The little bee that enjoys flower sap would not like to leave the beautiful garden, but when the icy wind suddenly sweeps in at the end of autumn, it has [...]
I suspected that Saturday March 14 would be my last weekend in London before returning home from fieldwork. Only three weeks into my archival research on colonial asylums in present-day [...]
Right before I left for vacation, I went to a meeting about zonas rezagadas (a program for areas within Chile that are “lagging behind”). One of the main goals of [...]
Winter: time to get cozy, to curl up in front of a fire with a good book. From the land of academics dreaming, we bring you the second installment of [...]
by Hugh Gusterson Some years ago my wife was at an interdisciplinary conference in El Salvador. My wife, who is not an anthropologist, was horrified to meet a graduate student [...]
On Wednesday, 11 March 2020, we had the last in-person seminar of our jointly taught undergraduate course. Despite the news about the rising numbers of Covid-19 cases in the Netherlands, [...]
by Gabrielle Cabrera Gabrielle Cabrera, AES editorial intern and graduate student at Rutgers University, interviews David Edwards, professor of anthropology at Williams College about his prize-winning book Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide [...]
What makes a utopia “modern”? Can it really be “modern,” and if so, can it really also be “anti-modern”? I pose these questions because the bulk of anthropological literature [...]
by Rachel Fleming You may have heard the job title User Experience or “UX” Researcher before, perhaps along with some reference to design. You may have come across this field [...]
by Ognjen Kojanic AES is pleased to share this interview by Ognjen Kojanic, AES editorial intern and graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, with Heath Cabot, assistant professor of anthropology [...]
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