American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the
The California Series in Public Anthropology is a groundbreaking collection of books that share a common goal: to emphasize the anthropologist’s role as an engaged intellectual. Books in the series affirm anthropology’s commitment to bearing ethnographic witness, to describing, through stories, how
In honor of 2021 Anthropology Day, we reached out to several of our anthropology authors to ask: why does anthropology matter?"It is the only discipline entirely focused on what it means to be human, and in most instances, to struggle. At a time when being human means many different thin
This post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver, Canada. Check for other posts from the conference. #AAACASCAThe American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropological Association 2019 meeting is about to be underway. As is c