfortable but necessary changes in response to COVID-19, many of us have continued our work by switching to virtual spaces, whether for meetings, classes,…
In some parts of the world, giant rats are being enlisted to detect postwar land mines. APOPO At the third stop at the APOPO Visitor Center in Siem…
Most archaeological projects in the U.K. and U.S. are largely conducted by people of European descent. Wessex Archaeology/Flickr One hot, sunny day in the Sonoran Desert, I (William)…
Covid en el mundo, en Mayo 2020, según el observatorio de la U Johns Hopkins La epidemia de COVID 19 En Diciembre de 2019 se detectó en la…
I was sitting at my computer when we got the call. My father in his chair, my mother on the sofa. Two days earlier we had found out…
An Interview with the Editor of American Anthropologist about the March 2020 Cover Controversy We know the role that anthropology has played in the erasure of Indigenous peoples…
Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon (University of Michigan Press, 2019) illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first…
You don’t waste your energy fighting the fever; you must only fight the disease. And the disease is not racism. It is greed and the struggle for power.…
Among the multitude of narratives prompted by the current pandemic, the biography of June Dalziel Hart Almeida has been circulated by the BBC and other periodicals in numerous…
La foto es de Jenxi Seow Consideracions per al col·lega i amic Miquel Fernández, de la UAB CONTRA LA IMMEDIATESA. SOBRE EL CONCEPTE MARXISTA DE MEDIACIÓ Manuel Delgado…
La foto es de Jordi Secall Mensaje personal enviado el 8 de agosto de 2009 a mi amigo y entonces doctorando Omar Borrás, que entonces estaba acabando su…
Editor’s note: This is the third post in an ongoing series called “The Spectrum of Research and Practice in Guatemalan Science Studies.” The surface installation of the Escobal…
Bhaagya (not her real name) is in her early thirties. She is married, and has two teenage children. She cooks and cleans for several households in Bengaluru, a…
Over 30 years ago, Gayle Rubin argued in her seminal piece – “Thinking Sex” – that “sexuality should be treated with special respect in times of great social…