Heritage, Its Border Bridges and Border Walls: One Side to the Same Coin
by Elaine McIlwraith Critics of the annual commemoration of the Toma, or “Day of the Capture” of the city of Granada, the last-standing Muslim city in Europe, protest…
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Letter to Jens Spahn
JASMIN SIMAO AJAYI Dear Mr. Spahn, I am a German citizen from Munich, currently in my final year of studying Anthropology at the University College London (UCL). I…
Reconceived Values and Debilitating Village Forest Councils in Himalayan India
BySahib SinghPhD Anthropology ‘We will not give our Jal, Jangal, Zameen [water, forest, land]!’, the reverberations of which trailing off from an initially rising crescendo infectiously permea…
Making #2021AAABaltimore Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 25
What? November already? We cannot believe how the last two years have flown by. At the same time, it feels like a lifetime since we gathered in Vancouver…
Secrets of Power and other leadership lessons from Elizabeth I
Marissa Shrum and I talk from time to time. Today, we got talking about Elizabeth I. Today is November 17 and that makes it the anniversary of Elizabeth’s…
Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction: my latest article now in Environmental Humanities
In my most recent article I examine what it might look like to think about extinction beyond species. I start with the increasing number of funerals for glaciers…
Beyond the data: Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on BAME groups
PETER BICCAREGUI Calling for a follow up report. On the 5th April 2020, almost a year ago to the day I’m writing this letter, Belly Mujinga died at only 47…
Ep #84 Activist Anthropology & Becoming Humanitarian Victims: This month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #84 Activist Anthropology & Becoming Humanitarian Victims: This month on TFS This week the strangers are joined by Kathryn Allan! Kathryn is currently…
HIV Letter
PIA KEELY-JOHNSON Dear Gavin Williamson, I am a queer woman living in London who, like more than 18.9 million people1 who sat down to watch Russell Davies’ hit show …
Eating Disorders, Education, and TikTok
EMILIE THOMPSON 28th February 2021 Dear Mrs Murdoch, Please let me express my enormous gratitude for the work you and your team continue to conduct in the face o…
Ep #83 Parasocial relationships & Strangers: Dr Ian Pollock on the Origin of The Familiar Strange
The Familiar Strange · Ep #83 Parasocial relationships & Strangers: Dr Ian Pollock on the Origin of The Familiar Strange Matt’s back this week with an interview with…
Life of the Upgraded Human Being
Karin Olsson: This past year, Swedish news and public debate has been focused on the elderly population; one of the groups most vulnerable to becoming seriously ill if…
An Epidemic of Loneliness
PEPE WEISCHER Dear Mr Spahn, The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has strained the capacity of the German health system in unprecedented ways, but it seems to me that one…
Protected: The Advent of the Adversary: Negative power in certain religio-therapeutic systems
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Humans = ecologicalengineers
Check out this painting. Kungkarrangkalpa Tjukurrpa, 2015 by Australian indigenous artists Exhibition opens at The Box, Plymouth * Did humans evolve in a cultural ecology that was successful…
The Baraka of Wheat
This is a great idea. Back to the human roots of agriculture… Read about it here.
A Letter for Malcolm Reed
TANYA SHARMA Dear Professor Malcolm Reed, (Lead Co-Chair of the Medical Schools Council), I am a medical student in the UK writing to you to discuss the teaching…
Ep #82 Pork Barreling Pollies & Learning How to be Social Again: This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · Ep #82 Pork Barreling Pollies & Learning How to be Social Again: This Month on TFS This month we dive into the recent political…
Homebrewing Asia: How Dungeons & Dragons in Singapore is remaking Western fantasy
ByKellynn WeeMSc Social and Cultural Anthropology Can you choose your race? This may be a thorny issue with many, but in the land of table-top role-playing game Dungeons…
A Letter to Tedros A. Ghebreyesus
AY NASSIMOLDINA Dear Dr Tedros A. Ghebreyesus, The world is in a vulnerable state right now, and we have trusted you with the World Health Organization to lead…
Six Coffees
Check out this article on six different kinds of coffee in the Middle East on Middle East Eye.
Culture: brought together, kept apart
brought together but kept apart I felt like I was being chased up the beach by a tidal wave. Run for your life, anthropologist, run for your life! I…
A Letter to Andrew Selous
SHOLA AJAO Dear Mr Andrew Selous, It is unfortunate that I find myself writing to you again during these unprecedented times. As you may recall, I wrote July…