Sharryn Kasmir, Hofstra University & University of Bergen Several weeks into the global pandemic, the gravity of the COVID-19-triggered economic crisis in the United States is coming into…
(via Stuff, a respected New Zealand news site, despite its name.) Teddy bears are popping up in windows around New Zealand homes as people come up with fun…
(For the past year or two, I’ve been contemplating writing a “missing manual” for university that explains the tacit skills and knowledge for getting by in university that…
Ramesh Sunam, Waseda University, Tokyo Suraj (name changed), arrived a year ago from Nepal to study at a Japanese language institute in Nagoya, Japan. He was working part-time…
A couple of years ago, I started flirting with people online. Pretty much everyone. In nearly every conversation. I didn’t mean to, and I didn’t start it. But…
At the end of February, the center of Italian capital encountered an unexpected problem. Not an unforeseeable one, but one that was not previously thought possible in the…
A prolonged wait at the pharmacy, a long queue before entering a supermarket. Experiences like this, today increasingly common, can help us to see how the spreading of…
You can visit my YouTube channel: Anthropology 365. I am currently working on content that covers a field examination of the use of anthropogenic (human-made) spaces by reptiles…
If we’re all going to be locked down and locked into Zoom, then we might as well have a little fun with it. Inspired by a posting in…
von Leonard Mach Die Bib ist zu, das E-Mail-Postfach quillt förmlich mit neu ankommenden Emails über und ich sitze mit einem Kaffee vor meinem Computer — Home Office…
The situation in which we now find ourselves in the privileged postcolonial West is a new one in the postwar period, but one that is more known to…
Differing approaches to COVID-19 divided by the rolling hills and windy roads (of which there are many) of one of Europe’s most porous borders, have precipitated a personal…
It is scientifically proven that large amounts of sugar consumption necessarily affects weight gain and can lead to a disease such as obesity. The main problem is that…
We are firmly set in the middle of a global pandemic at the moment. As it currently stands, the World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting just under 300,000…
It is known that losing excess weight process is very difficult and exhausting. That is why many people are not able to cope with it. They give up…
Author: Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her work focuses on religion, language, and ritual practice in South Asia. Her current research addresses issues…
All processes totality occurring in the human body can be described in one word – metabolism. It is responsible for vital body functioning. This term is also used…
Experts claim that the losing weight process requires patience and time in the first place. It is not possible to lose a large amount of excess weight in…
I found it helpful when Eriksen drew the line in the sand about the fundamental questions that anthropology concerns itself with. Here’s his Big Three: 1) What is…
Today, there is a huge number of tips for weight loss. You can also find a large amount of information about specially designed diets that are aimed at…
Everyone wants to have a toned shape, slim figure and look attractive. This is what induces many people to stick to exhausting diets and engage in grueling exercise.…
The initial weight loss process stage is the most difficult, perhaps. Many people are really confused because they do not know where to start losing weight in order…
The Amazon River Basin is one of the richest river systems in the world, covering more than 7-million square kilometers. This system contains more than 5600 species of…
Western notions of modernity have situated human society apart from nature, which encompasses those spaces and beings that are unmodified and unsullied by human activity. The Western conception…