SAFN Anthro Day Photo Contest Results, part 4
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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:…
Josée Johnston, Shyon Bauman, Emily Huddart, Merin Oleschuk. Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea. Stanford University Press. Stanford, California. 2025. 320 pp. Isbn: 9781503638334…
In my experiments with zines (in classes, research collaborations, and conferencing), I’ve also begun writing about them as a form and where I see them fitting into the…
Written by James Murray, Staff Writer Neil Turner’s writings explore the intersection of power, biopolitics, and social identity, primarily through the …
Jennifer Jo Thompson (University of Georgia) Each summer since 2014, I’ve taught anthropology on the road with the University of Georgia’s Interdisciplinary Field Program (IFP)—a domestic field pr…
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…