This photo essay gathers statements from both outside (West Bank/Jericho area) and inside the peace project EcoME (“Ecological Middle East”) in the contested Palestinian Territories. The texts and…
I’m back in the US and back on the road to give talks over the next few weeks. If you’re in Springfield MO, Austin TX or New Haven…
Check out some recent work by my colleagues in the Cultural Anthropology programme vicanthropology It’s been a while since we’ve posted on vicanthropology, but everyone’s been busy elsewhere.…
An excerpt from a longer piece by AAA member Irma McClaurin When the end comes our minute genetic differences will be obliterated. We will be reduced to bones,…
By Yolanda T. Moses, University of California Riverside I recently returned from North Carolina Museum of Natural History where the “Race Are We So Different Exhibit” will be…
By K. Nyerere Ture, PhD, Yale University In January 2016, during the Republican primary season, Donald J. Trump, an emergent candidate, characterized his loyal supporters as the smartest Americans…
By Angela J. Lederach and Jeffrey S. Yoder As we near the end of our stay in Montes de María, we wanted to send a final reflection. Over…
By Donna Auston Rutgers University White supremacy is deadly. A black sign emblazoned with four bleak words in white block script perched atop a protestor’s shoulder played a…
CaMP Anthropology https://nyupress.org/books/9781479803460/ Interview by Ilana Gershon If you were in a long customs line, like the one in the complex and evocative vignette with which you ope…
One of the pleasures of American English is its gift for new and pungent metaphors. My new favorite: goat rodeo. I used it often while driving with my…
Not all experimentation is ethnographic. Not all ethnography is experimental. The intersection of ethnography and experimentation collapses into a black hole with a fluctuating event horizon, swallo…
Kai Roder, University of Leipzig For over a decade the Tanzanian state has tried to enlarge its share of mineral revenues generated by foreign large-scale mining (LSM) companies.…
I’ve developed a really nerdy, but kickass, superpower. Give me twenty minutes of one-on-one conversation time with a person, any person, and they will come out of that…
There are two DNA ads running at the moment. They illuminate the art of advertising today. The first is called Testimonial: Livie and it’s for AncestryDNA.com. This is…
The AAA Internship Program is funded through generous contributions from our members. To make a donation and support the future of this program visit our website. Palmyra Jackson So…
Re-posted from “Considering Money Stuff” on Socializing Finance. Money is the most commonly circulating art form. At the same time, payment objects are unstable and excessive, frequently t…
Earlier this week, the HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory Facebook page posted a rant on behalf of Marshall Sahlins. It was annoyingly Euro-centric. It was colonial. And it was…
I used to think that Americans like me who had a strong point of view on topics related to positive social change all had some sort of elevated…
It’s one of the greatest controversies of the revolution: What would the state overseen by Egypt’s President Morsi have looked like if he had not been ousted in…
The word “ends” has at least two significant meanings. We can speak of “ends” as goals, aspirations or outcomes. For example, we might ask, “What are the ends…
My latest articles and interviews: The Trump ship may finally be sinking (8/21/17) — Globe and Mail Steve Bannon may be a bigger asset to the White House outside…
The AAA Internship Program is funded through generous contributions from our members. To make a donation and support the future of this program visit our website. Karina Nogueras As I…