Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026What does the shifting climate of gender and sexuality hierarchies reveal about the paradoxes that allow wounds, healing, and violence to coexist in Mexico's gay football scene? Read Max D. López Toledano's "Wounds in Utopia: The Politics of Gay Football in 4T Mexico," in our latest issue. 152
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026What if studying a community meant not decoding what people mean, but protecting their freedom to stay undefined? Check this new article on men who race pigeons in Surabaya's alleys—where being hard to read is survival, and opacity is a shield against a state that sees too much. 110
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 11/07/2026🎙️ A new episode of Anthropod is out! In the second installment of our miniseries on love and anthropology, Yichi Zhang and Dr. Luisa Schneider explore how love is inseparable from the inequalities and insecurities that shape intimate life. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/... 021
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Check out our latest #TeachingTools! Here, Pinar shows how staying in the scene is a way of defending anthropology’s ongoing wager that knowledge begins not in the final text, but in the difficult and ethically charged labor of learning how to see. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgStaying in the Scene: Situated Assessment and the Labor of Learning to SeeIn Spring 2026, I designed and taught Migration and Social Justice, a 200-level undergraduate course at Middlebury College, moving from transnati... 010
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/06/2026🎙️ New AnthroPod: Iranian Diaspora Perspectives How do Iranian diaspora communities navigate identity, belonging, and political change? Sharon Jacobs talks with Amy Malek about her book Culture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgIranian Diaspora PerspectivesIran has dominated the U.S. news cycle throughout 2026 so far. The U.S. and Israeli war of aggression in Iran just passed its 100th day, having c... 000
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026As instructors in higher education wrestle with how to design assignments that foster genuine learning in the age of AI, Alyssa Paredes offers a timely reflection on an alternative form of assessment: the oral exam tradition. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/... 052
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026In “Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of ‘Good’ Womanhood,” Anjali Krishan examines how married, middle-class women in Delhi remember and narrate the deaths of women around them. Read Anjali Krishan' article in our LATEST ISSUE:journal.culanth.org Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of “Good” Womanhood | Cultural Anthropology 000
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026How did Brexit and COVID-19 reveal the temporal regimes in contemporary England, implicitly reinforcing ageist marginalization and unequal power dynamics among different generational groups? Read Cathrine Degnen’s article in our latest issue: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/5951 010
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026New AnthroPod!🔊 In the first of a three-part miniseries, we listen to the stories people tell themselves about themselves: how people come to connect with history, how traditions are carried and transmitted, and how emotional performances help people move forward. 110
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologySociety for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Naw no thanks 043
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologySociety for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Every year there is a new university graduation zeitgeist. This year it's commencement speakers getting vehemently booed when they mention AI in a positive light. 032
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026🚨Have you heard? The new issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now! Featuring eleven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from evasion & repair to belonging across African, Asian & European geographies. Find all the articles ⤵️ Open Access as always! 121
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Every year there is a new university graduation zeitgeist. This year it's commencement speakers getting vehemently booed when they mention AI in a positive light. 032
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologyHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026i used "ontologically" correctly but the supermarket cashier wasn't impressed 68510
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologySarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I've talked about this with a lot of different smart people lately but it is truly amazing to see how much the tide of public opinion has changed against the tech oligarchs and executives. 1230035
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026What happens when researchers claim insider status to legitimize their work? This piece explores “self-indigenization syndrome” and the pressures in academia that can encourage blurred identities, tokenism, and contested belonging. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgWhere Does the ‘Self-Indigenization’ Syndrome Come From? Critical Reflections on ‘Research Legitimacy’ in Contemporary AcademiaOver the last decade, there have been growing calls for “academic decolonization” (Moosavi 2023) in the Global North, the need to approach and kn... 030
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026What if drawing could translate culture? This text dives into how illustration works as a tool in ethnography to interpret and communicate lived experience in ways text cannot. A thoughtful take on creativity, research, and the limits of language. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgSpeculative Manuals: Illustration as Situated Translation in EthnographyFrom Commission to MethodTake One Object (Errázuriz and Martínez, forthcoming) is a collective experiment in ethnographic attention. Forty-one an... 142
