October 2019

Will you be at AAA this year? if so, be sure to stop by the AAA Presidential Session to learn about Breaking Down…

This summer, a new billboard in Vilnius Old Town, caught my eye. A healthy-looking man was pointing his finger up…

A Samoan schoolteacher receives a full pe'a, the traditional tattoo generally worn by males. Christopher…

Next month SACC will be offering its Five Fields Update in Vancouver! To whet our appetites for this always…

Monica Heller est professeure en anthropologie linguistique à l’Université de Toronto (Canada). Émilie Urbain est…

Domestic labor in urban Latin American life takes center stage in the film, Roma. “Have you seen Roma?” This is…

The Association of Senior Anthropologists presents a rich and varied program in Vancouver, with eight distinct…

by SARA BELT, Spotify Instead of asking how we can further speed up research itself, the question becomes how we…

On September 25, a girl in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, watches as protesters denounce fuel shortages and demand the…

This month, Kylie kicks off our conversation by reflecting on our blog about racism in sport and asks us about the…

by , Anodyne Anthropology Donna is chairing the EPIC2019 panel "Representation & Representative-ness" on…

The 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair left behind garbage and other materials that can be traced by…

in this episode, Adam and guest host Leslie Walker talk with visual anthropologist and film producer Chris Chan,…

We are pleased to announce two Executive Board-approved steps toward a more inclusive membership beginning in 2020:…

Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS What is it about certain musical traditions that cause them to take root in…

This white paper, a collaboration with the Anti-Defamation League, examined the effects of online hate and…

“Hey Joe, instead of saying, No we can’t,” retorted Senator Kamala Harris to Vice-President Joe Biden. “Let’s say,…

That Syria has “a lot of sand” is meant to stand in for its lack of value. As a place that is sandy, it is not…

This year the Association of Black Anthropologists section news column for Anthropology News aims to publish pieces…

A conversation about Julie McBrien’s book From Belonging to Belief: Modern Secularisms and the Construction…

“She likes it in here,” he said. “Sometimes I have to catch the eggs so they don’t roll onto the floor.”

by STUART HENSHALL, Convo Some time ago I watched an older Indian woman using Google Assistant to access recipes.…

Made in the shape of animals, these baby bottles, found in Austria, were constructed during the Late Bronze…

Vamos4PR Protestors in Kissimmee, Florida. Julie Torres, 2018. Six months after Hurricane Maria, over 100 community…

I’ll show you a place, high on a desert plain / Where the streets have no name … —U2, The Joshua Tree, 1987 I…

This article marks the final piece in a three-part series on language policing which has appeared in the Society…

“I think you’d be crazy to go into something like anthropology if you want to learn how to say whatever other…

The Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track…

ATMOSPHERIC COMMONS This text was jointly composed by the AIR group: Hanna Husberg, Agata Marzecova, Liu Xin, Taru…

Six ancient Native American mounds lie in Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park near Tallahassee,…

SUNTA is in the process of organizing a new set of mentoring meetings for the 2019 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting in…

If you’re like me, you view long-distance running as a somewhat unrealistic aspiration and see those people who do…

1929–2019 Joel Halpern, cultural anthropologist; professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts (UMass);…

This piece is part of an SEAA series on “An Anthropology of Ethics in East Asia.” The articles…

By now, with all of the retrospectives, books, and stories that have appeared attendant upon the 50th anniversary…

At the request of the Members’ Programmatic Advisory and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC), AAA is offering a “Virtual…

by ELEANOR BARTOSH and CHRIS HAMMOND, IBM IBM is big. We have around 350,000 employees including 20,000 design and…

Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS Remember the meme #TheDress? Was it white and gold, or blue and black? With…

In a 2017 piece for Anthropology News Richard Wilk argued that anthropology graduate programs are not preparing…