Even if the SfAA is face-to-face in 2021, SAS is already discussing the possibility of have one or two live virtual sessions for those scholars that cannot make the meeting. It could allow for more equity and inclusiveness.
November
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Contemporary credit and finance systems are ensnaring Mayas in Mexico and Guatemala in predatory practices that are being met by Mayas with forms of resistance that are both new and old.
Is a four-field approach to specific anthropological research questions feasible in the modern era or is the idea dead? The authors suggest a new approach that makes four-field investigations practical and fruitful.
Feeling boxed in by traditional professional or academic publishing outlets? A zine—a small self-published pamphlet or booklet—can be a powerful tool for unlocking creativity and expanding the reach and impact of your work.
In noughties Italy, the Bubble Gum choir performed a liberatory counterimage of the feminine. Today, Bacca’s chorus breathes new life into the ensemble of characters and an impermanent but continuo art piece.
One illustrator’s approach to conveying the multidimensional lives of apes with particular focus on their anatomy.
Practicing anthropology helps play an important role in bringing more awareness and understanding of the complex issues related to food insecurity. It can also play a role in developing and implementing effective strategies to combat hunger and protect vulnerable populations, such as college students.
If the objective is to make “good” birth a possibility for all Brazilian women, then maternal and infant health policies must make a more robust attempt to address the systematic exclusions of racially and economically marginalized Brazilians from the promise of “health for all."
A participatory pop-up exhibition breaks down traditional disciplinary boundaries between art and anthropology to inform wider audiences about the humanitarian crisis occurring at the United States–Mexico border.
A deeply interdisciplinary visual artist creates objects that are both art and ethnography. Her installations produce space for immersive, social forms of understanding.
In an age of digital technology, an experiment with pinhole cameras reveals a striking record of the sun’s daily path and a changing landscape in northern Sweden.
Nina K. Müller-Schwarze and Robert Perry share reflections on their time and experience as faculty at Southern University in New Orleans.
Tanya Asad, née Baker, passed away on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, in New York City. She was 93 years old.
On July 8, 2020, at the age of 96, the man often recognized as the outstanding political anthropologist of his generation—F. G. Bailey—passed away.
How can there be talk of a singular Latinx vote without recognizing the differentiated racial experiences among Latinxs?
June C. Nash, distinguished professor emerita of anthropology at the City University of New York and the author of numerous books on Latin America, died on December 9, 2019, at the Linda Manor hospice in Leeds, Massachusetts. She was 92.
George Saunders, professor of anthropology at Lawrence University, passed away on September 17, 2020.
Ann Metcalf, of Kensington, California, died Sunday, September 13, 2020, at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland.
How do Zainichi Koreans understand Japanese consumers’ open embrace of kimchi in light of Japan’s reluctant social acceptance of its Korean minority population?
From razor wire to emotional barriers, women serving life sentences contend with walls of all kinds—physical, rhetorical, and of their own making.
In a city famous for its relaxed attitude to living with water, climatic disjuncture has prompted citizenship demands for ecological security.
Notes on the Battle of Cable Street mural—a colorful depiction of the day anti-fascists faced down by Oswald Mosely’s Blackshirts in London’s East End.
