Proficiency: Listening
Héctor Beltrán points out how the question of proficiency in fieldwork has centered around questions of language and, in particular, on More...
Proficiency: Provocation
I have been asked to reflect on the degree to which anthropologists need to become proficient in their own research and the extent to which they can 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...
Animals and Anthropology
There has been a recent fluorescence of anthropological interest in human-animal relationships, animals in society, and animal politics in a More...
Peter Redfield Named SCA President
The executive board of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is pleased to announce that Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina More...
Announcing Cultural Anthropology’s New Editors
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is delighted to announce that a new multi-institutional team will serve as the incoming editors of More...
Race and the Good Liberal
The black man is perfect, cried James Baldwin. Surely he knew the pitch of his prose. Those like me—the middlebrow intellectual, proud reader of More...
Guiding Lines
The author guidelines for Postmodern Culture, by its own account one of the first scholarly journals to be published on the Internet, includes the More...
Evil Infrastructures
Can an infrastructure be evil? The short pieces in this Theorizing the Contemporary series, which were originally commissioned for the More...
Kindred Tools: An Interview with Nomi Stone
The February 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Living the Laughscream: Human Technology and Affective Maneuvers More...
Teaching with Digital Technology: An Introduction
As an instructor, you may have a strict policy on the use of laptops, tablets, and mobile phones in class. Perhaps you ask students to keep their More...
Call for Proposals: Openings and Retrospectives
Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe and James Faubion
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Openings and Retrospectives is a section of Cultural Anthropology that seeks to blend the special-issue format with the anthropological theory More...
Reflections on a Multimodal Experiment: On the Golden Snail Opera
At a snail’s pace . . . how long can we humans live that way—or if not live, at least look that way at a patch of silty ground under the More...
Teaching Race: On Stereotypes and Privilege
I am a white woman, an identity I share with the majority of women voters who elected President Donald Trump. I am also middle-class, another aspect More...
Socializing Through Technology: Pokémon GO in Downtown Detroit
In this episode of AnthroPod, guest podcaster David Leins examines the impact of Pokémon GO on communities, both digital and physical, in More...
Cuba as Dreamworld and Catastrophe
This Hot Spots series attempts to interrogate how Cuba is interpellated by diverse audiences to think with and about the complexities and paradoxes of More...
You End Up Enchanted: An Interview with Claudio Sopranzetti
The February 2017 issue of Cultural Anthropology included the research article “Framed by Freedom: Emancipation and Oppression in More...
Outer Space Trilogy 3: Ice Cream and Architecture
This is the third and final episode in a special AnthroPod trilogy highlighting three anthropologists of outer space and coauthors of More...
Captivity
In a global order marked, on the one hand, by unfettered mobility for the powerful and their resources, and, on the other, by the strengthening of More...
It Can’t Be Revolution: An Interview with Tania Li
What can anthropology add to the larger complex of forces that bring about social change? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of an interview More...
Teaching Uncertainty: An Introduction
In launching a new Teaching Tools series, I wanted to begin by thinking with the generativity of uncertainty, with how uncertainty works politically More...
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