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Terri gave me this large stone when we met up in 2022 at the Conference on Iroquois Research (Figure 1). [i] That year […] The post Weight appeared first on Allegra…
Terri gave me this large stone when we met up in 2022 at the Conference on Iroquois Research (Figure 1). [i] That year […] The post Weight appeared first on Allegra…
In this live discussion, anthropologist Anand Pandian shares insights from his timely new book, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down.…
I want to begin not with theory, but with a moment. It is early June 2016, and I am in […] The post Holding Space: On Risk, Rupture,…
Two ethnographic filmmakers enter the government maze in India, documenting how citizens make claims on the state while imagining alternate bureaucratic encounters. ✽ Enter the Reception Room, and…
After more than eight years of no contact, I conducted a video call with a former non-influential officer from an […] The post The Emotional Toll of Death…
How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and […] The post Do walls still have ears?…
“Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in […] The post Return to a Bare Land…
Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González…
Walk with a linguistic anthropologist through the sounds, politics, and fabulosity of a kiki ball in Puerto Rico. Since its emergence in 1960s Harlem, the LGBTQ+ “ballroom scene”…
Using an original poetic form, a poet chips away at a difficult history—becoming an agent of her own remaking and more than just an estranged daughter. “Debitage” is…
Last year, I submitted an abstract for a conference about the future of authoritarianism with the title ‘knowledge production and […] The post In times like these appeared…
We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in […] The post The Temporality of Violence — Affect,…
An anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt. ✽ WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I tended…
In a themed collection, poets trace contours of power to critique colonialism, environmental destruction, and social violence while transforming the landscape of possibilities. ✽ A detainee prays in…
In an effort to address toxic polarization in the U.S., an anthropologist of the “Trumpiverse” explains MAGA supporters’ thinking in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This article was…
Mónica Degen The Reciprocity of Touch Skin is our largest organ and mainly associated with our exterior appearances and identities, […] The post Skin appeared first on Allegra…
Anthropologist David Graeber’s celebrated theory of “bullshit jobs” continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd. This article was…
Fire Bodies was written in response to the death of my partner and the embodied experience of climate catastrophic events. […] The post Fire bodies appeared first on…
In two poems, an anthropologist speaks to the timelessness and constant change of the minority language Griko in the Italian landscape. ✽ The story of the minority language…
In Significant Emotions, Ashley Frawley critiques the trend of pathologising distress caused by socio-economic problems (like cost-of-living pressures and insecure, low-paid employment) as “ment…
The proliferation of smartphones is transforming basic structures of human existence, experience, and performance. How do these machines change what it means to be human? Where is your…
Criminals and Gangmembers Anonymous, a 12-step recovery program, has proliferated in California’s carceral system. An anthropologist investigates the program, which sees criminality as a chronic addic…
SAPIENS is seeking poetry submissions for a curated collection that will publish next year. Deadline: September 1, 2024. ✽ SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine invites creative works for the upcoming…
A sociocultural anthropologist explores the cultural significance of funeral rituals and food traditions worldwide. Funeral traditions around the world involve a range of rituals. From singing to bu…