The Anthropology Newspaper

I’ve been thinking through a lot since the Cornell news broke. The heinous nature of the crime, the existence of millions of lesser-known atrocities that lie under the…

Jen Roth-Gordon: I will always be grateful to Susan Philips for giving me my first big “break” and choosing me to help carry forward the legacy of linguistic…

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo241235926.html Retief Müller: It would be interesting to hear how you define yourself as an anthropologist over against or in conversation…

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Die Wahlen in Israel finden in einer tief traumatisierten und gespaltenen Gesellschaft statt. Nicht nur die Zukunft der israelischen Demokratie, sondern auch die der palästinensischen Gesellschaft hän…

Knörr, J. (2026) Review: Beoku-Betts & M’Cormack-Hale (eds.) (2022)

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https://www.routledge.com/Echo-Chambers-and-Epistemological-Bubbles-Communicative-Flirtations-with-the-End-of-Democracy/Zentz/p/book/9781041389460 Eunjeong Lee: I found the way you introduced …

Page 99 occurs in Chapter 2 of my dissertation, which is broadly about the historical dialectics of symbolism relevant to a majority Mayan municipality in Guatemala called Cunén.…

Against/For Translation. For all the ink splattered here to make the words appear, I am flummoxed and frustrated that there is never any excuse for translation. I am…

. . . Older mats below Mandalorian and Grogu got Marsten Mats like they reused some old John Wayne sets

Bücherverbote haben sich in den USA als Strategie rechter Literaturpolitik etabliert und viel öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Doch die amerikanische Rechte wendet sich zunehmend der Produktion un…

Brazil’s far right has failed to deliver on its promises of Christian morality, safety and order – yet voters rewarded it on 4 October. Drawing on everyday scenes…

I Noreg har vi ikkje berre etternamn med norsk opphav, men også mange etternamn med utanlandsk opphav. I denne språkpraten kan de lesa om ein del sentrale typar…

Since the last post we’ve conducted two fieldwork trips to Lobeke National Park. Fair to say it’s pretty out of the way – three days by 4X4 on…

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-gabriel-of-madness/hardcover Rushnae Kabir: Urdu poets – Hindu and Muslim, past and present – are the primary interlocutors in your book. You show how contemp…

Die deutsche TV-Serie Babylon Berlin scheitert am Anspruch, eine historische Mahnung zu sein. Dies zeigt sich vor allem an der Darstellung guter Deutscher und am völligen Fehlen jüdischer…

The page 99 test of my dissertation (Bae 2024) leads me to revisit the moment of breach at a Buddhist temple in a return-to-the-farm (gwinong) village in South…

My colleague Sumin Myung and I are launching a Critical Data Studies Lab at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington on Friday 13 November 2026.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/without-masters Katie Hejtmanek: As succinctly as possible can you explain autogestión? And why is it so important now? Livia Stone: Autogestión can mean differen…

Die Wahlen der vergangenen Wochen haben gezeigt, wie wenig politische Abwehr allein eine Gesellschaft zusammenhält. Dolly Parton konnte Arbeiterlied und Kapitalismusmärchen zugleich bedeuten. Wie läss…

Susan Seizer was a luminescent bundle of irreverent energy and one of the many ways she transformed the world was by co-founding this blog. In her honor, we…

In this year his most famous student sported only yet some bumfluff, but the future great beard was already reading much and “dilligent”. And his self-consciously handsome teacher……