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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

we are excited to announce the publication of a forum asking What is Theory (Again)? edited by Michael Edwards, Malini Sur, and Daniel Tranter-Santoso: www.at-commons.com/what-is-theo... (1/2)

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What is theory (again)? · Anthropological Theory

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

for ATC: Hadas Weiss reviews Peter Lockwood’s Peasants to Paupers, which explores how pauperization - being made surplus to capital - affects kinship: “the poor underclass cashed out as individuals while shedding obligations to kin”: www.at-commons.com/pub/ld0lay0o...

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The Contingency of the Family: a review of Peter Lockwood's Peasants to Paupers

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Is ethnographic research inherently extractive? Two pieces debate this issue in ATC. www.at-commons.com/articles (1/3)

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Short-Form Theory · Anthropological Theory

Anthropological Short Form Theory

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📢 We are pleased to announce this new series "Locating the Geopolitical"! It includes four articles and an introduction, each elaborating the anthropological specificities of geopolitical phenomena.

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

check out two new ones on the concept of ‘control’ and how anthropology has mostly turned away from it – come for Stuart Strange's consideration of control in Singapore as it pertains to human-macaque relations in the city-state www.at-commons.com/pub/oqqjx196...

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Controlling for Control

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📢 new at ATC 📢 John Mathias theorizes activism, arguing that it's not about motion but instead is "a configuration of motive" and he shows how "an activist is an especially cause-driven kind of person" www.at-commons.com/pub/evuuzimd...

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Activists Aren’t Defined By Motion, But By Motives

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

😲 reviews at ATC 😲 * Katie Ulrich reviews Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gifts www.at-commons.com/pub/sf5j1t4z... * David Sutton (with Peter Wogan) reviews the film Parthenope for its commentary on anthropology www.at-commons.com/pub/lfn84w3z...

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reviewing Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gifts

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📢 new on ATC 📢 Julia Eckert writes on the need to contend with the joys of fascism www.at-commons.com/pub/mg782jp2...

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Affective Liberty and Fascist Joy

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

check out Charles Dolph's "The new coin clippers: on the hoardlessness of cryptocurrency and the US dollar." Dolph makes sense of crypto for us and then uses it to understand trends in contemporary capitalism. All in under 3,000 words! You're welcome. www.at-commons.com/pub/mujnbk8r...

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The new coin clippers: on the hoardlessness of cryptocurrency and the US dollar

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Matan Kaminer provides a personal review of Balthasar's "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left," a book that feels particularly vital given the "genocide in Palestine... and supercharged McCarthyism in the US." www.at-commons.com/pub/c058ru1q...

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An Account of Ourselves

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Amid genocidal violence in Gaza, "the dead body becomes a site of anticolonial resistance for the living, an example of Palestinian refusals to relinquish autonomy over death, and a form of self-determination and agency that is necessary to imagine and achieve liberation."

Yet paying attention to how Palestinians navigate the assaults on their world, which are meant to punish, degrade, and dehumanize them, lets us all see the captive dead body as a site of refusal and anticolonial resistance. Alongside the horrors of death, we have witnessed the haunting images of children collecting and carrying the body parts of their parents in plastic bags, Palestinians reburying the bodies of the dead according to tradition, and writing names on body bags so that they may be identified. These moments of endurance should not be celebrated as resiliency—doing so entails accepting the crazed, colonial-manufactured conditions that Palestinians were miraculously able to survive. Rather, these moments of witnessing the living lend a form of dignity to the dead in its revocation should be understood as a rejection of Israel’s sovereignty and colonization. The dead body becomes a site of anticolonial resistance for the living, an example of Palestinian refusals to relinquish autonomy over death, and a form of self-determination and agency that is necessary to imagine and achieve liberation for both land and its peoples.

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Mara Dicenta @mdicenta.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Submit your book nominations to the Sutlive Book Prize! It goes to the best book published in prior year, in any discipline, that makes use of anthropological perspectives in order to examine historical contexts and/or the role of the past in the present. www.wm.edu/as/anthropol...

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Vinson Sutlive Book Prize and Lecture

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

In ATC, Adrienne Cohen considers how conceptions of inalienability - what parts of you can you never lose, can you never give away? - are fundamental for understanding various human conceptions of personhood. www.at-commons.com/pub/8wem4ske...

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What Constitutes a Person? Inalienability, Value, and Personhood in Anthropological Theory

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

New in ATC: Anna Willow argues that, given war and climate change, anthropology should embrace a postapocalyptic turn: www.at-commons.com/pub/6kdi8mfu...

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Anthropology’s Postapocalyptic Turn: New Temporalities for New Times

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

rounding out Ghostly Lessons are two reflective pieces: * Emma Kowal considers how an anthropologist can haunt www.at-commons.com/pub/givlpi3v... * Warwick Anderson comments on the series, theorizing ghosts act as of noise in a system www.at-commons.com/pub/3ngd8x6m...

