March 2020

This is a test.

As the pandemic escalates, we've been contemplating the forecasts, listening to our communities, and rejigging our…

People stand 6 feet apart while waiting in line for a store in Denver, Colorado. Michael…

By Bicram Rijal We are in the middle of a coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with its effects reaching far deep and…

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a next-generation observatory currently under development that has created a…

The situation in which we now find ourselves in the privileged postcolonial West is a new one in the postwar…

Several years ago, I went back to Chicago to see some old friends: artifacts, really—ancient sandals to be precise.…

Differing approaches to COVID-19 divided by the rolling hills and windy roads (of which there are many) of one of…

Sardinia is celebrated for its traditional a cappella music and its murals, like this one in the town of…

Most Americans take it for granted that in the 1960s, more than 58,000 U.S. soldiers died in something called the…

This month on TFS, we are joined by special guests Sophie Pezzutto and Saidalavi P.C., two PhD candidates from the…

Produced in collaboration with Experience by Design. We are witnessing a moment in our lifetimes that we will…

Kim Herbst When a barbed-wire de facto border lights up but throbs with blood, when a lynching…

An equatorial moon arcs above the Upper Rio Negro region of Brazil. Glenn H. Shepard Jr. The U.S.…

by Ana Letícia Schweig, Caio Flores-Coelho e Maria Paula Prates – Laboratório de Alteridades UFCSPA/CNPq* …

What anthropologists glean from policy makers’ statements about globalization and development can be very…

The world is in the grip of a serious pandemic as a novel virus sweeps from continent to continent, causing cases…

For those who have not yet read your book, could you offer a short overview of the focus, content, and argument?…

The impact of the virus is having suffocating effects in more ways than one. Sorbetto/Getty Images…

In light of the rapid updates many university instructors are making to their courses to move to remote/online…

Memes are a reflection of culture. They are culture, a language in the form of photos, text, videos and gifs that…

Hello EPIC friends, As ethnographers we are tenacious, resilient, curious, improvisational, thoughtful, and…

By Page West and Zoë Wool During the past few months colleges and universities all over the world have shifted our…

Monday, 23 March, 12:00 Pacific Time (GMT-7) This online event is free for EPIC Members To register: JOIN EPIC or…

Author: Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her work focuses on religion,…

The WHO declared that COVID-19 is now officially a “pandemic.” It should be: "COVID-19 declared a…

Gigaom CEO, publisher and author of "The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity"…

KTS Design/Science Photo Library/Getty Images Please note that this article includes an image of…

This article describes longitudinal ethnographic research conducted between 1985 and 2010 in contiguous rural…

My maternal grandmother spent hours sitting on the narrow verandah outside her apartment. She waited patiently for…

Sea lion populations off the California coast bounced back after the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972.…

Jonas Androx/Pexels Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings.…

The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is pleased to announce the recipient of 2019 Elliott P. Skinner…

An EPIC Talk with JOHN PAYNE (Verizon) Thursday, 14 May, 12:00 Pacific Time (GMT-7) This online event is free for…

“It was a really difficult dilemma for me, because I felt that I needed to stand by my work, but at the same time…

Former white and middle-class cocaine and cannabis dealers talk about their often contradictory “careers in dope.”…

What might a letter of complaint to a university truth commission reveal about Brazil’s political climate…