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Our latest series tackles climate change, human-environment interactions by looking at histories of environmental anthropology: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/... 045
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Have you checked out our first ever Open Book? A new peer-reviewed digital experiment from our most recent editorial collective 👇 000
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologySociety for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and interact with plants, examining both ethical responsibility and control. They highlight “response-ability” and show how human-plant relationships shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them ⬇️ www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgPlant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal CareThe concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated ... 136
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Capture/Connect/Shift is now published! The eight original inquiries in this collection explore the relationship between modes of capture, connect, and shift in a wide variety of contexts. Read more here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgCapture, Connect, ShiftThis Open Book project is a space for experimental, peer-reviewed digital scholarship curated by Cultural Anthropology’s editorial collective und... 000
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026📢New Teaching Tool alert!📢 What if protest is a form of knowledge? This article looks at how activism can reshape teaching, bringing lived experience, collective struggle, and critical inquiry into the classroom. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgBringing Lessons from Protest to the ClassroomJune 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 organiz... 020
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and interact with plants, examining both ethical responsibility and control. They highlight “response-ability” and show how human-plant relationships shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them ⬇️ www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgPlant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal CareThe concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated ... 136
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologyHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026i thank the reviewers for their valuable comments 2514
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026New AnthroPod! 🔊 In our newest episode, guest contributors Martina Weber and Lena Löhr move beyond the image of the lone anthropologist and explore the tensions, negotiations, and possibilities of shared knowledge-making in the discipline. Listen to it here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgThinking Through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in…In this guest episode, guest contributors Martina Weber and Lena Löhr ask what collaboration in anthropology really looks like and who gets to sh... 011
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026How do queer youth in Zimbabwe reimagine ancestor spirit mediumship, reworking ancestral epistemologies and responding to colonial demonization of both queerness and ancestors? Read Raffaella Taylor-Seymour's article in our latest issue: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca... 031
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026📢 New Teaching Tool out! Nikita Taniparti shares three exercises to embed writing within the classroom and build voice and confidence, encouraging students to engage with ethnography not just as source material, but as a craft they can practice. More here!culanth.orgTeaching Writing While Teaching AnthropologyOn 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... 051
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologyAdam Fleischmann @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Prompt: How do I start my story of my expeditions? 052
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In our inbox, from @americananthro.bsky.social! Get your submissions in for this fall's AAA meeting in St. Louis! annualmeeting.americananthro.org 020
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Some PhDoh's are still doing research like the original affluent society. Other PhA+'s have PERFECTED research with AI. Try out these *insane* Claude (Levi-Strauss) prompts and shortcut your way to a billion—yes, with a B!—dollars of research funding!!! (save this) 373
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologySociety for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Teachers, professors, instructors! Our Teaching Tools team is looking to publish short contributions about AI policies and pedagogy—usage, bans, activities, etc. See the full call below: 043
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026New AnthroPod! 🔊We're launching a new podcast series, "Rewiring the Field," which discusses how anthropologists' digital research rethinks fieldwork. Check out the first episode here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgPlaying Fieldwork: Digital Ethnography TodayIn this episode, “Playing Fieldwork”—the first in a new series called Rewiring the Field—we explore how anthropologists are rethinking fieldwork ... 000
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologyAAUP @aaup.org · 10/03/2026Check out this fantastic @truthout.org article about the AAUP's defense of pro-Palestinian speech on campus. It discusses on our report on the weaponization of Title VI, the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's Faculty on the Front Lines initiative, the Fired Four at @psc-cuny.org & more.truthout.orgThe Fight to Defend Pro-Palestine Speech on Campus Isn’t OverTargeted for pro-Palestine speech, these academics are refusing to back down. 01910
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Welcome to Bluesky, @femanth.bsky.social! Give the Association for Feminist Anthropology a follow 100
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Teachers, professors, instructors! Our Teaching Tools team is looking to publish short contributions about AI policies and pedagogy—usage, bans, activities, etc. See the full call below: 043
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026"What animates the modern compulsion to historicize is often a compulsion to discover and expand the possibilities for world-shaping intervention." A conversation about concepts, genres, contingency, and other scholarly grammars: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgThese Compulsive Assertions of Contingency: An Interview with Cameron HuIn this interview, Cameron Hu considers the entailments of modernity’s—and anthropology’s—insistence on historical contingency. What follows is a... 021
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026As bombs sink metallic toxins into the earth and destroyed oil refineries send chemicals into the air, coating whole cities, we are thinking of the many harms caused by war's environmental violence as well as its military force. We've been here before: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgEcologies of WarThis collection, Ecologies of War, extends ethnographic attention beyond “war itself” to include forms of war that are often unrecognized as such... 053
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologySociety for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · 08/03/2026We are pleased to invite you to Remembrance & Resilience, a special series hosted by #SfAA, co-sponsored by the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA), and supported by the Tashima Family Trust. More info: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting @napa-anthro.bsky.social #SfAA2026 022
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026In our 2022 #CiteBlackWomen special section, authors discuss Black women scholars' limited visibility in anthropology as well as the means and methods for overcoming erasure. You can read all six essays here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca... 010
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologyData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 06/03/2026In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, experts consider the urgent questions and fault lines about the role of technology in armed conflict that have emerged in the days since the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran. www.techpolicy.press/key-question...techpolicy.pressKey Questions on the Role of Technology in the Expanding Middle East WarTech Policy Press asked experts working at the intersection of technology policy, security, and international affairs to share what they are watching. 122
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026How did the COVID-19 pandemic lay bare and also exacerbate tremendous changes in labor around the world? Check out our new series rethinking work: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgWhere Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic WorldThis Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. ... 022
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Deeply important right now, and always—reflections on teaching Said's _Orientalism_, including discussions, activities, and relevant topics: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.org 010
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Our latest AnthroPod episode centers on the ethical obligations and the emerge around assisted suicide and voluntary death. Give it a listen: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgThe Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary DeathIn this episode, we dive into the series of debates that have emerged around assisted suicide, both within and outside the boundaries of medico-l... 010
Reposted by Society for Cultural AnthropologyAAUP @aaup.org · 04/03/2026“Abolishing tenure cripples scientific & creative research... This sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately. Why pursue a job here under such a repressive climate?” — Michael Givel, OU AAUP Presidentoudaily.comOklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universitiesThe Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher 19241
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Today! Join @aft.org day of action and #March4Communities. Find events and actions here: www.mobilize.us/protectourco...mobilize.usMarch 4 Day of Action to Protect Our Kids, Our Families and Our Communities · Protect Our Communities on MobilizeMarch 4 is a nationwide day of action to protect our communities and fight for a better life for all—for opportunity, freedom, safety and affordability. Join us! 010
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026From a previous season of war in south Lebanon: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgIntroduction: Another Season of War in South LebanonLooking back, it feels like the war that slammed into Lebanon approached in slow motion. For almost a year for sure, since the beginning of the w... 011
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Published from a different context, but perhaps in some ways instructive—read this 2023 essay on the unity and fragmentation in the Iranian diaspora: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...culanth.orgOn Unity & Fragmentation in the Iranian DiasporaSince its rapid growth after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Iranian diaspora has been marked by deep fragmentations along political, ethnic, re... 020
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026"Why so biased? Where are the pro-Imperial voices on the faculty?" @mcsweeneys.netmcsweeneys.netQuestions for the Jedi Vice-Chair of Graduate StudiesDo I absolutely have to construct my own lightsaber to graduate? Will you accept 30 hours of transfer credit from the Dark Side? How will being at ... 032
Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026"What kinships & constellations come into view when we approach ethnography with an indifference to the boundedness of categories?" SCA Contributing Editor Poornima Rajeshwar interviews Naisargi N. Davé about her Gregory Bateson Prize winning book "Indifference."culanth.orgOn ‘Indifference’: A Conversation with Naisargi DavéNaisargi N. Davé won the 2024 Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. In awarding the prize, ... 032