History of Anthropology Panels at AAA, 2025 The annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association will be held in-person in New Orleans, LA from November 19-23, 2025. The HAR News editors are pleased to share a selection of panels that may be of interest to our readers. Other panels and…

History of Anthropology Panels at HSS, 2025 The annual meeting of the History of Science Society will be held in-person in New Orleans, LA from November 13-16, 2025. The HAR News editors are pleased to share a selection of panels that may be of interest to our readers. Other panels and additional…

NEW BOOK TALK: Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds by Noga Arikha, November 11, London At the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London. Tuesday, November 11, 6:00-7:30 p.m. Join us for a conversation with Noga Arikha about her new biography of Franz Boas: In Praise of Open Minds. This event aims…

CFP: Uses and abuses of the Murdock Atlas in social science research, April 13, 2026, LSE This workshop, timed to follow the Economic History Society conference, aims to bring together scholars who have engaged with the Murdock Atlas in their research, and who are interested in an open,…

Erving Goffman as Social Anthropologist Richard Handler (2012, 179) once called Erving Goffman “the most anthropological of all the great sociologists.” This trenchant remark draws attention to Goffman’s distinctive relationship with anthropology and, more broadly, to the close—yet often…

‘A Maverick Boasian’ by Sergei Kan Sergei Kan A Maverick Boasian: The Life and Work of Alexander A. Goldenweiser University of Nebraska Press, 2023 268 pages, 16 photographs, notes, references, index. A Maverick Boasian is a biography of a distinctive and exasperating figure in early American…

Latest Addition to Bibliography, September 2025 HAR’s Bibliography Editors are pleased to post our latest additions to the bibliography of works on the history of anthropology. In our effort to highlight recently published works, please note that we have included Prakash Shah's 2025 article on…

New from BEROSE: Historicizing Anthropology under and beyond Bolsonaro, by A.C. Souza Lima et al. HAR is pleased to announce two complementary articles (in English) on recent and crucial chapters in the history of Brazilian Anthropology in the (newly renamed) Encyclopédie Bérose des histoires de…

Revisiting Van Gennep’s Life and Work, by Christine Laurière HAR is pleased to announce one of the latest releases from Bérose: an article (in English) on a lesser-known facet of Van Gennep’s anthropology. This is one of a series of 11 articles dedicated to Van Gennep in the (newly renamed)…

WORKSHOP: Transnational Entanglements of Racial Anthropology: History and Legacy, Sept 11-13, 2025 HAR is happy to share information about an exciting upcoming international workshop from our friends at HOAN-EASA.  Transnational Entanglements of Racial Anthropology: History and Legacy, will take…

Announcement: History of Language Sciences Working Group at CHSTM We are pleased to announce continuation of the working group on the History of the Language Sciences, hosted by the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Meetings will take place via Zoom on the second Tuesday…

Environmental Anthropology– Pasts and Futures Participant Observation (Conference Report), History of Anthropology Review Yale University, March 31-April 1, 2025 In the face of palpable climate change, contemporary anthropologists increasingly explore how social forms, subsistence technologies,…

Alfred Lyall as Anthropologist of Popular Hinduism, by Chris Fuller HAR is pleased to announce one of the latest releases from BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology: an article (in English) on Alfred Lyall’s colonial ethnography and anthropology in India. Fuller,…

Signe Howell’s Anthropological Memoir(s), edited by Desmond McNeill In partnership with BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology, HAR is honored to announce the release of a previously unpublished manuscript by Signe Howell, who passed away on January 26, 2025. Howell,…

Margaret Mead’s Ethnography Revisited, by Paul Shankman HAR is pleased to announce one of the latest releases from BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology: two articles (in English) on Margaret Mead’s fieldwork experience and its ethnographic outcomes. Shankman, Paul,…

History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group Engagement Award 2025 The History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group (HPGRG) of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) has launched a new initiative. Every two years, HPGRG will offer a small…

Announcement: 2025 HOAIG Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize The History of Anthropology Interest Group (HOAIG) of the American Anthropological Association is pleased to announce the inaugural competition for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in the History of Anthropology. HOAIG is an…

The Disappearance of Zora Neale Hurston In the anthropological canon, Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) has emerged in recent decades as one of the most important—and overlooked—ethnographers of her time. She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, but poor health and financial troubles…

HAR Editorial Update, Summer 2025 There’s a lot happening at the History of Anthropology Review. First, this spring’s Environmental Anthropologies: Pasts, Presents, Futures conference, co-hosted by HAR and the Yale History of Science and Medicine Program, was a great success. Across two days of…

Afterward It is overwhelming to comment on the panel of a brilliant group of women—towering figures in the field—whose work I have long admired and whose personal friendship and mentoring I have benefited from since arriving in Australia five years ago as a newly minted PhD. I of course can’t do…

Gender as a Dimension in Changing Hegemonies We are here for a conversation about gender as an analytical lens on the relationship between theory and fieldwork in anthropology. It has been suggested that we talk about this through personal narratives from those of us who have been involved in…

