paleoanthropology

In May, Doug Burgum, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, traveled to the tiny town of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, to announce a new policy: caribou hunters will soon be allowed to use all-terrain vehicles inside the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Under most circumstances this would piss me off—another misguided plan from […] The post Trump Meets an Indigenous Movement appeared first …

A new Simon Fraser University study has found men in ancient Europe likely had better access to protein-rich foods than women did.

The practice, which merges pre-Abrahamic African religion, Christianity, and indigenous Caribbean features, has been stigmatised in the region • Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here B abus , Fakis , Sangomas – these are a few of the names of spiritual or mystical healers and practitioners found all across the African continent. A version of the tradition they follow, obea…

_Perspectives in Sustainable Development Studies_ 1 (2):14-25. 2026Acknowledging that denudation of mangrove forest ecosystem had significant impact to the lives of artisan fisherfolks, thus this phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of the artisan fisherfolks in Barangay San Isidro, Babak District, Island Garden City of Samal. Phenomenological study was used to describe, elicit d…

This article explores the experiences of Filipino schoolteachers in Southern Thailand, focusing on their migration within the peripheries of Global South countries—a topic that remains underexplored in migration studies. Their mobility pathways diverge from those typically discussed in research on middling migration. As middling migrants, Filipino teachers enjoy better working conditions than wor…

This exploratory study spotlights the life narratives of Filipino male domestic helpers in Hong Kong, examining the cultural politics that regulate their production of domestic labor. The study examines the men’s presence in Hong Kong’s domestic economy and their contingent labormarket value with Filipina domestics. The article identifies thematic points in the formation of their transnational ma…

Kyrstin Mallon Andrews will spend several months in the Bahamas this fall, supported by a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award as she studies how human practices surrounding the Nassau grouper, a critically endangered reef fish, create conflicts over culture, economy and governmental regulation in that region. The assistant professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs…

The global health space has the power to connect researchers across disciplines and bring light to the world’s pressing challenges. For Ph.D. students and candidates who are pursuing research in global health, the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame facilitates this with its Ph.D. Fellowship program.

People in city’s minority ethnic communities speak of alarm as violence casts light on racism in Northern Ireland As widespread violence broke out in Belfast, a list of addresses began circulating on social media. Spread geographically wide, on dozens of streets across the city, the addresses were reportedly houses of multiple occupation (HMOs) where immigrants live. Joseph and Solomon, both from…

Cultural and sociopolitical events shape the developmental contexts within which children form understandings of identity, justice, and belonging. Parents and primary caregivers are often intermediaries between the child and macrosystem events. Guided by relational developmental systems and positive youth development frameworks, this study examines predictors of caregiver-child conversations abou…

This paper explores how migration, race, and belonging intersect in the lived experiences of interracial couples within contemporary Hungary. Drawing on qualitative interviews with international students and their partners, the paper offers a small glimpse into how everyday acts of love and intimacy become sites of negotiation, resistance, and translation in a context marked by migration anxietie…

This paper examines the Pan-Arab community in Hungary as a social space in which individuals from diverse Arab backgrounds engage in ongoing processes of interaction, negotiation, and differentiation. Rather than treating the community as a homogeneous co-ethnic network, the study focuses on the internal dynamics that emerge among its members after migration. Drawing on ten narrative and in-depth…

_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.