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🚨Have you heard? The new issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now!
Featuring eleven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from evasion & repair to belonging across African, Asian & European geographies.
Find all the articles ⤵️ Open Access as always!
ALT The cover of the new issue of Cultural Anthropology, includes the journal title on a light blue background and then below it, a black and white photo taken in Taranto’s cemetery in 2019 (photograph by issue author Jasmine Clotilde Pisapia). It depicts an older couple with their backs to the camera, looking on as a worker in a small backhoe digs up a small grave.
Check out our latest #TeachingTools!
Here, Pinar shows how staying in the scene is a way of defending anthropology’s ongoing wager that knowledge begins not in the final text, but in the difficult and ethically charged labor of learning how to see.
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"Rust and Reparations: Memory, Labor, and the Politics of Repair in Senegal’s Railway Workshop" by Charline Kopf examines the multivalences of repair in Senegalese railway workshops.
Read here: journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
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🎙️ New AnthroPod alert!
How do Iranian diaspora communities navigate identity, belonging, and political change? Sharon Jacobs talks with Amy Malek about her book Culture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora.
Listen: culanth.org/fieldsights/iran…
How can educators assess genuine learning in the age of AI? Alyssa Paredes points to a centuries-old practice, the oral exam, as a compelling model for fostering deeper understanding, critical thinking, and student engagement.
Read the full text here:
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How did Brexit and COVID-19 reveal the temporal regimes in contemporary England, implicitly reinforcing ageist marginalization and unequal power dynamics among different generational groups?
Read Cathrine Degnen’s article in our latest issue: journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
Every year there is a new university graduation zeitgeist. This year it's commencement speakers getting booed vehemently when mentioning AI in a positive light.
Call for Jury Members: The SCA is soliciting graduate student volunteers who have completed fieldwork, are ABD (all but dissertation), and are willing to serve on the 2026 Cultural Horizons Prize Jury. Find more details here: culanth.org/about/about-the-…
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We need:
A paragraph-length statement of research interests and qualifications.
Your current CV
A short (one paragraph) note of recommendation from a dissertation committee member that should be sent directly to Radhika Govindrajan ([email protected])
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Who gets to be an “insider” in research?
This article examines “self-indigenization syndrome” and how academia can reward blurred identity claims while reinforcing tokenism and power imbalances.
A sharp critique of research legitimacy. 🧐
🔗 culanth.org/fieldsights/seri…
What if ethnography were not just written, but drawn?
This piece explores illustration as a form of “translation” in anthropology, and capturing what words often miss in lived experience.
A fresh take on research, creativity, and meaning-making.
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Our latest series tackles climate change, human-environment interactions by looking at histories of environmental anthropology: culanth.org/fieldsights/seri…
ALT Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology
Don't forget to get those AAA annual meeting submissions in by this Wednesday! This is the only submission period this year - for all events. See below for more info:
Submissions close soon!
The deadline for the 2026 AAA Annual Meeting is April 29. This year’s theme, On the Verge, explores the thresholds shaping our world today.
Propose a panel, paper, roundtable, workshop, or more.
Submit: annualmeeting.americananthro…
#CallForSubmissions
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Have you checked out our first ever Open Book? A new peer-reviewed digital experiment from our most recent editorial collective 👇
Capture/Connect/Shift is now published!
The eight original inquiries in this collection explore the relationship between modes of capture, connect, and shift in a wide variety of contexts.
Read more here: culanth.org/fieldsights/seri…
Capture/Connect/Shift is now published!
The eight original inquiries in this collection explore the relationship between modes of capture, connect, and shift in a wide variety of contexts.
Read more here: culanth.org/fieldsights/seri…
📢 New teaching tool published! 📢
What can protest teach us? This piece argues: a lot. From power to pedagogy, activism can reshape how we teach and learn.
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📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and control plants, questioning responsibility in these relationships. Through case studies, they show how human-plant interactions shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them⬇️ culanth.org/fieldsights/seri…
2) Angé, Olivia, and Susannah Chapman. 2026. "Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. culanth.org/fieldsights/plan…
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New AnthroPod! 🔊
In a new episode, guest contributors Martina Weber and Lena Löhr go beyond the image of the lone anthropologist and explore the tensions, negotiations, and possibilities of shared knowledge-making in the discipline.
Listen to it here:
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