The Wonderful Everyday: An Anthropological Investigation into IKEA Showrooms
ByJess JonesMA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 It may or may not be a surprise that this kitchen is not in someone’s home but in an IKEA showroom.…
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Summer break for OceanStates
With summer break rapidly approaching, the OceanStates research team will be taking a month-long pause in July. The project will resume in August with some exciting updates, as…
How X Became a Religion
Many people don’t believe me when I tell them ‘religion’ is not a cross-cultural phenomenon and that it was mostly in the 19th century when white people (i.e.…
Toward A Happy Lab: Biology Neophytes’ Adaptation to Research Logic
ByLiang QuiyanMSc Biosocial Medical Anthropology, 2022-23 The complexity of biological life poses a challenge to the study of its mechanisms: in lab contexts, the interpretation requires at le…
Obesodemia
Mejorar la figura y perder peso es uno de los objetivos habituales al iniciar el año. Por salud pero también por vergüenza, la sociedad discrimina a las personas…
The future comes for Vogue…and the rest of us
A power struggle is playing out at Vogue. Several things hang in the balance. The future of a publication that helps construct our sense of taste. The future of…
Sahlins biography June 2023 update
Here’s a quick update regarding my work on the Marshall Sahlins biography up to 1 June 2023. I spent most of May not actually writing the biography, but…
Sapir and Goldenweiser, White and Redfield
Investigating the biographies of Leslie White, Robert Redfield, Edward Sapir, and Alexander Goldenweiser. White studied with Goldenweiser in New York. Goldenweiser and Sapir were exact contempora…
Copious Free Time: Evans-Pritchard Edition
Here are some pieces that I want to read but almost definitely will not get around to. Perhaps you will have better luck? Sean Kingston has an amazing book…
Pablo Semán and Ariel Wilkis: Rebellion of the bastards: the rise of the extreme right in Argentina
The growth of extreme right-wing forces in the Argentine political process expresses the combination of global trends and specific trends associated with local political history. It also expresses…
Project update: One Ocean Week
In this project update blog post, read about OceanStates’ participation in the One Ocean Week with partners from the University of the South Pacific who visited us in…
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Sahlin Biography May 2023 Update
As most of my friends and colleagues already know, the project I will take during my sabbatical in the (boreal) fall of 2023 is a biography of Marshall…
Post-doc position in community-based research in Nunatsiavut
A post-doctoral position in the support and evaluation of community-based research on plastics pollution in Nunatsiavut
The Oxymoron of Sustainable Aviation: Do we really want green solutions?
ByLuna Kvarnstrøm MelgaardMSc Anthropology, Environment, and Development Why is the aviation industry worth talking about? We have all heard how harmful the aviation industry is to the clim…
Ewald Engelen: Another ‘populist’ shake-up in the Netherlands: the BBB revolt
The shock among the Dutch chattering classes on 16 March was palpable. The right-populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) – established in 2019 by a small communications firm, bankrolled by…
Ep#103 Handwraps & Hijabs: Dr Jasmijn Rana on Kickboxing & Piety in the Netherlands
Welcome back to the Familiar Strange. We’re kicking off 2023 with an interview with Dr Jasmijn Rana from Leiden University. Dr Jasmijn’s research interests include, gender, race-ethnicity, relig…
Addendum to Normalising the Abnormal
In our last blog post, the second of our series on the return of the skulls from Inishbofin, Ciarán Walsh continued the story of the struggles to repatriate…
Introducing Anthropolitan Magazine – Winter 2022/23
ByLewis DalyEditor, Anthropolitan Read the Issue We are delighted to present this special issue of Anthropolitan—UCL Anthropology’s annual departmental magazine—on the theme of Race, Raci…
CRAW (or other acronyms)
I am lucky to have a prosperous and happy life, so I feel like I have little to complain about. However, during the crush of mid-career responsibilities it…
The tale of the travelling sneaker: From Western Rejects to Nairobi’s Mtumba Hustle
ByGabriella SantiniPhD Anthropology I met Esther, a bit by chance, as I was exploring Nairobi’s streets after a Kiswahili class. Esther is a 24-year-old Kenyan entrepreneur. She owns…
Controversy in Swedish Missionary Studies
A PhD dissertation defence, in some countries called a viva, is usually a ceremonial event only attracting a few other academics from the same field, and perhaps the…