Current PoLAR Issue May 2026
Volume 49, Issue 1 Letter from the Editor Welcome, friends. PoLAR has had an eventful few months since my last letter…
All posts by Jennifer Curtis
2026-27 Call for PoLAR Digital Editorial Fellows
In 2012, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review launched the Digital Editorial Fellows (def) Program for graduate students interested in enhancing their knowledge…
Solidarity for Anthropologists
Emergent Conversation 28 Commissioned and Edited by SJ Dillon In 2026, the question for students of why anthropology (as opposed…
Introduction: Solidarity for Anthropologists
Emergent Conversation 28 This essay is part of the series “Solidarity for Anthropologists” PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 28 By SJ…
Anthropology Inside/Out
Emergent Conversation 28 This essay is part of the series “Solidarity for Anthropologists” PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 28 By Linda…
Tales from the Field: Notes on Homecoming
Emergent Conversation 28 This essay is part of the series “Solidarity for Anthropologists” PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 28 By Sana…
Heated Politics: Preliminary Reflections on Solidarity’s Malleability
Emergent Conversation 28 This essay is part of the series “Solidarity for Anthropologists” PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 28 By Samira…
Is the Anthropologist a Worker?
Emergent Conversation 28 This essay is part of the series “Solidarity for Anthropologists” PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 28 By Whitney…
One Mission, Many Voices: Who Gets to Define Haiti?
by Ana Elisa Santiago Author of Les forces de paix ou la paix de force: Ethnographie d’une mission de paix…
Reimagining the State in an Outlawed Gold Frontier
by Jesse Jonkman Author of Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press (2025)….