By Kate Symons, University of Edinburgh. [C]onservation is not a priority….. they [Frelimo] want economic growth at any point. So if they find …… coal and gas and…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Andrea Buhl Photo 1: Ocean Road Cancer Institute Dar es Salaam, Source: ORCI. The emergence of hospices and palliative care in Africa…
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Kisisi (Our Language): The Story of Colin and Sadiki chronicles a charming and, indeed, remarkable friendship that developed between two five-year-old boys—one (Sadiki), the son of a traditionally…
Photo: John Hawks. Homo naledi has much in common with early forms of the genus Homo On this episode, Adam and Ryan dive into the complexities of our…
Photo: John Hawks. Homo naledi has much in common with early forms of the genus Homo On this episode, Adam and Ryan dive into the complexities of our…
Hide Press Release (11 Less Words) Kristina Dohrn, Britta Rutert, Judith Schühle, Nasima Selim, Mechthild von Vacano Picture 1: Paul Stoller. 11 February 2017. Image published with permission.…
For the upcoming 2017 AAA meetings in Washington DC. Contact the organizers listed below if you are interested in participating. Famines and Food Crises in Africa: Causes, Consequences…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) René Umlauf This photo was taken 31st of August 2016. It shows the compound of Gulu’s District Health Administration, which was used…
In August 2016, during a science-meets-policy summit in Kampala’s famous Serena Hotel, a presentation on the (in-)effectiveness of so-called long-lasting insecticide-treated nets against malaria spark…
By Nikkie Wiegink, Utrecht University “More studies, more studies! Ok, it is necessary to do those studies, but to what end?!” Carlos (a pseudonym) was furious. It is…
By Katja Werthmann, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig Recently, Burkina Faso celebrated the second anniversary of its popular uprising on 30 and 31 October 2014 that…
By Katja Werthmann, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig Recently, Burkina Faso celebrated the second anniversary of its popular uprising on 30 and 31 October 2014 that…
One thing I did not predict is that, even five years later, what happened to Libya and to Muammar Gaddafi would still cast a long shadow across the…
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Angelique Haugerud. “America is a shining example of how to hold a free and fair election, right?” asks Bassem Youssef, a comedian and…
“There is something unseemly about a nation conducting a foreign policy that involves it in the affairs of most of the nations of the world while its own…
Figure 1. Rhodes must fall. Photo by Desmond Bowles, April 2016 (CC BY SA 4.0). The past year has seen violent protests at most South African universities, where…
In recent weeks we’ve been posting about the use of anthropological tenets and ethnographic practices beyond traditional field sites. This topic was addressed from author Elizabeth Durham’s perspectiv…
A new semester is upon us, and our monthly round-up, In the Journals, is here to provide our readers with some of the best articles from around academia.…
By Sabine Luning, Leiden University My recent start of new fieldwork in Suriname and French Guiana raises interesting questions about ‘entering the field’. How is it that the…
By Robert Pijpers, University of Oslo Resources are all around us, they are in the screen you are now looking at, in the Olympic medals that have recently…
Sakolabada is a new town which completely depends on gold mining. Officially, it doesn´t exist, it doesn´t show on any official administrative map. However, in this non-existent town,…
The editors of Anthropoliteia welcome Olly Owen with a dispatch from fieldwork with police in Nigeria. Olly Owen is ESRC research fellow at Oxford University’s Department of International Develo…
The most challenging notion to take on board in the governance of today’s world is that not all that counts can be counted. We increasingly rely on numbers…