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Working the Difference

Sunday, September 17

E. Summerson Carr examines the history of motivational interviewing and what its rise reveals about how cultural forms emerge and spread in Working th...

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Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints

Sunday, September 17

Edited by Stephan Palmié, Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints is a cross-regional scholarly dialogue inspired by the work of the...

Alan L. Kolata

Alan L. Kolata on rural-to-urban migration around Phnom Penh

Sunday, September 17

Using a framework of interconnected migration factors, Alan L. Kolata reports on rural-to-urban migration in five provinces around Phnom Penh in “Home...

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Newman reframes the history of waste

Thursday, August 17

Sarah Newman reframes the history of waste in an August interview about her recent book, Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things. Using example...

Ryan Jobson

Facing the Flames: The Herskovitses, Trinidad, and the Anthropological Imagination

Monday, July 17

Read Ryan Jobson in American Ethnologist. “Facing the Flames: The Herskovitses, Trinidad, and the Anthropological Imagination.” In June 1939, Melvi...

Sarah Newman

Newman on her academic journey and intellectual pursuits

Saturday, June 17

Sarah Newman recently discussed her academic journey and intellectual pursuits on an episode of The Course, a podcast produced by the UChicago Network...

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Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things

Wednesday, May 17

Sarah Newman explores the concept of waste from fresh historical, cultural, and geographical perspectives in Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Thin...

Shannon Dawdy

Science - Ancient people lived among ruins too. What did they make of them?

Thursday, March 30 By Lizzie Wade | Science

anthropology

Around 500 C.E., a new government arose in the community now called Río Viejo, near the coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It was once the largest ...

Kamala Russell

Exploring the embodied and interactive use of language in lived spaces

Tuesday, January 31 By Sarah Steimer

anthropology

Kamala Russell’s fieldwork looks beyond traditional methods of tracking interpersonal interactions. “What does it mean to be sitting in a room with...

Scene from Familiar

Anthropology’s Kathryn Takabvirwa served as cultural consultant for the Steppenwolf production of Familiar

Saturday, December 22

anthropology

When Danya Taymor was hired to direct Steppenwolf’s new comedy, Familiar by Danai Gurira, she knew that she had to get the cultural elements exactly r...

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