Unlaced
A brief tale of corsetry. Corseting in the popular imagination is rife with myths: it was a distinctly upper-class practice; women frequently died from having their laces tied…
Tag: In Focus
To Dwell in Seams
Fashion as Buried Forms of Diasporic Memory I keep returning this one memory. As a kid, I go down the steps to the basement of my parent’s New…
About a Boy and a Wig Curler
Archaeological small finds can tell us a great deal about how status, gender, and identity are situated in and on the body. In December 1759, John Page noted…
What’s in Your Bag?
As another fieldwork season comes to a close and classes, sabbaticals, and more ventures into the field begin, anthropologists are unpacking and repacking their bags. Anthropology News wants to know…
An Anthropologist Looks for Justice in Guantanamo Bay
I arrived in Guantanamo Bay in late August, nearly sixteen years after the murders of my partner and brother-in-law, to attend the pre-trial hearings of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed…
Tackling the Elephant in the Room
A Guide to Teaching Race after Charlottesville The “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville embodied the ongoing racist ideologies that have permeated the United States since its incepti…
“Capitalism Is Just around the Corner…”
A view on tourism and economic development from rural Cuba Expanding private business “Everyone is now crazy for renting,” my friend Julio told me during my last stay…
Sustainable Tourism… for Development?
Not a day goes by without being confronted, one way or the other, with the multiple environmental, societal, and economic challenges that our planet faces. Because it is…
Anthropologists Weigh in on the Sustainability of Tourism
With 1 billion annual tourists worldwide (and rising), the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) declared 2017 the Year of Sustainable Tourism. But how—and if—tourism can be sustainable, particularly as…
BINGO!
How to Teach about African Foragers One of my favorite courses to teach centers around a problematic category: hunter-gatherers. But the problematic nature is also one of the…
What’s in Your Bag?
As the summer fieldwork season winds down, Anthropology News wants to know what you take with you in the field. Whether at an archaeological dig, on big city…
The Detroitists
Reflections of Detroit Ethnographers at the Anniversary of the 1967 Rebellion “The case of Detroit confirms that redevelopment had strong negative repercussions for racial minorities, here represented…
Introduction to “Maintaining Refuge”
This introduction is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. The last few years have witnessed a rising tide of concern about a rising tide of refugees and migrants. As…
Migrant Resilience and Refuge in the Trump Era
As we enter a new deportation era migrant communities near and far from the border are getting organized. This article is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. Following the…
Ethnic Refuge
South Sudanese refugees reshape institutional and social spaces into “ethnic refuges” that resist assimilation and promote community well-being. This article is part of the Maintaining Refuge series. …
Whose Populism? Which Democracy?
“Populism” conflates widely disparate political projects under one conceptual category. The term demands closer anthropological analysis. “The new enemy.” In a recent column in El País, the Peruvian…
When White Nationalism Became Popular
What rising white nationalism says about race in the 21st century US. On November 12th, 2016 TheDailyStormer.com, a neo-Nazi website with a monthly viewership over two million, lead…
Populist Protest and Counter-Protest in Germany
Protesters disrupt Pegida-inspired rallies with their own rowdy demonstrations. The sound of a man yelling rapidly and angrily into a microphone pierced the silence in my car as…
Of Populists and Mutants
Venezuela’s public murals depict ongoing relations between “the people” and Chávez. In the days following Donald Trump’s inauguration, a number of Latin American commentators rushed to establish para…
Advertising Populism in Hungary
In 2015 the government used billboards to promote its anti-immigration stance. A satirical opposition hit back. Visitors to Hungary in in the spring of 2015 were likely to…
Research in Pain
“Research in Pain” 1/4 “Research in Pain” 2/4 “Research in Pain” 3/4 “Research in Pain” 4/4 Sally Campbell Galman is an artist, associate professor of c…
“Grab’Em by the Patriarchy”
An emergent feminized/queered resistance could unsettle the masculinist politics of today’s populist leaders. In an age marked by the global ascendency of right-wing populist politicians, from Donald…
All Populisms Are Not Created Equal
Venezuelans chose between two competing populist projects with starkly different visions of inequality and privilege. Hugo Chávez is back. A seemingly endless stream of commentators insists that the…
Call for Proposals: Health and Well-being
With health policy debates in the US ongoing, AN invites proposals for feature articles, commentary, photo essays and other media that shed an anthropological light on health and…