We have never been Modern Lodge
The Modern has seen better days. Astronomical sums would buy it. Raju is caretaking, but, well, unlike most of Kolkata which has a certain sheen of relevance and…
The Modern has seen better days. Astronomical sums would buy it. Raju is caretaking, but, well, unlike most of Kolkata which has a certain sheen of relevance and…
Leftists, because on the whole we are mostly (and rightfully) not all that excited about AI as it exists today, are often accused of being luddites or of…
Maren Larsen‘s Worlding Home is a study of UN peacekeeping camps in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing them as dynamic, porous and embedded in city life. Larsen…
Tulasi Srinivas‘s The Goddess in the Mirror is an ethnography of Bangalore’s beauty salons, teasing out how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in urban India.…
You are invited to an afternoon discussion on 11 February among (and with) Annelies Moors, Nadia Bouras, Sarah Bracke and Jeroen Geurts. This event brings together scholars and research leaders to ref…
ANTH 3354 – Anthropology of Hunting Spring 2026 As the instructor for this course, I reserve the right to adjust this schedule in any way that serves the…
A group of archaeologists and anthropologists have come together in a new publication to open up conversation about the state of academic publishing and how it can (and…
Men are not trash. Perpetuating that narrative helps normalize rape culture by making it seem like it’s just inherent to their nature. It’s not, and we’ve gotta stop…
Fragments on Trees & Ireland
I can’t stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig’s book Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia. In it, he describes…
Simmons, Dana. 2025. On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520412989 xiii + 234 pp. Acknowledgements, notes, bibliograp…
Written by Jehron Muhammad West Africa’s “coup belt” widens as the continent confronts a striking resurgence of military attempts at …
The upper McKenzie River, in Oregon, is a vast wilderness and a tourist fishing location for the past 100 years. Some 30% of the clean water in the…
This article, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperative…
New article – this is about heritage restoration according to old colonial protocols and myopias. Contesting entrepreneur-developers facing funder imperatives, the article works through meaning…
Sambusas, Somali restaurant, Minneapolis, 12/25. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food ant…
by Sophie Leegwater – A few minutes before 4:30 pm on a Monday afternoon in early January 2024, I hop into the yellow cab that takes me to…
Essays written in preparation for my Comprehensive exams, nearly 20 years ago. Anthropology and Government Policy Part of the government’s role regarding Indian people was to figure out…
For technology leaders and founders, a perspective on people is something you want in the room every step of the way. Anthropology – and human-centered design more broadly…
Written by John P. Ruehl The 2025 U.S. housing market presents a paradox. Home sales are down, and there are …
This year I taught my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington after a two year break. As readers of this blog will…
By Simon Hoyte & Jerome Lewis The world is waking up to the deep connection between human, animal, plant, and environmental health. The concept of ‘One Health’, coined…
Just Transformations: Reimagining Sustainable Food Systems and CulturesThe Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), and the …
After much deliberation, here is my hot take on AI: we desire it, but we don’t actually need it. The fact that something is technically possible doesn’t automatically…