Collections of photos with captions written by one of our cool anthropologists.
Desde principios del siglo XXI, América Latina ha presenciado el surgimiento de un nuevo concepto, la “ideología de género.” Aunque toda cultura se rige por una ideología de género, la ideología de género es más una herramienta política que una …
Since the early 2000s, Latin America has witnessed the rise of a new concept, the ideología de género (gender ideology.) Though every culture and society is inevitably defined by a gender ideology—that is, what differentiates each gender from the others—the …
On Wednesday, January 6th, 2016, in the community of Santa Cruz in the Toledo District, Belize, community members, school children, visitors and passers-by had the chance to witness the beginning of the Deer Dance. Beginning a traditional Maya celebration continuing …
The Deer Dance – Santa Cruz, Toledo, Belize – January 2016 Read more »
Mobile Borders, Istanbul Modern, Transnational Surreal Surreality overtook me when I found myself unexpectedly confronting a gargantuan cruise ship moored alongside the Istanbul Modern art museum in June 2013. The enormous vessel imposed a kind of movable landscape, as if …
Smell is a powerful connecting force. Walking through the 300,000+ crowd at the People’s Climate March in New York City this past Sunday, September 21st, I was comforted to smell the familiar scent of burning tree sap. The familiarity was …
The People of the the People’s Climate March, NYC Read more »
Gentrification-By-Subdivision in Transnationalized South Phoenix Since 2001 South Phoenix has been on a rollercoaster ride from disinvestment to reinvestment and back. Substandard housing stock in this historically redlined Latino and African American barrio/ghetto thwarts the house-lust of the prototypical gentrifier …
Guatemala is a country of incredible beauty and intensely troubled history. At Lago Atitlan, famously proclaimed by Aldous Huxley to be “the most beautiful place of earth,” the watery edge of the volcanic crater is a place that exemplifies this …
coolAnthropology.com‘s mission is to expand the reach of anthropological research through informed discussions and dissemination. We do this through several different means- conceptualizing and/or collaborating on projects, designing teaching tools, electronic outreach. Perhaps one of most exciting means of dissemination …
As we’ve been preparing for next week’s debut of our latest installation, “On the Road of Development,” I’ve been thinking quite a bit about perspective: what an anthropological perspective offers to discussions about issues of education, environment, infrastructure or economics, …
Afternoon turns to evening as families, friends and lovers take in the hazy sunset over Lima’s urban sprawl enclosed by the rolling mountains. The cross on the hill, or el Cruz del cerro San Cristobal, provides the ideal spot for …