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
Dominic Boyer
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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...
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 and Alex Blanchette
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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
Jessica Cooper
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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...
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