2026 Anthropolitan Picture Competition Shortlisters
To celebrate our 2026 printed issue of Anthropolitan, we held a competition, asking members of the UCL community to create images which hold our theme of temporalities. Here…
To celebrate our 2026 printed issue of Anthropolitan, we held a competition, asking members of the UCL community to create images which hold our theme of temporalities. Here…
Written by Yann Perreau The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most …
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…
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference (U Toronto Press, 2025) sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic…
While half of the world is burning, Allegra will close shop for a much-needed period of rest . We’ll be […] The post Summer break, thinking break appeared…
از گذشته‌های بسیار دور تا دوران اخیر، اما امروز بیش از هر زمان دیگر؛ و در پهنه و زمانه‌ای که ما در این سال‌ها تجربه کرده‌ایم، بیش و…
فِرِدِریک لوردون(۱)، برگردان به فارسی: فرشین کاظمی‌نیا ما گمان می‌کردیم که او اشتباه کرده؛ [اما] حق با مارکس خواهد بود! نه دقیقاً آن‌گونه که در جزئیات می‌اندیشید، اما…
پیشگفتارِ کتابِ تاریخ گیلان( از آغاز تا پایان حکومت‌های محلیِ خان‌سالار) (جلد نخست) اشاره: به همت سایت انسانشناسی و فرهنگ قرار است برای معرفی چهار جلد از تاریخ گیلان…
It used to be that securing consensus and capacity to build a design system was hard. But today, design systems have become foundational to how software gets built…
In her most recent publication, Domestic Nationalism: Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia (Stanford UP, 2025), Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late…
El presente artículo analiza la compleja realidad de los menores tutelados en centros de protección. A menudo estigmatizados por el desconocimiento social, estos jóvenes enfrentan el desafío de…
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827569/selective-solidarity Ashley McDermott: Selective Solidarity looks at how children are socialized into economic moralities, or as you write, “norma…
Fossil fuels are once again driving US foreign policy. Under Trump 2.0, resource power is back—at home, abroad and with consequences for the global climate.
Av Niklas Ferdinand Carlsson Någonstans i Japan sitter just nu en ung man i sitt rum. Han har suttit där i månader, kanske år. Han äter, sover och…
This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of…
This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’. The post Poetic Resonance: Dwelling in the …
This experimental essay treats uncertainty as bodily and relational and uses rhythm as a way of noticing it. It begins in the writing vibrations of the Poetic Resonance…
During a multispecies ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish private garden, I encountered a weird-looking gourd (Calabash) that was turned into a birdhouse. The post Resonating with a Gourd…
This essay explores how the poetic resonance protocol enabled a deeper, embodied engagement with my ethnographic object: a poetry workshop conducted with wildfire-affected residents in northern German…
This essay explores how poetic resonance can deepen ethnographic analysis by attuning to sensorial, embodied, and existential dimensions of experience. The post Mother Tales: An (Auto)Ethnographic Exp…
In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis. The post In the Face of Fury:…
What does it mean to do research with climate? This essay reflects on the potential of poetic resonance as a method of creative experimentation and (auto)ethnographic practice, attuning…
When I am in spaces where poetry is performed, there are invisible yet palpable forces which raise my heartbeat, make my tears well up, and give me goosebumps.…
This episode features a conversation with Carnatic vocalist, T.M. Krishna, who is also the author of two books on this musical tradition. We began with his first book’s…