the house of loss
By Sagarika Raje WadiyarMA Material and Visual Culture every day, everywhere we stand in a house of loss residing under a shelter of pain of grief of heartbreak of shame…
By Sagarika Raje WadiyarMA Material and Visual Culture every day, everywhere we stand in a house of loss residing under a shelter of pain of grief of heartbreak of shame…
For more than a century, SAR Press has published scholarship that continues to change how we understand people, culture, history, and place. Since its earliest archaeological publicati…
This is the story of how the World Health Organisation (WHO) came to partner with Interpol and the pharmaceutical industry to fight a war against fake drugs. This…
As part and parcel of China’s compressed modernization, processes of state-led rural urbanization through land expropriation and rural-to-urban relocation have been transforming rural Chinese people’s lives in unprecedented…
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…
By Peter Versteeg, on behalf of the SpW team – Good people, Summer has arrived – sing cucu and drink saison! We look back at a fruitful year…
Estas son 25 preguntas para una investigación de mercado y del consumidor que ayudarán a conocer mejor cómo es percibido un producto o servicio y cuáles retos, como…
Climate Hegemony by Laurie Parsons draws on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain why governments and corporations have failed to take meaningful action on the climate crisis:…
ByLara Scott-Rule BSc Anthropology with Year Abroad I’ve always said, if you don’t look in the mirror, you don’t feel any different. It’s just, you look at yourself and you think, who are yo…
فیلم گوتو: جزیرۀ عشق، اثر والرین بوروچیک، محصول فرانسه سال ساخت: ۱۹۶۹ گوتو، جزیرۀ عشق، حکایت پلشتی جا خوش کرده در تار-و-پود دیکتاتوری است. جزیرهای دورافتاده که به…
Reflections on the process of co-editing a book across Rapa Nui, Germany, Chile, France and the United States.
A grandmother pauses before answering a child. The meaning of her words lies not only in the words themselves, but in tone, shared history, the relationship between speaker…
Half of page 99 in my dissertation is taken up by a photograph of a 500-feet-tall cell tower. I am struck by the recursivity of the tower; now,…
Es gibt eine Frage, die dir garantiert gestellt wird, wenn du Geschichte, Philosophie oder Literaturwissenschaft studierst: „Und was willst du damit machen?“ Die Frage ist so alt wi…
Die DGS lobt ihren diesjährigen Kongress unter dem Motto „Zukunft der Gesellschaft“ aus. In Zeiten großer Umbrüche ist das ein lohnender Topos. Dass die Themenstellung in deutscher Sprache…
3.8.2026 | 16:00-17:30 Uhr | 49 € | Online per Zoom | Zahlung über Stripe Ich kenne das Gefühl, sich für die Kontaktaufnahme fast entschuldigen zu wollen. Ich…
This post started after talking with my friend and colleague, Inge. Since we probably wouldn’t see each other for a while during the summer break, she asked me…
In this episode I discuss the book Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Anthropology (Berghahn, 2025) with co-editors David Zeitlyn and Chihab El Khachab, a…
This is the (overdue!) second part of a series reflecting on changes I made to my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington…
ByZichen YinMA Material and Visual Culture Instructions for Becoming Modern is a visual essay in the form of a fictional manual built from late Qing and early Republican image…
Innledning I 2006 tok styret i Norsk Antropologisk Forening initiativ til å sette i gang et faghistorisk prosjekt for å bidra til å dokumentere sosialantropologiens historie i Norge.…
The early twenty-first century ushered in a period of change in Bolivia. The country welcomed its first Indigenous president, a new constitution, and a profusion of laws that…
Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East (Daunt Books Publishing, 2025) is a unique reflection on the much-mythologised Donetsk and Luhansk regions of the Ukrainian…