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Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism

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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 of their presen... More

Part 1: Teaching Orientalism at the Intersection of History and Anthropology

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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 profoundly affecte... More

Teaching and Organizing for Environmental Justice in Baltimore

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Teaching and Organizing for Environmental Justice in Baltimore

Baltimore’s residents of color are twice as likely as white residents to develop cancer from toxic exposure, and suffer some of the highest asthma hospitalizati... More

Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers

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Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers

In this interview, Lachlan Summers reflects on the craft of his article and offers a compelling critique of liberal tendencies and imaginaries in contemporary a... More

Cultural Anthropology

In this issue, we present eight original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from scale, kinship, and debt across African, Asian, and South American geographies.

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2025 AAA Annual Meeting Events Program

What follows is an overview of sessions and other events organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology at the 2025 American Anthropological Association ann... More

Join Our Team: Call for New Contributing Editors

Are you looking for a writing endeavor beyond your dissertation, final essays, and grant applications? Looking for a collective of inspired anthropologists to r... More

2025 Cultural Horizons Prize: Call for Jury Members

The Cultural Horizons Prize, awarded yearly by a jury of advanced doctoral students, honors an article appearing in Cultural Anthropology during the preceding y... More