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colinhoag , June 9th, 2022
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
John Barker , April 9th, 2022
In this contribution, Karoline Guelke discusses how studies of tourism can help students overcome common misperceptions of other cultures as static and unchanging. During one of my first…
anthropologies , September 23rd, 2021
Read Time:12 Minute, 1 Second Durante los años 1990 y 2000, Alberto Fujimori fue el presidente de Perú. Fujimori entró en el gobier…
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori , September 9th, 2021
Survival. Perhaps the word carries more weight today than ever. We are all engaged in this exercise of collective survival. Many of us have found ourselves forced to…
anthropologies , June 23rd, 2021
Read Time:13 Minute, 30 Second Lee la primera parte aquí y la segunda parte aquí Por otra parte, Andes considera muy importante que…
anthropologies , May 3rd, 2021
Lee aquí la primera parte Imbuido de energía, convicción y voluntad, fruto de su trajinar político, militancia orgánica y solidez ideológica para trabajar por la revolución, siente al…
anthropologies , March 24th, 2021
Introducción Juan Antonio Alcántara Hernández es un nombre que puede sonarnos como otro cualquiera dentro de nuestro diverso bosque nominal peruano. Pero si pronunciamos Víctor Andes, la cosa…
Chelsea Horton , January 13th, 2021
Facing language problems in Peru’s new coffee economy During a recent trip to the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Southern Peru, I hiked out to a remote corner of the…
anthropologies , November 26th, 2020
El hallazgo de un esqueleto femenino de 9000 años de antigüedad enterrado con un equipo de caza mayor en la cordillera de los Andes de Perú ha puesto…
Laura Meek , October 2nd, 2020
In Peru’s gold-rich Amazonian region of Madre de Dios (the Mother of God), the global demand for the precious metal has incentivized migration from the Andes to the…
Chakad Ojani , September 28th, 2020
Fog catchers (atrapanieblas) are fairly simple constructions. They consist of large plastic or nylon nets stretched between two vertically positioned poles, perpendicular to the direction of the incom…
Michelle Hak Hepburn , July 1st, 2020
Around the world, countries have imposed lockdowns, to varying degrees of severity, in attempts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students (and other researchers) have had to leave…
colinhoag , June 30th, 2020
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline…
Glenn H. Shepard , May 22nd, 2020
This interview launches a new partnership with Linda Matney Gallery. Proceeds from the sale of selected photographs will directly support vital health services including emergency Covid-19 prevention …
Rebecca_Irons , May 4th, 2020
LUCIA STAVIG A mix of huaynos, cumbia, and bird song still greet the sun in the Andean community in which I am riding out the month-long quarantine. At…
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori , May 2nd, 2020
V: Oh sweetie, don’t leave me. Magdalena: I have to go home now. But on Monday, I can bring you the Coca-Cola you asked me for. V: I’m…
Carolin Hirsch , December 2nd, 2019
In Punk and revolution: Seven more interpretations of Peruvian reality, Shane Greene locates the distinctive elements of Peruvian punk in the context of the political and urban environment…
Glenn H. Shepard , September 28th, 2019
The Path of DayHenchi, a young man from a remote Matsigenka native community in Peru’s Manu National Park, left home one morning to go hunting in the vast…
colinhoag , September 19th, 2019
By Allison Kendra, Stanford University § Its leaves burst forth slowly from thin, shrubby branches. Every three months they mature, every three months they are pulled by hard-working…
nckawa , April 10th, 2018
Gordon Ulmer, Sydney Silverstein, and I just published a short article (with lots of photos!) in the latest edition of Anthropology Today. It examines how projected environmental changes…
Glenn H. Shepard , October 11th, 2017
José Carlos Meirelles, a retired field agent from Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, refers to the current moment for isolated indigenous people of the Amazon as “The Decade…
Glenn H. Shepard , October 11th, 2017
José Carlos Meirelles, a retired field agent from Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, FUNAI, refers to the current moment for isolated indigenous people of the Amazon as “The Decade…
Glenn H. Shepard , September 20th, 2017
Abanti blew the tobacco with fast furious puffs. The snuff entered my nostrils as a sequence of chartreuse explosions that expanded in chain reaction and spread backwards and…
Glenn H. Shepard , September 20th, 2017
Abanti blew the tobacco with fast furious puffs. The snuff entered my nostrils as a sequence of chartreuse explosions that expanded in chain reaction and spread backwards and…