Join me and fellow panelists 4:15-5:45pm this Friday, Nov. 21st in New Orleans at the AAAs,

"Causal Explanation in Cultural Therapeutic and Health Processes: New Directions in Medical and Psychological Anthropology"

See the AAA "Program" for more info: annualmeeting.americananthro.org/meeting/

latest lab pub, open access
cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

My team's (open access) article was one of the AAA's Top Journal Articles of 2024, follow the links to download for free

"Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology"

www.anthropology-news.org/articles/top...

The more in-depth version of my team's thoughts on causal explanation in ethnographic research

"Causal inference in ethnographic research: Refining explanations with abductive logic, strength of evidence assessments, and graphical models"

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Those three brief reports I just posted are part of a larger effort, published in Practicing Anthropology, with lots to dig into,

Advancing Methods in Anthropology: The New Big Tent Guest Editors: A. Wutich, H.R. Bernard, A. Ruth, M. Beresford, and R. Nelson

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpay20/4...

Planning to Work as an Applied Medical Anthropologist? The Advantages of a Broad and Strategic Methodological Toolkit

doi.org/10.1080/0888...

How Teaching Research Design Advances Applied Anthropology

doi.org/10.1080/0888...

The Benefits of Using Cultural Domain Analysis in Applied Anthropology

doi.org/10.1080/0888...

A commentary on some recent work aiming to use player-avatar bonds as a diagnostic for gaming disorder (we're skeptical on theoretical and methodological grounds)

"User-avatar bond as diagnostic indicator for gaming disorder: A word on the side of caution"

doi.org/10.1556/2006...

(open access) Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling: The moral economy and foundations of play in Udaipur, Rajasthan

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(open access) A snapshot of current ethnographic practice in US anthropology, with a fantastic coauthor team,

Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology

doi.org/10.1111/napa...

Another review of The Avatar Faculty

doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Some recent work, for the Bluesky crowd,

A review of my new book, The Avatar Faculty

doi.org/10.1093/jaar...

Sharpening causal reasoning in applied ethnographic research
doi.org/10.1080/0018...

Figure 1. A Stepwise Illustration of Ethnographic Research Conceptualization and Design to Strengthen Causal Inference.

My team's latest,
"Sharpening causal reasoning in applied ethnographic research"
#causality
doi.org/10.1080/0018...