Continuing the series that began in 2025, this year we will present five more posts prepared for Platypus by researchers from the Latin American Network of Feminist Anthropology…
Emily de WetSkidmore College On April 28th, a video of pop star Billie Eilish went viral and unleashed a firestorm of controversy online. In the video, Eilish was…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my…
Noah Walker-Crawford‘s The Climate Trial examines a groundbreaking case where a Peruvian farmer sued a German energy company over its contribution to climate harms impacting his livelihood. This…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
Written by John P. Ruehl The Trump administration’s July 2025 decision to have the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative …
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares. Will Work for Food Labor across the Food Chain. University of California Press. 2025. ISBN: 9780520391611 Janis Brehler (Oregon State Universi…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
Records of the Mountain Molalla are very limited. Besides a few records of the tribe living around Pleasant Hill, at Lost Valley, there is nearly nothing known of…
Ruby Tandoh. All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now. Knopf. New York. 2025. ISBN: 979-8-217-20786-2. Richard Zimmer, Sonoma State University We are all foodies now. We think …
Written by April M. Short Anthropologists’ research on the origins of war, going back to the beginning of human history …
By Romy de Vos and William Arfman – Friday the 28 th of November 2025. “Feel your feet on the ground. Look each other in the eyes. Give…
The time has come to plan and submit sessions for the 2026 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri! The meeting will take place from November…
The volume Explaining Extreme Belief and Behavior: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Challenges edited by Rik Peels and Lorne L. Dawson, turns the gaze of extremism research on the…
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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…