Children’s Lived Experience of Poverty and Vulnerability in Kenya by Elizabeth Ngutuku is a theoretically and historically grounded ethnography of childhood deprivation in Siaya, Kenya. The book…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
David Beriss We are happy to announce that Caroline Stahley, a graduate student in the Applied Anthropology program of the University of South Florida, has taken second place…
I spent part of the summer of 2025 in Kalama Conservancy, in northern Kenya’s Samburu County. The conservancy, part of the Gir Gir group ranch, covers 16,000 hectares…
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, Italy. 292 pages. Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University)…
Podcast with Ruth Prince, Professor of Medial Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, in conversation with Thandeka Cochrane, Postdoctoral Research Associate, King…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Peter Lockwood In 2022, Lesedi Developers, a land-selling company in Kenya … More
Amanda Kaminsky SAFN is pleased to announce that Amanda Kaminsky is the winner of the 2023 Christine Wilson Graduate paper award! Kaminsky, a PhD student at the University…
Skin, nose, mouth In a remote church building in the Southwest of Kenya, Arthur Ouko was training farmers on ‘responsible use of pesticides.’ He was instilling the importance…
Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya Interview by Kamala Russell Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in…
Christine Chalifoux: By focusing your ethnographic attention on the hip hop artist Juliani, you were able to weave together so many important facets of life in Kenya: socioeconomic…
Every day for the month of March 2021, I watched the numbers of Covid-19 cases in Kenya climb and climb. Family and friends sent me messages that the…
An anthropologist recalls a conversation with three older women as they reflected on their experiences of electoral politics past and present. “What politics have people of nowadays seen;…
Hide Press Release (5 Less Words) Anna Lisa Ramella, Martin Zillinger In this post, we share the accounts of our research partners from Lake Baringo and Lake…
In Nairobi in the Making: Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging, Constance Smith explores how the residents of Nairobi’s Kaloleni estate interact with materials and structures from the…
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Kennedy Mkutu Agade Here in Kenya the sun is shining and a beautiful breeze is blowing through the house. But the house…
Mario Schmidt, University of Cologne Mototaxi drivers wearing face masks, supermarkets obliging customers to wash their hands before entering, hawkers selling indigenous vegetables as prophylactic…
Welcome back to In the Journals, a brief look at just a few articles that have been published in previous months on policing, law, and governance. These readings…
Eastleigh shop in 2009 soon after Obama became US president. Photo by Mats Utas Eastleigh, Nairobi is pictured as a good area for Somali refugees in media and…
An anthropologist sets out to create a cross-culturally valid household water insecurity scale. We all know that fieldwork can entail the unexpected, and often these surprises can delay…
Victor flew into the tackle, blocking the opponent’s shot at goal. Shouts of praise went up from the fans and substitutes standing on the touch-line. “Sawa Victor!” (“Nice…
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Denielle Elliott The Supreme Court of Kenya: Lawyer Ogutu, Sam Gwer, Lawyer Chigiti, Michael Mwaniki, and Moses Ndiritu (left to right), taken…