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We are an #openaccess #encyclopedia of social and cultural #anthropology. Our entries are written by experts and peer reviewed. We aim to make anthropology accessible for everyone. Find us at www.anthroencyclopedia.com
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🔥🔥🔥 Hot hot hot off the press: an OEA entry on SECULARISM, written by William Girard.
🤓🤓🤓 "The anthropology of secularism explores how modern nation-states construct and manage religion."
🔎🔎🔎 Find it here: anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/secula...
#openaccess #anthropology #secularism
Secularism
The anthropology of secularism studies how nation-states actively shape ‘religion’ as a category, institutional structure, and lived experience. It does not cast secularism as an impersonal process…
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New issue alert!! "Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements" is out now and fully #OpenAccess
Dive in: www.interfacejournal.net 📖

#OA #SocialSciences #Anthropology #SocialMovements
Interface – A Journal for and about Social Movements
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January 23, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Fresh perspectives on #anthropology: this #openaccess read challenges traditional approaches and explores more inviting ways to do research. Very fascinating!
January 22, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Familiar with proverbs but curious about anti-proverbs? Erik Aasland provides a fascinating account of proverbs and anti-proverbs in Kazakh tradition and what they can tell us about the fluid and changing cultural contexts.
January 20, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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#OpenAccess and newly minted article, where Inés Escobar Gonzalez explores how for "...working-class Mexicans, property has turned into rent...eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations." Link 👇 @amethno.bsky.social
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📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢

Inés Escobar González's 'When property becomes rent' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View. The piece is part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum.

Access here:
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January 19, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Missed the live session?

Anthropology and AI: From Past Engagements to Today's Challenges

You can now watch the full webinar on demand here: youtu.be/h7EpStCLmnA

#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
January 14, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Job alert: Tenure-Track position for Assistant Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, is open at Rutgers University. More details in the link👇
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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The #BIAPT2026 ends today @biapt.bsky.social!

Browse our #OpenAccess books in #PoliticalAnthropology: bit.ly/3UgEPeI

#BIAPT2026 #Anthropology
January 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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🔥🔥🔥 Hot hot hot off the press: an OEA entry on SECULARISM, written by William Girard.
🤓🤓🤓 "The anthropology of secularism explores how modern nation-states construct and manage religion."
🔎🔎🔎 Find it here: anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/secula...
#openaccess #anthropology #secularism
Secularism
The anthropology of secularism studies how nation-states actively shape ‘religion’ as a category, institutional structure, and lived experience. It does not cast secularism as an impersonal process…
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January 8, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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loving words and what words on a screen can do?
Read "The light between Strangers" by Fiona Murphy: www.otherwisemag.com/the-light-be... and published in Otherwise. #anthropology #lyrical #sonder
The light between strangers | OtherwiseMag
'There’s a word that moves like a breath across the internet' - Fiona Murphy's poem in the Contours issue
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January 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Happy new year! 🎊🎊🎊
All the best to our readers and authors! We look forward to 2026 being a year with lots of exciting encyclopedia entries coming out. Stay tuned and take a look at: anthroencyclopedia.com
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January 6, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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👋 OEA is taking a short social media break until the New Year.

While we’re away, dive into our latest #openaccess entries! Find new readings on #democracy, #anti-blackness, #dance, #outerspace, and more here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com

See you in January & happy holidays from the OEA Team 🎉
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December 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Ending the week by sharing a brilliant #openaccess piece by @timmclellan.bsky.social 🌱
This article explores "temporal empathy": how #agroforestry scientists in #China and #Myanmar pay attention to ecological time, even while navigating the fast clocks of donors and institutions.

#anthropology #OA
timmclellan.bsky.social Tim McLellan @timmclellan.bsky.social · Dec 18
My new open access article in @sthv.bsky.social reflects on empathy as a research method shared by anthropology/STS and environmental science.

