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Christopher Nelson is an anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a member of the editorial collective of Cultural Anthropology (2019–2022).

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Opening Access to AAA’s Publishing Future

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Opening Access to AAA’s Publishing Future

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) publishing contract with Wiley comes to term in 2022. In light of this pressing deadline, several journal editors... More

Empire of Bones

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Empire of Bones

I stayed up late one night a couple months ago, in March 2021, watching the live broadcasts commemorating the tenth anniversary of the catastrophe in Tohoku. Wh... More

American Fascism

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American Fascism

“Every age has its own fascism,” Primo Levi famously wrote in his essay, “A Past We Thought Would Never Return.” “And we see the warning signs wherever the conc... More

A Letter From Okinawa

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A Letter From Okinawa

On the afternoon of March 11, the tsunami alarms sounded in Okinawa. However no earthquake shook the coastal towns and villages, no tidal wave swept through the... More