Parting with the Class of 2024 has been the hardest in my teaching career. As I woke up, the dark gray sky seemed on the verge of tears....

It was a typical day in Oregon in mid-May: drizzles, clouds, five minutes of sunshine, drizzles again. I don’t know how many of us...

Human-Sized Heros in Anime ULTRAMAN (2019) and Japan Sinks (2021) A persistent cold that waylaid me over the winter holiday break was a...

Missing Photographs Speak Loudly of My Family Legacy. In her recently published book Shadow Traces, Elena Tajima Creef examines the...

Arlie Hochschild's call to "scale the empathy wall" gives us a lot to think about in the current state of political discord in the United...

For the long stretch of this fall, the weather was unusually warm even for the inland region of Southern California. Day after day the...

My sister's self-inflicted death symbolizes the cost of "Bubble" economic boom My sister chose to end her in the late December, 2012 - so...

"Okay, Boomer" - are we really sure about that? In one of the many holiday gatherings that happen around the university near the end of...

My hometown is dying - literally - as memory of modernity withers away. It occurred to me all of a sudden. I was standing at the busy...

This has been an oddly quiet Presidential election year. No doubt much of it has to do with the COVID-19 pandemic. Politics feed on what...

Read the transcript of my podcast presented at the online conference, "Raising Our Voices," American Anthropological Association,...

Colleges, professors struggle to find the best way to teach in uncertain times. Online or not online – that is the existential question...

James Clifford and George Marcus ushered in an epoch in cultural anthropology, when they published a co-edited volume Writing Culture in...