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This episode of AnthroPod is the third in a miniseries sharing highlights from talks organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology at the 2025 meeting of t... More
This series features four essays on comics and the speculative imagination in the classroom and ethnographic field research. The authors, who met in a seminar o... More
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Cultural Anthropology
In this issue, we present eleven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from kinship and expertise to labor across African, Asian, and European geographies.
AnthroPod, the podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, invites proposals for a new collaborative series.About This SeriesAcross geography, language, a... More
The Gregory Bateson Book Prize is awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), the largest section of the American Anthropological Association. Named... More
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