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In his article “Bitter Sweetness: Compelling Greenhouse Farming and the Inter-Mobility among Middle-Aged Farmers in North China,” Yue Liao explores the lives of... More
This is the second of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. Throughout this minis... More
This collection brings together ethnographers engaged in court-watching, accompaniment in and beyond detained settings, expert witnessing, and collaborative doc... More
Few anthropological concepts have traveled as far as Keith Hart’s “informal economy,” which altered the course of development economics in the 1970s. He once re... More
Cultural Anthropology
In this issue, we present eleven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from kinship and expertise to labor across African, Asian, and European geographies.
AnthroPod, the podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, invites proposals for a new collaborative series.About This SeriesAcross geography, language, a... More
The Gregory Bateson Book Prize is awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), the largest section of the American Anthropological Association. Named... More
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