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• Feminist Anthropology Today: Thinking about Gendered Binaries, Violence against Women, and the Praxis of Feminist Anthropology
  This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News (AN). We write these words as a ritual of closure serving as appointed members of the AFA Executive Board. We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four […]
• On Language, Belonging and Being a #NoSaboKid
  As a social media application feature, a hashtag (#) functions as an index that catalogs and retrieves content that has been tagged with a particular word or sequence of text. Over the last couple years, the use of #NoSaboKid has proliferated across social media platforms in the United States. In its dominant use, the term expressly […]
• Confronting Social Dogma with Anthropological Op-Eds: An Interview with Mark Mansperger, Darby Stapp, and Victoria Boozer
  Op-eds are an important vehicle for anthropologists to bring their ideas and arguments to a broader audience. Over the past 20 years, Mark Mansperger (professor, Washington State University-Tri-Cities) has published more than 45 op-eds in the Tri-City Herald, on topics ranging from politics to economics to the environment. The Journal of Northwest Anthropology (JONA) has just released Mark’s […]
• Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada
  Who should care about a refugee’s language? Recent world migration reports note that, by the end of 2022, the total number of refugees was the highest ever recorded with modern statistical techniques. In a global setting of increasing forced migration, languages are moving along with their speakers, in ways that intersect with humanitarianism as well as family- […]
• Curating Immigrant Life: A Praxis of Care
  On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. I began my commute extra early to avoid traffic. My plan worked until I reached […]
• Call for Pitches: Migration
  Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of migration. We are looking for stories about how people, animals,  and things, both tangible and intangible, move or are moved, are guided or routed, are started or stopped. These can be stories about borders, citizenship, language, identity, kinship, commodities, or places or environments, local or transnational. Anthropology […]
• Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons
  Lea el artículo en español. “I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend—to grasp what was happening around and within me.” – bell hooks From January to May 2024, I taught a class that could have been blocked at my previous institution in Florida—if it wasn’t potentially illegal. The class? Intersectional Anthropology.  I’ll start with a […]
• Polarization, Dysrecognition, and Mutual Monster-Making in Political Interactions
  It is no mystery that the American political scene has become highly polarized in the past ten years. Research by the Pew Research Center has shown substantial increases over that time in the cynicism, distrust, and even disdain that members of each political party have for the other. One might say that the problem of political polarization […]
• Echoes of Home: Unearthing the Value of Personal Treasures in Forced Displacement Narratives
  Please watch this short film Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home first then progress to read our piece. This short film co-created by Dublin City University Irish Refugee Network asks the simple question, “If you had to leave home, what one object would you bring with you?“ Introduction: Objects in the Maelstrom “Every object tells a story if you […]
• Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past
  Treasure hunting is long associated with endeavors to unearth concealed artifacts, illustrated best by buried troves of gold left behind by past communities. Cryptic signs leading to invaluable treasures have inspired hunters to go on often dangerous quests to retrieve them. Hoping to unearth artifacts of long-gone communities, treasure hunters, we are told, descend into harrowing […]