Ruling the Mongols of Manchuria by Jiani He examines how language shaped imperial governance and nation-building in late Qing borderlands. He’s detailed and valuable linguistic history reveals t…
An anthropologist-poet listens to echoes of laughter and other sounds of crossings in Kashmir. In the house once occupied by soldiers laughter echoes as three women sing Yamberzal…
For more than 150 years, Italy has been home to a resilient and evolving resistance against the pervasive influence of mafias. While these criminal organizations are renowned for…
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As pandemic restrictions began to ease in late 2021, the annual Finnish startup conference Slush made its return as an in-person event. Held for the first time in…
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 explores how nests made from the saliva of swiftlets—long valued within some Asian medicinal and culinary traditions—have reached a growing global market. ✽ I’m in one…
Budka, P., & Amatulli, G. (2025). Introduction: Narratives and temporalities of infrastructure in Canada. Anthropologica, 67(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica67120252794 The openly a…
Jessie Grainger writes about differences in Scandinavian populist radical right parties’ strategic support for LGBT rights to further the exclusion of “intolerant” immigrants …
In Life Beside Bars: Confinement and Capital in an American Prison Town (Duke UP, 2024), Heath Pearson showcases dynamic, interdependent community as the best hope for undoing the systems of confinement…
„Wenn du das Buch, das du brauchst, nicht findest, musst du es selbst schreiben.“ Oscar Wilde (zugeschrieben) Mit Klug, aber arm? habe ich genau das getan: ein Buch…
2026 AJJ Annual Conference May 23-24th, 2026 Akita University Conference Theme Entanglements and Embodiments: Anthropology, Ethnography and Sensing Japan Location The conference will be held …
Anyone who wants this should DM me for a copy of the journal version. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370237407_Studying_tourism_means_going_to_have_a_look_for_yourself_co-research_vu…
Image 1: Gift shop window in Belgrade, May 2025, photo by Astrea Nikolovska In the mid-2010s, the tourist center of Belgrade was full of various souvenirs featuring the…
https://www.mediastudies.press/pub/nb-mapping-goffman Interview by Erving Goffman’s ghost, on the assumption that he would have had opinions about this research Erving Goffman: Why, when I …
Last week, my wife Asmaa Essakouti was re-reading George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four for a class on censorship she teaches. I was reading over her shoulder and found it…
Una ilustración de Mark Ryden Respuesta a unas consideraciones de Mikel Fernandino, cuando era estudiante en el Master de Antropología y Etnografía de la UB, en octubre de…
Foto de David Bravo Salva Tret d’una conferència al taller temàtic Habitatge i Rehabilitació, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona, el 29/9…
Amatulli, G., & Budka, P. (Eds.). (2025). Narratives and temporalities of infrastructure: The Canadian experience [Special issue]. Anthropologica, 67(1). Cover of Anthropologica, 67(1). (Photo…
Across the global South, poor women’s lives are embedded in their social relationships and governed not just by formal institutions – rules that exist on paper – but…
Naturschutz verspricht Zukunft – ist aber oft ein Rückgriff auf romantisierte Vergangenheiten. Wer entscheidet, wohin „zurück“ gegangen wird, bestimmt auch, wer und was in der Natur künftig keinen…
¿Merece la pena estudiar en la UNED? Opiniones y encuesta para estudiantes Hoy te traemos una encuesta para saber si merece la pena estudiar en la Uned o…
Opiniones estudiantes de la UNED: comparte tu experiencia Bienvenida/o a las opiniones estudiantes de la Uned. Estudiar en la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) es una…