Introduction On November 15, 1889,[1] Ahmed Midhat (1844–1912), a prolific Ottoman journalist and novelist, announced in his newspaper Tercümân–i Hakîkât (Interprete…
We at HAR were very excited to learn about the recent publication of Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait …
In the course of the twentieth century, structure became a central category of thought across a wide array of sciences. From linguistics to anthropology, …
There is no Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent body in India. The ethics of research are left to the purview of …
Why have Black ancestors been largely excluded from anthropology’s intellectual history and canon? In this series of pieces, Tracie Canada engages the …
The June 1944 issue of the American Sociological Review featured an article by Bernhard J. Stern entitled “Soviet Policy on National Minorities” (Stern 1944). …
Pressures in and outside the academy are forcing museums to grapple ever more deeply with the legacies of scientific racism embedded and …
One hundred and nine years ago, The New York Times ran a full-page overview of Franz Boas’s recently published book, The Mind …
Grégoire Mallard. Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea. xi + 293pp., notes, bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. …
This extended review is a collaboration between the Reviews and Field Notes sections of HAR. Regna Darnell, Michelle Hamilton, Robert L. A. …
A considerable portion of scholarly life is bound up with meetings of various kinds. For those located within academic institutions, office hours, …
Major John Wesley Powell is a prominent figure in the history of American anthropology and probably best known to HAR readers as …
This extended review is a collaboration between the Reviews and Field Notes sections of HAR. H. Glenn Penny. Im Schatten Humboldts. Eine …
Every Indigenous Peoples’ Day since 2016, members of the activist group Decolonize This Place have gathered at the American Museum of Natural …
By Jean Jamin Translated by Simon Torracinta Editors’ note: The editors of the History of Anthropology Review are delighted to publish this …
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 …
Canguilhem’s historical epistemology continues to inspire historians and anthropologists to attend to how current and former human practices of science shape our …
This dossier features seven of the forty papers presented at the colloquium 25 anos de História dos Índios no Brasil: balanços e …
Introduction: Image and Science in Early Ethnology During the second half of the nineteenth century, in German circles linked to anthropology, a …
Michel Leiris. Phantom Africa. Translated by Brent Hayes Edwards. Africa List Series. 720 pp., 37 halftones, 3 fascimiles, 1 map. Calcutta, London, …
In 1927, the Polish-Jewish physical anthropologist Henryk Szpidbaum published an account of his recent expedition to Mandate Palestine on behalf of the …
Content warning: racism, violence, mention of miscarriage. I was on my way to the airplane that would take me back home, to …
What is commonly known as the Colombian conflict refers to more than six decades of enduring violence. During these years, a number …
All museums use pesticides and preservatives, though their health impacts are not always known; ethnographic collections can thus pose a health risk. …