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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

Beginning in the Middle: Teaching Theory as Orientation

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Beginning in the Middle: Teaching Theory as Orientation

A familiar professional experience: You slip into a talk already underway. You missed the opening and a good chunk of the argument or important evidence. The sp... More

Teaching Writing While Teaching Anthropology

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Teaching Writing While Teaching Anthropology

On the first day of class, while students are combing through the syllabus, I often watch for their reactions as they look at the assignments for the course. Re... More

Playing Fieldwork: Digital Ethnography Today

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Playing Fieldwork: Digital Ethnography Today

In this episode, “Playing Fieldwork”—the first in a new series called Rewiring the Field—we explore how anthropologists are rethinking fieldwork in digital spac... 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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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

2025 Cultural Horizons Prize: Call for Jury Members

The Cultural Horizons Prize, awarded yearly by a jury of advanced doctoral students, honors an article appearing in Cultural Anthropology during the preceding y... More