Why do I keep finding masks in Naupaka? An anthropologist observes mask use by tourists in Hawaiʻi
Mask discarded in naupaka, a native plant on the coast of Hawai‘i. Taken by author April 19, 2021. By Emily Creek Disclaimer: …
Climate Change and COVID-19: Online Learning and Experiments in Seeing the World Anew
By Adam Fleischmann The site is easy to access. Just a short walk and I’m there, immediately confronted with two large rectangular …
Cloud Security for Anthropologists
By Alexander Taylor Our ethnographic data is in the cloud, but our heads are not More and more anthropologists are conducting, storing …
Reflecting on Boundaries, Protection, and Inspiration
By: Gina Athena Ulysse Before reading Zoe Todd’s “Should I stay or Should I go?,” I had been pondering writing a post …
The Labor of Racism
By: Dána-Ain Davis One night in early 2018, a doula-friend of mine, Josie who is white, sent me a photo of a …
Race is Still a Problem in Anthropology
By Anar Parikh [The following essay emerges from conversation with fellow PhD student and AES/SVA attendee, Scott Ross (George Washington University).] How …
Challenging the New Colonialism, and Celebrating the (Almost) Eradication of Polio: An Anthropological Response to Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now
Image adapted from “Weimar’s Courtyard of the Muses,” by Theobald von Oer (1860). By Elizabeth Marino* Why I Read Enlightenment Now Cognitive …
Another Scene in the Fight Against Islamophobia
By: Darren Byler In early March 2018 the influential Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut gave a series of readings in Seattle. Unlike in …
Ursula aK. Le Guin, Interplanetary Anthropologist
By Anand Pandian Sometime early in the year 1980, Ursula K. Le Guin receives a fan letter. And yet the letter isn’t …
In an era of climate change, our ethics code is clear: We need to end the AAA annual meeting
Image: United Airlines Boeing 767-200 by Ian Crivellaro. (Via Flickr) By Dr. Jason Hickel I remember when the AAA shifted from the …
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the …
Enchantment as Methodology
An invited post by: Yana Stainova “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual forms a bridge between the …
TAL + SM: The Stories Bones Tell
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 4 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins This Anthro Life has teamed up …
TAL + SM: Anthropology and Science Journalism, A New Genre?
Click here to check out the podcast This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 3 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan …
TAL + SM: Anthropology has Always been Out There
This Anthro Life – Savage Minds Crossover Series, part 2 by Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins, with Leslie Walker This Anthro Life …
Savage Ears, Anthro Minds: Writing “in my Culture”
A podcast and blog walk into a bar… Click the image above to check out the podcast on This Anthro Life This …
The Resonance of Earth, Other Worlds, and Exoplanets
How do planetary scientists understand distant places like Mars or planets orbiting another star? A conversation with Lisa Messeri about “resonance” and …
Beast of Contention: The Polar Bear as National Symbol and Emblem of Conservation
Invited post by Michael Engelhard* The Icelandic artist Bjargey Ólafsdóttir painted this outline on Langjökull Glacier to draw attention to activists’ demands …
The Stories We Tell about Resettlement: Refugees, Asylum and the #MuslimBan
By: Nadia El-Shaarawi As a volunteer legal advocate working with refugees who were seeking resettlement, I learned to ask detailed questions about …
Hannah Arendt and Martin Luther King Jr.: The Next #AnthReadIn on February 17, 2017
By: JC Salyer and Paige West On January 20, over one thousand anthropologists came together to read Michel Foucault’s lecture eleven in …
Society Must Be Defended: Join us for a Read-In on 20 January 2017
By: Paige West and JC Salyer In the wake of the 2016 US presidential election scholars across the country and internationally …
Why Anthropologists Failed to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
By: Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar In 2016 the movement to boycott Israeli academic institutions for their involvement in the illegal occupation …
Pokemon GO comes home: Manners pedagogy in the Japanese linguistic landscape
[This is an invited post by Debra J Occhi, Miyazaki International College (aka Hyuga Natsuko1, yellow team). Debra is a linguistic anthropologist …
[This is an invited post by Debra J Occhi, Miyazaki International College (aka Hyuga Natsuko1, yellow team). Debra is a linguistic anthropologist …