Review: ‘Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States’

by Ellie Plumb In Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Seth M. Holmes seeks to uncover … More

Review: ‘Environment, Labour and Capitalism at Sea’

by Connie Scott “Fish simply appear in supermarkets” (p.209), writes Penny McCall Howard. Most consumers have little or no awareness … More

On the Edge of the Body

By Renata Carvalho Anthropology’s many attempts of conceptualising the body into clear and useful analytical categories has raised significant ontological … More

Afghanistan’s Global Entanglements

by Magnus Marsden For many viewers in the West, the horrific scenes at Kabul airport in August 2021 appeared to … More

Going home. Going home? The anthropologist is coming along

by Hannah Schwemin Booking flights, getting train tickets, stuffing bags and guessing how much space we need for the food … More

Different ‘Developments’: Japanese Anthropologists and Development

by Kazuki Horiuchi Non-western countries, such as China and India, have become in the last decades major actors of international … More

Anthropologists on the Strike

Yesterday, lecturers began 14 days of strikes in over 60 universities across the United Kingdom. Nominally, the strikes are to oppose pension … More

Rethinking chronic illness and ethnography

by Luke Walker Since my diagnosis with Crohn’s disease in 2015, I have started to re-think the relationship between chronic … More

Is the United Nations Broken?

By Ronald Niezen When the United Nations General Assembly convened its annual meeting this September, amid growing nuclear tensions between … More

Agency, Upkeep, and Neglect in North Carolina Farm Labor Camps

by Bennett Heine In a recent article in Human Organization, co-authors Thomas Arcury, Sarah Quandt, and I draw from interviews … More