Call for Posts: Natural Histories
Landskapsstudie från Barbizon. By Carl Larsson, via Wikimedia Commons. {{PD-US}} Long-term field research in a single locale has been central to the environmental sciences, including environmental ant…
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Student Guest Post: 10 things I wish I knew in my first semester as a first gen student
Editor’s Note: This post was sent to use by one of our Anthropology Honours students, Brieal M-T (@mxmoireabh for the Twitter savvy), who has been very open with…
Decolonizing Conservation
(John Aini and Paige West, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Photo by JC Salyer) Collaboration In June 2018 John Aini and Paige West presented joint keynote lectures at…
Embracing biological and cultural diversity: An interview with Dr Jerome Lewis
Below you will find a link to an interview with CAOS co-founder Jerome Lewis. This interview covers Jerome’s research into hunter-gatherer societies, his deep-seated interest in ways of…
I Have Always Felt at Home in Libraries: An Update from AAA Intern Sam Ropa
An update from 2018 AAA Intern Sam Ropa: I have always felt at home in libraries. Most academics relate to this feeling—the one that only comes when one…
A British Schooner and the Big City: An Update from AAA Intern Evan Olinger
An update from 2018 AAA Intern Evan Olinger: My name is Evan Olinger, and I am interning at the Underwater Archaeology Branch of the Naval History and Heritage…
Eight Years Later: Report from the Field #1
It has been eight years since I’ve been here – here is Iringa town, Iringa Region, Tanzania. Suffice to say much can change in eight years but things…
Andreas Malm: In Wilderness is the Liberation of the World
If you have been following Andreas Malm’s work, such as his latest book The Progress of This Storm, you’ll be familiar with his latest project of bringing realism…
Anthropology of Coptic Christianity Since 2012
I was having dinner in Seoul recently with an old friend who taught in Egypt back around 2000. Living in East Asia for the past decade, he hasn’t…
反对声音自然主义 | Against Sonic Naturalism
At the end of last year, I had the privilege to be part of the best academic conference ever – full spoilers, it’s called Tuning Speculation, it’s broadly…
Inaugural Summer Institute for Department Leaders
Ed Liebow, Executive Director More than 40 department leaders (chairs and directors of graduate/undergraduate studies) came to Washington, DC last week for two days of intensive workshops in…
Women’s Scholarship in Political Ecology
On June 20th, 2018, I was honored to give one of the keynote addresses at the 2018 POLLEN conference in Oslo, Norway. The talk I gave, “Critical Approaches…
Thailand – the Land of Smiles?
av Lotta Granbom Thailand – the Land of Smiles som det ofta kallas i reklamen – har blivit ett av de populäraste resmålen för många västerlänningar att…
Calais: Eighteen Months On
by Elisa Sandri Calais has frequently made the headlines in the last two decades. The history of this border as a focal point for migration dates back to…
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North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics, an Interview with Byung-Ho Chung
The following is an interview of Byung-Ho Chung Professor at Hanyang University and President of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology, conducted by AAA Executive Director Ed Liebow. EL: I…
Voices from the mine: Artisanal diamonds and resource governance in Sierra Leone
‘Voices from the mine’ is a new 33-minute documentary film by University of Bath researcher, Dr Roy Maconachie. It focuses on resource governance in Sierra Leone’s artisanal diamond mining sector,…
Hurdal Ecovillage as an Alternative Ecological Space
Co-written with Hugo Ferreira and published electronically by Tvergastein at https://tvergasteinjournal.weebly.com/ferreira-and-eriksen.html# The stories from Hurdal are Hugo’s, as he has carrie…
Who was Bobby Kennedy?
This post was submitted by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, professor of medical anthropology at UC Berkeley where she directs the doctoral program in Critical Studies in Medicine, Science and the…
Bibliography of the Egyptian Revolution Reaches 1000 Texts
Yesterday I was asked to review a paper on the Egyptian uprisings for an academic journal. After I read the manuscript, I went through the references, as I…
Are Tribes Ready for Termination, Again?
Are Tribes Ready for Termination, Again? In the past few weeks a number of federal administration officials have made statements which suggest that a concerted effort is underway…
Stop Using Psychiatry to Sell Guns
This post was submitted by Jonathan M. Metzl, professor of sociology and psychiatry, and director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. It’s enough to…