Reclaiming “Allahu Akbar” from Semantic Pejoration
Efforts to reclaim Allāhu akbar require highlighting the phrase’s association with positive events in everyday life.
Dancing with the Spirits
In a present colored by forces of globalization and the Anthropocene, Masewal dancers reconnect with their spiritual landscape to visualize alternative futures.
Biocommensurations
Psychiatry is in crisis because it failed to integrate symptom classifications with biomarkers. Its future depends on finding new ways of bringing disparate insights together.
What’s in Your Bag, Anthropologists?
From the Andean highlands to Appalachia, anthropologists from across the discipline open their field bags to reveal favorite pens, recording equipment, emergency granola bars, and—of course—scarves.
Ambivalent Spaces in the (Neo)Liberal Arts
How do we respond to the pressure to become responsibilized faculty members in today’s market-driven college context?
Inside the Annual Meeting Scheduling Process
Take a look at how the AAA Annual Meeting schedule is put together.
Written in Blood
How my research on DNA ancestry tests became fake news.
Senegalese Football’s Impossible Dream
After a sixteen-year absence, Senegal’s football team returned to the World Cup, but their sporting success belies the risks and uncertainties of an unequal global sports industry.
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Reclaiming “Allahu Akbar” from Semantic Pejoration
August 1, 2018
Efforts to reclaim Allāhu akbar require highlighting the phrase’s association with positive events in everyday life.
Dancing with the Spirits
July 19, 2018
In a present colored by forces of globalization and the Anthropocene, Masewal dancers reconnect with their spiritual landscape to visualize alternative futures.
Biocommensurations
July 19, 2018
Psychiatry is in crisis because it failed to integrate symptom classifications with biomarkers. Its future depends on finding new ways of bringing disparate insights together.
What’s in Your Bag, Anthropologists?
July 18, 2018
From the Andean highlands to Appalachia, anthropologists from across the discipline open their field bags to reveal favorite pens, recording equipment, emergency granola bars, and—of course—scarves.
Ambivalent Spaces in the (Neo)Liberal Arts
July 16, 2018
How do we respond to the pressure to become responsibilized faculty members in today’s market-driven college context?
Inside the Annual Meeting Scheduling Process
July 13, 2018
Take a look at how the AAA Annual Meeting schedule is put together.
Senegalese Football’s Impossible Dream
July 10, 2018
After a sixteen-year absence, Senegal’s football team returned to the World Cup, but their sporting success belies the risks and uncertainties of an unequal global sports industry.