Association for Africanist Anthropology
@afaa-africananthro.bsky.social
Our mission is to stimulate, strengthen, and advance anthropology by promoting the study of Africa, Africanist scholarship, and the professional interests of Africanist anthropologists both in and outside of Africa.
https://afaa.americananthro.org/
https://afaa.americananthro.org/
The harvest has arrived!
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The harvest has arrived!
Congrats to @chuckgski.bsky.social! Last night, his book God's Waiting Room was awarded AfAA's Skinner Prize for "the book that best furthers the global community of Africanist scholars & the broader interests of the African continent, as exemplified in the work of Elliott P. Skinner." #AAA2025NOLA
November 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Congrats to @chuckgski.bsky.social! Last night, his book God's Waiting Room was awarded AfAA's Skinner Prize for "the book that best furthers the global community of Africanist scholars & the broader interests of the African continent, as exemplified in the work of Elliott P. Skinner." #AAA2025NOLA
We will be exhibiting at the annual conference so stop by to visit us.
30% Off Conference Special
Whether you are attending or not, you can order our books for 30% off with free U.S. shipping. Discount code: RAAA25.
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30% Off Conference Special
Whether you are attending or not, you can order our books for 30% off with free U.S. shipping. Discount code: RAAA25.
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#AAA25
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
On Dec. 10, 5:30 pm, the New York Academy of Sciences will be hosting their anthropology graduate student speed networking event.
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Anthropology Graduate Student Speed Networking Night
Meet fellow New York area anthropology grad students in this fast-paced networking event!
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November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals to organise the 2027 ACIP Workshop in South Africa.
Up to ZAR 75,000 available for projects exploring public culture, institutions, and scholarship in Africa.
Deadline: 1 May 2026
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude...
#ACIP #ResearchFunding #Africa
Up to ZAR 75,000 available for projects exploring public culture, institutions, and scholarship in Africa.
Deadline: 1 May 2026
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude...
#ACIP #ResearchFunding #Africa
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals to organise the 2027 ACIP Workshop in South Africa.
Up to ZAR 75,000 available for projects exploring public culture, institutions, and scholarship in Africa.
Deadline: 1 May 2026
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude...
#ACIP #ResearchFunding #Africa
Up to ZAR 75,000 available for projects exploring public culture, institutions, and scholarship in Africa.
Deadline: 1 May 2026
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude...
#ACIP #ResearchFunding #Africa
Applications are open for the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards!
African PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at South African universities can apply for up to ZAR 50,000 for dissertation research.
Deadline: 1 May 2026.
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude...
#ResearchFunding
African PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at South African universities can apply for up to ZAR 50,000 for dissertation research.
Deadline: 1 May 2026.
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude...
#ResearchFunding
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Applications are open for the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards!
African PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at South African universities can apply for up to ZAR 50,000 for dissertation research.
Deadline: 1 May 2026.
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude...
#ResearchFunding
African PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at South African universities can apply for up to ZAR 50,000 for dissertation research.
Deadline: 1 May 2026.
🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude...
#ResearchFunding
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Our book STRATA: Unruly Ethnographies of Troubled Worlds is out today 🎉 by Aurelie Darbouret, Petna Ndaliko, Daniela Rodrigues, Jeff Daniel Silva & Laurent Van Lancker, it reimagines how anthropology is written, shared, and felt.
📖 sunsun.fr | Launch: Nov 3 @ Mucem | 196 pages | 400 copies
📖 sunsun.fr | Launch: Nov 3 @ Mucem | 196 pages | 400 copies
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Our book STRATA: Unruly Ethnographies of Troubled Worlds is out today 🎉 by Aurelie Darbouret, Petna Ndaliko, Daniela Rodrigues, Jeff Daniel Silva & Laurent Van Lancker, it reimagines how anthropology is written, shared, and felt.
📖 sunsun.fr | Launch: Nov 3 @ Mucem | 196 pages | 400 copies
📖 sunsun.fr | Launch: Nov 3 @ Mucem | 196 pages | 400 copies
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Call for Participation! AAGE Biennial Conference May 8 – 10, 2026, Hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Deadline Extended: Submit by November 25, 2025. anthropologyandgerontology.com/conferences/...
November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Call for Participation! AAGE Biennial Conference May 8 – 10, 2026, Hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Deadline Extended: Submit by November 25, 2025. anthropologyandgerontology.com/conferences/...
