Native Peoples in the Upper McKenzie River
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…
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…
The APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of … More
The theme of this year’s American Anthropological Association meeting in New Orleans was “ghosts.” Never before had I seen contributors cling so tightly to the organizing theme of…
In a perhaps misguided effort to preserve love of writing, enthuse about independent critical mental facility, to “exercise the metaphoric muscle”, as Mick Taussig would say, and just…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/apv.12445?domain=author&token=4C3TESRPRVSEVSXAETSN Abstract: This paper considers a course on critical thinking in Vietnam with a case s…
A phone full of photos of shelves full of food. Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to…
Written by Sharon Kumar Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of modern society, revolutionizing industries, enhancing daily …
I interviewed the much missed Keith Hart about a half dozen times across the last 30 or so years, each time planning to do something with it but…
Alexander Strecker (ed). Bread for the LIving, Bread for the Dead. Tavros Press, Athens 2025. 137 pp. ISBN 978-618-87697-0-0 David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) &n…
The School for Advanced Research Honors Authors David Wengrow and the Late David Graeber Santa Fe, NM (November 21, 2025) — The School for Advanced Research (SAR) announces…
2026 AJJ Annual Conference May 23-24th, 2026 Akita University Conference Theme Entanglements and Embodiments: Anthropology, Ethnography and Sensing Japan Location The conference will be held …
We look forward to seeing many of SAFN’s members at the AAA meeting in New Orleans. For those of you attending the event, we are sharing a list…
Keith Hart 6th November & Paolo Virno on 7th November. Death is sad, but I imagine them plotting strategies on storming heaven and would love to read their…