The Anthropologist’s Summer (Non?)Travel Toolkit
The academic year is finally winding down and many of us are hoping to travel— for research, fun, or a … More
The academic year is finally winding down and many of us are hoping to travel— for research, fun, or a … More
This article addresses an understudied issue in the current remittance scholarship in the Chinese context, and explores how overseas remittances reconfigure rural livelihood dynamics in the historical…
Photo: Akilah Martinez, photo by Ivan Nasitima The School for Advanced Research…
Photo: Dr. N. Fadeke Castor, 2025/26 Wenner-Gren Fellow Seven Academics Awarded Fellowships to Advance Critica…
To be updated regularly. Last update March 21, 2025 Contact: Heath Cabot (heath.cabot@uib.no) Have you found yourself under attack within … More
Letter from APLA President: Call for Action and Help March 21, 2025 Dear APLA Members and Friends, As you know, … More
Below is a video conversation about the 2024 book prize winner, Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity and the Rise of Youth … More
The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2025 is Elliott Prasse-Freeman for his book Rights Refused. Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar (Stanford University Press, 2023). Elliott…
Santa Fe, NM – February 25, 2025 – The School for Advanced Research (SAR), a nationally and internationally le…
Read the full announcement from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center February 6, 2025 — Pueblo pottery has long been exhibited and interpreted in the academic and museum…
SAR Moments: Raising a Glass, The Enduring Legacy of Fermented Beverages AI Summary …
Dow chimicals… grrrr. but there is a backstory to this despicable substance, I cannot yet see a full version of Pantelis Vougaris’ film With Heart and Soul (- yet,…
APLA invites members and the public to a livestream event on Friday, January 24, 2025, from 12—2 PM Eastern Standard … More
SAR Moments: The Enduring Puzzle of Inequality, Insights from Archaeology at Chaco Canyon …
SAR Moments: Refelcting on “The Invention of Race” …
2024 has been a remarkable year of growth and achievement at SAR, and it’s a testament to the passion and dedi…
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18, 2024—Birthed from the land and shaped by a millennium of skillful hands, Pueblo pottery is one of America’s most enduring art forms. An exhibition…
APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of politics, law, and/or … More
ISBN 9780593298589 Viking Books / Penguin Random House “I refuse to live in a worl…
Election Thoughtsby Morris W. Foster, SAR President I imagine that each of you has thoughts about what the rec…
Dear APLA members and friends, Writing to you on the eve of a hugely consequential election, I want to take … More
From @thepeoplestribunal “After 50 years of state excuses we are pleased to announce this collaboration in the form of the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings. The People’s Tribunal…
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Peter Lockwood In 2022, Lesedi Developers, a land-selling company in Kenya … More
Written by Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of …