Darren Byler

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Cultural Anthropology Responds to Trump

Cultural Anthropology Responds to Trump

For our inaugural Collaboration Studio, we have collected politically relevant content about the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and ... More

Bateson Book Forum: The Mushroom at the End of the World

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Bateson Book Forum: The Mushroom at the End of the World

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s beautifully written ethnography The Mushroom at the End of the World evokes the forms of life that emerge in the ruins and fissures—the ... More

Salvage Freedom

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Salvage Freedom

It is hard to know what to start thinking with in a book as rich with ideas as Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World. What struck me the ... More

A Space of Play: The Past and Future of the Contributing Editors Program

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A Space of Play: The Past and Future of the Contributing Editors Program

What follows is the transcript of a conversation that took place at the 2016 spring meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) between Cultural Anth... More

Bateson Book Forum: Behold the Black Caiman

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Bateson Book Forum: Behold the Black Caiman

In their commentary on Lucas Bessire’s Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life, the winner of the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s 2015 Gregory B... More

Photography and Photo-Elicitation after Colonialism: Supplemental Material

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Photography and Photo-Elicitation after Colonialism: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on postcolonialism in Africa including: Damian Droney’s “Ironies of Laboratory Work du... More

Charles Briggs on Epidemics, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning

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Charles Briggs on Epidemics, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning

In this episode the anthropologist Charles Briggs talks with the psychoanalyst Maureen Katz about the human experience of mourning by considering the effects of... More

Dear Dr. Freud: Supplemental Material

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Dear Dr. Freud: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a variety of articles on death and mourning, including Jean Langford's "Gifts Intercepted: Biopolitics a... More

Cast Aside: Boredom, Downward Mobility, and Homelessness in Post-Communist Bucharest: Supplemental Material

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Cast Aside: Boredom, Downward Mobility, and Homelessness in Post-Communist Bucharest: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published essays about affect of boredom, waiting, and social exclusion. See João Biehl’s “Ethnography in the Way ... More

Why Ethnography Matters: On Anthropology and Its Publics: Supplemental Material

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Why Ethnography Matters: On Anthropology and Its Publics: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of essays that reflect on the uses and futures of ethnographic knowledge, including George Mar... More