Suspicion appears to sit largely in the nose: we might say that something ‘stinks,’ ‘smells off,’ that we ‘smell a rat,’ or perhaps ‘something fishy.’ Such suspicious smells…
Image 1: Gated community ‘Vila Ingles’ in São Paolo. Photo by Cornelius Kibelka In urban Brazil, portarias–entry halls and porters lodges–and their staff absorb the circulation of people…
Image 1: Photo of an election poster for former Mozambican president Armando Guebuza. The poster burnt down and destroyed in relation to the uprisings in Maputo 2010. Photo…
Image 1: Akwesasne territory. Source: Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Born on US soil to citizen parents, I applied for my first passport at age 12, when my grandma…
Image 1: Exú Tranca Rua (left) and Maria Padilha das 7 Encruzilhadas (right) depicted on the walls of the center. Photo by author. When I started fieldwork in…
Image 1: Military police officer patrolling in Mangueira, Brazil. Photo by Tomas Salem Palm Springs, mid-September 2025. The American flag flies at half-staff across the city in honour…
Registration Now Open for 2026 Virtual Speaker Series, Curated by the School for Advanced Research and the Gilcrease Museum Santa Fe, N.M. — [December 17, 2025] — The…
Sherry Fukuzawa, Associate Professor Teaching Stream, University of Toronto Mississauga In my fourth year undergraduate seminar course “Rethinking Anthropology from a Community Perspective” student…
An academic’s office. A chair and a desk with a colourful scarf as table cloth. On the desk, a laptop, reading lamp, and a few books. Hanging on…
Presidente da República, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, durante encontro com o Curupira, mascote da COP30. Parque da Cidade – Belém (PA) Foto: Ricardo Stuckert / PR This…
The School for Advanced Research Honors Authors David Wengrow and the Late David Graeber Santa Fe, NM (November 21, 2025) — The School for Advanced Research (SAR) announces…
Image 1: Gift shop window in Belgrade, May 2025, photo by Astrea Nikolovska In the mid-2010s, the tourist center of Belgrade was full of various souvenirs featuring the…
This blog post is part of the Seminar Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience, April 10, 2025, funded by the WARFUN project. I love the Norse mythology. I really do,…
Courtney Manthey, The University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA; The University of Montana, USA Christopher Lynn, The University of Alabama, USA Fieldwork is often described as anthropology’s ri…
The Getty Foundation partners with people and organizations in Los Angeles and around the world by awarding grants that support art historical scholarship, conserve art and architecture, increase…
“They should know better.” Well, they don’t. What now? I see a lot of rhetoric these days about how certain people in certain political cults–oh, you know the…
Before, times like these have come before Times when we witnessed hurricanes that never stopped uprooting trees We thought that we had learned how to travel the road to…
A Postscript Note: I finished writing this piece prior to the Israeli-US attacks on Iranian cities and nuclear facilities, which killed over a thousand people. There is, therefore,…
“History is what hurts,” stated Frederic Jameson; “it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis” (1982, 102). And the situation…
The reception of Haddon’s journals reveals the value of ethnographic archives for research and community empowerment.
Louana Meloche, Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada The conclusion of The Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP29) offered a painful but important moment for…
This forum has shed light on vastly different but interrelated contexts of Palestine solidarity. The essays draw attention to the interplay of shifting solidarities with Palestine and the…
One question has been haunting me since the current wave of repression of pro-Palestinian speech began in the wake of the October 7 attacks and the genocidal campaign-disguised-as-reprisal…
Extrajudicial arrest, termination from employment, suspension of university enrollment, being declared persona non-grata (Karl 2025), police violence at demonstrations, harassment at airports, online …