A conversation between cultural anthropologists Alma Gottlieb, Claudia Strauss, & Anand Pandian about Pandian's new book, "Something between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life and How to Take The...

Join De-ICE CB RI/Cranston Forward Immigrant Justice Comm. and thousands of people across the country to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility...

Join De-ICE CB RI/Cranston Forward Immigrant Justice Comm. and thousands of people across the country to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility...

Suddenly, tiny Cape Verde is on the map of soccer fans everywhere. What brought them here? And, what do they bring to their newfound fame?

Join RI De-ICE Citizens Bank and thousands of people across the country on Saturday, June 6th to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility operato...

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I'm touched to learn that this blog has just been listed in a roundup of the 60 Best Anthropology Blogs to Follow in 2026 (listed at #25). Thank you to FeedSpot Reader for this honor. I will try hard to continue to earn it.

I haven’t retired. I still work. And frankly, I resent anyone thinking otherwise.

"Rhode Island’s senators, Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, have not yet announced their commitment to joining with their colleagues to stand up to ICE."

A conversation with Sophia Balakian about her brilliant new book, "Unsettled Families: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship." Sophia concludes our conversation with this timely assertion: "The normalization of dehumanizing rhetoric and violence against immigrant communities, people who are undocumented, and those who support them has to be continually unsettled and undermined using whatever tools we have."

In this conversation, I catch up with Robert ("Bob") Vernon, a friend who's had a few lifetimes' worth of fascinating and non-linear careers both before and after our time together in grad school at the University of Virginia, back in the '70s. His latest scholarly venture takes him far from his more recent jobs, returning him to earlier passions — but enriched by decades of skills. Last summer, Bob published an essay in a book exploring the sorrows, sufferings, and successes of free Black residents of rural Virginia long before the Civil War.

On a gravel road outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, I stood before a Little Free Library painted the colors of the Pride flag. How had it…

An antidote to the sorry state of American publishing.

It’s so easy to see our enemies as — well, enemies. What does it take to re-see them as human?