It also features a glow-in-the-dark mushroom hunt 🍄

#EnvironmentalHumanities #Nature-basedSolutions #agroforestry doi.org/10.1177/0162...
Cover page of article in ST&HV. Title: The Time Politics of Agroforestry Science Author: Timothy McLellan Abstract: This article examines the time politics of agroforestry science through an ethnographic study with scientists at the Institute for Farms and Forests (IFF) in China. IFF researchers seek to design complex agroforestry systems that emulate the regenerative cycles and evolutionary adaptations of natural forests, a goal which challenges the dominant temporalities of industrial agriculture and modernist development. Yet these aspirations are continually reshaped by the fast tempos and short horizons of scientific institutions and donor organizations. Drawing on environmental humanities scholarship, I argue that agroforestry science is animated by temporal empathy—an attentiveness to the temporalities of more-than-human worlds—but that this empathy is systematically constrained by institutional regimes of speed, measurement, and impact. Through case studies of agroforestry projects in China and Myanmar, I trace how scientists negotiate the dissonance between ecological time and developmental or donor time, and I show how their work both reproduces and contests neoliberal logics of value and progress. I propose temporal empathy not only as a feature of environmental science but also as a method for science and technology studies: as a mode of inquiry that can help us to apprehend, and potentially find common cause with, the aspirations and frustrations of scientists striving to imagine more livable futures. Keywords: agroforestry, environmental humanities, fast science, institutions, nature-based solutions, temporal empathy
December 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Happy to boost this ✨
“Anthropology of the Hometown” by @dadadocot.bsky.social is now out in American Anthropologist, offering a compelling argument for #anthropology of the #hometown as part of disciplinary redress and decolonization - and it's #openaccess!
dadadocot.bsky.social Dada Docot @dadadocot.bsky.social · Dec 18
Hi All! I am excited to share that my essay "Anthropology of the Hometown" is now live in the American Anthropologist. I argue that doing anthropology of the hometown contributes to broader efforts of disciplinary redress and decolonization. OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1111/aman...
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🎊 Ending the year at the OEA with a fantastic NEW ENTRY on the #anthropology of #democracy, written by Eduardo Dullo!

Read it #openaccess:
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Democracy
Democracy is a system of governance and a value with a widespread presence worldwide. However, anthropological literature has shown that the transition to democracy articulates practices, institutions...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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we end the quotes-week with Feasting-Friday!
“Feasts make rather than reflect qualities of the world.” written by Chloe Nahum-Claudel, found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/feasting
Feasting
Feasts are special meals (food out of the ordinary in kind or quantity) shared among an enlarged circle of people. They are occasions for many kinds of activities, not only eating and talking, but…
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December 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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after the voice of Wednesday, the silence of Thursday:
"silence ... is often a presence in social life, rather than a mere absence of sound and voice." by Ana Dragojlovic and Annemarie Samuels. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/silence
Silence
Silence is a common occurrence in everyday social interactions, yet anthropological research, like most research in the social sciences and humanities, has mostly focused on what people say and do.…
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December 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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and a quote for Wednesday:
“Anthropologists have shown voices — both as sound objects and as metaphors — to be culturally and historically constructed, and hence variable.” by Marlene Schäfers, found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/voice
Voice
Voice is a salient category in our contemporary lives. We speak of marginalised groups ‘lacking voice’ and celebrate their efforts at ‘raising their voices’; we are advised to listen to our ‘inner…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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📣 📣 📣 new entry, new entry, new entry

Learn more about Anti-Blackness, the "pervasive and deeply entrenched form of dehumanisation and exclusion targeting people racialised as ‘Black’" in the latest #OEA #openaccess entry, written by Sebastian Jackson.

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Anti-Blackness
‘Anti-Blackness’ refers to a pervasive and deeply entrenched form of dehumanisation and exclusion targeting people racialised as ‘Black’, particularly those of African, Afro-diasporic, and…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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our Tuesday quote:
"For anthropology, time is not one but many." Written by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/time
Time
Time, from an anthropological perspective, is culturally specific and inseparable from our understanding of the world and our place in it. Anthropology charts how and to what extent time is…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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this week is dedicated to sharing beautiful, insightful, challenging OEA quotes.
"...allowing anthropology to insistently ask: whose ‘sustainability’ gets to count on the global stage? And what, exactly, is being sustained?" by Alice Rudge, found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...
Sustainability
The term ‘sustainability’, as used in policy and common contemporary parlance, has a very European heritage, but its meanings and implications defy easy definition. While perhaps most famously the…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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RIP Keith Hart

"I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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📘 New #OpenAccess book alert!
"The Chronopolitics of Life": An interdisciplinary look at how #temporalities, #bodies, and #power relations shape #health.

#Anthropology #Biomedicine
December 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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How does #anthropology understand #dance? 💃

In this new #OEA #openaccess entry, Panas Karampampas explores dance as an expressive system through which relationships, identities, and power are enacted and negotiated, from local practices to global circulation.
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Dance
Dance is a socially embedded, sensorially rich, and politically charged practice that transcends mere aesthetics. It can serve to tell stories and transmit knowledge within and across generations. It ...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Exciting 2-year postdoc position available with the ERC project “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER) at the University of Oslo.

Info in the comments!

#anthropologyjob #jobopportunity #academiccareer #Postdocposition #hiring
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Don’t miss this #OpenAccess issue on the #Anthropology of the #MiddleEast entitled "“Middle Eastern Migrants in East Asia: Navigation of #Identity, #Religion and #Belonging”
berghahnbooks.bsky.social Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · Nov 7
The latest Open Access issue of Anthropology of the Middle East has been published! View the TOC and more here: bit.ly/47plFe0

Volume 20, Issue 2: "Middle Eastern Migrants in East Asia: Navigation of Identity, Religion and Belonging." Guest Editor: Gi Yeon Koo.
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM