anthropology

_Semi-Structured: The Open-Access Journal for Public Ethnography_ 1 (2):1-6. 2026This article examines adaptive reuse as a form of public ethnography through a community-engaged design project in rural West Texas. Focusing on an abandoned cotton gin and other underused historic structures, it reflects on how sensory mapping, walking interviews, oral histories, and community review sessions reshap…

By Katrina Messiha. How can we ensure that the many people whose lives are shaped by homelessness, migration, poverty, trauma, mental illness, caring responsibilities, social isolation and other contributors to marginalisation are adequately represented and well engaged with in relevant research? This is important because if some lives are missing from the evidence base, they ... Read more

This article details an interactive narrative exhibit developed for the 2024 Futuro Remoto science festival in Naples, Italy. The exhibit was designed to explore people’s relationship with risk and how they translate awareness into concrete actions. The approximately 200 participants in the workshop represented a community uniquely sensitized to volcanic risk, having recently experienced a prolon…

As protests flare at New Jersey’s Delaney Hall, Jessica Ordaz examines the US’s complex relationship with migration and detention For more than two weeks, at least 300 detainees at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center have been on a hunger and labor strike. They describe “horrible” conditions at the Newark, New Jersey , facility: spoiled food, inadequate medical care and poor living cond…

The Scholars Incubator Program offered by the Social Sciences Lab MENA (SSL MENA) is a prestigious international research development initiative designed to support, mentor, and empower emerging scholars in the fields of social sciences and MENA-focused research. This program is not just a short-term training course—it is a structured academic incubation ecosystem that provides junior […] The pos…

An international team of researchers has discovered remarkable dietary variation among eastern Africa's first pastoralists - people who raised and consumed livestock and their products. These findings, explained in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, challenges the idea that once ancient peoples began producing their own food, their dietary choices became nar…

Why do we have big brains? Or walk on two legs? Biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks human exceptionalism, evolution and her new book Humans with Michael Marshall

Could Neanderthals have used a form of language far more advanced than previously believed? A new study is adding weight to an idea that was once considered unlikely.

The Grammar of Tribalism: The Language of Belonging Why does humanity communicate more than ever before yet understand each other less? Why do societies connected by global networks increasingly fracture into hostile camps? Why do words that once united communities now seem to divide them? The Grammar of Tribalism, the concluding volume of The Entropy of Communication, Vol. II, explores one of th…

Professor Ron Krabill and UW students Maggie Keenan and Sam Hurst study how sports shape Seattle—and vice versa.

Adopted by an American family when he was 9 months old, the 36-year-old is one of thousands of children who were stolen from Chilean families during the 17-year dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and among hundreds who have been reunited with their birth families.

Archaeological excavations in the lower Río Verde valley in Oaxaca, Mexico, have uncovered a rich history of ritual practices in the region. A key element to these practices was the public and restricted interment of ritual deposits, including caches and grave offerings, which can be found at sites throughout the region. Previous research has indicated that the context and content of these ritual…

The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany, has announced an outstanding postdoctoral opportunity for international researchers interested in advancing cutting-edge anthropological research. The Department of Anthropology of Politics and Governance is inviting applications from exceptional scholars who wish to contribute to innovative research on politics, governan…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 27 May 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07395-6 Deconstructing environmental discourse in Valmiki’s Joothan and Byapari’s Interrogating My Chandal Life : eco-casteism in Dalit childhood

The ideas of survival of the fittest and winning at all costs are closely entwinned with Darwinism, but they shouldn’t be. A rethink from a more communal perspective is in order

_Psycho-Cosmocide, Kurumbi Wone Working Paper Series No.13, (2026)_. 2026This paper provides an analysis of Indonesia’s settler colonial project in West Papua, examining its systematic dismantling of Papuan cosmobian societies across eight ontological domains: the physical-material, the biological-organismic, the cultural-mythological, the metaphysical-transcendental, the techno-scientific, the s…

_American Journal of Islam and Society_ 43 (1-2):145-149. 2026Anders Ackfeldt’s Islamic Themes in US Hip-Hop Culture represents yet another welcome example of the increasing scholarly attention being paid to the representation of Islam in popular culture. Combining his expertise in the history of religions and Islamic Studies with a range of tools stemming from Media Studies and social semiotics,…

_Religions_ 17 (6):644. 2026This article investigates Black American Islam as a semiotically mediated New Religious Movement (NRM), hybrid in nature and emerging from conditions of racialized governance, state surveillance, and social marginalization. Focused on the intersection of NRMs and political environments, the work engages in the reconstruction of a historical and conceptual lineage betwe…

Suresh Singh has turned his memories of growing up in Spitalfields among diverse communities – and the far right – into a walking tour Suresh Singh never uses the word multiculturalism. “It’s nonsense to me,” he said. “What matters is your actions. What does ‘multicultural England’ mean, when we still build our little castles and don’t even ask anyone round for a cup of tea?” Singh, also known as…