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The Graduate Office for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto will be holding an information session on their graduate programs (Master of Arts, Master of Science, Direct Entry-PhD and PhD). The session will be held online via Zoom. See poster for details.
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Graduate Office for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto will be holding an information session on their graduate programs (Master of Arts, Master of Science, Direct Entry-PhD and PhD). The session will be held online via Zoom. See poster for details.
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local academic types:
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
local academic types:
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
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🆕New Article
Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨
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Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨
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November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
🆕New Article
Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨
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Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨
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🧭Calling all members of the AfAA!
Before the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting, we we'd love to hear from you. What kind of future do you envision for the AfAA?
Share your thoughts 👉 forms.gle/aoLmbK5TYf3X...
Let’s shape the next chapter together. #Anthropology #AfAA #AAA2025
Before the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting, we we'd love to hear from you. What kind of future do you envision for the AfAA?
Share your thoughts 👉 forms.gle/aoLmbK5TYf3X...
Let’s shape the next chapter together. #Anthropology #AfAA #AAA2025
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🧭Calling all members of the AfAA!
Before the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting, we we'd love to hear from you. What kind of future do you envision for the AfAA?
Share your thoughts 👉 forms.gle/aoLmbK5TYf3X...
Let’s shape the next chapter together. #Anthropology #AfAA #AAA2025
Before the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting, we we'd love to hear from you. What kind of future do you envision for the AfAA?
Share your thoughts 👉 forms.gle/aoLmbK5TYf3X...
Let’s shape the next chapter together. #Anthropology #AfAA #AAA2025
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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
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Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
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October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
sudansolidarity.com
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Proud to announce the 2025 AfAA Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award:
Adrian Wilson (UC) for “Refusing Money, Rejecting Relations: …” — a powerful critique of RCTs in Western Kenya.
Honorable mention: Carl Henderson (UCL) for “Zen and the Art of Affluence Maintenance.”
#AfAA2025 #Anthropology
Adrian Wilson (UC) for “Refusing Money, Rejecting Relations: …” — a powerful critique of RCTs in Western Kenya.
Honorable mention: Carl Henderson (UCL) for “Zen and the Art of Affluence Maintenance.”
#AfAA2025 #Anthropology
October 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Proud to announce the 2025 AfAA Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award:
Adrian Wilson (UC) for “Refusing Money, Rejecting Relations: …” — a powerful critique of RCTs in Western Kenya.
Honorable mention: Carl Henderson (UCL) for “Zen and the Art of Affluence Maintenance.”
#AfAA2025 #Anthropology
Adrian Wilson (UC) for “Refusing Money, Rejecting Relations: …” — a powerful critique of RCTs in Western Kenya.
Honorable mention: Carl Henderson (UCL) for “Zen and the Art of Affluence Maintenance.”
#AfAA2025 #Anthropology
Hearty congratulations to Huda Ahmed Name (UC San Diego), winner of the AfAA 2025 “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Essay Award for her essay on Somali ethnic/inter-ethnic conflicts and civil war. We are proud of outstanding undergraduate scholarship!👏
#AfAA2025 #Anthropology #Somalia
#AfAA2025 #Anthropology #Somalia
October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Hearty congratulations to Huda Ahmed Name (UC San Diego), winner of the AfAA 2025 “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Essay Award for her essay on Somali ethnic/inter-ethnic conflicts and civil war. We are proud of outstanding undergraduate scholarship!👏
#AfAA2025 #Anthropology #Somalia
#AfAA2025 #Anthropology #Somalia
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Just out: my new piece in Signs and Society looks at Swahili Islamic marital booklets and how they weave together gender, time, and religious longing.
From pre-Islamic “ignorance” to the afterlife, these texts imagine marriage as a moral journey across eras. doi.org/10.1017/
#LingAnth #AcRel
From pre-Islamic “ignorance” to the afterlife, these texts imagine marriage as a moral journey across eras. doi.org/10.1017/
#LingAnth #AcRel
From the Time of Ignorance to the Afterlife: Gendered Chronotopes and Religious Nostalgia in Swahili-Language Islamic Marital Booklets | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
From the Time of Ignorance to the Afterlife: Gendered Chronotopes and Religious Nostalgia in Swahili-Language Islamic Marital Booklets
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Just out: my new piece in Signs and Society looks at Swahili Islamic marital booklets and how they weave together gender, time, and religious longing.
