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colinhoag , March 1st, 2022
An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation By Micha Rahder, Independent Scholar 336pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press § Colin Hoag spoke…
Chelsea Horton , April 22nd, 2020
For women of color on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, everyday environmental and climate activism is entangled with intimate lives. It is April, and it is hot and humid in…
Chelsea Horton , December 20th, 2019
Another year almost done! Sit back, relax, and read some of the most-clicked articles on the website in 2019. With thanks to everyone involved with Anthropology News this…
Alexandra Frankel , July 11th, 2019
As Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon my mother leapt toward marriage in Tehran. The night of the moon landing fell in the middle of a hectic week…
The Familiar Strange , March 10th, 2019
As Rama becomes more and more the icon of “virile Hinduism” and the symbol of a new kind of hegemonic, patriarchal, masculinity, so Krishna is held up as…
Alexandra Frankel , January 28th, 2019
How pop music videos perform a simultaneously Lahu and modern identity. As the music video begins, we see a young man waiting anxiously, peering through a gate. A…
Alexandra Frankel , January 25th, 2019
Are we developing emotional machines with all-too-human capacities for care? An interactive scene from Gatebox Inc.’s promotional video. Gatebox Inc. There is a moment in Spike Jonze’s film…
Alexandra Frankel , January 25th, 2019
Among Acholis, ideals of home and a good life are resilient even if everyday realities increasingly diverge from such aspirations. There is a tendency to think about love…
Alexandra Frankel , January 25th, 2019
What we talk about when we talk about Tinder. I have never been good at dating. I simply refused to acknowledge the subtleties and rituals of courtship, to…
Alexandra Frankel , January 25th, 2019
For community organizers in New Orleans, action to oppose the carceral state first requires the building of community. We were in the middle of one of Voice of…
Pris Nasrat , August 23rd, 2018
I can’t believe I’m having to write this, a matter of days after I finished editing and publishing something I felt proud about – my first public anthropology…
Megan Raschig , August 21st, 2018
After sitting through exactly 70 minutes of meetings and film-watching, the players made their way out to the practice field by 8:30 a.m., equipped in pads and helmets….
Pris Nasrat , August 18th, 2018
In her two part article Envisioning Theory: An Anthropological Teaching Experiment, Dr Stefanie Mauksch narrates the pedagogical experiments that she and her co-teacher Dr Friederike Eichner. These ex…
The Familiar Strange , August 5th, 2018
This month, Simon starts us off (1:08) asking, how can we make the knowledge we gain from anthropology matter for policy and government? “There’s no reason why [anthropology]…
Nina Oria-Loureiro , November 17th, 2016
Have you ever felt disconnected from your relationships and your life because of your reliance on your phone and social media? Do you ever feel nostalgia for the…
thenarcissisticanthropologist , June 3rd, 2016
The other day I was in my car listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts , This American Life. The theme was related to the…
Samuli Schielke , February 17th, 2016
Today we are pleased to share this talk by our ‘Allie’ Samuli Schielke. The talk is titled ‘Dreaming of the Inevitable: How Money, Morals and Destiny Come Together When Young Egyptia…
Miia Halme-Tuomisaari , February 15th, 2016
Hello everyone – it’s yet another glorious Allegra week! Fine, admittedly the weather in some parts of the world (aka where this post is being written) does not…
Elyse Bailey , February 12th, 2016
This Valentine’s Day Anthropology News takes an alternative look at contemporary romance. Ilana Gershon shares her reflections on relationships and breakups, based on research for her 2010 book,…
thenarcissisticanthropologist , November 19th, 2015
Here is the one true thing I know about humans having studied them in action and been one myself for many years: we are essentially “good”. Whether…
sydneyyeager , November 16th, 2015
Let your light shine in the face of terror, hatred, and evil. Only if we stand united in love, will our inner light be able to banish this…
Stephan Dudeck , October 6th, 2015
A really early announcement for a great conference on Arctic Anthropology! I hope to meet many of the readers of our blog in a years time in St….