The Creation of the International Institute for Afro-American Studies: Power Dynamics and Ortiz’s Postcolonial Vision Re: Creation of the International Institute for Afro-American Studies For years there has been the intention of founding a center devoted especially to the problems of the Black…

‘The Life of Herod the Great: A Novel’ by Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston The Life of Herod the Great: A Novel Edited and with commentary by Deborah G. Plant Amistad, 2025 xxvii + 334 pages Review followed by an editor Q&A. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), an African American novelist,…

A Feminist Postcolonial Journey: Moving Between Countries, Academic Disciplines and Institutions All memorializing practices afford new forms of synthesis. Writing now in my late sixties about myself as a feminist anthropologist foregrounds for me the importance of the habitus we acquire in our…

Latest Additions to Bibliography, June 2025 HAR’s Bibliography Editors are pleased to post our latest additions to the bibliography of works on the history of anthropology. We have been working to identify and add newer works, and you will find many 2024 and 2025 references here.

Problems and Possibilities of Being a Feminist Anthropologist I have chosen to present a selection of statements made to me by senior anthropologists, which highlight ideas about the relationship between feminism and anthropology in the 1980s. For me, feminism expanded the scope of anthropology by…

A Lone Woman in the Jungle I have two stories to tell, each of which narrates a larger story about feminism and anthropology. My first story relates to my period as a newly-arrived pre-fieldwork PhD student at the Australian National University (ANU) in the early 1980s. I had come to ANU to…

Syllabus Attack!: Dwelling on the History of Anthropology Editors’ note: This reflection was written in conjunction with the author’s course, “History of Anthropology,” taught most recently in the 2025 spring semester at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. You can read the course syllabus…

New HAR Initiative: Teaching Resources For the better part of a decade, the HAR editorial collective has imagined an online collection of syllabi in the history of anthropology and allied fields to complement our existing work. Our vision is to create a free online repository of syllabi relevant…

Anthropology as a Feminist Project of Collective Practice Second wave feminism, or women's liberation, grew out of the new political energy that emerged in the USA in the 1960s. Movements for women’s liberation were a product of the social disquiet and dissent associated with US war in Vietnam…

The “F” Word: Anthropology, Positionality, and Intersecting Lives in Oz The organisers have invited us to reflect on the history of feminist anthropology in Australia through a key episode in our ethnographic experience. I have been delinquent in my response to that invitation by broadening the…

Theory as Reproduction: Histories of Doing Feminist Anthropology in Australia The relationship between feminism and anthropology has never been straightforward. The launch in 2020 of Feminist Anthropology, the journal of the Association for Feminist Anthropology section at the American…

Special Focus: Feminist Anthropology in Australia HAR editors are pleased to bring you this Special Focus Section, guest edited by Benjamin Heagarty, Shiori Shakuto, and Caroline Schuster. The pieces in this collection will be published on a rolling basis, and the table of contents will be updated…

Join us for HAR's first in-person conference on March 31 and April 1!

Seminar: Legal ethnologies in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial contexts, modern times to twentieth century/Ethnologies juridiques en contextes précolonial, colonial et postcolonial Info: histanthro.org/news/announc...

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

Jack Goody between Social Anthropology and World History: BOOK LAUNCH (online & in person), January 23, 2025 Info: histanthro.org/news/announc...

Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Anthropology and Communities December 13, 2024 From 11:30am to 4:00pm EST No Wikipedia editing experience is necessary. Info: histanthro.org/news/announc...

This week, Dec. 5-6: "Exploring the Ethnographic Archive: Early Ethnographers in the Long Nineteenth Century," a free online conference. 40 papers, 6 panels, many disciplines. No need to register, just join with this Zoom link: cnrs.zoom.us/j/9448447900...

Andrew Garrett on his book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall - CaMP Anthropology Info: campanthropology.org/2024/09/23/a...

Anthropology and Philosophy: How to Symmetrize Ontologies - History of Anthropology Review Info: histanthro.org/clio/anthrop...

Mariza Corrêa’s Search for Women (and Other) Anthropologists, by Corrêa and Serafim - BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology Info: histanthro.org/news/announc...

Call for Proposals: Following Knowledge Forward: A Gathering to Mark a Decade of Indigenous Knowledge and Collaboration at CNAIR October 10-11, 2024 American Philosophical Society Philadelphia, PA Info: bit.ly/3wir1In

Miradas contemporáneas en y desde los archivos antropológicos. Historias, prácticas e interlocuciones 4 al 6 de junio de 2024, Universidad de Antioquia Medellín (Colombia) Info: bit.ly/IRN-HITAL2024

Archéologie, anthropologie et nation au Mexique - Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Info: www.quaibranly.fr/fr/recherche...

The Victorian Anthropology of Indian Tribes, Castes and Society By Chris Fuller February 2024 Info: histanthro.org/news/announc...

The Rio de Janeiro Anthropological Exhibition of 1882 By Michele de Barcelos Agostinho February 2024 Info: histanthro.org/news/announc...

Corso’s Erotic and Exotic Anthropology By Maurizio Coppola February 2024 Info: histanthro.org/news/announc...

Now online: First International Conference of the Histories of Anthropologies (HOAIC) Recorded Talks Info: histanthro.org/news/announc...