anthropology

Personal Perspective: How tourism, capitalism, and our desire to profit can turn paradise into a product while overlooking the people and communities who call it home.

Published on August 21, 2026 6:53 PM GMT This post is not part of the competition, as my intent is not to produce an original constructive response to cluelessness. However, Toby Tremlett encouraged me to share it insofar as it contributes to this week's conversation. TL; DR: I work in animal welfare and am clueless. [1] To avoid choosing actions at random, I decided to write a decision procedure…

In the early 1990s, the logging roads running through Sarawak’s Upper Baram became the site of a bitter confrontation. Penan families built wooden barricades across red-dirt tracks, blocking bulldozers and timber trucks and facing units of the Police Field Force. As the protests drew international attention, the government of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud restricted [Continue reading] The post…

_Korasat_ 16 (1):237-257. 2024This article explores the nature and impact of power, aiming to do so through a lexical approach to the concept and by providing an analysis of its presence in political thought, the humanities, and philosophy. It also seeks to anticipate its effects and applications in various social, educational, and political fields. The article begins by defining power in both Ar…

Disaster relief work requires the collaboration of many stakeholders and can be viewed through a One Health lens, emphasising transdisciplinarity and an openness to different ways of knowing as well as an appreciation of the interdependence of human, animal, environmental health, and welfare. This perspective piece provides an autoethnographic account of a wildfire response in Western Canada in w…

A new research project gives migrants a voice so that they can tell their own stories, beyond the statistics.

The process of decolonising research methodology is an ethical, ontological and political exercise rather than simply one of approach and ways of producing knowledge.

When I talk about my anthropological fieldwork, many Americans are shocked to learn that “living on a nuclear test site” is even a logical statement.

Listen to the The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast to hear anthropologist April Nowell explain the origins of language.

White people that sweep into developing countries to “save” people of colour are widely derided, including by donors. Does this translate to less charity donations?

In this Q&A with the authors of a recent book about Bigfoot hunters, they admit these people are neither anti-science nor irrational.

A number of theories try to explain how cultural differences come to be. A new study quantifies how such factors as resource abundance, population density and infectious disease risk can contribute.