Renewed calls to address racism within anthropology have often been met with resistance. This roundtable discusses how the discipline could be better aligned with anti-racism, tackle the rise of racis...

Irawati Karve, regarded by many as India’s first female anthropologist and certainly the first woman to occupy a university position in the discipline, ought to be a household name. While some may kno...

‘बाद में आने वाले लोगों के लिए रास्ता आसान न भी सही पर अनचीन्हा-अनजाना नहीं रह जाता, पर जिन्होंने सबसे

Review of Iru — The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Political scientist and columnist This was another year with an embarrassment of riches. But here are some that engage the heart, mind and imagination. For sheer reading pleasure, ...

Flowers were placed next to a stele in the opening of the Ihnestraße Memorial Site’s exhibition “History of Science and Injustice”, October 2024 (Photo by the author)by Thiago P. Barbosa The beauti…

New biography reveals how India’s first woman anthropologist confronted Eugen Fischer’s racist theories in 1920s Germany, revolutionized kinship studies, and battled academic patriarchy despite being ...