What 2018 Taught Us About Everything Human
In the fall of 2018, thousands of migrants, mainly from Central America, approached the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping for an opportunity to seek asylum in the U.S. Here, a…
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Best of SAPIENS 2018
[no-caption] Sara López Gilabert Thanks to our excellent contributors, we had more than 80 articles to choose from in voting for our favorite SAPIENS pieces of 2018. After…
New book published: Nordic researchers on Racism, Racialization and Anti-racism
New book is out! This book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in N…
Allegralaboratory: Next step
Dear Allies, after a ‘magical intellectual carpet ride’ that has already lasted for five years, it is time for a new chapter in the life of our beloved…
Announcing SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human
What makes you … you? Is it your DNA, culture, or environment? SAPIENS is releasing its first podcast series to explore our world in new ways through the…
Seeing Finance in 360° – This Anthro Life
Hey there TAL listeners! Aneil has been working on a project centered on capturing the experience of working in finance with a fellow anthropologist and a filmmaker in London,…
TAL Goes to the Smithsonian – This Anthro Life
Hey Listeners! We are incredibly excited (and humbled) to announce that This Anthro Life is partnering with the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and…
New Book Chapter On Mediated Experience Of The Uprisings
This just in: I have a new book chapter out on the Egyptian uprisings. The title is “Mediated Experience in the Egyptian Revolution” and it appears in Digital…
New publication: A Village Goes Mobile
Tenhunen, Sirpa 2018. A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190630270. In A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation and…
Trickster’s Path
If one tries to consider Tawfiq ‘Ukasha as a counterreactionary populist demagogue, (as do the few journalists and political scientists who mention him at all), the bizarre rises…
Celebrate World Anthropology Day with Your Voice! – This Anthro Life
In celebration of World Anthropology Day (Feb 16) send us a brief tweet (@thisanthrolife) with #whyweanth OR an audio clip (no more than 30 seconds) of why anthropology…
New book published! “Can Behaviour Be Controlled? Women in Post-Revolutionary Egypt”
New book published. “Can Behaviour Be Controlled? Women in Post-Revolutionary Egypt“. This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women’s everyday lives in post-revolut…
Big conference coming up on “Race in Contemporary Denmark”
“Race in Contemporary Denmark” is the theme of our upcoming conference at Aalborg University Copenhagen from January 18th to 19th 2018. Read more Conference website Programme …
‘All the World Is Here’ Exhibition Review
All the World Is Here: Harvard’s Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology. A new exhibit (opened April 2017) at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology…
Sea Level Rise Threatens Archaeological Sites
Graves that are more than 400 years old in Jamestown, Virginia, lie near the first Protestant church in what later became the United States. Jamestown is just one…
Why Al-Jazeera America Never Gained Traction
“Can Al Jazeera English leverage its ‘Egypt moment’ into an American audience?” That question was asked back in 2011 by William Youmans and Katie Brown in a 2011 article…
Visual Anthropology Of The Egyptian Revolution (And Beyond)
A special issue of the journal Visual Anthropology brings together seven scholars exploring visual aspects of political contestation in the Middle East, especially the Arab Spring. The issue …
‘Collecting Mesoamerica’ Exhibition Review
Collecting Mesoamerica: The Hemispheric Roots of U.S. Anthropology. A recent exhibit (May 8 – July 7, 2017) at the Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, curated by Lindsay…
Cooking Up an International Market for Quinoa – new essay by Adam Gamwell and Corinna Howland out today on SAPIENS!
Hey there in Anthro Land, we’re thrilled to let you know TAL’s Adam Gamwell and Corinna Howland have published a feature photo essay on everyone’s favorite food – quinoa…
Are The Media Using The Wrong Yardstick To Measure The Revolution?
The concept of “revolution” used by Western media to report on the so-called “Arab Spring” (itself a term coined by the Western media) is rooted in understandings of…
EM Thoughts and Readings!
Ellen Messer March 17–St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday during Lent, when Roman Catholics ordinarily forego meat. But this year the Boston-based Roman Catholic Cardinal O’Malley gav…
Web Roundup: If it Ledes, it Bleeds by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
This contemporary moment begs the question: what is a fact? And how do facts circulate? These questions are historical cornerstones in the study of the production of knowledge,…
When Social Media Are the News
As social media become commonplace, they reorganize publics, places, and politics in ways history cannot predict. Over a decade ago, a tectonic shift in communication technologies began…
News sites at first blush
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