Political upheavals can feel like riding a roller coaster – exhilarating at the beginning, full of adrenaline rush, until it suddenly stops. This is what happened to the…
Noch bis 1977 waren Frauen in der Bundesrepublik auf die Erlaubnis ihres Ehemannes angewiesen, um arbeiten gehen zu dürfen. In der DDR hingegen hatten 90 % der erwerbsfähigen…
Konfuzianismus gilt als jahrtausendealte Tradition, eng verbunden mit der Geschichte und Kultur des vormodernen Chinas. Doch in den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten wurde diese Lehre nicht nur neu interpre…
This special series examines the spatial, temporal, and conceptual boundaries of infection. As a primarily analytic approach, the authors in this series unpack epidemiologic keywords such as outbreak,…
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SatuValoriani, Amber Collings, Nicholas Marquez-Grant, Karolina Cameron-Werens, Micol Zuppello, Rachael Carew, Sarah Ellingham, Alexandra Makay and Rebecca Strong (British Association for Forensic Ant…
Written by April M. Short Anthropologists’ research on the origins of war, going back to the beginning of human history …
Hoy quiero contarte porque estoy triste por estudiar en la UNED de nuevo tras muchos años de parón. Si no lo sabes estoy intentando retomar los estudios del…
Visual Anthropology in Japan: 「The Tachinomi Project」 日本に映像人類学: 立ち呑みプロジェクト A chance to share my research with colleagues at work… Abstract: 「The Tachinomi Project」is a visual ethnography base…
Issue Contents President’s letter Dear NAPA Members, We’ve made it to spring! After this winter, I am willing to celebrate the small wins. In Boston, the snow piles…
Am 23.4.2026 14-16.30 Uhr findet online eine außerordentliche Mitgliederversammlung statt. Thema sind verschiedene Resolutionsentwürfe zur Frage internationaler wissenschaftlicher Kooperation im Konte…
By Romy de Vos and William Arfman – Friday the 28 th of November 2025. “Feel your feet on the ground. Look each other in the eyes. Give…
We write at a time of genocide, war, and the feeling that whoever has the more guns can do whatever they want. We ask how different forms of…
What does the proliferation of AI technologies, particularly the widespread usage of Large Language Models, mean for anthropology? More precisely, what does it mean for our object of…
The time has come to plan and submit sessions for the 2026 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri! The meeting will take place from November…
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…
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…
Victor Mallet’s Far-Right France examines the rise of the far right in France through the successful alliance between the National Rally’s Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. Blending…
At India’s southern tip, eight reactor buildings line the shore of the coastal communities of Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu—one of the four districts my family and I call…
NAPA invites professional, practicing, and applied (PPA) anthropologists to show our colors at the upcoming AAA meeting in St. Louis, MO Wednesday, November 18, 2026 – Saturday, November…
The volume Explaining Extreme Belief and Behavior: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Challenges edited by Rik Peels and Lorne L. Dawson, turns the gaze of extremism research on the…
Alawite communities in Syria have been associated with the regime of Assad as the latter’s family itself is of Alawite descent. Consequently, Alawites have frequently faced accusations of…
Grazia Ting Deng. Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2024. 288 pages. ISBN: 9780691245799 Dr. A…
By Yukisato Azai, International and Development Studies, Geneva Graduate Institute. On a blazing sunny day, when I walked toward the site of a sit-in protest against the construction…