Minecraft and Alberta’s Oil Sands: From environmental health to virtual extraction
Some time ago, I noticed that the Alberta Geological Survey had produced an extension to the game Minecraft. I was curious about it, since it allowed players to…
Some time ago, I noticed that the Alberta Geological Survey had produced an extension to the game Minecraft. I was curious about it, since it allowed players to…
The academic year is finally winding down and many of us are hoping to travel— for research, fun, or a … More
We are excited to announce that the 2025 ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
By Juan Grajales, current leader of LAG Behind were left the mountains and jungles, the hills crowned with bromeliads, the flocks of birds vanishing into the black storm…
Av Ivonne Bautista Valencia Hvor mange meter er det mellom Meg på spansk og Meg på norsk? Sju år? Hvor mange ord kan jeg på spansk? Videregående skole.…
by Lars Gabriel Unlayao Slettebø[1] and Fabio Nicolás Venero Figueroa[2] Atop a finely woven gold-threaded mat sits a man with immaculate posture, adorned with a cape of shimmering…
Polly Katherine Lewis passed on March 8, 2025 from COPD complications after a two decade long struggle. Polly was born May 22, 1947 in Vallejo, CA. Her father…
The podcast, A Day in the Life of a Digital Anthropologist, takes listeners on a journey into the daily lives of digital anthropologists and explores what it really…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji‘s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood considers the ways in which Muslim boys face gendered and racialised discrimination in the US and India, including in school settings….
They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl […] The post Being Fungible – They Only…
I published this paper at the Convergence Culture Consortium at the Department of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, March 8, 2011 under the title “Assumption hunters: a new…
Chloe Beckett, M.A., Nightingale College, South Dakota, US As I grade my Cultural Anthropoloy class’s Emic and Etic Perspectives of Halloween essay, two things strike me: 1. How…
What can be the fate of humanity? There has been a lot of attention paid recently to the question of “Peak Oil” worldwide, and what our industrial civilization…
I challenged myself to read 52 books in 2024: One book a week. In 2023 this led to a lot of reading at the end of the year…
Before we get started some small print: This is (ideally) a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera…
In Policing Patients, Elizabeth Chiarello examines the role of prescription drug monitoring programmes (PDMPs) in the opioid crisis in the US, arguing that they transform healthcare into patient…
Before we get started some small print: This is (ideally) a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera…
Cuba is currently facing one of its most severe economic crises in decades. The island nation is contending with the compounded effects of a global pandemic, tightening U.S.…
APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of politics, law, and/or … More
In this audio file, I reflect on my fieldwork in Palestine. Using commitment as a frame, I address how it […] The post An audio note on Commitment…
LECKHNA PARAS CHAJED Gillian Keegan Secretary of State for Education House of Commons London SW1A 0AA Dear Gillian Keegan, RE: A call to improve the quality of menstrual…
Before we get started some small print: This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and…
Before we get started some small print: This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and…
This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge…