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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
How might an anthropologist use dance to study cities? How about dance ethnography as method? The Liquor Store Theatre project (LST) is a series of choreographed dance performances…
Most of us who earned our degrees before the advent of email remember the thrill of being asked to write our first peer review. We both remember how…
Protesters set fire to a barricade near Castro. Photo courtesy Richard Vercoe Southern Chile’s Archipelago of Chiloé is a region best known for its mythology, historic churches,…
Anthropology and Nicaragua’s Interoceanic Canal The cab driver sized me (M. Petriello) up, “¿A dónde nos vamos?” (Where are we going?) he asked, assessing the fee and my…
Why consultations with Indigenous communities matter The construction of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal has garnered only a sporadic interest in the news media, one that does not…
An Open Letter to the American Anthropologist Nadia Abu El-Haj Susan Slyomovics The recent issue of the American Anthropologist included a section presenting nine views on anthropology in…
In 1979, on the eve of Margaret Thatcher’s first UK general election victory, an advertisement appeared in London’s The Evening News. Paid for by the party, the half-page…
Syrian Musicians in Istanbul How might music produce of a sense of home for displaced Syrians in Turkey? What is the role of displaced Syrians in the preservation…
There are different ways in which the war in Syria and the ensuing refugee crisis can be made sense of anthropologically. When a crisis looms large on the…
The Symbolic Violence of Fallacious Reasoning To the Editor: Re “The Symbolic Violence of Choice” (In Focus, March 2) On its face, Starrett’s essay resembles any anthropologically grounded…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…