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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
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We are an #openaccess #encyclopedia of social and cultural #anthropology. Our entries are written by experts and peer reviewed. We aim to make anthropology accessible for everyone. Find us at www.anthroencyclopedia.com
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Aug 14
Hot off the press: new #openaccess entry on the #anthropology of the #deepsea by Marta Gentilucci @unibergen.bsky.social www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/deep-sea
Deep sea
The mystery evoked by the deep sea—its darkness, remoteness, and inaccessibility—has long captivated the public imagination. Iconic works of science fiction as well as pioneering documentaries reflect...
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American Anthropologist @amanthro.bsky.social · 2d
Congratulations to Ieva Jusionyte on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their 2018 article "Called to 'Ankle Alley': Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US–Mexico Border" #Anthropology #MacFellow

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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerou....
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 2d
“Rot and Repair: Crafting Ecological Futures in a Broken World” – Upcoming talk by Anand Pandian, also on Zoom. Register here: tr.ee/Z3H6dw @riceanthro.bsky.social
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 3d
"Thousands of children around the world are viewed as surplus populations, not only in an economic sense, but in a social and political sense too. " Read this evocative aes piece by Amin Younes Aoussar and Hans Lucht here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte... #anthropology #migration
Omar and Europe’s Militarized Borders by Amin Younes Aoussar and Hans Lucht - American Ethnological Society
Omar stands tall in a shallow rock grave. We are on the cliffside at Tombeaux Phéniciens, the ancient Phoenician tombs in Tangier. He looks longingly across
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 5d
Begin the week with listening. Begin the week with love. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/... #anthropology #listening
A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging
This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s ...
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 8d
Covid-19 and a refurbished realist dualism. Read this #openaccess article by Eldar Bråten here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... #anthropology #covid19 #dualism
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 9d
"Young people find themselves searching for a good life holding on to guns, knives and machetes." And their mothers? See and read in @otherwisemag: www.otherwisemag.com/gabriel-the-... #anthropology
Gabriel the killer | OtherwiseMag
'Why am I feeling sympathy for him?' - a piece by Alba Gutiérrez González in the Graphic issue
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 10d
Midweek check-in! ✨
In case you missed it: the OEA has new entries on #DeepSea, #Technology, #Sustainability, #Time & more!

The OEA is a growing #OpenAccess resource making #Anthropology accessible to all - experts and non-experts worldwide.

Explore all entries here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 11d
Check out this #OpenAccess article by Luminiţa-Anda Mandache! The author proposes the term “anthropology of the popular” to describe an approach that uses ethnographic methods to reveal and address social divisions and polarization.

#OA #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology
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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · 12d
Open Access Article from Human Organization: Political Polarization and the Liberal Bias: A Plea for an Anthropology of the Popular by Luminiţa-Anda Mandache
doi.org/10.1080/0018...

#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization
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Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography @oxford-anthro.bsky.social · 12d
This weekend, it was very special to witness the award of a posthumous MPhil in Anthropology to pioneering Māori scholar, Mākereti Papakura @ox.ac.uk

Mākereti began her studies at Oxford almost 100 years ago, exploring the customs of her people of Te Arawa from a female perspective.
A group of Mākereti's descendants and members of her community, standing a line in an ornate room in front of rows of dark, wood-pannelled seating. Credit: Fisher Studios
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 15d
New #OpenAccess article "Dementism: A New Line of Inquiry in Dementia Studies From a Social Psychological Perspective"

Too often dementia is reduced to memory loss. This article offers a new framework for #Dementia studies, centering dignity, inclusion & personhood.

