Race and Cricket Narratives in the West Indies
Adnan Hossain asks who the best fast bowlers are, and why race matters in West Indies cricket. In the Caribbean, cricket is not only a sport but…
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The Straight Dope on Regulating Fair Play in Sport
Why do so many athletes seem to be cheating? Kathryn Henne delves into the rules surrounding doping and gender in sport. Maria Sharapova, pictured here at the…
Conflict over Transitional Justice in Nepal
A decade after Nepal’s internal armed conflict came to an end its victims are still campaigning for redress. Krista Billingsley describes recent demonstrations in Kathmandu and charts the…
Independence for Scotland?
The UK Brexit vote has reawakened calls for independence in Scotland. Cynthia Mahmood and Emma Simmons share their notes from the field. The Saltire or cross of St.…
#DakarFutures 2016
In June 2016 academics, professionals, practitioners and students gathered in Dakar for a conference on “Innovation, Transformation and Sustainable Futures in Africa.” For nearly two decades, there ha…
Feminist Futures in Africa?
“Je suis feministe!” (I am feminist!) declared renowned Senegalese sociologist Fatou Sow (Université Cheikh Anta Diop) to a packed, energized room at the ASA/AAA Dakar Conference. “I am…
Charting Charcoal in Haiti
Estimating and Understanding Annual Charcoal Production and Consumption at the National level in Haiti Anthropologists engage subjects at various scales through a plethora of methods. We may solicit…
Annual Meeting Executive Sessions
From a total of 40 proposed sessions, the Executive Program Committee selected 24 discrete panels and roundtables as Executive Sessions for the 115th Annual Meeting, to be held in Minneapolis,…
Working at a Döner Kebab Shop
Author posing next to two doner kebabs, beef and chicken, rotating on vertical rotisseries. Photo courtesy Oguz Alyanak My research in Strasbourg, France, explores how Muslim Turkish men…
Call for Proposals: Campaigns and Elections
As another presidential election arrives in a year dominated by campaign-related news in the US, we’ll explore campaigns and elections ranging from recent parliamentary elections in Iran, to…
Unapologetically Black?
Savannah Shange on shapeshifting, state violence and ritual regret after a week of shootings. The vigil in Baton Rouge. Photo courtesy L’lerrét Jazelle Ailith Twelve white seven-day…
Deforestation, Dogs, and Zoonotic Disease
As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to human populations—are outpacing modern medical solutions. Contributors to …
Circulating Ebola in the Anthropocene
As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to human populations—are outpacing modern medical solutions. Contributors to …
Of Farmers and Fowl
Investigating Bird Flu in Vietnam As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to human populations—are outpacing modern m…
The Plague of Inequality in Madagascar
As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to human populations—are outpacing modern medical solutions. Contributors to …
Diseases That Don’t Fit
Dengue, Zika, and the Trouble with Classifications As Earth’s climate and species assemblages rapidly change, emergent zoonoses—diseases that spill over from nonhuman animal to human populations—are o…
Charting New Territory
The Intersection of Language and Geography When most people think about linguistic geography, if they think of it at all, they think of dialect atlases such as the…
A Taste of the Basque Country
My first trip to the Basque Country, an ethnic nation straddling northwest Spain and southwest France, was not academic in nature; I was there with my partner David…
A Tale of Two Museums
Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons Among Basques, it used to be “the anthropologist as hero.” By the turn of the new millennium it was “the architect…
Edited Out of History
How the Absence of Black and Brown Children from the Historical Record Could be Hazardous to Your Health When Lewis Hine took a job as the photographer for…
Why Are People on the Move?
At the 2016 Folklife Festival AAA asks what objects you would take with you if you suddenly had to move and how you would cope with new surroundings.…
Why We Need to Stop Talking about Trans People in the Bathroom
Painted stencil on a sidewalk in Seattle, 2000. Photo courtesy Ann Kakaliouras. In a May 18th 2016 Time magazine article titled “What Science Says About the Bathroom Debate,”…
Garbage, Waste-Products, and Value in Kunming
Since 2009, news outlets across China have repeated the mantra that “two-thirds of China’s cities face besiegement by garbage”—constituting a national crisis. Included is Kunming, the burgeoning capit…
Call for Proposals: Research Methods
What Research Methods Are You Using This Summer? This summer, Anthropology News would like to hear about the creative or innovative methods that you are using in your…