It’s been a while since I posted something.  ‘Sorry’ to those who like the roundup, ‘you’re welcome’ to those who don’t. File it Under, should have written about a while ago: the ASA Globalog has had a series of great posts about the culture of...

As far as I can recall there have been three successful “tomb raider” film franchises: Indiana Jones, Lara Croft, and the Mummy series. Now two Taiwanese stars are attempting to make the first Asian blockbuster on the theme: The Treasure Hunter 刺陵....

A fellow Texan* and journalist, Michael Berryhill, contacted me recently with a query about whether anthropologists had done much on prisons. He’s writing a book that sounds pretty fascinating: I’m writing a book about Texas prisons during the...

I’d like to think the reason I am so critical of our professional organization is not that I am some sort of curmudgeon, but because it so often fails to get anything right. In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, therefore, I think it is...

Below is an occasional post by Zoë H. Wool. Zoe is a doctoral candidate in socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation is titled Emergent Ordinaries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center: An ethnography of...