Guthman, Julie. The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food. University of California Press. 272 pp. ISBN 9780520402676 Amanda Kaminsky (University of California-Merced) Is academia …
By Emma Pask, University of Chicago / Aarhus University Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2024 Roy A. Rappaport …
Power over Spice is power over all This is the opening line of Dune: Part Two, spoken in the throat-singing ceremonial language of the fearsome Sardaukar warriors. It is also not …
✽ The taxi pulled into the driveway, 10 minutes late for the meeting. Inside the car, we were sweating from the mix of nerves and the strong sun beating down …
What does it mean to truly understand human beings-not just today, but across time and space? That’s the heart of what an anthropologist does. Whether studying ancient skulls in a …
Elif Birbiri Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: Elif Birbiri and D.H. We. Started in 2023, the aim of this fellowship is …
By Sumin Myung, Cultural Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment …
By Emma Louise Backe When War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) concluded, Caesar had successfully led his people to a place where they might be able to build …
✽ 1 The shared taxi meanders through Tsaar—resting abode of Nund’e Resh,the mystic poet who proclaimed dying before death By the window seat,I listen to endless landscapes fleeting past mered …
Before anthropology had a name, before the scientific method had structure, there was Thales of Miletus-an Ionian thinker who dared to ask questions not of the gods, but of nature …