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On September 19, 2017, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck central Mexico. It came thirty-two years to the day after the 1985 More...
When is Justice Done?
As part of our campus programming for the centennial of the Russian Revolution, a historian colleague and I have been teaching an undergraduate course More...
Teaching about Rape in Troubled Times
In the fall of 2016, we taught an introductory undergraduate anthropology course titled “Culture, Gender, and Violence” at the University More...
How Cultural Anthropology Operates
In light of the ongoing discussion about editorial practices at HAU, we as the incoming editors of Cultural Anthropology (CA) wanted to take this More...
Open Access, Open Minds
There’s a couplet in the Tirukkural, the sixth-century Tamil ethical treatise from south India, which speaks beautifully to the philosophy of More...
AnthroPod presents The Familiar Strange: Designing Agency with Vijayendra Rao
The AnthroPod team is pleased to bring you a special crossover episode from the Australia-based blog and podcast The Familiar Strange. We aim to More...
Bateson Book Forum: The Resonance of Unseen Things
In The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny, Susan Lepselter describes the affects and networked More...
Pedagogical Soundings: Hunter-Gatherer Studies
This installment of Pedagogical Soundings is a collaboration between the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology website. More...
AnthroBites: Hunter-Gatherer Research
AnthroBites is a series from the AnthroPod team, designed to make anthropology more digestible. Each episode tackles a key concept, text, or theme, More...
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We think we know what injustice feels like. We can identify moments in our own lives that felt like oppression, like the refusal of freedom, like a More...
Envisioning Theory: An Anthropological Teaching Experiment, Part Two
My previous post introduced “Envisioning Theory,” a teaching experiment in which students produced visualizations of scholarly texts. My More...
Envisioning Theory: An Anthropological Teaching Experiment, Part One
The idea for a learning and teaching experiment in envisioning theory came to me when I began to select texts for a theory seminar on the anthropology More...
Academic Precarity in American Anthropology: A Forum
If as many as 80 percent of doctoral students in cultural anthropology are not getting tenure-track jobs, then why are PhD programs in the United More...
Sketching Visual Anthropology: An Interview with Illustrator Judit Ferencz
In I Swear I Saw This, Michael Taussig (2011) chronicles his travels in Colombia through his mostly colorless drawings. He writes that he is More...
Schools, Prisons, and Blackness in America: A Conversation with Damien Sojoyner
In this episode AnthroPod travels to the Southern California Library to speak with Damien Sojoyner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the More...
The Seeds of Divinity: An Interview with Antonia Foias and Robert Rock
This spring and summer, the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) features an exhibition entitled The Seeds of Divinity, curated More...
Lessons for Liberalism from the “Illiberal East”
The cumulative effects of Brexit, the resurgence of populist politics in Europe, and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States More...
Teresa Caldeira on Urban Practices and Ethnographic Intimacy
In this episode, AnthroPod brings you a discussion about urban ethnography with Teresa Caldeira, Professor of City and Regional Planning at More...
Advanced Graduate Students Needed for the Cultural Horizons Prize Jury
For nearly three decades, the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) has been distinguished by one of the largest graduate student memberships of any More...
What Does Not Cohere: An Interview with Jessica Cooper
The February 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Unruly Affects: Attempts at Control and All That Escapes from an More...
Chemical Immersions: The Chemo-Ethnography Installation at #AmAnth2017
Stepping into the Chemo-Ethnography installation felt a bit like walking into a party. Noisy, excited conversation filled the dark, hot room, which More...
Teaching Race with Lisa Anderson-Levy: Intersectionality, Paradigm Shifts, and the Ubiquity of Whiteness
The word race doesn’t even matter. What we’re talking about are the relationships of power. So if that’s what we’re talking More...
Keywords for Ethnography and Design
This series of short essays explores issues facing ethnographers working on or in collaboration with design as a field. It begins from the proposition More...
Beyond the Either-Or: An Interview with Patrick Eisenlohr
The February 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Suggestions of Movement: Voice and Sonic Atmospheres in More...
Entries for the 2018 Gregory Bateson Book Prize
The Gregory Bateson Book Prize is awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), one of the largest sections of the American Anthropological More...
Pedagogical Soundings: Feminist Anthropology
This installment of Pedagogical Soundings is a collaboration between the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology website. More...
AnthroBites: Feminist Anthropology
AnthroBites is a series from the AnthroPod team, designed to make anthropology more digestible. Each episode tackles a key concept, text, or theme, More...
Teaching as Activism: The Educational Intervention Project as a Tool of Transformation
“You can either talk about it as having a kind of toolbox or also talk about it as having a kind of toybox,” Fred Moten has said of the More...
Entanglement’s Limits: An Interview with Elizabeth F. S. Roberts
The November 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology featured the research article “What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in More...
Teaching (through) Disability and Difference
I first realized that I didn’t know how to approach learning disabilities in the classroom when one of my students asked me to send her the More...
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