Correspondence
The Correspondences section of the Cultural Anthropology website dates back to 2013, when Ali Kenner and Grant Otsuki created a forum called More...
Refusing “Undocumented”: Imagining Survival Beyond the Gift of Papers
Audra Simpson (2014, 22) has described how accepting the supposed gift of citizenship from the U.S. or Canadian governments is an impossible project More...
Book Forum: Violence’s Fabled Experiment
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers’s Violence’s Fabled Experiment (2018) is a superb account of the relationship between images, More...
Storying Otherwise. A Review of Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
“We need other kinds of stories,” Donna Haraway implores as she faces the camera. “Storying otherwise,” in Haraway’s More...
Teaching India: A Conversation with Tulasi Srinivas
This past fall, I taught a course on Indian Culture and Society to undergraduate and graduate students in Hong Kong. In preparing for the course, I More...
Touch: An #AmAnth2018 Panel Review
Touch: Tangible Difference, Worlding Techniques Touch: Contact, Ethics, Force Organizers: Zoë H. Wool, Tyler Zoanni Panelists: Anna More...
(W)rap on: Immigration
“(W)Rap on: Immigration” is the second episode of the (W)Rap On series at AnthroPod, which brings anthropologists into conversation with More...
Lights Out: An #AmAnth2018 Panel Response
Lights Out: The Darkroom Organizer: Mayanthi Fernando Panelists: Lisa Sang Mi Min, Mayanthi Fernando, Franck Billé, Elizabeth Dunn, Lucinda More...
Speculative Anthropologies
At the intersection of speculative fiction and anthropology, we find a sense of epistemological humility about the kind of worlds we could or should More...
Roundtable Discussion: Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology
In this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you a recording of a roundtable discussion about the recently published Reading List for a Progressive More...
Teaching Electronic Life Histories
Recent works on the anthropology of waste, rubbish, and discard abound. Many focus on the destructive capacities of capitalist accumulation and the More...
The Politics of Compilation: Around India with Sandhya Suri
How does one approach the past? Whether as a vast, uneven field, a spiral, or a stairway, spatial metaphors fail to do justice to time. Excavating More...
How Should We Think of the Sentinel Islanders?
The last time the inhabitants of Sentinel Island were caught in the glare of global media attention was in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. The More...
Citation Matters: An Updated Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology
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Scholarship in environmental anthropology has historically asked questions about how humans relate to the interconnected biophysical and cultural More...
Renewing the SCA Website
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More than ten years ago now, the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) launched an innovative website designed to extend the reach of its More...
Fields of Relevance: An Interview with Perry Sherouse
The August 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Where the Sidewalk Ends: Automobility and Shame in Tbilisi, More...
Louise Meintjes Awarded the 2018 Bateson Prize
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is proud to award the tenth annual Gregory Bateson Prize to Louise Meintjes for her book Dust of the More...
Reflections on #displace18
In the spring of 2018, the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) organized an international conference in the form of a virtual and distributed More...
At the Limits of Selfhood: An Interview with Kevin Lewis O’Neill
The August 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “On the Importance of Wolves,” by Kevin Lewis O’Neill, More...
Time of Monsters
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In her contribution to the 2016 Hot Spots series on liberalism’s contemporary crisis, Andrea Muehlebach aptly and beautifully rendered our More...
Becoming Infrastructural: An Interview with Michael Degani
The August 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Shock Humor: Zaniness and the Freedom of Permanent Improvisation More...
Hannah Appel Awarded the 2018 Cultural Horizons Prize
The Society for Cultural Anthropology is proud to award the 2018 Cultural Horizons Prize to Hannah Appel (University of California, Los Angeles) More...
AnthroBites: Queer 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...
Announcing the Eleventh Annual SCA Student-Faculty Workshops at #AmAnth2018
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is pleased to announce the lineup for our eleventh annual Student-Faculty Workshops, which will take place More...
Methods for Many Anthropocenes with Andrew S. Mathews
The August 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Landscapes and Throughscapes in Italian Forest Worlds: Thinking More...
From Reciprocity to Relationality: Anthropological Possibilities
Recently, the discipline of anthropology has faced much-needed critique from a chorus of young and dynamic scholars. These critiques emerged in the More...
Relata and the Future of Scholarly Search
Scholars rely on digital tools to search for publications relevant to their areas of research and teaching. Yet most search tools are based on More...
(W)Rap on: Race
“(W)Rap On: Race” is the inaugural episode of the new (W)Rap On series at AnthroPod, which brings anthropologists into conversation with More...
The Margins of a Home: A Review of Familienleben
Some bodies run toward loud noises. Others flee from such sounds, running away as fast as they can. Rosa Hannah Ziegler’s Familienleben (2018) More...
Survival as Development: An Interview with Jason Cons
The May 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Staging Climate Security: Resilience and Heterodystopia in the More...
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