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Thinking with Ngangas
Read Stephan Palmié’s comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science. Palmié aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert p...
Footprints from Fossils to Gallows
In a blend of memoir and rigorous scientific investigation, Russell H. Tuttle explores the profound impacts of evidence in both historical and legal r...
Kolata on El poder de los Incas
Alan L. Kolata discussed his book El poder de los Incas: La organización social, económica, religiosa y política de un imperio with Carmen Escalante, ...
Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states
Anthropology Professor Teresa Montoya and co-authors Rachel Arsenault, Andrew Curley, and Nicole J. Wilson were awarded the 2021 Best Paper of the Yea...
Producing Indigenous Media: Protocols, Circulation, and the Politics of Accountability
Anthropology Professor Teresa Montoya and co-authors Angelo Baca, Teresa Martinez-Chavez, and Ikaika Ramones chart the ethical protocols and decisions...
Working the Difference
E. Summerson Carr examines the history of motivational interviewing and what its rise reveals about how cultural forms emerge and spread in Working th...
Fernando Ortiz: Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints
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 on rural-to-urban migration around Phnom Penh
Using a framework of interconnected migration factors, Alan L. Kolata reports on rural-to-urban migration in five provinces around Phnom Penh in “Home...
Newman reframes the history of waste
Sarah Newman reframes the history of waste in an August interview about her recent book, Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things. Using example...
Facing the Flames: The Herskovitses, Trinidad, and the Anthropological Imagination
Read Ryan Jobson in American Ethnologist. “Facing the Flames: The Herskovitses, Trinidad, and the Anthropological Imagination.” In June 1939, Melvi...