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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Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism can be broadly understood as a concern with human suffering and a moral desire to alleviate it. It manifests not only through discrete acts of helping, but also through a set of practi...
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Hot off the press! 🚨 A new #OpenAccess entry on #Humanitarianism by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social & @malayfiroz.bsky.social is out now - check it out!
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"Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually & collectively", write Micheal Schnegg & Jonas Bens, in our brand new entry on Atmosphere! Read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp... #OpenAccess #Anthropology
Atmospheres
Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually and collectively. They are created by the affective relationships between the human and non-human, material and i...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually & collectively", write Micheal Schnegg & Jonas Bens, in our brand new entry on Atmosphere! Read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp... #OpenAccess #Anthropology
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Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
"How might we speak of love, especially in today’s social and political climate?" Omar Kasmani talks about the "hopes, heartbreaks, and potentialities that love can hold for field research and ethnographic writing." Listen here🎙️: 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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November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"How might we speak of love, especially in today’s social and political climate?" Omar Kasmani talks about the "hopes, heartbreaks, and potentialities that love can hold for field research and ethnographic writing." Listen here🎙️: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
A collection of essays on the Anthropology of Free Trade, by @amethno.bsky.social 👇
New Special Collection Out!
The online collection, edited by Alejandra González Jiménez, focuses on the North American Free Trade Agreement and gives glimpses into worlds engendered by, or indirectly shaped by it.
Read here:
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The online collection, edited by Alejandra González Jiménez, focuses on the North American Free Trade Agreement and gives glimpses into worlds engendered by, or indirectly shaped by it.
Read here:
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November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
A collection of essays on the Anthropology of Free Trade, by @amethno.bsky.social 👇
New paper alert! 📢
"Enterprising Citizens: Digital Self-Help Gurus in Post-Liberalization India" by Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey.
A look at how SHGs reshape aspirations, normalize failure, and push entrepreneurial citizenship in #India.
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"Enterprising Citizens: Digital Self-Help Gurus in Post-Liberalization India" by Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey.
A look at how SHGs reshape aspirations, normalize failure, and push entrepreneurial citizenship in #India.
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This paper analyzes the content of India's digital self-help gurus (SHGs), who are popular online figures in India, and engages a varied online audience across multiple social media platforms. We exa....
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November 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
New paper alert! 📢
"Enterprising Citizens: Digital Self-Help Gurus in Post-Liberalization India" by Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey.
A look at how SHGs reshape aspirations, normalize failure, and push entrepreneurial citizenship in #India.
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"Enterprising Citizens: Digital Self-Help Gurus in Post-Liberalization India" by Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey.
A look at how SHGs reshape aspirations, normalize failure, and push entrepreneurial citizenship in #India.
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New #OpenAccess article! ✨
“Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground: #Scale and #Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa” by Hanna Nieber & Davide Chinigò
Exploring how scale shapes radio astronomy in #SouthAfrica & #Madagascar, from ground infrastructure to outer space
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“Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground: #Scale and #Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa” by Hanna Nieber & Davide Chinigò
Exploring how scale shapes radio astronomy in #SouthAfrica & #Madagascar, from ground infrastructure to outer space
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Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground
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November 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New #OpenAccess article! ✨
“Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground: #Scale and #Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa” by Hanna Nieber & Davide Chinigò
Exploring how scale shapes radio astronomy in #SouthAfrica & #Madagascar, from ground infrastructure to outer space
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“Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground: #Scale and #Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa” by Hanna Nieber & Davide Chinigò
Exploring how scale shapes radio astronomy in #SouthAfrica & #Madagascar, from ground infrastructure to outer space
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🛎️ 🛎️ Cultural Anthropology has published a new issue. 🤓 See it here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca As always, it's OA 😍 #anthropology #publishing # openaccess
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November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🛎️ 🛎️ Cultural Anthropology has published a new issue. 🤓 See it here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca As always, it's OA 😍 #anthropology #publishing # openaccess
"‘The line starts here!’ the officer shouts.
But no one here believes the line ever begins."
Continue reading Fulya Pinar's poem here: www.otherwisemag.com/the-line-sta... #anthropology #poetry #migration
But no one here believes the line ever begins."
Continue reading Fulya Pinar's poem here: www.otherwisemag.com/the-line-sta... #anthropology #poetry #migration
the line starts here, but it moves | OtherwiseMag
'Rumors move faster than files' - Fulya Pinar's poem in the Contours issue
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November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"‘The line starts here!’ the officer shouts.
