Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Restoring Regina Twala, Southern Africa’s Erased Activist and Anthropologist
Born in South Africa and exiled to neighboring Eswatini, Regina Twala was one of southern Africa’s most important intellectuals: a pioneering writer, academic, political activist and feminist. Why, then, has she been all but forgotten?
A Conversation with Nasser Fakouhi on the Social Sciences in Iran
Nasser Fakouhi is professor of Anthropology at the University of Tehran. In a 2016 interview with Social Science Space, he reflected on the origins and development of social science in Iran and how political repression has impacted academic freedom.
Indigenous Societies and the True Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Recent studies have underscored that conservationists can learn a lot from traditional ecological knowledge about successful resource management.
‘Old Bones in Boxes’: Lessons On Race and Physical Anthropology
The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In this […]
Karin Barber on Verbal Arts
In this Social Science Bites podcast, social anthropologist Karin Barber offers a specific case study of the application of the verbal arts by examining in depth some of the genres common in the Yoruba-speaking areas of Western Africa.
To Study Zika, They Offered Their Kids. Then They Were Forgotten
“We feel diminished,” says Alessandra Hora dos Santos. “It’s like we were lab rats. They come in nicely, collect information, collect exams on the child, and in the end we don’t know of any results. It’s like we are being used without even knowing why that is being done.”
Indigenous Anthropologists Call for Doing Land Acknowledgement Better
The Association of Indigenous Anthropologists requested that the American Anthropological Association officially pause land acknowledgments and the related practice of the welcoming ritual, in which Indigenous persons open conferences with prayers or blessings.
Martha Newson on Identity Fusion
Martha Newson, linked to the universities of Oxford and Kent, describes how fans of football often fuse their own identities into a tightly bonded group (even as they retain their individuality).
