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Fieldsights is our short-form web publication, featuring timely interventions across a range of media. Explore Fieldsights

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Capture, Connect, Shift

This Open Book project is a space for experimental, peer-reviewed digital scholarship curated by Cultural Anthropology’s editorial collective under the director... More

Bringing Lessons from Protest to the Classroom

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Bringing Lessons from Protest to the Classroom

June 23, 2024, was a sweltering hot 96-degree Sunday during a heat wave in New York City. I made my way to “A ‘Pride’ Protest,” an action organized by a coaliti... More

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care

Theorizing the Contemporary

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care

The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated attunement or e... More

Thinking Through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in Anthropology Today

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Thinking Through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in Anthropology Today

In this guest episode, guest contributors Martina Weber and Lena Löhr ask what collaboration in anthropology really looks like and who gets to shape it. In this... More

Cultural Anthropology

In this issue, we present seven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from vulnerability, the genetic diaspora, and collective life across African, Asian, and South American geographies.

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The 2026 Gregory Bateson Book Prize: Nomination Guidelines

The Gregory Bateson Book Prize is awarded each year by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), one of the largest sections of the American Anthropological ... More

2025 AAA Annual Meeting Events Program

What follows is an overview of sessions and other events organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology at the 2025 American Anthropological Association ann... More

Join Our Team: Call for New Contributing Editors

Are you looking for a writing endeavor beyond your dissertation, final essays, and grant applications? Looking for a collective of inspired anthropologists to r... More