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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What 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.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What 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.
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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/...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Check 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/...
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Staying in the Scene: Situated Assessment and the Labor of Learning to See
In Spring 2026, I designed and taught Migration and Social Justice, a 200-level undergraduate course at Middlebury College, moving from transnati...
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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/...
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Iranian Diaspora Perspectives
Iran 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...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
As 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/...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In “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:
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Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of “Good” Womanhood | Cultural Anthropology
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
How 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
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New 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.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Naw no thanks
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Every 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.
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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!
The cover of the new issue of Cultural Anthropology, includes the journal title on a light blue background and then below it, a black and white photo taken in Taranto’s cemetery in 2019 (photograph by issue author Jasmine Clotilde Pisapia). It depicts an older couple with their backs to the camera, looking on as a worker in a small backhoe digs up a small grave.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Every 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.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
i used "ontologically" correctly but the supermarket cashier wasn't impressed
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Naw no thanks
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I'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.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What 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/...
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Where Does the ‘Self-Indigenization’ Syndrome Come From? Critical Reflections on ‘Research Legitimacy’ in Contemporary Academia
Over the last decade, there have been growing calls for “academic decolonization” (Moosavi 2023) in the Global North, the need to approach and kn...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
What 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/...
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Speculative Manuals: Illustration as Situated Translation in Ethnography
From Commission to MethodTake One Object (Errázuriz and Martínez, forthcoming) is a collective experiment in ethnographic attention. Forty-one an...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our latest series tackles climate change, human-environment interactions by looking at histories of environmental anthropology: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Have you checked out our first ever Open Book? A new peer-reviewed digital experiment from our most recent editorial collective 👇
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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/...
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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 ...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Capture/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/...
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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 und...
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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/...
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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 organiz...
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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/...
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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 ...
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
i thank the reviewers for their valuable comments
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
New 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/...
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Thinking 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...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
How 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...
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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!
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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...
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Adam Fleischmann @afleisch-anthro.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Prompt: How do I start my story of my expeditions?
Screenshot of the first few lines of Claude Lévi-Strauss' "Triste tropiques"
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In our inbox, from @americananthro.bsky.social! Get your submissions in for this fall's AAA meeting in St. Louis! annualmeeting.americananthro.org
American Anthropological Association

unified call for submissions, now open through April 29
accepting all submission types
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Some 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)
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Teachers, 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:
Call for Contributions: AI and the Anthropology Classroom
The SCA’s Fieldsights Teaching Tools page seeks short contributions about AI and the
anthropology classroom. While there is no shortage of broader reflection about generative AI, in
this series, we want to hear from anthropologists about what they actually do (or not) with AI in
their teaching. Do you ban computers, pivoting to pen-and-paper only classrooms and
handwritten, blue book exams? Use AI together with students and reflect on its limitations and
possibilities as a tool? Introduce anthropological approaches to AI through ethnographies of
technology?
Our goal is to bring together a range of actionable insights and practical teaching strategies. We
welcome a diversity of approaches and orientations to AI.
Interested contributors please send the below via email to dana.mclachlin@duke.edu by April
1st, 2026: 1) a copy of your class policy or assignment guidelines on AI usage, or an AI-related
activity you use with students and 2) a separate 250-300 word reflection on your approach. In
your reflection, you can consider the factors that shaped your strategy, assess the
success/limitations of your approach, or offer what you might do differently in future classes.
Please contact dana.mclachlin@duke.edu if you have any questions.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
New 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/...
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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 ...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 10/03/2026
Check 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.
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The Fight to Defend Pro-Palestine Speech on Campus Isn’t Over
Targeted for pro-Palestine speech, these academics are refusing to back down.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Welcome to Bluesky, @femanth.bsky.social! Give the Association for Feminist Anthropology a follow
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Teachers, 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:
Call for Contributions: AI and the Anthropology Classroom
The SCA’s Fieldsights Teaching Tools page seeks short contributions about AI and the
anthropology classroom. While there is no shortage of broader reflection about generative AI, in
this series, we want to hear from anthropologists about what they actually do (or not) with AI in
their teaching. Do you ban computers, pivoting to pen-and-paper only classrooms and
handwritten, blue book exams? Use AI together with students and reflect on its limitations and
possibilities as a tool? Introduce anthropological approaches to AI through ethnographies of
technology?
Our goal is to bring together a range of actionable insights and practical teaching strategies. We
welcome a diversity of approaches and orientations to AI.
Interested contributors please send the below via email to dana.mclachlin@duke.edu by April
1st, 2026: 1) a copy of your class policy or assignment guidelines on AI usage, or an AI-related
activity you use with students and 2) a separate 250-300 word reflection on your approach. In
your reflection, you can consider the factors that shaped your strategy, assess the
success/limitations of your approach, or offer what you might do differently in future classes.
Please contact dana.mclachlin@duke.edu if you have any questions.
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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/...
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These Compulsive Assertions of Contingency: An Interview with Cameron Hu
In this interview, Cameron Hu considers the entailments of modernity’s—and anthropology’s—insistence on historical contingency. What follows is a...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
As 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/...
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Ecologies of War
This collection, Ecologies of War, extends ethnographic attention beyond “war itself” to include forms of war that are often unrecognized as such...
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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
We 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
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In 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...
#CiteBlackWomen by Anne-Maria B. Makhulu and Christen A. Smith
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
In @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...
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Key Questions on the Role of Technology in the Expanding Middle East War
Tech Policy Press asked experts working at the intersection of technology policy, security, and international affairs to share what they are watching.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
How 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/...
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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
This 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. ...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Deeply important right now, and always—reflections on teaching Said's _Orientalism_, including discussions, activities, and relevant topics: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Our 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/...
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The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Death
In this episode, we dive into the series of debates that have emerged around assisted suicide, both within and outside the boundaries of medico-l...
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AAUP @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 President
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Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities
The 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
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Today! Join @aft.org day of action and #March4Communities. Find events and actions here: www.mobilize.us/protectourco...
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March 4 Day of Action to Protect Our Kids, Our Families and Our Communities · Protect Our Communities on Mobilize
March 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!
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
From a previous season of war in south Lebanon: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Introduction: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
Looking 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...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Published 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/...
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On Unity & Fragmentation in the Iranian Diaspora
Since its rapid growth after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Iranian diaspora has been marked by deep fragmentations along political, ethnic, re...
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"Why so biased? Where are the pro-Imperial voices on the faculty?" @mcsweeneys.net
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Questions for the Jedi Vice-Chair of Graduate Studies
Do 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 ...
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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."
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On ‘Indifference’: A Conversation with Naisargi Davé
Naisargi N. Davé won the 2024 Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. In awarding the prize, ...
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