From pre-Islamic “ignorance” to the afterlife, these texts imagine marriage as a moral journey across eras. doi.org/10.1017/
#LingAnth #AcRel
From pre-Islamic “ignorance” to the afterlife, these texts imagine marriage as a moral journey across eras. doi.org/10.1017/
#LingAnth #AcRel
We regret to share that we have lost access to our accounts on Facebook & X, possibly via hacking.
If you’d like to follow us on social media, we are still active on Bluesky and now also on LinkedIn. We’d love to promote your work on these two sites!
If you’d like to follow us on social media, we are still active on Bluesky and now also on LinkedIn. We’d love to promote your work on these two sites!
September 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We regret to share that we have lost access to our accounts on Facebook & X, possibly via hacking.
If you’d like to follow us on social media, we are still active on Bluesky and now also on LinkedIn. We’d love to promote your work on these two sites!
If you’d like to follow us on social media, we are still active on Bluesky and now also on LinkedIn. We’d love to promote your work on these two sites!
We’re now on LinkedIn. Give us a follow!
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September 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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📚Penn Libraries & the Center for Africana Studies invite applications for the 2026 Holman Fellow for African Health & Medicine Research, a 3-year position supporting scholarship on Africa’s medical & health histories and futures. Apply by September 12, 2025: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
August 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
📚Penn Libraries & the Center for Africana Studies invite applications for the 2026 Holman Fellow for African Health & Medicine Research, a 3-year position supporting scholarship on Africa’s medical & health histories and futures. Apply by September 12, 2025: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...
📢Louisa Lombard (Yale) will give the 2025 AfAA Distinguished Lecture at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Titled "Studying Soldiers," exploring armed life in Central Africa, a compelling dialogue with the conference theme, "Ghosts". #AfAA #AAA2025
More: afaa.americananthro.org/event/2025-a...
More: afaa.americananthro.org/event/2025-a...
August 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
📢Louisa Lombard (Yale) will give the 2025 AfAA Distinguished Lecture at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Titled "Studying Soldiers," exploring armed life in Central Africa, a compelling dialogue with the conference theme, "Ghosts". #AfAA #AAA2025
More: afaa.americananthro.org/event/2025-a...
More: afaa.americananthro.org/event/2025-a...
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For a limited time only, we're pleased to offer a 50% #SALE off ALL #Anthropology and #Sociology paperbacks and eBooks purchased via our website. Get these discounts automatically when you shop, no discount code required: bit.ly/3HjF9X5
Don’t miss out, offer ends soon!
#academicsky #booksale
Don’t miss out, offer ends soon!
#academicsky #booksale
August 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
For a limited time only, we're pleased to offer a 50% #SALE off ALL #Anthropology and #Sociology paperbacks and eBooks purchased via our website. Get these discounts automatically when you shop, no discount code required: bit.ly/3HjF9X5
Don’t miss out, offer ends soon!
#academicsky #booksale
Don’t miss out, offer ends soon!
#academicsky #booksale
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Book review roundtable with a new generation of writers on my creative and experimental ethnography, out now! "Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room," in African Studies - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room
Published in African Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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August 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Book review roundtable with a new generation of writers on my creative and experimental ethnography, out now! "Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room," in African Studies - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Congratulations to Maja Jakarasi, winner of the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award from the African Critical Inquiry Programme for research exploring spirit, healing & mental illness in Zimbabwe & Mozambique
More:
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More:
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July 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Congratulations to Maja Jakarasi, winner of the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award from the African Critical Inquiry Programme for research exploring spirit, healing & mental illness in Zimbabwe & Mozambique
More:
www.facebook.com/share/p/19ZxWAP9W4/ www.gs.emory.edu/about/special/acip.html
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Call for Pitches | Anthropology News: Fluidity
Do you have any bold ideas that cross boundaries? Submit by Aug 10.
See details below
#Anthropology #AfricanistAnthro #AfAA
Do you have any bold ideas that cross boundaries? Submit by Aug 10.
See details below
#Anthropology #AfricanistAnthro #AfAA
July 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Call for Pitches | Anthropology News: Fluidity
Do you have any bold ideas that cross boundaries? Submit by Aug 10.
See details below
#Anthropology #AfricanistAnthro #AfAA
Do you have any bold ideas that cross boundaries? Submit by Aug 10.
See details below
#Anthropology #AfricanistAnthro #AfAA