From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm…
This is the third post in the VAoJ Hiroshima Research Trip Arc. The day’s main event (7/8/25): the baseball game between the host Hiroshima Carp and the visiting…
-Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick How could language endangerment, which many scholars see as an alarming problem, be largely invisible to the people whose languages are being…
-Anthony K. Webster How sad it is that persons bent on debunking Native traditions in Alaska…have used linguistically naive variant spellings of Native place names to assert that…
Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression -Danny Begg Tik Toks, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram reels are all examples of short-form video content that is ubiquitous across social media….
-Joseph Wilson The following is an (lightly edited) excerpt from Joseph Wilson’s forthcoming book Humans of AI: Understanding the People Behind the Machines to be published by University…
-Sarah Muir & Courtney Handman Four times a year, Anthropology News puts out calls for submissions on a particular theme. The current theme of “in/visibility” prompted an incredible…
The latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics edited by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi explores the socio-political nature of architecture and urban…
As Argentina’s economic crisis worsens, an anthropologist discusses the biological consequences of inadequate food—and why the country’s community kitchens need support. THE PRICE TO EAT It’s the afte…
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city…
This post is the second of the Hiroshima Research Trip Arc. In keeping with my recent and ongoing tachinomi project, I wanted to experience the social/drinking nightlife of…
The organizers of the C-REX and VOX-Pol PhD summer school present key takeaways on the topics of methods, personal safe…
Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan Over the past two decades, the posture of the United States toward China has evolved from economic cooperation to outright antagonism. US…
“Seguridad tiene muchas acepciones y formas. Hay seguridad en saber que uno tiene una probabilidad más pequeña de recibir un flechazo. Y está la seguridad que proporciona saber…
Wir trauern um Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jensen und Prof. Dr. Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin. Prof. Hauser-Schäublin verstarb am 5. Juni 2025 im Alter von 80 Jahren. Neben ihrer Arbeit am…
by Clare Wiznura The 2007 video game BioShock explores what might happen when individuals have the option to keep all the fruits of their labour, free from taxes…
As judges scout new restaurants to evaluate in U.S. cities, an anthropologist investigates the elite, Eurocentric history of the Michelin Red Guide and how it became the ultimate…
Moving between shower drains, aqueducts, rain gardens, and even kitchen sinks, Replumbing the City: Water Management as Climate Adaptation in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2025) traces the enormous urban…
My research trip this summer was to Hiroshima. The first place I went to was the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park and Museum. I have been there before, on…
مقدمه پس از بررسی مقدماتی اندیشههای باختین و مرلوپونتی، اکنون که به پایان مسیر رسیدم، میتوانم وارد مرحلۀمقایسه و همسخنی این دو متفکر شوم. در بخشهای پیشین، به…
مادام مادام مادربزرگ اتریشی نوری منبعی از رمز و رازی بیاندازه برای اوست. مادربزرگی که پس از سالها زندگی در ایران و صحبت به زبان فارسی همه او…
نقاشی و مجسمهسازی فاشیستی فوویسم، فوتوریسم و اکسپرسیونیسم هرچند عمر نسبتاً کوتاهی در نقاشی داشتند، اما چنان غنی و پربار بودند که به سنتهایی قدرتمند در تاریخ نقاشی…
مطالعات موردی قومنگاری اکنون به دو راویت قومنگاری از ساختن و پردازش شعر و موسیقی و رقص مقدس (سماع) که اجراهای الزامی در مراسم علویان است، خواهیم پرداخت.…
وزیر در تاریخ پادشاهی ایران، وزیر از قدرتمندترین مهرههای حکومتی محسوب میشود و بهخاطر درایت و ذکاوت سیاسی و احاطه اش بر امور مملکتداری بعد از خود شاه…