Written in conversation with seminar participants Steven Ammerman, Eden Franz, Ariana Gunderson, Zachary Moss, and R.J. Sinensky. IOES Magazine: Right-sizing the feast: Archaeological insights from the COVID-19 pandemic
The General Anthropology Division (GAD) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has announced Elemental Productions as the 2020 winner of the GAD New Directions Award (Group category). Since 2007, Elemental Productions has been producing ethnographic films rooted in psychological and visual anthropology that explore the intersection of mental health, culture, and personal experience in Indonesia […]
“Describing her this way sends a message that you think most Black people are not.” By H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Dr. Alim and Dr. Smitherman are the authors of “Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.” The rise of Kamala Harris to VP of the Democratic Party ticket has […]
Check out the rankings! There has never been a better time to study anthropology — nor a better place to study it than UCLA. Examining the complexity of the human experience, past and present, our discipline encompasses the full sweep of the world’s cultures across time. Anthropologists investigate such challenging questions as how humans evolved and came […]
A UCLA-led research team has found an increase in the incidence of domestic violence reports in two cities, Los Angeles and Indianapolis, since stay-at-home restrictions were implemented in March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the article at the UCLA Newsroom.
Prof. Alessandro Duranti talks to BBC News about greetings. Read the article here.
Daniel Fessler, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute, discusses how an understanding of humanity’s past and present can help us to meet the personal, social, and political challenges posed by the novel coronavirus pandemic.Listen @ College of Letters and Science News
Assistant Professor Hannah Appel’s essay “Debtors of the world, unite!” is featured in the Boston Review.
Brian Wood is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. The article is published in PNAS and in addition has been covered in the New York Times.
