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...
Titrating, Tinkering, and Tracking
Since the earliest days of endocrinology, hormones have been imagined as something to titrate and to tinker with; to measure and also to inject or 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...
Hormones
Omnipresent and versatile, hormones shape what it means to be human in fundamental ways. Hormones are often described as signaling molecules or More...
Call for New Contributing Editors
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is now accepting applications to its Contributing Editors Program, which is celebrating its tenth More...
Ways of Smelling: An Interview with Laurie Denyer Willis
The May 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “‘It smells like a thousand angels marching’: The Salvific More...
The Naturalization of Work
Sarah Besky
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The naturalization of work usually refers to social processes that make a life underpinned by labor seem unquestionable, inevitable, and even More...
Sound as Strategy: An Interview with Laura Kunreuther
The February 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the Sound + Vision article “Sounds of Democracy: Performance, Protest, and Political More...
Sounds of Economic Collapse in Egypt
In this episode of AnthroPod, guest producer Maria Frederika Malmström invites us to listen to the everyday sounds of Egyptians experiencing More...
This Was an Event: An Interview with Chloe Ahmann
The February 2018 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “‘It’s exhausting to create an event out of More...
Speaking Volumes
Franck Billé
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Having engaged with the recent volumetric turn in architecture and political geography, anthropologists are increasingly concerned with realms such as 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...
Justice
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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...
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