The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia (UCL Press, 2025) by Dr. Anna Shadrina examines the social production of ageing in post-Soviet Russia,…
The theme of this year’s American Anthropological Association meeting in New Orleans was “ghosts.” Never before had I seen contributors cling so tightly to the organizing theme of…
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…
Eine typische Frage im Rahmen von Beratungen zur Bewerbung ist: Wie verpacke ich meine Defizite? Die fehlende Berufserfahrung, die Lücke im Lebenslauf, das eine Kriterium aus der Stellenanzei…
An academic’s office. A chair and a desk with a colourful scarf as table cloth. On the desk, a laptop, reading lamp, and a few books. Hanging on…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apv.12445?domain=author&token=4C3TESRPRVSEVSXAETSN Abstract: This paper considers a course on critical thinking in Vietnam with a case s…
A phone full of photos of shelves full of food. Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
An anthropologist delves beyond simplistic portrayals of the anti-natalist movement to understand what motivates its adherents. ✽ Growing up in the atheistic milieu of China’s Cultural Revolution, my…
Lara Helmke explores an obscure threat to German democracy posed by 'blood and soil' inspired groups who withdraw from the democratic system and form ethnically homo…
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands texts and performances that considers the inseparability of…
Vad gör man om det känns som att den moderna biomedicinen sviker en? Vart tar man vägen när ingen läkarförsedd kur hjälper? En del vänder sig till alternativmedicin…
On World AIDS Day, I grieve all the lives of young gay men that were lost while the Reagan administration looked away. And for the Black community now,…
Stafettpinnen går videre i Månedens antropolog! Dette er en spalte som løfter frem bredden, engasjementet og mangfoldet i norsk antropologi, både innenfor og utenfor akademia. Hver måned vil…
طرح موضوع تصویری که کوچک خان طی پانزده سال درعرصۀ فعالیت سیاسی از خود برجای گذاشته، برای روایتگران تاریخ وهمینطور برای کسانی که به این فعالیتها، علاقه و…
Page 99 of my dissertation appears in a section exploring how immunity is communicated and understood across different domains of the Korean ginseng industry. The page opens with…
Written by Sharon Kumar Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of modern society, revolutionizing industries, enhancing daily …
Seit dem 19. Jahrhundert zog es schöpferisch tätige Menschen nach Nordafrika. Sie verfielen den Orientklischees, die sie mitbegründeten, schufen bedeutende Werke und lebten ihre sexuellen Fantasien au…
Care Poverty and Unmet Needs edited by Teppo Kroger, Nicola Brimblecombe, Ricardo Rodrigues and Kirstein Rummery, brings together twenty-seven social policy researchers from across the Global North to…
Hailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a…
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere (U Nebraska Press, 2021) is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the…