Finance
What is the place of the household in capitalism? Two generations ago, feminist scholars refuted economic notions that centered capitalism on the More...
Transition
Caitlin Zaloom has begun our dialogue by showing how discourses of individual financial responsibility have overshadowed concrete ways in which the More...
Teaching With Digital Technology: Online Classes
In our most recent post in the “Teaching with Digital Technology” series, Venera Khalikova outlined options for enhancing our More...
Open Access Meets Social Media
The July/August 2017 issue of Anthropology News featured an article entitled “Open Access Meets Social Media,” by Jennifer Shaw and More...
Ethnography and Design 3: Labor in the Gig Economy
This AnthroPod episode is the last in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design. The series was inspired by the conference More...
Commitment, Citation, and Context: An Interview with Bharat Jayram Venkat
The February 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Scenes of Commitment,” by Bharat Jayram Venkat, who More...
Executive Disorder: Living the Ban in Seattle
When I first met Rami, I could tell that he was overwhelmed. For the last few months, he and his staff at the Iraqi Community Center of Washington More...
Race-ing Fargo
On July 25, 2017, what started as a parking dispute in Fargo, North Dakota turned into a verbal altercation between Amber Hensley, a white woman from More...
The Household
How are the worlds in which we live shaped by the ways that households are thought and made? How does the scale of the household shape the spatial and More...
Teaching Uncertainty: Disrupting Nativism with Anneeth Kaur Hundle
In March 2017, I interviewed Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Merced, on her two-part article More...
Collaborative Analytics
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This Theorizing the Contemporary series on collaborative analytics emerged from a workshop held at the Center for Ethnography at the University of More...
Activist Mobilities and the Viacrucis Migrant Caravan
As we arrive at the first checkpoint in Huehuetan, Chiapas, everyone seems to hold their breath, uncertain of how the authorities are going to respond More...
Words in Worlds: An Interview with Kathleen Stewart
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The May 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology included a Retrospectives collection on “Affect” edited by Daniel White. This collection More...
Call for AnthroPod Guest Producers
Do you love podcasts and have an anthropology-related idea that you think deserves the podcast treatment? Are you interested in learning how to make a More...
Ethnography and Design 2: Swedish Design and Ethnocharrettes
This AnthroPod episode is the second in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design. The series was inspired by the conference More...
Beyond Open Access, Net Neutrality: Cultural Anthropology Takes Action
In 2008, when my collaborators and I published “Anthropology of/in Circulation” in Cultural Anthropology (Kelty et al. 2008), we were More...
On Affect, Aesthetics, and Mass Mediation: An Interview with William Mazzarella
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The May 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology included a Retrospectives collection on “Affect,” edited by Daniel White. This collection More...
Ecologies and Expertise: Teaching Climate Adaptation with Sarah E. Vaughn
The May 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology includes the article “Disappearing Mangroves: The Epistemic Politics of Climate Adaptation in More...
Call for Proposals: Displacements
Call for Proposals 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology Cosponsored by the Society for Visual Anthropology Thursday, April More...
Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen
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The idea of an Anthropocene has spread with astonishing speed, dislodging familiar terms like nature and environment from their customary preeminence More...
Teaching with Hope: Anand Pandian on Cultivating Possibility in the Classroom
“Why are we so interested in other ways of being human, if not to put those into practice as ways of pluralizing both what we can be and what More...
Fieldnote as Political Weapon: James Comey’s Ethnographic Turn?
Watching the testimony of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey live on television, I came to realize—one more time More...
Cultural Anthropology’s Journal Impact Factor Climbs
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The 2016 edition of Journal Citation Reports, now published by Clarivate Analytics, ranked Cultural Anthropology eighth among 82 More...
The Times of Sand: An Interview with Jerry C. Zee
The May 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Holding Patterns: Sand and Political Time at China’s Desert More...
Ethnography and Design 1: Disability, Design, and Performance
This AnthroPod episode is the first in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design, based on the conference “Ethnography More...
Proficiency
When it comes to the study of practice, one of the main challenges for ethnographers is often the question of their own proficiency. If it is widely More...
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 More...
To Build This Other World Upon: An Interview with Stefanie Graeter
The February 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “To Revive an Abundant Life: Catholic Science and Neoextractivist More...
Teaching with Digital Technology: In-Class Applications
Last month, the Teaching Tools section kicked off a series of posts exploring how digital technologies can be used in teaching, particularly in More...
Dilemmas of the Long Term: An Interview with Ilana Feldman
The February 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Humanitarian Care and the Ends of Life: The Politics of Aging More...
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