But no one here believes the line ever begins."
Continue reading Fulya Pinar's poem here: www.otherwisemag.com/the-line-sta... #anthropology #poetry #migration
But no one here believes the line ever begins."
Continue reading Fulya Pinar's poem here: www.otherwisemag.com/the-line-sta... #anthropology #poetry #migration
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Congratulations to Kristina Douglass on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their new #OpenAccess article "Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production" #Anthropology #Archaeology #MacFellow
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As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subd...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Congratulations to Kristina Douglass on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their new #OpenAccess article "Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production" #Anthropology #Archaeology #MacFellow
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New book by UCL Press 📚
Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world
edited by: Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf
Free download: bit.ly/4pkQ5VQ #anthropology #bookpublication #openaccess
Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world
edited by: Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf
Free download: bit.ly/4pkQ5VQ #anthropology #bookpublication #openaccess
Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
New book by UCL Press 📚
Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world
edited by: Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf
Free download: bit.ly/4pkQ5VQ #anthropology #bookpublication #openaccess
Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world
edited by: Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf
Free download: bit.ly/4pkQ5VQ #anthropology #bookpublication #openaccess
Spreading it around: a new look at redistribution and tax. Today. A panel discussion. Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, LSE. Find our more and register here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/sprea... #anthropology #redistribution
Spreading it around | Redistribution and tax
6.30pm Thurs 13 Nov | Deborah James, Miranda Sheild Johansson, Johanna Mugler, Robin Smith | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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November 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Spreading it around: a new look at redistribution and tax. Today. A panel discussion. Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, LSE. Find our more and register here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/sprea... #anthropology #redistribution
New issue of @amanthro.bsky.social is out now with a great collection of articles 📚🎙️ Congratulations to all the authors and editors 👏👏
New issue alert! Check out the latest from AA, including special sections on "Archaeologies of Indigenous Futurity," the "Anthropology of Anxiety," and "Anti-Bodies, Anti-Body," as well as Antoinette Jackson's keynote from the 2024 meeting!
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November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
New issue of @amanthro.bsky.social is out now with a great collection of articles 📚🎙️ Congratulations to all the authors and editors 👏👏
Write a blogpost for the World of Work Blog on the Anthropology Career Readiness Network (ACRN) website! More details👇 @anthrocareerready.bsky.social
Whether you're a student, recent graduate, or experienced professional, this is your space to share how anthropology shapes the way you work, think, and make an impact: anthrocareerready.net/would-you-li...
Would you like to write a blogpost for the World of Work Blog? - The Anthropology Career Readiness Network
Have you ever met an anthropologist who did not want to share a story, an idea, or an insight with you? Maybe you have—but not I—and I have almost 50 years in
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November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Write a blogpost for the World of Work Blog on the Anthropology Career Readiness Network (ACRN) website! More details👇 @anthrocareerready.bsky.social
Happening today: Book discussion with Danilyn Rutherford, President @wennergrenorg.bsky.social, on her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World." Registration details below.
On Nov. 10th, 6:00 PM, Wenner-Gren President, Danilyn Rutherford will be discussing her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World."
Where: 14A Washington Mews, 1st Floor. Zoom link will be sent out to attendees.
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Where: 14A Washington Mews, 1st Floor. Zoom link will be sent out to attendees.
RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Happening today: Book discussion with Danilyn Rutherford, President @wennergrenorg.bsky.social, on her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World." Registration details below.
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"Academia is precarious" - a statement most (if not all) of us have come to experience in one way or another. The EASA Anthropology of Labour Network invites you to a webinar on experiences of academic precarity on 12 November.
We encourage you to attend this timely event.
Info in the comments.
We encourage you to attend this timely event.
Info in the comments.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"Academia is precarious" - a statement most (if not all) of us have come to experience in one way or another. The EASA Anthropology of Labour Network invites you to a webinar on experiences of academic precarity on 12 November.
We encourage you to attend this timely event.
Info in the comments.
We encourage you to attend this timely event.
Info in the comments.
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Written by James B. Greenberg a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Founding Editor of the Journal of Political Ecology, and past president of the Political Ecology Society.
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The Century of Persuasion: How Madison Avenue Rewired the American Mind
The Rise of Emotional Capitalism and the Fall of Public Reason
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November 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Written by James B. Greenberg a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Founding Editor of the Journal of Political Ecology, and past president of the Political Ecology Society.
