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The Case for Paying it Backward: Thanking the Teachers Who Leave Imprints

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The Case for Paying it Backward: Thanking the Teachers Who Leave Imprints

When I wrote an email thanking my mentor for her guidance as I applied to graduate school, she replied with a note of acknowledgement, but ended with the reques... More

The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

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The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to the contempora... More

Teaching Ecological Distress

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Teaching Ecological Distress

This collection is compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective, hosted at SOAS Anthropology. Introduction In recent years, the medical and psychological scie... More

Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America

Theorizing the Contemporary

Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America

This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a time where fact... More

Cultural Anthropology

Established in 1986, the peer-reviewed journal of the SCA has expanded the boundaries of the discipline and brokered new engagements with adjacent fields. Committed to innovation in scholarly communication, the journal went open access in 2014.

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Naisargi Davé Awarded the 2024 Gregory Bateson Book Prize

The Gregory Bateson Book Prize is awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), the largest section of the American Anthropological Association. Named... More

David C. Thompson and Tarini Bedi Awarded the 2024 Cultural Horizons Prize

The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is happy to announce that the 2024 co-winners of the annual Cultural Horizons Prize are David C. Thompson for the ar... More

Open Call for New Editorial Leadership of Cultural Anthropology

We invite applications for the next editor or editors of Cultural Anthropology, the peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal of the Society for Cultural Anthr... More