Anthropology

Platform to ‘continue developing’ an educational role after pilot broadcast in partnership with UCL

International group aims to re-establish core principles of universities

Women's submissions to a leading seminar were viewed more warmly once a gender-blind process was introduced

International group plans new institution run by staff and students

A scholar in the oil-rich state takes in Mecca, art and quiet transgressions, says Madawi Al-Rasheed

The D-PLACE tool means anthropologists and historians can finally statistically test theories about what shapes human culture and society

Iranian-Canadian Homa Hoodfar, who has conducted research on Islamic family law and Muslim dress codes, was imprisoned last month

UCL event considers the responses of anthropologists and artists to the refugee crisis

A review at the University of Nottingham found many doctoral students were unsure where to turn for help

A sociologist and anthropologist who investigated some of the most challenging aspects of Israeli society has died

Book of the week: Shahidha Bari on our attachment to consumption and whether we might ever somehow escape it

Joy Hendry on an after-dark fantasy land of Prince Charmings and their female customers

Do changes to degree courses reflect a more pluralistic society or are they driven by a desire for more radical approaches?

Pervasive claims that non-native speakers of English are unfairly discriminated against by publishers are rebutted by linguistics expert

Simon Underdown on the novel notion that four walls were key to our development as a species

Faith Nibbs on the tensions and accommodations between newcomers and locals in a small town

Two researchers have got to grips with the evolution of the penis

Simon Underdown relishes an engaging study of evolution that delights in breaking the fourth wall

Wageningen University president and author of Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat on her appetite for good books, from Primo Levi to Claudia Roden.

Through a series of ‘creation stories’, E. Stina Lyon hears how individuals are breaking ground as they form families

Universities to reflect long and hard about their duty of care to those working or studying in foreign countries

Joanna Lewis on a portrait of British blubbering from medieval mystics to the death of Diana

Firm’s scheme offers degree funding in exchange for students returning home to work in the country

Kate Hardy pauses in her labours to reconsider our attitudes to the paid employment treadmill

Robert Lee Maril on the lives of migrant Latin American day workers in an atypical Californian city

The tales of a society on the margins and a researcher’s struggle to integrate into that society make for a readable account about real people, says Joy Hendry

A lupine alliance may have helped Homo sapiens to beat the competition, says Simon Underdown

Ursula King on a profile of the many faces of Islam in one country

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik baulks at the questionable assertions in a polemic about traveller communities

Chris Knight on a theory that an excess of morality is the cause of most violence and conflict today

Racial structure is cemented by theories on the fixed nature of the ‘other’, finds Yolanda T. Moses

Philip Clarke asks whether ecological issues can be solved by studying aboriginal knowledge

Tim Hall on a travelogue, covering 12 locations, with an abundance of ecological and cultural insights

One-way secrets in a gripping exchange between a Kenyan and an Africanist trouble Joanna Lewis

Chris Knight on the history of humanity and the myths that shape our civilisations

Shahidha Bari savours a celebration of our relationship with food across genres and cultures

Joy Hendry hopes for insights that look beyond stereotypes in this study of a nation in flux

Caroline Osella on the causes behind the astonishingly high rate of suicide in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala

Jeremy MacClancy on the evolving relations between two complementary disciplines in France in the first half of the 20th century

Annabel Tremlett lauds an exploration of the experiences of Travellers in Europe and their cultural contributions

Lee Maril is riveted by a first-time academic author’s encounters with the men and women who patrol the Arizona-Mexico border

Chris Knight on an anthropologist whose theories were embraced then shunned by the US military

Camilla Power enjoys a demolition of prelapsarian pseudoscience

The ‘most authoritative polymath of our age’ offers a reverse recipe very much to Chris Knight’s taste

Joanna Lewis on how cultures and circumstances skew our passions more than we may realise

Lecturers steer students away from some topics and get material vetted. Melanie Newman reports

Jeremy Keenan on why researchers who align themselves with the military will face criticism

US military largesse threatens academic integrity, claim anthropologists. John Gill reports

One anthropologist thinks doomsday sceptics are being unfairly silenced. Melanie Newman reports

Anthropology gets in the way of this wander through the new virtual wonderland, finds Grant McCracken

Raquel A. G. Reyes explores the fascinating world of the human senses and their cultural diversity

If we want to find the significance of bluestones to Neolithic society, the Stonehenge diggers should look up, not down, says Lionel Sims