Despite the recent announcement of a new haul of Homo naledi fossils, recovering ancient DNA is still proving as difficult as ever Despite what many people believe, paradigm-shifting…
Standing Rock is cast as an environmental protest, but the Native American Water Protectors are part of a religious tradition that predates Christianity On May 15, the Dakota…
Working in Kurdistan at the site of Qalatga Darband, The British Museum is training Iraqi archaeologists to preserve and study their country’s threatened heritage Iraqi Kurdistan is spectacularly…
Many of you may have marched (or chosen not to march) at last week’s March for Science. I marched with my partner and young son here in Coimbatore,…
We recently came across this interesting article about “Teaching medical students to challenge ‘unscientific’ racial categories.” Anthropologists and other critical social scientists have long known t…
We recently came across this interesting article about “Teaching medical students to challenge ‘unscientific’ racial categories.” Anthropologists and other critical social scientists have long known t…
The British Isles split from Europe several thousand years ago. Now, maritime archaeology is revealing a lost landscape on the seafloor The British Isles separated from the European…
Lutte avec frappe, or “wrestling with punches,” the most popular sport in Senegal, adopted international anti-doping rules in 2015. Mark Hann On May 31, 2015, the combat between…
Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole, by Lawrence Weiner, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1991). by Peter Versteeg The first thing that came…
Have you heard of Space + Anthropology? This group blog through Medium.com brings together commentaries on the intersections between tech, culture, space, sci-fi, art, and anthropology. We alread…
Have you heard of Space + Anthropology? This group blog through Medium.com brings together commentaries on the intersections between tech, culture, space, sci-fi, art, and anthropology. We alread…
Portrait of Giambattista Vico by Francesco Solimena By Matthias Teeuwen I want to thank Ton Salman for his insightful take on the question…
Photo by Ashley van Haeften on Flickr By Younes Saramifar In the following blog, Younes Saramifar responds to Matthias Teeuwen’s contribution to Standplaats Wereld of 13-2-2017, title…
image: slide with text: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of Washington DECOLONIZING SCIENCE BY RECONSTRUCTING OBSERVERS, with embedded image of racist phenotype comparisons of “Irish Iberian,” “An…
“Flowers” by Claude Monet By Ton Salman In the following blog, Ton Salman reacts to Matthias Teeuwen’s contribution to Standplaats Wereld of 13-2-2017, titled “Is Anthrop…
Psychedelia is the culture and experiences of psychedelic substances. Where did all the research on psychedelic drugs go? Could psychedelics be used in psychotherapy? How are hallucinogenic drugs…
Judith Butler has written that “resistance is the mobilization of vulnerability,” arguing that precariousness animates action. This suggests that rather than a state of docile subjugation, vulnerabili…
The Idea Professor Sergio Canavero wants to be the first surgeon ever to perform a head transplant. He claims that this could happen within the next year and…
Still Life with Flagon, Glass, Jug and Bridle, by Johannes Torrentius, 1614 By Matthias Teeuwen The epithet in the title, commonly attributed to Alfred Kroeber, is often used…
The joke introduces a recent news article describing a new project that brings together various scientists to study changing patterns of urbanization and land use in the Himalayan…
This New York Times article offers an interesting discussion about how Western European scientific racism also played a significant role in how we classified and described Neanderthals. “Neanderthals…
One of the ways that anthropologists and other scholars have responded to recent world events — from the systemic issues underlying the Black Lives Matter movement and Standing…
One of the ways that anthropologists and other scholars have responded to recent world events — from the systemic issues underlying the Black Lives Matter movement and Standing…
One of the ways that anthropologists and other scholars have responded to recent world events — from the systemic issues underlying the Black Lives Matter movement and Standing…