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That's right! The latest issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now! Check out all eight new research articles open-access here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca
That's right! The latest issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now! Check out all eight new research articles open-access here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca
Fiona McCormack’s essay, “Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship,” engages with climate, capitalism, and decolonial critique, examining how marine spaces materialize global inequalities through regimes of extraction, governance, and labor.
December 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fiona McCormack’s essay, “Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship,” engages with climate, capitalism, and decolonial critique, examining how marine spaces materialize global inequalities through regimes of extraction, governance, and labor.
In her essay, “Fugitive Kinships,” Suma Ikeuchi explores the performance of kinships by resourceful Filipino migrants in Japan.
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December 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In her essay, “Fugitive Kinships,” Suma Ikeuchi explores the performance of kinships by resourceful Filipino migrants in Japan.
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In “My Neighbor the Gringo,” @aangelini.bsky.social and Gareth A. Jones explore the different meanings of convivência in Rio de Janeiro’s self-built communities transformed into tourist accommodations over recent decades.
December 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
In “My Neighbor the Gringo,” @aangelini.bsky.social and Gareth A. Jones explore the different meanings of convivência in Rio de Janeiro’s self-built communities transformed into tourist accommodations over recent decades.
Based on fieldwork in London, interviews with global activists, and analysis of corporate materials, Sohini Kar’s essay, “The Financial Activist,” draws on Lauren Berlant’s theory of inconvenience to show how activists learn to live with and inconvenience financial systems,
December 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Based on fieldwork in London, interviews with global activists, and analysis of corporate materials, Sohini Kar’s essay, “The Financial Activist,” draws on Lauren Berlant’s theory of inconvenience to show how activists learn to live with and inconvenience financial systems,
Sending you into the weekend with a new two-part pedagogy piece on Teaching Orientalism, from @girishdaswani.bsky.social and @isisnaucratis.bsky.social:
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Sending you into the weekend with a new two-part pedagogy piece on Teaching Orientalism, from @girishdaswani.bsky.social and @isisnaucratis.bsky.social:
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Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism. Huge thanks to @culanth.bsky.social for publishing our piece in their Teaching Tools section! www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read part one here. They are there all right, but the narrative ...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism. Huge thanks to @culanth.bsky.social for publishing our piece in their Teaching Tools section! www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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@girishdaswani.bsky.social and I wrote a 2-part post on Teaching Orientalism for @culanth.bsky.social's blog. Here is Part 1:
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Part 1: Teaching Orientalism at the Intersection of History and Anthropology
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read the epilogue here. Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) has pro...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@girishdaswani.bsky.social and I wrote a 2-part post on Teaching Orientalism for @culanth.bsky.social's blog. Here is Part 1:
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www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Because plans were suspended, "the planned tallest building in Africa remains the largest hole in Nairobi"—but in this hole there flourishes an unruly, ruderal ecosystem. Here Constance Smith describes the lives enabled by Nairobi's unplanned urban lake: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Unruliness
Nairobi is in the grip of a construction boom seeking to build a “world-class city” of spectacular infrastructure and gleaming high rises, inspir...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Because plans were suspended, "the planned tallest building in Africa remains the largest hole in Nairobi"—but in this hole there flourishes an unruly, ruderal ecosystem. Here Constance Smith describes the lives enabled by Nairobi's unplanned urban lake: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
In our journal article "Touched By Deep Time," Lachlan Summers thinks with those who continue to suffer long after living through one of Mexico City's earthquakes. For many, structural volatility continues to reverberate in a sort of earthly seasickness. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
December 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In our journal article "Touched By Deep Time," Lachlan Summers thinks with those who continue to suffer long after living through one of Mexico City's earthquakes. For many, structural volatility continues to reverberate in a sort of earthly seasickness. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
"It’s easy for Americans to think eugenics is over when they don’t know how and why it began." @danilynrutherford.bsky.social offers a personal and politically urgent review of Dagmar Herzog's The Question of Unworthy Life: somatosphere.net/disability-a...
Disability and the Worship of Work
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December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"It’s easy for Americans to think eugenics is over when they don’t know how and why it began." @danilynrutherford.bsky.social offers a personal and politically urgent review of Dagmar Herzog's The Question of Unworthy Life: somatosphere.net/disability-a...
Instead of a wrapping up the year with most-read, most-cited, or any of those metrics, we want to hear a more qualitative review. What were your favorite books or articles that you read this year? The most memorable? The ones that you're thinking about the most?
December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Instead of a wrapping up the year with most-read, most-cited, or any of those metrics, we want to hear a more qualitative review. What were your favorite books or articles that you read this year? The most memorable? The ones that you're thinking about the most?
