A forum for considering issues relevant to the anthropological study of law and politics, in all of its myriad interpretations.

A place to share thoughts and experience on anthropology OF and IN development, and social change.

Paths, trails, roads, highways, motorways...Various kinds of roads dominate human landscapes.This group is for these anthropologists who have roads as parts of their ethnographic sites

Aesthetics has remained one of the great mysteries of the human condition.Theories are endless, rooted in many disciplines and subdisciplines. Can anthropology define aesthetics in new ways, thus providing many theories with new fertile parameters?

Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR)

For open discussion related to the anthropology of cities and urban space.

For those interested in discussing issues related to processes that generally get glossed as globalization. How do we understand globalization? Are we fruitfully engaging with studies of globalization in other disciplines?

There are many anthropology journals. Unfortunately, not all of them are read or heard of equally! This is a group for posting call-for-papers for all known and unknown journals, promoting the OAC's spirit of international cooperation.

... because nobody deserves to suffer alone.

Theories guiding our thinking, and thinking about theory.

Anthopology holds at its core the question of what it is to be a thinking, feeling human being. Emotion and how it is portrayed and interpreted across cultures helps us to reflect on aspects of power, agency and belonging.