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30
Mar

Alien Ocean Wins the 2017 J.I. Staley Prize

We are delighted to announce that Stefan Helmreich was awarded the J.I. Staley Prize for his book, Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas on behalf of the School for Advanced Research. The School for Advanced …

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25
Jan

Beyond “Africa Rising”?

by Dillon Mahoney, author of The Art of Connection: Risk, Mobility, and the Crafting of Transparency in Coastal Kenya What do African masks and cell phones have in common? They sit on …

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30
Nov

Killing Your Neighbors

by Jon Holtzman, author of Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond How do we make sense of the horrific things people do to one another? And how …

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20
Nov

Praying and Preying

by Aparecida Vilaça, author of Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Minneapolis. Check back regularly for new …

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20
Nov

On Shopping Malls and the Politics of Access

by Arlene Davila, author of El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in …

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19
Nov

Plastic Reason

by Tobias Rees, author of Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms This guest post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Minneapolis. Check back …

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