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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!
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.

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.

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What does the shifting climate of gender and sexuality hierarchies reveal about the paradoxes that allow wounds and healing to coexist in Mexico's gay football scene? Read Max D. López Toledano's "Wounds in Utopia: The Politics of Gay Football in 4T Mexico," in our latest issue.
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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. culanth.org/fieldsights/stay…

Staying in the Scene: Situated Assessment and the Labor of Learning…

In Spring 2026, I designed and taught Migration and Social Justice, a 200-level undergraduate course at Middlebury College, moving from transnati...

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Have you checked out our latest issue yet? Here are some wonderful articles to get you started! 🧵⬇️
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"Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of "Good" Womanhood" by Anjali Krishan looks at middle-class married women's stories about the suicides of their female neighbours. Read here: journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
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"Bitter Sweetness: Compelling Greenhouse Farming and the Inter-mobility among Middle-Aged Farmers in North China" by Yue Liao explores how middle-aged Chinese farmers navigate between a mobile new urban elite and an immobile elderly peasantry. 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…

Iranian Diaspora Perspectives

Iran has dominated the U.S. news cycle throughout 2026 so far. The U.S. and Israeli war of aggression in Iran just passed its 100th day, having c...

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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: culanth.org/fieldsights/in-p…

In Praise of the Oral Exam: Returning to Face-to-Face Conversation in…

One of my favorite courses to teach is an upper-level anthropology seminar called Animality and the Human Question. Part multi-species ethnograph...

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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…
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📚 Explore Open Anthropology Research. The Open Anthropology Research Repository offers free access to preprints, teaching materials, and conference papers from around the world. Start exploring: openanthroresearch.org/index… #AnthropologyResources #AAACommunity
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New AnthroPod!🔊 In the first of a three-part miniseries, we listen to the stories people tell themselves about themselves: how people come to connect with history, how traditions are carried and transmitted, and how emotional performances help people move forward.
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AAA 2025 Part 1: Storytelling, Performance, History

This is the first of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. Through...

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Matt Blackwell@matt_blackwellMay 23
In a few years, I think we will look back and realize that learning is like physical fitness in its simplicity and resistance to technology: in order to improve, you need to consistently do hard things without shortcuts.
Timur Kuran
@timurkuranMay 22
Berkeley Law’s new policy is unenforceable and, in any case, unwise. Universities should adapt their teaching methods to the technologies available to students, rather than expecting students to adapt to the university’s methods.
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Ethan@ethantgibsonMay 23
Probably for the purposes of doing peer-reviewed research and teaching at a university
rammy 🏳@rammy_c8May 23
Why would anyone willingly do a PhD
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they/them might be giants ☭
@babadookspinozaMay 23
People are letting AI write their wedding vows, love letters, parents’ obituaries, kids’ birthday cards… Such a powerful loss to self and community when people relinquish the truth of their own words and voices to become epiphenomenal vessels for computers to talk to each other.
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Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist@SIUChasmiteMay 23
People have all sorts of opinions regarding universities, but when it comes down to it, I and many like myself have now 20+ years of experience working at them (me: Canada+USA). One truism: the working conditions of the professoriate are the learning conditions of the students.
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兔兒神@chenchenwritesMay 23
it makes me sad when people seem to have a huge vocabulary for critiquing writing but very few ways to describe what moves them, what they find effective or exciting or memorable, what they love—and why
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Society for Cultural Anthropology@culanthMay 22
🚨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!
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.

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.

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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
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