Published by Rex Alex Golub is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of ...

The latest number of the open access (yeah open access!) issue of Religion and Society contains an autobiographical reminiscence by Talal Asad and ...

Mary Catherine Bateson has passed. There is an obituary at the New York Times, Amherst, and other locations. She is famous for viewing human lives ...

While surfing the Internet for stamps with pictures of anthropologists on them, I discovered the existence of Bratislava Sušnik, of whom there is ...

I’m happy to announce that I have a new interview out at the New Books Network! This one is with Jack Glazier on his new book Anthropology and Radical ...

At 1:24 yesterday at Thistledown, Sweetnessncharm “suffered a catastrophic injury before the half mile pole” of race 2 – “and was euthanized.” He was four ...

Tambiah’s biography of Edmund Leach is large, and the table of contents is not very detailed. But in fact the book is broken up into titled ...

I recently read Wild Thought, the new translation of Pensée Sauvage from U Chicago Press. In fact, it was the first time I had read the book from ...

Arjun AppaduraiRuth BenedictAllison DavisNatascha Döw-SchullKatherine DunhamMarvin HarrisEpeli Hau‘ofaZora Neale HurstonEdmund LeachClaude ...

Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of France’s most famous anthropologists. Indeed, he was one of France’s greatest intellectuals of the twentieth ...