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(1942–2026) Barbara Richey MacRoberts, age 83, passed away peacefully at her residence in Shreveport, Louisiana on April 10, 2026. Barbara was born June

Kay B. Warren, Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. ’32 Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Brown University, died on April 17, 2026. She received her BA

Curated Collections highlight articles published in the last decade from our AnthroSource archives that speak to urgent issues in the present, offering

1947–2026 Joachim Voss, whose research and leadership expanded understanding of sociocultural dimensions of agriculture and development, died April 5. He

This is a conversation between a student and a teacher. It takes place over an undefined period. Some of it on Zoom, some of it in passing at a convention

A Rendering of the American Political Economy of Healthcare An easy way to get physicians talking about clinical documentation is to ask about the

The following is an edited conversation between Ana Croegaert, president of Society for the Anthropology of North America, and section co-editors Tannya

Partially refusing early nutrition interventions in Bhutan Shivani Kaul is the winner of the 2025 Graduate Student Paper Award from the Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP). This piece is drawn from her award-winning paper.…

“What does visibility conceal?” Marilyn Strathern posed this question in a piece for British Educational Research Journal over twenty-five years ago.…

In 2025, a high school in Trentino, Northern Italy, posted a public display in its main hall featuring a short video on a wall-mounted screen.…

On June 4, 2020, comedian Godfrey C. Danchimah, a US-born child of Nigerian immigrants known professionally as Godfrey, was featured on VladTV. The popular YouTube channel, with over 6.2 million subscribers, is hosted by DJ Vlad.…

The following is an edited interview between the founding President of the Council on Heritage and the Anthropology of Tourism (CHAT), Michael A. Di Giovine, and CHAT secretary Hannah Wadle.…

As I neared the end of my doctoral degree in early 2025, celebration felt inappropriate.

The following is an interview with Melissa Vogel, creator of The Anthro Minute, a YouTube series that offers a space for learning about what anthropology is and what it has to offer in fun, digestible tidbits **How did you come up with t...

A few days before Christmas 2025, I met with my colleagues over pasta and sparkling water to celebrate the year’s end.

In his essay “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov,” Walter Benjamin (1968) urges us to tell stories that are charged, inexhaustibly, with mystery and possibility.

Months following Algerian independence from French colonial rule in 1962, Shaykh Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi, one of the founders of the *Jem`iyyat al-`Ulamā’ al-Muslimīn al-Jazā’iriyyin *(Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars) was invi...