Anthropos

Assimilation, as an imperial ideology, became the bedrock of France’s colonial policy in the wake of the 1789 Revolution. Its republican ideals filled the discourse of its supporters who engaged in self-congratulatory advertising of France’s...

Issues of race and memory in America are closely connected. Racial categories and racialized thinking are primarily integrated into the American culture through collective memory, and any conversation concerning race issues inevitably becomes a...

In anthropology and related cultural sciences, it is generally agreed that there are no peoples without religion. The value of the term religion as a generic term covering all forms of relating to superhuman beings should be called into question,...

Ethnographic field notes from south-eastern China, taken in the period of vanishing imperial rule and the early republic, describe a lunar New Year custom in which village people assembled to form sides that started fighting, including pelting one...