Anthropology

Politics & Society
Opinion
From the ‘royal we’ to ‘me, me, me’
Making sense of Donald Trump’s self-obsessed talk through anthropological approaches to political rhetoric

Politics & Society
Growing a feeling of home in a new city
Migrants to Port Vila from elsewhere in Vanuatu build connections with people and places using practices that relate to the land

Sciences & Technology
Young people are mapping viable futures
Around the world young people are facing multiple challenges and we can learn from their increasingly interconnected and ethical approach to living

Sciences & Technology
Book extract
Island encounters
A new book explores the history and culture of Timor-Leste from the outside in, weaving together the past, present and future of an island divided by colonialism and conflict

Arts & Culture
Dying apart, buried together
COVID-19 exposes some of Western culture’s deepest prejudices around death and human remains, ingrained by hundreds of years of past mass death events

Arts & Culture
Who is nature?
A new film taps into virtual reality and First Nations wisdom to help people re-conceive of the nature around them, not as a thing but as a “who” in a relationship that needs give and take

Arts & Culture
Bringing new life to cemeteries
Australians are embracing new ways of commemorating the dead, including eco-friendly burials, raising new questions about how communities make use of traditional cemeteries

Arts & Culture
Podcast
Movement, mobility and identity
Anthropology studies cultures and communities, but people have always moved around, so one anthropologist has taken his research on the road in cars and on buses

Arts & Culture
Podcast
Can love overcome the distance between us?
Anthropologist Nigel Rapport’s fieldwork explores love and respecting the individuality of life

Politics & Society
Podcast
Your online life after death
From algorithms that post tweets for us after we die to bequeathing a digital legacy to our families – death is being disrupted by technology