In September 2103, Alice Sala and Gregoire Mayor, from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and on behalf of the multimedia French-language journal ethnographiques.org, came to South Africa to…
By Kate Symons, University of Edinburgh. [C]onservation is not a priority….. they [Frelimo] want economic growth at any point. So if they find …… coal and gas and…
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bern). As an Irishman living in England, I…
Do you have stories to tell? SAPIENS is searching for new, talented writers from all fields of anthropology to share their experiences and insights with our worldwide readership.…
The concept of “revolution” used by Western media to report on the so-called “Arab Spring” (itself a term coined by the Western media) is rooted in understandings of…
I have just found this amazing resource/blog – highly recommend checking it out if you are interested in Oceania. Beauty of Oceania LINK TO PACIFIC READING DROPBOX These…
Today I spoke at the March for Truth at St Louis. Thank you to everyone who came out to the Arch and heard me speak and a special…
av Christer Lindberg Det förmodligen mest udda inslaget på årets SANT-konferens i Stockholm var nog min presentation av fotoboken New York’s Raven (Transco-Script, Malmö 2017) under sektionen nya…
Here are my articles and interviews from the past few days. I will be speaking at the March for Truth in St. Louis this Saturday morning. Follow March…
(photo credit 3. Embrace your weird. It’s what changes the world for the better. Prince was certainly not a human you would describe as “ordinary” or “mainstream” or…
How the hell has it only been two weeks since Comey was fired? Anyway. In the meantime, I went to Estonia to speak to foreign dignitaries, came back,…
Rafael Morais Chiaravalloti University College London I started my career as a conservationist in the Pantanal, Brazil. I remember the first thing I heard was that the local…
Food in EcoME is mostly vegan and vegetarian in order to be able to host people from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds. Many participants love it, others have…
-Picture courtesy New York Times Catherine Clarke University College London (UCL) Editor’s Note – Although not explicitly discussing narratives of sustainability, this essay examines the political su…
[This essay first appeared in Medium. It has been lightly edited for presentation here.] In the world of documentary filmmaking, it feels like there’s the era “Before Ken…
CAREMOTION –noun- finding balance between the care of others and self, and the emotions during video making. Etymology-(coined Canterbury 2017) a synthesis of care, motion, emotion, motion picture…
This was originally published on the NYU Press Blog From the Square. Jerry Brown must sometimes wonder why he isn’t called the water governor. In the 1970s he…
Written by Alfonso DiLuca, Vice-President Los Angeles Valley College Anthropological Society In science, perhaps more than in any other discipline, humans rest on prior experiences to advance a…
– Picture courtesy of VisitSanJuan.com Dr. Sara Friend University of St. Andrews Nootsack, a place truly set apart from the world I had known. As an island off…
In Memory of Gill Conquest It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gill Conquest on May 5, 2017. Gill was an exceptional researcher and…
Der nachfolgende Text ist ein Beitrag zum Blog Kulturrelativismus und Aufklärung. Eine Debatte über den Umgang mit Fremdem, 16.05.2017. Text von Stéphane Voell und Elke Kamm. Okay, okay…
Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Wageningen University and Research July 4, 2012 (Santa Cruz el Quiché). The CPK (K’iche Peoples Council) is attacked by armed individuals during a peaceful manifestation,…
How do you raise a child? Ask any mother, and she’ll offer a long list of things you should do–and shouldn’t do. Not only will three mothers share…