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American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. The journal advances research on humankind in all its aspects.
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New issue alert! Check out the latest from AA, including special sections on "Archaeologies of Indigenous Futurity," the "Anthropology of Anxiety," and "Anti-Bodies, Anti-Body," as well as Antoinette Jackson's keynote from the 2024 meeting!

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New article alert! Check out "Tasting Red, Hearing Silk: Synesthesia, Sensory Labor, and the Social Aesthetics of Chefs" by Kelly Alexander. #Anthropology

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December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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New #OpenAccess article: "How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human-Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia" by Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie

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December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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New publication! Our conversation on emergent and everyday ecofascism – featuring perspectives from Germany, Zimbabwe, Romania, Turkey, the Philippines, the US, India, and the UAE – is now out in @amanthro.bsky.social #openaccess

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November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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New article out now: "Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism," a conversation between Chloe Ahmann, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, Radhika Govindrajan, Julia Leser, Zeynep Oguz, Yuka Suzuki, Noah Theriault. #Anthropology

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After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter ...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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New issue alert! Check out the latest from AA, including special sections on "Archaeologies of Indigenous Futurity," the "Anthropology of Anxiety," and "Anti-Bodies, Anti-Body," as well as Antoinette Jackson's keynote from the 2024 meeting!

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November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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New #OpenAccess article alert! Check out Eitan Wilf's "New Media Ecologies, Old Occupational Subjectivities and Practices: Tensions and Contradictions in Online Crowdfunding for the Arts in the Netherlands" #Anthropology

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October 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Congratulations to Kristina Douglass on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their new #OpenAccess article "Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production" #Anthropology #Archaeology #MacFellow

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As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subd...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Congratulations to Ieva Jusionyte on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their 2018 article "Called to 'Ankle Alley': Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US–Mexico Border" #Anthropology #MacFellow

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In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerou....
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October 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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New Vital Topics Forum: "Archaeology, Politics, and Environmental Crisis." The fourteen contributions consider how the discipline might respond to our age of intertwined environmental crises. #Anthropology #Archaeology

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October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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In @amanthro.bsky.social, Kristina Nielsen’s investigation of India’s business process outsourcing industry considers the impacts of workers forced to remove their regional accents to meet industry standards.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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On love and war: in #Cambodia, deminers’ #love for landmine-detecting rats transforms former enemies into collaborators.

Read more about #postwar #ecology, #nonhuman #love and the concept of "metta" in this new #OpenAccess article by Darcie Deangelo!

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September 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Our new publication @amanthro.bsky.social, interview with Mun Young Cho, on youth precarity, poverty, and inequality in China, South Korea and the responsibility and value of anthropology doi.org/10.1111/aman...
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This interview with Professor Mun Young Cho, a leading cultural anthropologist at Yonsei University, explores her intellectual journey and research on poverty, labor, development, and youth in China ...
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September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Check out "'We Are All Implicated': An Interview With Korean Anthropologist Mun Young Cho" by Mun Young Cho, Yang Zhan, and Jing Xu. Out now! #Anthropology

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September 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Read Dela Kuma's new #OpenAccess article "Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating 'Nkudzedze' From the Late 19th to Mid-20th Centuries" #Anthropology #Archaeology

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September 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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In @amanthro.bsky.social, Mallory E. Matsumoto finds that in Guatemala, local practices generate forms of disruption, resistance, and refusal that challenge institutional constraints.
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This article takes a scalar view of “friction” (Tsing 2005) and “refusal” (Ortner 1995) between ethnography and the archive. The concept of friction was originally formulated in the context of a globalizing world, but friction's perception and experience are highly local. By recurrently destabilizing interactions, friction generates the constant possibility of contestation at the same time that it fosters ongoing renewal and reshuffling of social relations. Refusal, in turn, is shaped by a combination of individual agency and the contextual parameters delimiting any given social interaction. Based on a K'iche’ Maya narrative recorded by Catholic missionary James L. Mondloch in the area of Nahualá, Sololá, Guatemala, I illustrate how refusal not only informs interpretation of the oral history but shaped its 1968 telling. As debate continues over the ethics and logistics of working with legacy fieldwork data, I consider the frictions that anthropologists have to live with when working with archival data and those that we ourselves may generate.
August 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The second review of Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social written by Helana Marie Boutros has just been published in @amanthro.bsky.social. I have so much gratitude for this engagement with the book that centers its theological aspects and methodological-conceptual work.
September 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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New #OpenAccess article! Read "Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield" by Darcie DeAngelo #Anthropology

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September 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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New issue alert! The September issue of American Anthropologist is out now. It features two special sections, a year-in-review article, a multimodal collection on vanishing fieldsites, and more! #Anthropology

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August 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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We're more than halfway through 2025, so we're revisiting some of the most-read AA articles so far this year! First up is Alpa Shah's "When decolonization is hijacked" #OpenAccess #Anthropology

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August 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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🎙️ Highlights | Check out our own @armanc.bsky.social l in conversation with @emmabunkley.bsky.social about her powerful article, “The Weight of Rumor,” from the June 2025 issue of American Anthropologist.

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by Armanc Yildiz In this edition of Highlights, Emma Nelson Bunkley joins us to discuss her compelling article, “ The Weight of Rumor ,” published in the June 2025 issue of American Anthropologist...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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📣 Call for Mentees!
EASA’s free, remote Academic Mentorship Programme returns Sept 2025–May 2026.
For late-PhDs, postdocs & early-career scholars (PhD ≤8 yrs).
⏰ Apply by 31 Aug 2025
🌍 Open to EASA members
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July 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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📣 Calling all early career anthropologists!!
🔎 @culanth.bsky.social is looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA!
Check out the posting here and express interest in joining their podcast, social media, member blog, or visual and new media team by July 30: www.culanth.org/about/about-...
July 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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The search is on for the next #EditorInChief (or Co Editors-in-Chief) of #AmericanAnthropologist! This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of #Anthropology’s flagship journal & guide the discipline forward.

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April 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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In @amanthro.bsky.social, Emma Nelson Bunkley finds that in Senegal, women with Type II diabetes combat social stigma from weight loss that negatively affects their physical health and community participation.

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In Senegal, Type II diabetes often causes rapid weight loss. Weight loss is usually the reason women will finally seek out a biomedical diagnosis for their ailment. Loss of weight has many negative connotations for Senegalese women—HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, financial troubles, or an unhappy marriage. When women lose weight, they become the subject of rumors and gossip in their communities. This leads to isolation. Research has shown that isolation has deleterious mental health effects, especially in places as communal as Senegal. Worsening mental health can also exacerbate diabetes. This article explores Senegalese women's experiences with weight loss due to Type II diabetes and the effects their weight loss, in addition to their diabetes, has on their lived experience and their social networks.
July 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🚨 Our June 2025 issue is out! 🚨
Includes 5 research articles + two special sections:
✨ Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin
🕯️ Ethnographies of a Dying Discipline—Anthropology in the 21st Century

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July 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM