Orihara Shoten is a liquor shop and a "standing drink bar" usually known as 立ち呑み屋 (tachinomiya). This shop many shelves with various kinds of alcohol and ...

Article begins We write at a moment when the violence of war is reverberating across regions, institutions, and everyday life. Ongoing wars in ...

In the Spirit of Research Based Art, Art Based Research and Good Anthropology... The Visual Anthropology of Japan (VAoJ) website is for educational ...

There has been an outpouring of grief among Shi‘i Muslims across the world at the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. An anthropology of geopolitics that ...

Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images. | ©YANAGI MIWA Photo and text source: ...

This post started after talking with my friend and colleague, Inge. Since we probably wouldn't see each other for a while during the summer break, she ...

By Dr. Mahesh Chandra Pal, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Post Graduate College, Lucknow, India How might we teach epic ...

Written by April M. Short Anthropologists’ research on the origins of war, going back to the beginning of human history and our closest ape ...

When CADS convened the first Leiden Anthropology Conference in 2020, the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology – home to 57 people – ...

It’s a time when the Winter Olympics captivate so many of us, and we’re glued to our televisions, heartspounding with excitement. I, too, watch the ...