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Adam Johnson , October 5th, 2021
Introduction On November 15, 1889,[1] Ahmed Midhat (1844–1912), a prolific Ottoman journalist and novelist, announced in his newspaper Tercümân–i Hakîkât (Interprete…
Cameron Brinitzer , September 15th, 2021
We at HAR were very excited to learn about the recent publication of Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898….
Cameron Brinitzer , August 3rd, 2021
In the course of the twentieth century, structure became a central category of thought across a wide array of sciences. From linguistics to anthropology, psychoanalysis and history, the epistemic ai…
Isha Bhallamudi , April 15th, 2021
There is no Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent body in India. The ethics of research are left to the purview of researchers, their supervisors, and departments. Therefore,…
Tracie Canada , April 15th, 2021
Why have Black ancestors been largely excluded from anthropology’s intellectual history and canon? In this series of pieces, Tracie Canada engages the authors of the 2018 volume The…
Adam Johnson , February 25th, 2021
The June 1944 issue of the American Sociological Review featured an article by Bernhard J. Stern entitled “Soviet Policy on National Minorities” (Stern 1944). In it the author argued that…
Paul Wolff Mitchell , February 19th, 2021
Pressures in and outside the academy are forcing museums to grapple ever more deeply with the legacies of scientific racism embedded and embodied in their anthropological collections. The…
Nicholas Barron , November 19th, 2020
One hundred and nine years ago, The New York Times ran a full-page overview of Franz Boas’s recently published book, The Mind of Primitive Man. [1] The headline…
Simon Torracinta , October 20th, 2020
Grégoire Mallard. Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea. xi + 293pp., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Is there a more celebrated and…
Allegra Giovine , September 15th, 2020
This extended review is a collaboration between the Reviews and Field Notes sections of HAR. Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L. A. Hancock, and Joshua Smith (editors). The…
Rosanna Dent , August 11th, 2020
A considerable portion of scholarly life is bound up with meetings of various kinds. For those located within academic institutions, office hours, departmental meetings, and university committees pl…
Adam Johnson , July 27th, 2020
Major John Wesley Powell is a prominent figure in the history of American anthropology and probably best known to HAR readers as the founder of the Smithsonian’s Bureau…
Adam Johnson , July 11th, 2020
This extended review is a collaboration between the Reviews and Field Notes sections of HAR. H. Glenn Penny. Im Schatten Humboldts. Eine tragische Geschichte der deutschen Ethnologie. Munich:…
Cameron Brinitzer , January 10th, 2020
Every Indigenous Peoples’ Day since 2016, members of the activist group Decolonize This Place have gathered at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City,…
Simon Torracinta , December 13th, 2019
By Jean Jamin Translated by Simon Torracinta Editors’ note: The editors of the History of Anthropology Review are delighted to publish this essay by Jean Jamin. As readers…
Adam Johnson , October 9th, 2019
A few years ago when the History of Anthropology Newsletter (HAN) relaunched as an online publication, a number of articles described how it was started by George Stocking in 1973. Mo…
Cameron Brinitzer , February 4th, 2019
Canguilhem’s historical epistemology continues to inspire historians and anthropologists to attend to how current and former human practices of science shape our conceptualizations and engagement wi…
Rosanna Dent , December 31st, 2018
This dossier features seven of the forty papers presented at the colloquium 25 anos de História dos Índios no Brasil: balanços e perspectivas da história indígena. The event…
John Tresch , December 7th, 2018
Introduction: Image and Science in Early Ethnology During the second half of the nineteenth century, in German circles linked to anthropology, a movement of scientific systematization arose from…
Gabriel Coren , July 10th, 2018
Michel Leiris. Phantom Africa. Translated by Brent Hayes Edwards. Africa List Series. 720 pp., 37 halftones, 3 fascimiles, 1 map. Calcutta, London, and New York: Seagull Books, 2017….
Taylor Moore , May 29th, 2018
In 1927, the Polish-Jewish physical anthropologist Henryk Szpidbaum published an account of his recent expedition to Mandate Palestine on behalf of the Polish Society for the Exploration of…
Hilary Agro , April 28th, 2018
Content warning: racism, violence, mention of miscarriage. I was on my way to the airplane that would take me back home, to Canada. I boarded the train between…
OlarteSierra , April 10th, 2018
What is commonly known as the Colombian conflict refers to more than six decades of enduring violence. During these years, a number of peace agreements have been signed…
John Tresch , December 29th, 2017
All museums use pesticides and preservatives, though their health impacts are not always known; ethnographic collections can thus pose a health risk. Here we open one cold case…