Since the last post we’ve conducted two fieldwork trips to Lobeke National Park. Fair to say it’s pretty out of the way – three days by 4X4 on…
My colleague Sumin Myung and I are launching a Critical Data Studies Lab at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington on Friday 13 November 2026.
Sitting in a parked car, phone propped up on the dashboard, recording, he takes a bite of his Chipotle bowl between sentences about a metabolic drug meant to…
Written by Colin Greer; Eric Laursen Toxic societal polarization is the product of malignant bonding, scarcity mindsets, and trauma. However, …
Hasn’t the sheer abundance of chit-chat made criticism, and even journalism you pay for, obsolete? Articles that would bug most people aren’t even read because something else more…
Poster del evento El pasado jueves 17 de septiembre de 2026 tuvimos una conversación con la Dra. Barbara Miller, profesora de antropología y relaciones públicas en la…
Playing this game in class was the highlight of my 2025 teaching year.
November 9th, 2016 found me as shocked and depressed as any Hilary Clinton supporter — and not only because the xenophobic, racist, sexist, and generally despicable Donald Trump…
14 September 2026 Samprati Pani A long-time resident of a neighbourhood might suggest one to you. And when you set out looking for it, a chaiwala or a…
painting by Rene Magritte. xx Excellent questions from my anth class today: “…a question related to Social Anthropology: how do we truly understand another person when we may…
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…
17 August 2026 Afsheen Rizvi While some university students were busy eating their lunch at Jamia Women’s Canteen, we sat with Sughra trying to understand her food habits,…
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…