Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The story of four boys, one wrongful accusation, and a cycle of violence that outlasted every attempt to stop it. It was still hot outside when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—whom everyone called Sito—reached Grant Avenue, in San Francisco’s Chinatown, around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 8, 2019. His girlfriend Arianna’s mother had been evicted that day, […]
The post What The System Leaves Behind appeared first on Anthropology News.
Global health often treats death as the endpoint of disease. Mortality marks the conclusion of an epidemic, the final outcome in surveillance reports, and the measure against which interventions are evaluated. Yet during fieldwork in the wards of Buguruni and Vingunguti in Dar es Salaam, where many families live with the enduring consequences of poverty […]
The post What Death Leaves Behind: The Social Afterlife of HIV Mortality in Tanzania appeared first on Anthropology News.
As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence, members of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government are rewriting and weaponizing history, narrowing the definition of who and what counts as American. Amid the celebrations, our team completed two years of fieldwork in Pennsylvania exploring the myths and realities of data […]
The post Pennsylvania, Data Centers, and Challenging Myths of America and Anthropology appeared first on Anthropology News.
The sight of masked immigration agents rampaging through cities, ripping people of color from their cars and homes, and killing at least ten people on the streets has sown terror and mass outrage across the US. Innumerable abuses by the second Trump administration’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP) have, naturally, thrust […]
The post “Deportation Assistants”: US Police Collaboration with ICE Today appeared first on Anthropology News.
Hitesh was twenty years old when he received a thick envelope at his door in a western Indian city. It was not like the official kinds from the bank but looked like a long letter from an old friend. He checked the address, the postcode, the house number. All his. But something was unfamiliar on […]
The post What Is Your Mother’s Name? appeared first on Anthropology News.
Editor’s Note: This piece is the third in SAFN’s 2026 Anthropology News series on Temporality in Food Anthropology. If you haven’t already, check out the previous installments by Janita Van Dyk, and by Janet Chrzan. Orders-In Nico and I have been standing awkwardly in the kitchen for what feels like an eternity. This is the first time I’m joining […]
The post Temporal Distortions in the Time of Ghost Kitchens appeared first on Anthropology News.
I am a PhD student who studies language, culture, and processes of youth marginalization and belonging in London schools. In this article, I reflect on how ethnographic methods have shaped my engagement with grassroots education networks, drawing on two summers of preliminary linguistic ethnographic fieldwork in East London from 2024-2026. Before turning to research, I […]
The post Using Ethnography to Listen and Learn from London Grassroots Educational Justice Networks appeared first on Anthropology News.
La Ruan said he was destined to live a lonely life. It would be better, he told me, to find a wife, secure companionship, and perhaps raise children. During my visits to his hometown, we spent long afternoons talking in his adobe house at the center of a Mixtec community nestled in a valley of […]
The post Citizenship Before Love: Queer Desire, Duty, and Indigenous Sovereignty appeared first on Anthropology News.
In 2021, the BBC News released a video about a Chinese father making medicines at home to save his son. The father, Xu Wei, was around 30 years old, living in southwestern China. In 2020, his nine-month-old son had been diagnosed with Menkes syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that prevents the body from absorbing copper. Doctors told […]
The post A Parent’s Formula of Medicine appeared first on Anthropology News.
We write at a moment when the violence of war is reverberating across regions, institutions, and everyday life. Ongoing wars in the Middle East have laid bare the genocidal tendencies of both global and regional powers. In Gaza, Israel’s ongoing assault—enabled and sustained by Western military and financial support—has involved the systematic destruction of the […]
The post Political and Legal Anthropology at Times of War, Rising Authoritarianism, and Resistance: APLA Section Co-Editors’ Introduction appeared first on Anthropology News.
This article is grounded in a longitudinal ethnographic investigation of half a dozen working-class neighbourhoods in a large town in northern England. That investigation focused on nostalgia and culturally informed perceptions of change. Re…
This article looks at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the “art worlds” (Becker 1988) in Geneva, Switzerland’s second largest city. The main objective is to determine whether the pandemic has radically reconfigured the art worlds, or…
This paper provides an account of the differing ontologies of Polynesian and European navigation techniques in the Pacific. The subject of conflict between traditional knowledge and modernity is examined from […]
The subject of how civilizations, cultures, and states vanish has long been a topic of interest for historians, political theorists, philosophers, and archaeologists. It is also a subject of […]
The impact of leisure on personal development and subjective well-being makes it a critical issue in women’s studies. Leisure time gives women the space in which they can experiment […]
Bereavement is a social fact in any culture but reactions and practices relating to this vary from culture to culture. The Igbo people live in the South Eastern part […]
In order to understand the empowerment situation of the women exhibiting a rigid social setting cushioned by religious impositions, it is important to envisage how women as subjects construct […]
Prehistoric populations were not separated by current political or legal differences that currently separate national, state, or provincial laws, especially those regarding cultural and archaeological heritage. Indeed, the Iroquois nations, […]
Traditional medicine occupies a central place in healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa, serving the needs of up to 80% of the population in the region. More recent events including […]