CFP: MLA 2027: “Forum on Anthropology and Literature,” January 7-10, 2027
The “Forum on Anthropology and Literature” at next year’s Modern Language Association conference, which will be held in Los Angeles (January 7-10, 2027), is seeking papers for history of anthropology related sessions.
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History of Anthropology Interest Group: Inaugural Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner
This past fall, the History of Anthropology Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association awarded its inaugural Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize to Nala K. Williams, doctoral…
History of Anthropology Review (HAR) Info Session, February 11, 2026
An invitation for all working on the history of anthropology, broadly construed: Are you reading and writing about classic anthropology texts in courses or research? Do you use primary sources created by anthropologists in your…
‘The Reeducation of Race’ by Sonali Thakkar
Sonali Thakkar The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought Stanford University Press 288 pages, notes, bibliography, index As a title, The Reeducation of Race: Jewishness and the Politics of Racism in…
Call for Abstracts: “Goffmanian Political Economy” Panel at the Social Science History Association (SSHA), November 19-22, 2026
There are signs of a Goffmanian turn in political economy, alongside renewed interest in the biographical trajectory of Goffman himself. What are, or could be, the…
Extended Deadline: CFP: Uses and abuses of the Murdock Atlas in social science research, April 13, 2026
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…
CFP EASA 2026: Beyond Polarised Histories of Anthropologies: Female Ethnographers and Folklorists between the Mid-19th and Early 20th Centuries [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]
Panel P083 "Beyond Polarised Histories of Anthropologies: Female Ethnographers and Folklorists between the…
Antônio Bakairi as Indigenous Ethnographer, by Erik Petschelies
HAR is pleased to announce one of the latest releases from Encyclopédie Bérose des histoires de l’anthropologie: an article (in English) on a fundamental Indigenous figure in the history of European ethnographic expeditions in late…
Slavery and Its Legacies in Cuban Museums, by Maxime Toutain
HAR is pleased to announce one of the latest releases from Encyclopédie Bérose des histoires de l’anthropologie: an article (in French) on how Cuban museums represent slavery and African cultural legacies. BEROSE reference:…
Günter Tessmann and the Politics of Colonial Collecting, by Fürniss, Grotz and Rahemipour
HAR is pleased to announce one of the latest releases from Encyclopédie Bérose des histoires de l’anthropologie: an article (in English) on the ambiguous collecting practices of the German ethnographer Günter…
Rediscovering Afro-Religious Practitioners and “Converted” Anthropologists, by Mariana Morais
HAR is pleased to announce one of the latest releases from Encyclopédie Bérose des histoires de l’anthropologie: an article (in English) presenting the history of Afro-Brazilian religious studies from a…
Latest Addition to Bibliography, December 2025
Twenty four new bibliographic references relevant for research into the history of anthropology have been added to HAR's bibliography page. Authors appearing here for the first time include Gwyneira Isaac, David Nugent, and Norman E. Witten, Jr. Two…
FAIRly Obscure (The Trilogy): An Anthropology Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, January 9, 2026
Presented by The University of Maryland Center for Archival Futures; The Bentley Historical Library and University of Michigan School of Information; the University of Missouri’s iSchool; and the Council for the…
CFP: Tenth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)
Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, Thursday, 11 June & Friday,12 June 2026 This two-day conference of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland,…
CFP: History of Anthropology Working Group at the CHSTM, Winter/Spring 2026
The History of Anthropology Working Group at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine invites proposals for our Winter/Spring 2026 sessions (January–June). Our meetings provide a collegial space for…
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,…
