An Account of Intimate Interest
This poem is an account of materiality through time-tracking and place-making, viewed from within the contours of home while wearing the ethnographer’s lens.
This poem is an account of materiality through time-tracking and place-making, viewed from within the contours of home while wearing the ethnographer’s lens.
Pasta with yogurt, photo by Elif Birbiri Elif BirbiriYork University Do we still tell food stories to each other? About what we cook, what we miss, and what…
. The same one, from Colombia to New York to London to Vietnam, and a few places in between.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument consists of two islands: Liberty Island (which hosts the State of Liberty) and Ellis Island, the s…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Mandy Muise. Muise is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt…
Lee Johnson 2025 Mixing Memory & Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica & Miami, Florida: Ian Randle Publishers. xxi + 334 pp 6″x…
If you work at a university, you’ll know that Open Days are an important recruitment event. Universities here in Aotearoa are facing increasing financial challenges (a result of…
Just recently, I joined a science comedy debate where Team Biology went head-to-head with Team Tech. The motion? That biology is winning the race against technology. And while…
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city…
Written by Richard E. Blanton Analyzing the collapses of four historical empires—Ming China, Mughal India, the High Roman Empire, and …
Didier Eribon‘s memoir, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman was prompted by the occasion of his mother being moved into a nursing home when…
Double Injustice: Media Racism
Report｜The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia 2025-05-26 Topic｜The Relevance of Post-colonial Imagination in 21st Century Asia Date/Time｜2025/5/26 09:00-18:00 (T…
By Beth Bento – The day began with the high stakes of a long-awaited interview. After nearly a month in Altamira, Pará, I finally felt more connected to…
D.H. We Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: D.H. We and Elif Birbiri. Started in 2023, the aim of this…
Elif Birbiri Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: Elif Birbiri and D.H. We. Started in 2023, the aim of this…
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Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley Book events (upcoming and past) 2025 (upcoming) Dec 12/6 Wild Arts Festival Author Table Hillsboro Aug 8/4 Shared Stewardship 101, Benton…
Let’s be honest. Anthropology is plagued by dull, pretentious, and sometimes even meaningless prose: language that is at best imprecise and at worst incomprehensible. Now and then, examples…
by Marjorie Hecht Introduction It’s surprising that human infants as young as 10 months may be able to identify social …
The Role of the Anthropological Survey of India in Shaping Indian Anthropology Introduction The Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI), established in 1945, stands as a cornerstone in…