When Israel expanded its war into Lebanon once again, it threatened and disrupted many lives—including students and teachers. When formal education is disrupted by displacement, what do we learn in the meantime? www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
What Are We Learning in the Meantime?
We wrote the first version of this piece in late October 2024, during the war. We are two graduate students, Sami and Rawan, and their professor,...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
When Israel expanded its war into Lebanon once again, it threatened and disrupted many lives—including students and teachers. When formal education is disrupted by displacement, what do we learn in the meantime? www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
"Prophecies of an impending war no longer seem like vestiges of the past; instead, they can be read as warnings of a new epoch of slavery and dispossession under tourism." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"Prophecies of an impending war no longer seem like vestiges of the past; instead, they can be read as warnings of a new epoch of slavery and dispossession under tourism." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
“We sometimes have our heads in the stars, but we really do need to have our feet firmly planted on the ground.” This article shows how astronomers engage different scales from the grounds of southern Africa—like this future (maybe) telescope site in Madagascar:
December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
“We sometimes have our heads in the stars, but we really do need to have our feet firmly planted on the ground.” This article shows how astronomers engage different scales from the grounds of southern Africa—like this future (maybe) telescope site in Madagascar:
Can't believe it's almost been a year since kicked off 2025 with this series on rethinking facts from Latin America - still relevant, still waiting for you to read: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Can't believe it's almost been a year since kicked off 2025 with this series on rethinking facts from Latin America - still relevant, still waiting for you to read: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Here's one for all the readers! 📚🤓📚📑 Join us for our last SCA Fridays of the year as we reflect on, appreciate, and read from publications from 2025.
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Here's one for all the readers! 📚🤓📚📑 Join us for our last SCA Fridays of the year as we reflect on, appreciate, and read from publications from 2025.
Here's one for all the readers! 📚🤓📚📑 Join us for our last SCA Fridays of the year as we reflect on, appreciate, and read from publications from 2025.
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Here's one for all the readers! 📚🤓📚📑 Join us for our last SCA Fridays of the year as we reflect on, appreciate, and read from publications from 2025.
"La experimentación etnográfica se está convirtiendo en una práctica cada vez más común en antropología, con toda una serie de proyectos que expanden e intensifican el giro experimental." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Introducción: Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
La experimentación etnográfica se está convirtiendo en una práctica cada vez más común en antropología, con toda una serie de proyectos que expan...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"La experimentación etnográfica se está convirtiendo en una práctica cada vez más común en antropología, con toda una serie de proyectos que expanden e intensifican el giro experimental." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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NEW: After freezing billions in U.S. foreign aid and putting countless lives at risk around the world, Trump administration officials in Washington celebrated with a sheet cake.
By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social
By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: After freezing billions in U.S. foreign aid and putting countless lives at risk around the world, Trump administration officials in Washington celebrated with a sheet cake.
By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social
By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social
"The border between Lebanon and Palestine has been troubled and troubling since its inception." Lara Deeb on the latest Israeli war in Lebanon and expansionist visions that transcend borders: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
What is a Border to a Settler-Colonial State? Thinking Lebanon Alongside Palestine
In September 2024, the Israeli military attacks across its northern border that had begun the previous fall escalated into a war on Lebanon. By t...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"The border between Lebanon and Palestine has been troubled and troubling since its inception." Lara Deeb on the latest Israeli war in Lebanon and expansionist visions that transcend borders: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
From our latest journal issue, Ina Zharkevich on the invisible slow violence of debt, which haunts Nepali migrants unable to repay loans that they hoped would enable them to pursue life in the U.S.
December 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
From our latest journal issue, Ina Zharkevich on the invisible slow violence of debt, which haunts Nepali migrants unable to repay loans that they hoped would enable them to pursue life in the U.S.
In our series on unbuilding, Simón Uribe examines concrete and corrosion from building roads to managing waterways in Colombia—like this retaining wall. Read more here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
In our series on unbuilding, Simón Uribe examines concrete and corrosion from building roads to managing waterways in Colombia—like this retaining wall. Read more here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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A very interesting article @culanth.bsky.social by Meghan L. Morris: Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín
December 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A very interesting article @culanth.bsky.social by Meghan L. Morris: Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín
"The revolution must be victorious!" A recurring Burmese rallying cry, but what does it say about the temporality of activism? Elliott Prasse-Freeman's research among Burmese revolutionaries reveals shifting relations to failure & activist subjectivities: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities?
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December 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"The revolution must be victorious!" A recurring Burmese rallying cry, but what does it say about the temporality of activism? Elliott Prasse-Freeman's research among Burmese revolutionaries reveals shifting relations to failure & activist subjectivities: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...