Crossing the uncrossable
By Ekaterina Thor – The Russian border. Since most countries decided to close their borders and most airlines chose to pull out their offers, going to Russia and…
By Ekaterina Thor – The Russian border. Since most countries decided to close their borders and most airlines chose to pull out their offers, going to Russia and…
Written by Jehron Muhammad After slavery, African descendants were forced into sharecropping. Small country merchants took the place of plantation …
In The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, Angela Saini explores the origins of patriarchy, debunking biological determinism and highlighting the role of nation building, social norms, and…
The Culture Trap by Derron Wallace compares the academic experiences of second-generation Black Caribbean youth in New York City and London, arguing that “ethnic expectations” shape studen…
It’s 2025. You and your spouse are sitting down to some serious education. You ask, “So what do you feel like?” Your spouse says “how about Bernie and…
During a semester (and a year, and a period) filled with woe, my graduate course was one of the most meaningful and rich educational experiences of my career.…
Written by Keith Hart 4. Sex divisions in the Caribbean and West Africa I spent two years of fieldwork in …
Noting these to read later thanks Rani Djandam: Achmad Fedyani Saifuddin Here and here Heddy Shri Ahimsa-Putra Here and here Please recommend more…
In The Front Room, Michael McMillan examines the significance of domestic spaces in creating a sense of belonging for Caribbean migrants in the UK. Delving into themes of resistance…
Together with my colleagues Thijl Sunier and Jamal Ahajjaj, I have written a chapter “Activating Muslims: Citizenship in Dutch Islamic Schools” in the volume Difference and Sameness in…
On April 30, 2019, a shooter entered my classroom on my last day of teaching at UNC-Charlotte. I was preparing to move to Texas to begin a doctoral…
Foto by Carrie Borden on Unsplash The Digital Ethnography Initiative (DEI) is delighted to invite you to a talk by Dr. John Postill (RMIT), one of the key…
We are happy to announce the 3rd place winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photography contest. You can see the overall winner’s work here and the second…
Yesterday we announced the winner of the annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photography contest and posted the photographs they submitted. You can see them here. We are now happy…
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…
DEI goes VANDA2024! We are excited to announce that the CfP for our panel at the Vienna Anthropology Days 2024 (VANDA2024) is online now. The conference will take…
Written by Keith Hart 2. The agrarian phase of peasant patriarchy and the anomaly of slavery Families based on a …
Weber, Karl, ed. (2023) Food, Inc.2. Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food. NY: Hachette Book Group-Public Affairs. ISBN: 9781541703575. 336 pages. Ellen Messer Cover design…
Ariana GundersonIndiana University I recently had the opportunity to share the importance and joys of our discipline of Food Anthropology with sixteen middle schoolers who visited Indiana Universi…
Harris, Will (2023) A Bold Return to Giving a Damn. One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food. With Amely Greeven. Viking. ISBN 9780593300473. 304 pages. Ellen Messer…
ATTN SAFN MEMBERS: Plan and submit your sessions for the joint 2024 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in Tampa Florida. The time has come to start planning and…
I had occasion to revisit this from 2007 again today: politics-of-catsDownload
The most popular post on my blog describes the fieldnote template I developed during the early stages of my PhD research with community-based NGOs running educational and economic…
Photo Neni Panourgiá. Necromancer (The Oracle of the Dead) by the river Acheron, Greece. Jugs that held cereal and other seed offerings to the shrine. 14th-13th century BCE.…