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Challenging the boundaries of the discipline since 1983. Account managed by a volunteer team of Contributing Editors. Posts this week by Social Media Team.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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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.

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

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"To hell with symbols!" | Cultural Anthropology

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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.

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/...

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/...

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...

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/...

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/...

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

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

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AAA 2025 Part 1: Storytelling, Performance, History

This is the first of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. Through...

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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

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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.

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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Vol. 41 No. 2 (2026) | Cultural Anthropology

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.

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

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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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.

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/...

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...

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/...

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...

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

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/...

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 ...

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/...

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/...

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...

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

16) Lema, Verónica S. 2026. "Thinking with Minorities: Ancient Weeds and Storytelling." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Thinking with Minorities: Ancient Weeds and Storytelling

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

15) Gutierrez, Kathleen Cruz. 2026. "A Vegetal Apathy for an Asymptotic Taxonomy." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A Vegetal Apathy for an Asymptotic Taxonomy

The last plant my dad named he named after me: Shorea kathleeniana. The plant is a species of dipterocarp, one of the many towering trees that ca...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

14) Chapman, Susannah. 2026. “Responsible Rice and the Silent Voices of Life.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Responsable Rice and the Silent Voices of Life

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

13) Chao, Sophie. 2026. "Vegetal Response-ability on a Plantation Frontier." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Vegetal Response-ability on a Plantation Frontier

Plant response-ability and vegetal care offer a rich analytic for reimagining agency and subjecthood beyond the realm of the human and against th...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

12) Keeve, Christian. 2026. "Refusal from the Seed Room Floor." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Refusal from the Seed Room Floor

A jar originally meant for yogurt now holds a mix of beans, peas, okra, corn, alongside other seeds that I cannot identify. The scribbled note ov...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

11) Steinberg, Eva Rose. 2026. "Ultracross Collards and Unsettled Practices of Plant Care." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Ultracross Collards and Unsettled Practices of Plant Care

“The more trashy your source material is, the longer it takes to make a new variety.” The North Carolina State University crop science professor’...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

10) Fausto, Carlos. 2026. "A Caring Predation: The Loving Perils of Plants Among the Kuikuro (Amazonia, Brazil)." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A Caring Predation: The Loving Perils of Plants Among the Kuikuro (Amazonia, Brazil)

A few years ago, while surveying backyard plants in a Kuikuro village in the Upper Xingu, I came across a pequi tree (Caryocar brasiliense) with ...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

9) Dalyan, Can. 2026. "After Care: On How Frozen Seeds Animate Climate Futures." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

After Care: On How Frozen Seeds Animate Climate Futures

Inside the underground vaults of the Turkish Seed Gene Bank (TSGB), seeds of popular field crop varieties and their wild relatives lie in wait. K...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

8) Lien, Marianne Elisabeth, and Janike Kampevold Larsen. 2026. "Muted Meadows: Choreographies of Abandonment and Recovery in the Nordic Arctic." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Muted Meadows: Choreographies of Abandonment and Recovery in the Nordic Arctic

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

7) Angé, Olivia. 2026. "Politics of Tuberous Regards in Andean Practices of Agricultural Care." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Politics of Tuberous Regards in Andean Practices of Agricultural Care

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

6) Coupaye, Ludovic. 2026. "A Technicity of Care: Yams as Co-Actors in “Abelam” Cultivation (Papua New Guinea)." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A Technicity of Care: Yams as Co-Actors in “Abelam” Cultivation (Papua New Guinea)

“One doesn’t enter a garden and start working straight away,” explained Robin. “It’d disturb the yams. You have to go first to the baarë [garden ...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

5) Roman, Gabriel G. 2026. "Eating One’s Seeds: Care and Loss in the Mixe Highlands." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Eating One’s Seeds: Care and Loss in the Mixe Highlands

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

4) Curry, Helen Anne. 2026. "Disease Management and Technical Regimes of Care in a Potato Genebank." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Disease Management and Technical Regimes of Care in a Potato Genebank

Every summer, potato diversity overwhelms a greenhouse in Dundee, Scotland. At the James Hutton Institute, the curator of the Commonwealth Potato...

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

3) Rock, Joeva Sean. 2026. "Stewardship and the Difficulty of Shared Responsibility." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Stewardship and the Difficulty of Shared Responsibility

On July 25, 2024, farmers, scientists, and officials gathered in Nyankpala, Ghana, to debut Songotra T, a genetically modified cowpea. For over a...

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

2) Angé, Olivia, and Susannah Chapman. 2026. "Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction

The concept of care has become central to understanding multispecies relations (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017; Mol et al. 2020; Münster et al. 2021)....

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/...

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

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/...

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...

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...

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!

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"

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

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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