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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
Write a blogpost for the World of Work Blog on the Anthropology Career Readiness Network (ACRN) website! More details👇 @anthrocareerready.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Happening today: Book discussion with Danilyn Rutherford, President @wennergrenorg.bsky.social, on her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World." Registration details below.
On Nov. 10th, 6:00 PM, Wenner-Gren President, Danilyn Rutherford will be discussing her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World."

Where: 14A Washington Mews, 1st Floor. Zoom link will be sent out to attendees.
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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"Academia is precarious" - a statement most (if not all) of us have come to experience in one way or another. The EASA Anthropology of Labour Network invites you to a webinar on experiences of academic precarity on 12 November.

We encourage you to attend this timely event.
Info in the comments.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Written by James B. Greenberg a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Founding Editor of the Journal of Political Ecology, and past president of the Political Ecology Society.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Century of Persuasion: How Madison Avenue Rewired the American Mind
The Rise of Emotional Capitalism and the Fall of Public Reason
substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
New article alert 🔬📚 "...labor management practices associated with soft skills have as much to do with old ways of disciplining labor as new and highlights the co-constitution of labor anxiety and racial ideologies", writes Sydney Pullen in "Don't Complain." @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social 👏 📣
In “Don't Complain”: Labor Anxiety, Racial Ideologies, and Moral Micromanagement in Rural South Carolina Sydney Pullen situates the neoliberal turn towards “soft skills” training programs w/in historical context, showing how they represent continuity of racial ideologies and racialized labor regimes
Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
South Carolina's Black Belt counties are perennial targets of economic development programs. Economic development personnel focus on industrial recruitment and workforce development to remedy the eco...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Attending #AAA2025 this year? Join @culanth.bsky.social and Society for Visual Anthropology for a reception on Thursday evening (11/20)-- there will be art, music, and food!
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
New #OpenAccess book by Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh!
"Economies of Care: Market Women in the Highlands of #PapuaNewGuinea" explores how women market traders in Goroka navigate a complex moral economy rooted in #care, #reciprocity, and spiritual value

www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Economies of Care
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November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social

How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.

➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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New special issue, Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology is now out & open access as part of @berghahnbooks.bsky.social's Open Anthro initiative! 'Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility & Displacement', guest edited by Hilal Alkan & Sandra Calkins 👇 🌱
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
www.berghahnjournals.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia

🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...

#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PRIO invites applications for a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in evolutionary, cultural or social anthropology, or a closely related field, ...
www.prio.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
These past few days marked the Day of the Dead across multiple cultures 🕯️

Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
doi.org/10.29164/18d...
Death
The variety of ways in which death has been handled in human societies has been a source of much scholarly fascination. In this brief overview, anthropological approaches to the study of death are ide...
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Read this #openaccess piece on the collaboration between #art and #anthropology in Amanullah Mojadidi’s experimental ethnography, “Art, Anthropology, and All That Lives Between.”
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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University of Washington is hiring:
Lecturer Part-Time Temporary in Anthropology
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A fascinating new #OpenAccess article by @fonck-martin.bsky.social traces #geology after perforation in #Chile - exploring how the discipline transforms when drilling is no longer possible 🌎

Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2572...
#OA #Anthropology
🟡Just Out

New Original Article “Geology after perforation: the reinvention of geothermal exploration in the Chilean Andes”⚡⛰️

By @fonck-martin.bsky.social

♨️Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2470568
#EnergyFutures #GeothermalEnergy #Geology #Anthropology #GeoPedagogies #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
October 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Check out some of the recent entries in the @anthroencyclo.bsky.social Did you know there was an #anthropology of the #deepsea? or of #populism? Find out more: www.anthroencyclopedia.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The Technicalities Speaker Series, organized by OEA-authors on "Technology", is due to host Kristen Pearson with a talk on "Techniques at the Threshold: Moving an Dwelling in Inner Asian Worlds". If you are in the Netherlands, don't miss this on 17 November. #anthropology #technology
October 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
an auditory glimpse into culinarily visiting the Maledives. What a multimodal feast: themigrationmenu.com/episode/meas... #anthropology #food #podcast
Measure with the Heart | The Migration Menu
In this week’s episode, James and Luke try out the food of The Maldives, an archipelago of coraline islands in the Indian Ocean. The Maldivian diaspora in the...
themigrationmenu.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
in/visibilising statehood. See the recent focaal issue: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... #anthropology #publications
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October 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Happy #OAWeek! Discover our Top 3 Most Read #Anthropology #OpenAcess books.

Discover our full collection of #OpenAccess titles, all entirely FREE to access: bit.ly/475c76p

#academicsky #FreeToRead
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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There is now an entry on "Humanitarianism" at @anthroencyclo.bsky.social (co-authored by me and @malayfiroz.bsky.social)!

We worked to make it an accessible resource for readers unfamiliar with humanitarianism & anthro.

🔗 www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/humani...
#Anthropology #Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism can be broadly understood as a concern with human suffering and a moral desire to alleviate it. It manifests not only through discrete acts of helping, but also through a set of practi...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Happy #OpenAccess Week!!
Happy #OpenAccessWeek, check out our Top 4 Downloads! Discover our #OpenAccess collection, all FREE to read: bit.ly/475c76p

For more details, join our subject specific mailing list: bit.ly/3WbV7GG

incl @carrierentschler.bsky.social

#OAWeek #FilmStudies #GenderStudies #Anthropology #History
October 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#AI brings speed and accuracy to forensic #anthropology but can we ensure it also brings fairness and preserves the dignity of the deceased?

Check out this #OpenAccess UCL Research:
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📢 The latest issue of Social Inclusion is out: Gender Equality Plans in European Research Performing Organisations.

And it's fully #OpenAccess!

🔗 Explore the full issue here: www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/424
Gender Equality Plans in European Research Performing Organisations
Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)
www.cogitatiopress.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM