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It's that time of year!! 🎁❄️📚📚🤓
That's right! The latest issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now! Check out all eight new research articles open-access here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca
Cultural Anthropology vol 40 issue 4 November 2025
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After elections are over, what value might losing, discarded candidates have for democracy moving forward? In this interview, Tanya Jakimow expands on her recent CA article on democracy and waste: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow
In her article “Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere),” Tanya Jakimow explores Austr...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Just published Cultural Anthropology's @culanth.bsky.social latest issue! Articles on scale in radio astronomy, debt’s slow violence, marine inequality, fugitive kinships, financial activism, revolutionary temporalities, shifting conviviality, and contested soil.
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Vol. 40 No. 4 (2025) | Cultural Anthropology
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November 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Read Anna Simone Reumert, Wendy Vogt and Charlie Piot's introduction into their Special Collection, Bordering and the War on Migration.

The online collection examines how communities around the world are affected by the criminalization of their mobility and how they respond to it.
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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ICYMI, our latest AnthroPod episode is all above ❤️~*𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮*~❤️ @yichizhang.bsky.social and @kasmanio.bsky.social discuss: What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? 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 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...
In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles by Lisa Messeri
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Congratulations to @lmesseri.bsky.social whose book "In the Land of the Unreal" by has been named the winner of the Gregory Bateson Prize, given by @culanth.bsky.social!
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Cover of In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual & Other Realities in Los Angeles by Lisa Messeri. Cover features an individual with a virtual reality headset strapped on their face. The individual and headset is tinted in purple, blue, and pink. Their head is angled upwards, and the background depicts an image of a beach with palm trees that is edited to have a pink hue on top of it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“Texas A&M acknowledged it had received the ‘non-binding findings’ from the hearing panel. The university said its interim president, Tommy Williams, would review the report…Mr. Williams is not a career academic, but instead rose to power when he was a Republican member of the Texas Legislature.”
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Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules

The firing put the school at the center of national debates over gender identity and academic freedom. A faculty panel ruled unanimously against the termination.

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Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules
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November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#AAA2025 has been its usual whirlwind of fun and overwhelm. But I can’t underscore how much it has meant for ‘in the land of the unreal’ to be recognized as the winner of the Bateson book prize, and to celebrate the news w my ever growing anthro fam. @dukepress.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
Sign announcing ‘ln the land of the unreal’ as Bateson prize winner
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Hey #AAA2025, got a gap in your schedule this weekend? Check out our program guide: www.culanth.org/about/about-...
2025 AAA Annual Meeting Events Program
What follows is an overview of sessions and other events organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology at the 2025 American Anthropological ...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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On Nov. 22, 6:30-9 pm, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and the Association for the Anthropology of Policy will present, "Academic Freedom, Immigration, and Carceral Regimes." politicalandlegalanthro.org/2025/10/24/s...
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Hello #AAA2025 #NewOrleans!
If you're looking for AAA Climate Change Interest Group activities, Thursday, November 20, 2025 is THE day! See you there!
Thursday, November 20, 2025 is THE day for the Climate Change Interest Group at the AAAs, with the following events: 1.  Business Meeting 🕗 8:00–10:00 AM 📍 Marriott, Lafayette (41st floor) Join us for our annual business meeting to discuss CCIG activities, initiatives, and upcoming projects. This is an excellent opportunity to connect with colleagues, share ideas, and get involved in the group’s ongoing work. We will announce the Emerging Scholar award! ________________________________________ 2. Ghosts of Climate Pasts and Futures 💬 Roundtable sponsored by the Climate Change Interest Group 🕐 12:45–2:15 PM 📍 Marriott, MGB Salon E This roundtable brings together scholars exploring how past and future imaginaries of climate shape present-day understandings and responses. Participants will consider how anthropology can illuminate the temporal dimensions of the climate crisis—its haunting legacies, unfolding realities, and uncertain futures. ________________________________________ 3. Workshop: Towards a New AAA Climate Change Task Force Report 🕝 2:30–3:30 PM 📍 Sheraton, Oakley (4th floor) In December 2014, the AAA Global Climate Change Task Force (GCCTF) published a groundbreaking report documenting the state of anthropological knowledge on the human dimensions of climate change and offering practical recommendations for the discipline. Eleven years later, the world—and the field—has changed dramatically. This workshop will initiate the process of updating the AAA GCCTF report, addressing how anthropology can contribute to urgent global conversations about power, inequality, and climate futures. AND 4. Anthropology and Environment Society + CCIG Awards Reception 🕝 7:00–9:00 PM 📍 Marigny Opera House (725 St Ferdinand St, New Orleans, LA 70117) This event will summarize the actions taken at the A&E Board Meeting, the COP badge process & announce A&E award winners. Followed by the annual party in the same venue.
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Are you attending #AAA2025? Here's a very culanth guide to the American Anthropological Association annual meeting: www.culanth.org/about/about-...
2025 AAA Annual Meeting Events Program
What follows is an overview of sessions and other events organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology at the 2025 American Anthropological ...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Remember that time celebrities were rumored to be buying real estate in Rio favelas?

