How long has Humanity been at War with itself?
Written by Deborah Barsky The famous American astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “You have to know the past to understand …
Written by Deborah Barsky The famous American astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “You have to know the past to understand …
In the history of the 19th century there was a tradition among scientists to collect human remains from burial sites. It was a large worldwide operation and was…
In Feeding the World as if People Mattered, Andrew Flachs critiques the capitalist global food system which commodifies agriculture, wastes food and leaves many hungry. He calls for…
In Tribal Reawakening and the Future of State-Building in Kuwait and Qatar, Maryam Al-Kuwari challenges the assumption that modern state-building has diminished the relevance of tribal identities in…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2026 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Patricia Mathu. Mathu is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Purdue University. Her dissertation foc…
Aysel brought out her candles wrapped in stretch wrap and put them on the coffee table in the middle of our interview. She was very proud of showing…
The anthropological project, tired and exhausted after years searching for ‘methodological absolution’, remains mired in a spiral of self-doubt and self-indulgent ‘crisis’. Anthropological teachi…
Written by Gary M. Feinman As democracies around the world face mounting challenges and pressures, discussions about autocracy often focus …
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The last hereditary Welsh prince, Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis castle as a craggy fort in the 13th century; the estate was his reward for abandoning…
Anthropologists, somewhat unconsciously, remained for a long time in the position of conservative culture camp commandants—overseers of a pickled-in-aspic view of ‘the native’ that was no…
Your article, Contested Glories of Selective Renovation in West Bengal, has been published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, and is now available…
Inequality: The View from Manywheres by Séamus Power explores competing perspectives on economic inequality, capitalism and social mobility through a lens of anthropology and cultural psychology. Powe…
This is the (overdue!) second part of a series reflecting on changes I made to my undergraduate course Anthropology for Liberation at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington…
“An outpouring of books on the Sundarbans delta and other Bengal waterways immerse us in a new ecological analytic. An amazing liquid world churns at the end of…
Tea Towel from Scott Barton’s Exhibit “Buried in the Heart: A Repast for Angels and Martyrs.” LindenSculpture Garden https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=B8ru5vyK3da David Sutton In this installme…
Review of Sustainable Consumption and Everyday Food Practices in Europe. Edited by Virginie Amilien, Monia Saïdi, and Matthieu Duboys de Labarre. London: Routledge, 2026. Xiii + 258 pp. ISBN…
Resultados de búsqueda en línea de imágenes sobre la inteligencia artificial, en julio 2026. La inteligencia artificial Ya prácticamente no transcurre un día entero sin que algo…
“The displacement of Marxist categories in the discussion of hybridity also alibis and parallels the displacement and replacement of third worldist solidarity work and internationalist politics…
‘In Paul Rabinow’s monograph Symbolic Domination (1975) the anthropologist examines the history of a Moroccan village and its dominant lineage descended from a seventeenth century saint S…
An Essay in Quotes Privilege in Practice “only within anthropological study has it been able to convey the richness and diversity of Native societies” (Bea Medicine 2001, 28).…
Chapter 15 of “Celebrating Transgression Method and Politics in Anthropological Studies of Culture: A book in Honour of Klaus Peter Köpping” Edited by Ursula Rao and John Hutnyk…
Anthropology is widely recognized as a fragmented, precarious discipline: short-term contracts, insecure funding, and the pressure to publish on institutional time threaten our ability to do sustained…
Written by Yann Perreau The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most …
On World Usability Day in 2023, I gathered my User Experience team for an AI Learning session. Members of my team had been experimenting with Adobe Firefly and…