Less than six months before Norway entered lockdown in response to COVID-19, the country celebrated a moment of economic success and stability.
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Glimpses into Care Work in Chinese Nursing Homes
Care workers exercise agency to dismiss prejudicial attitudes toward their work and meet the care needs of an aging population.
Education as a Currency of Love
2019 Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Book Award winner Gabrielle Oliveira recounts findings from the ethnographic study that formed the basis of her award-winning book.
Volunteering for Political Campaigns Is Impacting Democracy, but Not in the Ways You Might Expect
Political campaigns rely on volunteers and promote interactions that further polarize our political conversation. What does this mean for the future of US politics?
Anthropology of Wage Theft in Colorado
The theft of immigrant workers’ wages is a growing problem in the United States.
2019 Sapir Book Prize Awarded to Charles Goodwin’s Co-Operative Action
Co-Operative Action is a transformative reworking and integration of old and new that yields pathbreaking insight.
Memory, Attic Research, and a Family Legacy
On writing a family food memoir.
Family in the Ruins of Nuclear Risk
Families outside Fukushima’s evacuation zone try to “live normally again” despite the shadow of radiation exposure.
Museums and the Restitution of Cultural Property
The policy of restitution raises many questions. These questions are an invitation to reassess the role of museums, curators, and professionals within a system of appropriation, or rather possession and disaffection, which has failed to communicate the moral, historical, and scientific implications of separating an item from its historical context.
La Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México organiza el primer coloquio “Des-centrar el Anthropos”
The three-day event of dialogues on multispecies entanglements covered topics ranging from cannibalism to Vladimir Nabokov’s interest in butterflies.