I got an article officially out in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology! Special thanks to my co-author Gareth A. Jones and the editorial team at
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November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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It's been a few years in the making, but a global pandemic, pregnancy, and a baby (now 4...) later, my work on financial activism is now out in the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology (open access)!
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It's that time of year!! 🎁❄️📚📚🤓
That's right! The latest issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now! Check out all eight new research articles open-access here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca
Cultural Anthropology vol 40 issue 4 November 2025
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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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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November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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It's that time of year!! 🎁❄️📚📚🤓
That's right! The latest issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now! Check out all eight new research articles open-access here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca
Cultural Anthropology vol 40 issue 4 November 2025
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Anthropologists! If you're attending the American Anthropological Association meetings in New Orleans this week, please join us for an offsite reception at Merchant House on Thursday 11/20 evening, hosted by SCA (@culanth.bsky.social), SVA, and AES.
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Coming up this Saturday! Our annual Culture@Large event—now with New Orleans walking tour! Join historian Rashauna Johnson for an event you won't want to miss this AAA. (Talk open to all, tour requires registration)
Culture@Large: Spectral City––Walking New Orleans through Slavery’s Present Pasts with Rashauna Johnson Sat, November 22 | Sheraton – Orpheus (8th fl) (access via elevator only) 4 PM – 5 PM New Orleans was a critical hub for the global circulation of slaves and became a metropolis with an explosion of slave population, who claimed one third of the city's population in the early nineteenth century. Society for Cultural Anthropology presents its flagship event, Culture@Large, to trace the lasting legacies of slavery etched onto the urban landscapes of New Orleans and to reflect upon geographies of unfreedom, which have shaped the city and beyond. This event consists of a lecture (open to public) and walking tour of New Orleans (for registered participants). Rashauna Johnson, Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago and the award-winning author of Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2016), will deliver a lecture entitled "Where Sidewalks Talk: New Orleans and Global Geographies of Unfreedom" at the AAA conference venue. Professor Johnson will then lead a walking tour of New Orleans.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Are you on your way to New Orleans for this year's AAA? Join us, @amethno.bsky.social, and the Society for Visual Anthropology for a multimodal exhibiton and reception on Thursday!
Spectral Remix: A multimodal exhibition featuring over 40 artists and anthropologists. Joint reception 11/20/2025 7:30-9:30PM at Merchant House | Hall 1150 Magazine St. New Orleans, LA 70130 Society for Visual Anthropology, Society for Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnological Society. Music, Media, Art, Food, Cash Bar
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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"The people we work with already have theories of the world." This interview with Lachlan Summers about his recent CA article takes up ethnographic writing, social theory, and problems and solutions: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers
In this interview, Lachlan Summers reflects on the craft of his article and offers a compelling critique of liberal tendencies and imaginaries in...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
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"La colección convoca a antropólogues hispanohablantes de Europa y América a proponer un vocabulario que cartografíe este territorio, exhiba su vitalidad y explore las posibilidades que abre para rehacer la etnografía con otres"
Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week’s podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful to talk about her new book (U California Press, 2025). We begin with the ...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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"Many in the West have dismissed [the war in Sudan] as another African war that does not concern them, but in fact, this war and its genocide are emblematic of the complex, new imperialisms sweeping the globe and taking democracy with them."
Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora issue on Sudan
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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In “Waste Donations,” Kevin Yildirim explores how interdependencies are forged within precarious urban conditions through the auspices of charitable giving. 1/2
Text: Vol. 40 No. 3 (2025) Waste Donations: Shopkeeper–Waste Picker Relations in Istanbul and the Limits of Hospitable Giving
October 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Check out the seven articles in our latest journal issue! Each one a guaranteed banger, each one open access. Give them a read here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
Waste Donations: Shopkeeper–Waste Picker Relations in Istanbul and the Limits of Hospitable Giving https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.01 Kevin Yildirim Morally Immunizing Debts: Wage Bank, Gendered Credit Access, and Intimacy in the Soma Coal Basin https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.02 Ferda Nur Demirci Green Involution: Mediating Plant Times and Lifetimes in a Chinese Rice Genetics Laboratory https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.03 Lyle Fearnley Chen Sun Touched by Deep Time: Earthquake Sickness in Mexico City https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.04 Lachlan Summers Officer Safety Time: Police Scenario Training and Thinking Threat First https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.05 Jessica Katzenstein On Exile and Postcolonial Nationhood in Rwanda and Burundi https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.06 Natacha Nsabimana “Do they do our thozhil?”: Toxic Industrialization, Uncertainty, and Refusal in North Chennai https://doi.org/10.14506/ca40.3.07 Rishabh Raghavan
August 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM