Mohamad Hafez’s sculptural mural, Between Love and War. Photo courtesy Zareena Grewal In his recent open letter to Donald Trump, Brandon Stanton, the self-described journalist and photographer-blogger…
Stonehenge, the Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, England. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1986. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons.…
A view of Damascus. Photo courtesy Faedah M Totah The human misery and destruction created by regime forces bombarding Syrian cities and towns has reinforced the unique status…
Feminist Approaches within and Around the Law At a recent Mexico City training session in her organization’s model of abortion accompaniment (the provision of emotional and logistical support…
The military conflict that now consumes Syria and neighboring parts of Iraq and Turkey, the northern portion of the Fertile Crescent, are home to an extraordinarily rich archaeological…
My background is in sociocultural and applied linguistics, and I first joined AAA as a fifth-year doctoral student. It took me a while to learn to feel comfortable…
brothers dying in the street and our hoods in crisis we need more messages for the grassroots we need resurrections like Osiris corner stores b-boys wondering what freedoms…
I cannot count how many times I’ve been out of state and people have been flabbergasted that I’m from Indianapolis, Indiana. Initially, this is because the idea of…
Photo Courtesy Daniel Suave I pulled my car up to a parking spot on a steep hill, deployed my emergency brake and made to step out of the…
Nasreddin Hodja miniature at the Topkapı Palace Museum Library in İstanbul. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons “Eat, eat my fur coat,” said Nasreddin Hodja to criticize societal attitudes th…
I hope people will read the Task Force Report on Israel/Palestine. It represents hundreds of hours of labor by our colleagues. It reflects what is special about our…
The upcoming vote on a resolution to boycott Israeli academia is unprecedented in our field’s history, and is being followed throughout the social sciences and humanities as a…
Photo Courtesy Daniel Suave The Movement for Black Lives conference took place in Cleveland, OH on July 25–26 on the campus of Cleveland State U. In all, approximately…
The very public lynchings of black men, women, and children prompted much concern, discussion, and action at the 2014 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Washington,…
DNA in the News Rapid developments in genetic technologies are allowing for innovative applications in archaeology and anthropology. Intriguing scientific studies hinting at population origins, moveme…
This call to action was written by Adriana Garriga-López (Kalamazoo C) and Shir Lerman (U Connecticut), with Jessica Mulligan (Providence C), Alexa Dietrich (Wagner C), Carlos E Rodríguez-Díaz…
Exploring Child Migration through a Legal and Anthropological Lens Part I: Overview In 1985, a 15-year old girl named Jenny Lisette Flores fled the El Salvadoran civil…
Hiding in Plain Sight Bell-krater featuring an elderly satyr and a young Dionysus. Attributed to Python (Greek, South Italian, Paestan, active mid-4th century BC). Polaroids of this bell-krater…
Weighing Commitments to Community and Heritage The AAA Statement of Ethics asks anthropologists to “do no harm,” an injunction that is deceptively simple. After all, anthropologists can rarely…
Road M15 near Reni, Ukraine in October, 2013. Photo courtesy Simon Schlegel When protests erupted in Ukraine in late November 2013, I was conducting fieldwork in southern Bessarabia,…
“Hasn’t he got any patriotism?” [Colonel Cathcart asked]. “Won’t you fight for your country?” Colonel Korn demanded. “Won’t you give up your life for Co…
In late 2015, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) warned of an impending refugee flow from Central America in large part because of the threat of…
Examining Boundaries in Adolescent Birth in Mexico Adolescents as reproducers are often considered a problematic category because of their paradoxical duality as children who have babies. For women ou…
Global Health Policy Toward Traditional Healers Introduction Much has occurred in the world of traditional medicine since the World Health Organization (WHO) first appealed for the integration of…