March 2019

The Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice at Clemson University has a new certificate program in…

“Wherever you work, science and technology are everywhere … ethnographic methods are crucial for answering the…

Reinhard Bernbeck presents the entrance of a shelter at an archaeological site on the premises of a former…

Edible Insects part 1. Will crickets ever catch on as an alternative source of protein in the United States? How…

sodapix/Getty Images Northern Ethiopia was once home to a vast, ancient lake. Saber-toothed cats…

This is a guest post by Dr. Travis Cooper, who teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis and is a research…

Join the EPIC2019 Program Committee April 4–5 for an “Ask Us Anything” session on the Ethnography Hangout Slack,…

“I wouldn’t want anyone to get attached to a space. But if, for the sake of an example, there is going to be a…

Anthropology in the authoritarian populist era. Miqueias Ferrier/ UnSplash “Yesterday I managed to take two votes…

The transformation of the Northern League from Umberto Bossi’s federalist party to Matteo Salvini’s Italianist one,…

This post is about the biopsychosocial medical model and how it relates to the treatment of chronic pain. As an…

A natural pharmacist at a complementary medicine clinic in Trujillo, Peru, displays a plant tincture. Jane…

At the roundtable, San José 2018. Sue Kenyon During the 2018 AAA conference in San José, CA, several members of the…

Protestors in Tokyo voice their concerns about Prime Minister Abe's militarization drive in 2017. Donald…

How we practice and write ethnography matters. Poetry is one way to understand what it feels like to be human at a…

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

Industry Needs Social Science: Clemson University's Business Anthropology ProgramThis presentation is part of…

As a Black woman trained in bioanthropology and dedicated to a career trying to undo the residues of social…

Images and notes overwhelmed my various forms of media: I was flooded with New Zealand. My heart was flooded, my…

Science fiction reveals that the social facts many have taken for granted — things like gender, race, sex, class,…

As a black woman, I have found it difficult to position myself as a scholar within the field of anthropology while…

This month on TFS, we bring you a special themed panel with Dr Siobhan McDonnell about getting ready to go to the…

At a recent meeting with a client, the team and I were discussing observations from the interviews we had been…

Caro in the terrace of her house in Havana, 2001. Ruth Behar When my cellphone rang on the morning of…

Climate scientists predict that accelerated global warming will increase the impacts of extreme weather events such…

I was first introduced to anthropology at community college. It was…eye opening. Anthropology challenged the…

by OLIVER SWEET and ELLIE TAIT, Ipsos People love the idea of culture. Finding out what makes France…

How would an anthropologist study student food insecurity? When I first began working at Eastern Kentucky…

I was used to seeing the sand coated in washed up Styrofoam, thongs, coconut shells, and water hyacinth. However,…

Nahaan, a Tlingit-Inupiaq-Paiute tattoo artist, inks a woman’s face. Nahaan To celebrate her…

We feel it is important to share the work of others in the business anthropology community as a way to demonstrate…

A museum display shares anthropological findings with the public. As any pastoralist knows, managing livestock is…

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

As Rama becomes more and more the icon of “virile Hinduism” and the symbol of a new kind of hegemonic, patriarchal,…

A child’s backpack abandoned on a migrant trail in the Tumacácori Mountains suffers the ravages of time.…

From the Culture & Agriculture Sensorium series: the photo essay companion to this piece is available here. A…