MACKENZIE DEARSLEY Letter Directed To: The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP, Home Security & MP for Fareham Government representative of Home Office’s Operation Soteria initiative. T…
We are excited to announce that the 2023 ARHE Policy Brief Award is now open for submissions. The aim of the award is to encourage and acknowledge the contributions…
ByDamian Andres SabatiniMA Material and Visual Culture, 2022-23 1998 marked a pivotal moment in the world of cinema, with the iconic sci-fi filmmaker from the 1970s, George Lucas,…
After third months of research for my biography of Marshall Sahlins, I have finally arrived at an important milestone: Sahlins’s birth! I’ve done a lot of work on…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
A post-doctoral position in the support and evaluation of community-based research on plastics pollution in Nunatsiavut
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…
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…
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…
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…