February 2019

This is a guest post by Dr. Devin Zane Shaw, who teaches at Douglas College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.…

How memes articulate tech trouble and signal “all the things.” History repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy,…

Call for American Anthropologist Editor in Chief Position starts July 1, 2020, please apply. 2019, UNESCO’s…

Part 2 of The Social Life of Robots, with Emma Backe. In this episode host Adam Gamwell, Ryan Collins and Emma…

Dog keeping is a polluted, unholy, and prohibited practice in rural Pakistan. Many Sunni Muslims belonging to Hanfi…

Media portrayals of “good Indians” and “bad Indians” have shaped the minds of generations of Americans. Harold M.…

Many enslaved African Americans made their way to Southwestern Ontario, Canada, through the Underground Railroad…

In preparation for the upcoming conference Positive Futures, Sarah Molinari spoke with Yarimar Bonilla, associate…

What might a Basque wine tell us about current wine trends and broader human issues? My coworkers at the wine bar…

The ASA-sponsored roundtable “Conversations across Generations” began at the AAA meeting in 2015, when Phil…

Hierarchies persist, which is why factions, such as covens, coalesce in the first place. They emerge from a place…

Robin Albarano On November 28, 2016, Mile Milošević, president of the Serbian War Veterans’ Association,…

Anthropology was a revelation. When I was an undergraduate at Stockholm University, Sweden, my world tumbled as I…

A group of women and children from the Ik tribe share a meal. Cathryn Townsend In January 2016, Cathryn Townsend…

Welcome to CultureMade: Heritage Enterprise in a World on the Move, an audio collaboration between the Smithsonian…

The Elliott P. Skinner Book Award celebrates its tenth year and eleventh award. The Elliott P. Skinner Book…

Ethnography’s power comes from the margins. Not the center. A glance at my watch revealed that my colleague was…

Ilana Gershon asked seven editors for their insights on questions that authors commonly ask. Five are press editors…

by DANYA GLABAU, Implosion Labs What if we thought differently about how to integrate human and machine…

What it means to rebuild in neoliberal times. On August 14, 2018, a large segment of the Morandi Bridge on Italy’s…

In this panel, we welcome Shamim to the Familiar Strange podcast. Shamim is working with Dee on a TFS video project…

From Norbert Wiener’s hearing glove, to Clynes and Kline’s metabolically extended mouse, to cyborgs in science…

Editor’s note: This piece is part of a SEAA column themed series “Cultural Consumption and Performance in Asia.”…

When it comes to policy arguments around complex issues like climate change, the messenger can be just as important…

Bill O’Leary/Getty Images Sitting in a packed hotel lobby café in Washington, D.C., in 2009, I leaned…

“What was the vision for AFA at its founding?” I ask. Naomi Quinn’s (one of three founders of AFA) response was…

Trustees of the NHM The town of Kabwe sits about 70 miles north of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, as the crow flies.…

“I didn’t think this was a black person’s disease…” headlined an NBC News article in March 2015. In the article,…

Returning again to the ethnography by Conklin that started my thinking on this issue, the experience of…

From the Culture & Agriculture Sensorium series “Bueno, yo tenía un caballo que yo siempre le daba dulces y…

An anthropology colleague of mine, Robert Connolly, created a brief survey to explore how former students perceive…

In the pop culture imagination, perceptions of robots and AI occupy a space of mystery and intrigue that gravitates…

As part of the Enduring Voices project, Abamu Degio (left) listens to a recording of herself singing a traditional…