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New article alert 🔬📚 "...labor management practices associated with soft skills have as much to do with old ways of disciplining labor as new and highlights the co-constitution of labor anxiety and racial ideologies", writes Sydney Pullen in "Don't Complain." @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social 👏 📣
In “Don't Complain”: Labor Anxiety, Racial Ideologies, and Moral Micromanagement in Rural South Carolina Sydney Pullen situates the neoliberal turn towards “soft skills” training programs w/in historical context, showing how they represent continuity of racial ideologies and racialized labor regimes
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South Carolina's Black Belt counties are perennial targets of economic development programs. Economic development personnel focus on industrial recruitment and workforce development to remedy the eco...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
New article alert 🔬📚 "...labor management practices associated with soft skills have as much to do with old ways of disciplining labor as new and highlights the co-constitution of labor anxiety and racial ideologies", writes Sydney Pullen in "Don't Complain." @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social 👏 📣
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Attending #AAA2025 this year? Join @culanth.bsky.social and Society for Visual Anthropology for a reception on Thursday evening (11/20)-- there will be art, music, and food!
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Attending #AAA2025 this year? Join @culanth.bsky.social and Society for Visual Anthropology for a reception on Thursday evening (11/20)-- there will be art, music, and food!
New #OpenAccess book by Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh!
"Economies of Care: Market Women in the Highlands of #PapuaNewGuinea" explores how women market traders in Goroka navigate a complex moral economy rooted in #care, #reciprocity, and spiritual value
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"Economies of Care: Market Women in the Highlands of #PapuaNewGuinea" explores how women market traders in Goroka navigate a complex moral economy rooted in #care, #reciprocity, and spiritual value
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Economies of Care
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November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New #OpenAccess book by Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh!
"Economies of Care: Market Women in the Highlands of #PapuaNewGuinea" explores how women market traders in Goroka navigate a complex moral economy rooted in #care, #reciprocity, and spiritual value
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
"Economies of Care: Market Women in the Highlands of #PapuaNewGuinea" explores how women market traders in Goroka navigate a complex moral economy rooted in #care, #reciprocity, and spiritual value
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.
➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.
➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.
➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme.
➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo
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New special issue, Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology is now out & open access as part of @berghahnbooks.bsky.social's Open Anthro initiative! 'Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility & Displacement', guest edited by Hilal Alkan & Sandra Calkins 👇 🌱
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November 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New special issue, Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology is now out & open access as part of @berghahnbooks.bsky.social's Open Anthro initiative! 'Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility & Displacement', guest edited by Hilal Alkan & Sandra Calkins 👇 🌱
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
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#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
PRIO invites applications for a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in evolutionary, cultural or social anthropology, or a closely related field, ...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Postdoc Opportunity
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia
🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025
📍 Oslo, Norway
🔗 www.prio.org/about/career...
#Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES
These past few days marked the Day of the Dead across multiple cultures 🕯️
Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
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Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
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Death
The variety of ways in which death has been handled in human societies has been a source of much scholarly fascination. In this brief overview, anthropological approaches to the study of death are ide...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
These past few days marked the Day of the Dead across multiple cultures 🕯️
Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
doi.org/10.29164/18d...
Let’s explore a standout OEA entry!
Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA:
doi.org/10.29164/18d...
Read this #openaccess piece on the collaboration between #art and #anthropology in Amanullah Mojadidi’s experimental ethnography, “Art, Anthropology, and All That Lives Between.”
What happens when #art and #anthropology start collaborating? #Afghanistan
Read the article ‘Art, Anthropology, and All That Lives Between’ by Amanullah Mojadidi in #GlobalChallenges #OpenAccess
@gvagrad.bsky.social in collaboration with CERI @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social
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Read the article ‘Art, Anthropology, and All That Lives Between’ by Amanullah Mojadidi in #GlobalChallenges #OpenAccess
@gvagrad.bsky.social in collaboration with CERI @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social
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Global Challenges - Arts and the Study of the International
Art, Anthropology, and All That Lives Between by
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November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Read this #openaccess piece on the collaboration between #art and #anthropology in Amanullah Mojadidi’s experimental ethnography, “Art, Anthropology, and All That Lives Between.”
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University of Washington is hiring:
Lecturer Part-Time Temporary in Anthropology
Lecturer Part-Time Temporary in Anthropology
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
University of Washington is hiring:
Lecturer Part-Time Temporary in Anthropology
Lecturer Part-Time Temporary in Anthropology