Advancing Equity in Higher Education
We must address issues of access and success for our students. It is a summer afternoon and I am sitting in my office with one of my students,…
We must address issues of access and success for our students. It is a summer afternoon and I am sitting in my office with one of my students,…
An Anthropolitical Critique of the “Language Gap” Is language responsible for poverty? If poor and minority parents spoke like rich white parents, would they too become rich and…
How a tourist kept pace with the martial arts experts. It is a fairly standard trick-of-the-trade. A group of highly trained athletes and artists perform for tourists, who…
How Maradona’s support for the Pumas signals a change in the culture of Argentine rugby. Footage of Diego Maradona, the globally famous Argentine ex-soccer player, dancing in the…
Dakar’s aspiring wrestlers forge entrepreneurial career paths in an uncertain local economy. Children playing at wrestling at an écurie (wrestling school) in the Dakar suburb of Yeumbeul. Young…
How weightlifting involves relations between tools and bodies. Gym in Gldani, Georgia before a youth competition in April 2012. Photograph courtesy Perry Sherouse Anthropological writing on spo…
Muslims in the US are non-assimilationist outsiders. So goes a reigning ideology, which was galvanized after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and…
For young men in Cameroon, international soccer dreams and family relations are closely connected. International men’s football (soccer) match: Germany vs. Cameroon. Photo courtesy Wikime…
The Morisco Games celebrate Spain’s Islamic past through sporting competition in the present. The King of Granada conquered Purchena, where the victory was marked with lavish games. There…
Rage, Crisis, and the Informal Economy in Brazil The foundation of Brazilian modernity has emerged from an unresolved contradiction. The informal economy has embraced millions of low-income…
It’s Not All About the Running Wake up, measure body weight, pack gear, run marathon, measure body weight, set up camp, go to sleep. Wake up, collect urine…
MMA offers a brutal competitive antidote to the cult of the passive spectator, writes D. S. Farrer The Olympics should embrace Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), the world’s fastest…
Olympic Games have become the largest international diplomatic and corporate gatherings, write Susan Brownell and Niko Besnier. In May 2015, American and Swiss authorities swooped into the annual…
Migrant Kenyan athletes must meet the demands of family and prepare for their own futures. All Kenyan medalists in Olympic men’s marathons from 1988 to 2008 have lived…
A Brazilian Remix One of the first things I noticed about Kendrick Lamar’s recent performance at the 2016 Grammys was the noise. Fans and critics have written about…
Some student soccer players challenge a team of Kurdish asylum seekers to a game. How can cultural identities be studied ethnographically through playing soccer? In the summer of 2014…
Adnan Hossain asks who the best fast bowlers are, and why race matters in West Indies cricket. In the Caribbean, cricket is not only a sport but…
Why do so many athletes seem to be cheating? Kathryn Henne delves into the rules surrounding doping and gender in sport. Maria Sharapova, pictured here at the…
A decade after Nepal’s internal armed conflict came to an end its victims are still campaigning for redress. Krista Billingsley describes recent demonstrations in Kathmandu and charts the…
The UK Brexit vote has reawakened calls for independence in Scotland. Cynthia Mahmood and Emma Simmons share their notes from the field. The Saltire or cross of St.…
In June 2016 academics, professionals, practitioners and students gathered in Dakar for a conference on “Innovation, Transformation and Sustainable Futures in Africa.” For nearly two decades, there ha…
“Je suis feministe!” (I am feminist!) declared renowned Senegalese sociologist Fatou Sow (Université Cheikh Anta Diop) to a packed, energized room at the ASA/AAA Dakar Conference. “I am…
Estimating and Understanding Annual Charcoal Production and Consumption at the National level in Haiti Anthropologists engage subjects at various scales through a plethora of methods. We may solicit…
From a total of 40 proposed sessions, the Executive Program Committee selected 24 discrete panels and roundtables as Executive Sessions for the 115th Annual Meeting, to be held in Minneapolis,…