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Dementism: A New Line of Inquiry in Dementia Studies From a Social Psychological Perspective
The progression of dementia often leads to significant life changes, with particular emphasis placed on memory decline and increased forgetfulness. People living with dementia (PlwD) are frequently s...
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 17d
alert! An #openaccess special issue on the phenomenology of travel and tourism. www.mdpi.com/journal/huma... #anthropology #phenomenology #tourism #openaccess
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 18d
#openaccess #anthropology
Interested in love and belonging in Uganda? Read "Marriage Matters," edited by Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika, and Nanna Schneidermann: bit.ly/4kZqLkQ
Marriage Matters
Statistics show steep declines in formal partnerships in Uganda. Yet marriage, commitment, love and relationships still matter profoundly to individuals, family, generations, friends and wider…
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 19d
on winding paths and straight lines. As always, a wonderful and affectively insightful piece in @otherwisemag: www.otherwisemag.com/corbus-boars
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Corbu's boars | OtherwiseMag
'Soon, in the name of the capitalist order, the straight line became a way of acting and being present in the world' - Jacek Wajszczak's piece in the Graphic issue
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 21d
on food offerings in the oldest Buddhist temple outside of Asia. Listen here: themigrationmenu.com/episode/cult... #anthropology #food
Cultivating Compassion | The Migration Menu
This week, James and Luke were invited by Amal Abeyawardene, secretary of the British Maha Bodhi Society, to visit the London Buddhist Vihara, the oldest...
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 24d
2024 Bateson Prize winner, Naisargi Davé, talks about "indifference as a way of understanding interspecies relationality, the relationship between ethics & politics in anthropological thought, & her approach to the craft of ethnographic writing" in this @culanth.bsky.social interview. #Anthropology
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 25d
Check out this interview with 2024 Bateson Prize winner Naisargi Davé on interspecies relationality, ethics and politics in anthropology, and ethnographic writing! www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 26d
In The Myth of 'Risk-Free' Gold, Giselle Figueroa de la Ossa "unpacks how colonial histories and racial and class hierarchies shape who is allowed to desire and accumulate gold today." @sapiens.org #OpenAccess #Anthropology
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SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org · 28d
“Efforts by the gold industry and governments to uphold the metal’s status as a ‘risk-free’ asset have only deepened the dangers faced by those who risk their lives extracting it.”

Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/gold...
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 29d
"To rethink citation is to rethink the very conditions under which we are allowed to know, to remember, to speak as anthropologists. Citation is not merely a scholarly apparatus; it is a declaration of allegiance. A tracing of kin..." @allegralab.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...
Beyond the Footnote: Citation as Disruption in Creative Anthropology - Allegra Lab
Why We Need to Talk about Referencing Creative Work  “I SUPPOSE you’ll manage.” Chubby Sr. García, the regional military liaison with far too much
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Sep 11
@appliedanthro.bsky.social The call for papers for SfAA Annual Meeting 2026 is now open! More details here: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti... #anthropology
Annual Meeting - Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Sep 10
#OpenAccess book alert! 📖📖📖

"A Long Journey Home" traces powerful personal narratives from #Colombia, where decades of conflict have uprooted lives and disrupted the meaning of #home.

#OA #Anthropology #MigrationStudies #RefugeeStudies
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9
#OpenAccess! A LONG JOURNEY HOME: Losing and Remaking Home following Conflict and Displacement by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia has now published.

Find out more here: bit.ly/4lnPVJQ

#RefugeeStudies #MigrationStudies #Anthropology
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Sep 9
📖 New #OpenAccess book! "Marriage Matters" explores #love, commitment & belonging in #Uganda.

Edited by Lotte Meinert, Julaina A. Obika, and Nanna Schneidermann; Published by
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#OA #Anthropology
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Marriage Matters
Statistics show steep declines in formal partnerships in Uganda. Yet marriage, commitment, love and relationships still matter profoundly to individuals, family, generations, friends and wider society...
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Sep 8
Check out the latest issue of the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ)!
Special Issue: Re-orienting the Himalayan Borderlands
Edited by Aditya Kiran Kakati, Mélanie Vandenhelsken & Bernardo A. Michael

Read it here #OpenAccess: journals.openedition.org/samaj/9869

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33 | 2024 Re-orienting the Himalayan Borderlands
Revue anglophone promouvant l'étude des rapports entre société, culture et politique en Asie du Sud, à partir d'enquêtes de terrain et dans une perspective comparative
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Barbara Wittmann @barbwittmann.bsky.social · Sep 5
So happy to present the publication of this special issue on gender and medicine.
It compiles 12 peer-reviewed articles for the "Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology" with historical and contemporary perspectives on this topic.
The entire issue is open access:
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47 (2024) 1+2 | Gender and Medicine | Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Sep 4
On love and war: in #Cambodia, deminers’ #love for landmine-detecting rats transforms former enemies into collaborators.

Read more about #postwar #ecology, #nonhuman #love and the concept of "metta" in this new #OpenAccess article by Darcie Deangelo!

#Anthropology #OA
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Sep 3
"What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically?" Listen in to this Anthropod episode with Dr. Omar Kasmani, to "trace the hopes, heartbreaks, and potentialities that love can hold for field research and ethnographic writing."
@culanth.bsky.social www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging
This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s ...
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Sep 3
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A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging
This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s ...
www.culanth.org