November 2020

When the spring 2020 Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)/Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS) annual…

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH: Beyond the Toolbox: What Ethnographic Thinking Can Offer 作者: JAY HASBROUCK…

In an artistic rendition of an ancient scene in the Andes, a focused huntress with a spear thrower and a spear…

The Familiar Strange · #68:Landing On The Earth; Ashley Carruthers On Organic Farming And Cycling In Vietnam This…

In this episode we meet Dr. Stan Thangaraj, an anthropology professor at the City College of New York whose…

Contemporary credit and finance systems are ensnaring Mayas in Mexico and Guatemala in predatory practices that…

FG Trade/Getty Images The headlines and powerful prose of the anthropologists and journalists who…

Local descendant communities and Indigenous nations continue to be at the center of heritage preservation efforts.…

Is a four-field approach to specific anthropological research questions feasible in the modern era or is the idea…

Anthropologist Bill Schindler uses techniques developed thousands of years ago to prepare fresh-caught salmon…

Angus Krieg SAPIENS host Chip Colwell speaks with Melanie Adams, the director of the Smithsonian’s…

The winter holiday season will feel different this year for many: Extended families may not be able to gather,…

While last year I was busy being quite the adventurous backpacker, this year my biggest achievement has been to…

In doing some cleaning and sorting this summer (raise your hand if you haven’t), I came across a photo of my…

Archaeologists move from avoiding talking about art to engaging in the critical practice of art. Despite the many…

Feeling boxed in by traditional professional or academic publishing outlets? A zine—a small self-published pamphlet…

How an artistic method can challenge and enrich our understandings of vision and knowledge. Imagine an eye which…

In noughties Italy, the Bubble Gum choir performed a liberatory counterimage of the feminine. Today, Bacca’s chorus…

One illustrator’s approach to conveying the multidimensional lives of apes with particular focus on their anatomy.…

Imagine not knowing where your next meal will come from, or not being able to feed your child a healthy breakfast…

ASAP Graduate Student Paper Award Winner One morning, in the gravel ambulance pull-up area just outside a public…

“Transition” by Papua New Guinean artist Philemon Yalamu. From Papua New Guinea: A New Dawn by Fondazione …

The Familiar Strange · Special Episode: The Familiar Strange & All Things Myanmar with Myanmar Musings!…

Manny Rodriguez As a poet and an anthropologist, I often write about the cycles of Black grief,…

A lock of hair from Edith Cook, a girl who died in 1876, offers a window into her death. Jelmer Eerkens…

Biswaranjan Rout/AP Photo The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha,…

A participatory pop-up exhibition breaks down traditional disciplinary boundaries between art and anthropology to…

A deeply interdisciplinary visual artist creates objects that are both art and ethnography. Her installations…

In an age of digital technology, an experiment with pinhole cameras reveals a striking record of the sun’s daily…

The majority of the 101 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States are in the South.…

MICHAEL DOLINGER Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital ASHLEY MARSH MASS Design Group In April 2020, a…

The Familiar Strange · Face Ownership, Identity Politics, Election Spectacle & Curated Preferences On this…

1927–2020 Tanya Asad, née Baker, passed away on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, in New York City. She was 93 years…

Image description: A man with a white beard wears a white collared shirt and glasses.Caption: F.G. Bailey…

Angus Krieg SAPIENS host Jen Shannon speaks with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher about her…

Anthropologist Victor Turner’s work on transitional states may shed light on people’s pandemic experiences of…

Ancient artwork, such as this relief in the Israel Beer Breweries museum in Ashkelon, Israel, offers clues to…

Do you have a sense of how much time you spend each day on social media and smartphone? Whether you can live with…

During the 2020 primary elections, a New York Times headline, “The Latino Vote,” caught my eye. This reference to…

What would it mean to be no longer ‘in country’ in Australia? How would the legacies of British colonialism, and…

New research suggests some of our species’ closest relatives died out because of significant changes in…