BySidali SidMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Virtual reality was once a dream confined to science fiction and futurism, promising endless worlds at the touch of our synapses. These…
ARIEL BINETH HUNGARY. The country has one of the highest death rates of COVID-19 globally.1 Hospitals are filled with ICU patients at some places outnumbering staff 5:1.2 Nurses…
MARIA LARRAIN The vaccine rollout has been well-underway in the UK since Margaret Keenan was the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 jab in…
As you may know, we are on the verge of a new Culture Camp. Details here: www.culture.camp! This morning we got a query from a guy in the…
The Department of Anthropology at SUNY-Brockport was kind enough to invite me to share some insights from my ongoing research examining the use of human waste as a…
The Familiar Strange · Ep #74 Colonialism & Monsters: Yasmine Musharbash on Monster Anthropology & Social Transformation This week Clair brings you an interview with Dr Yasmine Musharbash!…
ByRebecca EmpsonProfessor of Social Anthropology, UCL Women of all ages have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. We hear this every day in the media but what does…
The Red Nation A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, The Red Deal is a platform…
(The good folks over at the AJEC blog asked me to write a short piece on Marshall Sahlins and his relationships with European anthropologists. With their permission, I’m…
Lianne Simpson’s new book, A Short History of the Blockade is now out with the University of Alberta Press. She gave this talk recently on it:
Marshall Sahlins and I at my wedding (While I have been active on Twitter posting links to memorials and obituaries of Marshall Sahlins, I have not written very…
PhD candidate Ashneel Chandra offers a brief outline of his recently published paper, co-authored with his Master’s degree advisor at The University of the South Pacific (USP), Professor…
As a fan of 19th century lithographs and steel engravings of images about the Middle East, I have enjoyed the images in Story of the Bible Animals by…
I recently finished reading a fascinating and well-informed account of the role of female Kurdish fighters during the last decade in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS)…
Our team—Christine Weeber (poetry and copy editor at SAPIENS), Justin D. Wright (poet-in-residence at SAPIENS), and Leah Zani (poetry editor at Anthropology and Humanism)—seeks poetry and experimental…
Ketaki Hate and Proshant Chakraborty: …
More and more maps of Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula are appearing in digital resources on the Internet. One of these is the David Rumsey Map Collection, housed…
The Lab Life series investigates what seem like mundane lab practices, but are critical to scientific humility, accountability and equity.
I have opened up a new project to disseminate my work and interests. This link is to the first page. There will be pages on other themes —…
I have opened up a new project to disseminate my work and interests. This link is to the first page. There will be pages on other themes —…
At Allegra, we strive to find alternative modes of expression, new ways of working, collaborating, knowing and inquiring. Ultimately, we seek different ways of being anthropologists: collective…
The Familiar Strange · Ep# 70 Familial Ties and Family Debts: Susan Ellison on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bolivia This week we bring you an interview with Dr…
I am happy to note that my article “On Cultural Appropriation” has now been published in the Journal of Folklore Research. Right now, the article can be found…