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The Anthropologist as ghost

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

today in Ghostly Lessons we have two contributions considering the treatment of human remains: * Thiago Barbosa and Amanda Domingues on human remains identification methods www.at-commons.com/pub/x2v2mu1j... * Trevor Engel on how museums hold bodies www.at-commons.com/pub/bi2wxnk4...

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Transinstitutionalization and the Ghosts of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

INDIANA JONES AND THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION CAPITULATING TO EVERY DEMAND OF A REACTIONARY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

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Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES
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INDIANA JONES AND THE POST TENURE REVIEW

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INDIANA JONES AND THE RESEARCH ETHICS BOARD

Melissa Stewart
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INDIANA JONES AND THE LOST NEH GRANTS
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INDIANA JONES AND THE ANTIQUITIES EXPORT PERMITTING PROCESS
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INDIANA JONES AND THE INTERMINABLE FACULTY MEETING

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INDIANA JONES AND THE NEW COURSE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

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INDIANA JONES AND THE CURSORY EXCAVATION TO MAKE WAY FOR A NEW INTERSTATE ON-RAMP

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

two more in Ghostly Lessons! * Ricardo Roque considers the ghostly dynamic of the historical archive www.at-commons.com/pub/u9q4ocbz... * Lisette Jong asks if orangutans can speak and whether they conjure ghosts of human evolution science www.at-commons.com/pub/pneeteps...

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Can orangutans speak? Conjuring the ghosts of human evolution science

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

continuing our roll out of Ghostly Lessons: *Vivette García-Deister on forensic scientists' attempts to identify deceased migrants: www.at-commons.com/pub/dbu8b0wc... * Lydia Gibson on mediums, refractions, and the inner lives of ghosts www.at-commons.com/pub/ybaqzlrr...

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'May the eyes of the missing haunt you.' Attending to things that are not there

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

we are thrilled to announce Ghostly Lessons, a new special Theory Forum at ATC, edited by Emma Kowal and Amanda Domingues. Their intro is here www.at-commons.com/pub/k3r17d8f... and keep checking our @ as the entire Forum will be rolled out in the next two weeks here: www.at-commons.com/ghosts

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Ghosts · Anthropological Theory

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

see Public Anthro's important Special Issue "On Speaking Out: Refusing Complicity with Genocide" brill.com/view/journal...

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

anyone want to review, in an anthropological theoretical vein, this new one on late Marx? So much to sink teeth into, given anthro's recent and longstanding concerns with colonialism, gender, and communism (indigenous and otherwise). www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological ...

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

check out Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS) Magazine's new issue: ‘Excess’ fittingly, there's too much good stuff in there: www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk/magazine-hom...

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Magazine Homepage | CUSAS

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

AT author Cheryl Mattingly reflects on how she does theory www.at-commons.com/pub/pcmcrp4w..., examining how anthro takes on phenomenology can assist in grasping how we think about stigma and disability. Her interview continues our series with AT authors, see here: www.at-commons.com/interviews

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Errant phenomenology: an interview with Cheryl Mattingly

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Andreas Streinzer @kompostmoderne.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Hurray - „Leaking panic as policy“, now published! Thanks so much @anthrotheory.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

we are soliciting anthropologists to review books of theory for how they apply to anthro (see here www.at-commons.com/reviews). Pitch us, and we'll get you a book for your trouble (press willing)

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Book Reviews · Anthropological Theory

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

feeling like we are in weeks where decades happen? want to theorize it, anthropologically? see www.at-commons.com and submit something.

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Anthropological Theory

Anthropological Theory Home Page

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

any economic anthros (or adjacent) interested in reviewing Immanent Externalities for ATC? www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2403-i...

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Immanent Externalities

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🚀 New Website! 🚀 #BlueAnthro - we at Anthro Theory Commons are pleased to announce that our new website at-commons.com is up! This website can mint DOIs, which, when combined with our peer review process, makes your short-form theory more recognizable as scholarly text.

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🎙️interview🎙️ Viola Castellano describes the "friction between wanting to uphold the right to move of people who are de facto immobilized and the fear of accidentally contributing to their encounter with the necropolitical forces of the border regime." www.at-commons.com/pub/tnlxpxyc...

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

"Interview: Human Remains and Essentialist Assumptions" www.at-commons.com/2023/10/09/i... - in which Jonatan Kurzwelly and Malin S Wilckens discuss their AT article “Calcified identities: Persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains”

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Hi Hi Blue Sky! The new and improved ATC is coming your way soon! Watch this space for author interviews, idea incubator essays, thematic collections, and more – all with peer review and editorial support. Your new fav home for theory in short form.

Stringer Bell telling everybody that ATC is back up

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