In this timely and bold book, Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World (U Chicago Press, 2025), Miriam Ticktin explores how a concept that consistently appears as a moral good actually…
David Beriss Our last, but perhaps most famous, winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest is none other than Carole Counihan, who comes in third place.…
The path from monogamy to opening up the relationship to polyamory is not an easy one. It exposes wounds…
A Case Study on Collaboration with UX and Data Science Introduction This post is related to two previous ones that may be of interest. The first is a…
In this intimate, yet simultaneously anthropological, exploration of the life of her maternal grandmother Pankajam (1911–2007), Kalpana Karunakaran achieves the remarkable: capturing the singularity of an exceptional woman,…
It was announced on the 17th that a new series of the drama ” Midnight Diner,” starring actor Kaoru Kobayashi, is in production. This will be the first…
An animated peanut with a bowler hat and a white beard sits on one side of a campfire, opposite three smaller peanuts grinning back at him adoringly. Amid…
David Beriss We are happy to announce that Caroline Stahley, a graduate student in the Applied Anthropology program of the University of South Florida, has taken second place…
Holi! Al habla el Antropólogo Principiante y hoy quiero presentarte mi nuevo podcast de Antropología. ¿Otro podcast más? Sí, lo sé, el boom de los podcast está pasando…
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…
There has been an outpouring of grief among Shi‘i Muslims across the world at the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. An anthropology of geopolitics that foregrounds relational geographies and…
There has been an outpouring of grief among Shi‘i Muslims across the world at the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. An anthropology of geopolitics that foregrounds relational geographies and…
Since the early 2000s, the Canadian government has attempted reconciliation with Indigenous Nations through varied efforts: treaty processes, government commissions, rebranding campaigns for settler-owned businesses, workshops for state…
David Beriss As I noted in my previous post, we had a tie for the winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. The tie is between…
David Beriss It is time once again to reveal the winners of the 2026 SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest! Our decisions this year were reached by a panel…
In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian speaks with Paul O’Keefe. Paul worked for many years at in Kakkuma refugee camp in Kenya, including for the University of…
In this episode YAIM members retrace their perilous backway journey towards Europe in 2016/2017, across West African borders into Libya, highlighting the systemic […] The post JOU…
Spänningsfylld orgelmusik stiger i styrka, strålkastare ramar in en ensam gestalt iklädd en lång svart rock, publiken tystnar i förväntan – teaterföreställningen kan börja. ”Det är jag som…
This episode features a conversation with Ravikant Kisana, Dean of the School of Liberal Education and Languages at Galgotias University in India, about his book Meet the Savarnas: Indian…
In this episode of Displacing Universities Ian and Monica are speaking about the various Initiatives for Refugees at University of Cologne with Ariane Elshof. Ariane works in the…
La foto es de Sam Lozano Comentario para Isabel Gómez Ara, investigadora del grupo Cultura Popular i Conflicte, CPC, de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia, enviado en marzo de 2026.…
Soziale Netzwerke sorgen permanent für schlechte Laune – aber man bleibt drin oder zieht bestenfalls zur nächsten kommerziellen Plattform. Es gibt jedoch eine andere, dezentrale und selbstbestimmte Tr…
I am going to share a story with you. And then I am going to explain what was, for me, the most important part of my PhD research:…