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...

Newman on her academic journey and intellectual pursuits

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

Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things

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

Anthropology

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

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 ...