📢 We are pleased to announce this new series "Locating the Geopolitical"! It includes four articles and an introduction, each elaborating the anthropological specificities of geopolitical phenomena.

In this new series on 'Locating the Geopolitical' we argue that anthropology is particularly well equipped to study the geopolitical - not as an abstract domain of global affairs, but as something co-produced and rendered meaningful from within concrete locations and experiences. shorturl.at/yOLYQ

check out two new ones on the concept of ‘control’ and how anthropology has mostly turned away from it – come for Stuart Strange's consideration of control in Singapore as it pertains to human-macaque relations in the city-state www.at-commons.com/pub/oqqjx196...

Controlling for Control

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📢 new at ATC 📢 John Mathias theorizes activism, arguing that it's not about motion but instead is "a configuration of motive" and he shows how "an activist is an especially cause-driven kind of person" www.at-commons.com/pub/evuuzimd...

Activists Aren’t Defined By Motion, But By Motives

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😲 reviews at ATC 😲 * Katie Ulrich reviews Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gifts www.at-commons.com/pub/sf5j1t4z... * David Sutton (with Peter Wogan) reviews the film Parthenope for its commentary on anthropology www.at-commons.com/pub/lfn84w3z...

reviewing Alyssa Battistoni's Free Gifts

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📢 new on ATC 📢 Julia Eckert writes on the need to contend with the joys of fascism www.at-commons.com/pub/mg782jp2...

Affective Liberty and Fascist Joy

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check out Charles Dolph's "The new coin clippers: on the hoardlessness of cryptocurrency and the US dollar." Dolph makes sense of crypto for us and then uses it to understand trends in contemporary capitalism. All in under 3,000 words! You're welcome. www.at-commons.com/pub/mujnbk8r...

The new coin clippers: on the hoardlessness of cryptocurrency and the US dollar

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Matan Kaminer provides a personal review of Balthasar's "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left," a book that feels particularly vital given the "genocide in Palestine... and supercharged McCarthyism in the US." www.at-commons.com/pub/c058ru1q...

An Account of Ourselves

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Amid genocidal violence in Gaza, "the dead body becomes a site of anticolonial resistance for the living, an example of Palestinian refusals to relinquish autonomy over death, and a form of self-determination and agency that is necessary to imagine and achieve liberation."

Submit your book nominations to the Sutlive Book Prize! It goes to the best book published in prior year, in any discipline, that makes use of anthropological perspectives in order to examine historical contexts and/or the role of the past in the present. www.wm.edu/as/anthropol...

Vinson Sutlive Book Prize and Lecture

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In ATC, Adrienne Cohen considers how conceptions of inalienability - what parts of you can you never lose, can you never give away? - are fundamental for understanding various human conceptions of personhood. www.at-commons.com/pub/8wem4ske...

What Constitutes a Person? Inalienability, Value, and Personhood in Anthropological Theory

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New in ATC: Anna Willow argues that, given war and climate change, anthropology should embrace a postapocalyptic turn: www.at-commons.com/pub/6kdi8mfu...

Anthropology’s Postapocalyptic Turn: New Temporalities for New Times

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rounding out Ghostly Lessons are two reflective pieces: * Emma Kowal considers how an anthropologist can haunt www.at-commons.com/pub/givlpi3v... * Warwick Anderson comments on the series, theorizing ghosts act as of noise in a system www.at-commons.com/pub/3ngd8x6m...

The Anthropologist as ghost

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today in Ghostly Lessons we have two contributions considering the treatment of human remains: * Thiago Barbosa and Amanda Domingues on human remains identification methods www.at-commons.com/pub/x2v2mu1j... * Trevor Engel on how museums hold bodies www.at-commons.com/pub/bi2wxnk4...

today in Ghostly Lessons we have two contributions considering the treatment of human remains: * Thiago Barbosa and Amanda Domingues on human remains identification methods www.at-commons.com/pub/x2v2mu1j... * Trevor Engel on how museums hold bodies www.at-commons.com/pub/bi2wxnk4...

Transinstitutionalization and the Ghosts of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement

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two more in Ghostly Lessons! * Ricardo Roque considers the ghostly dynamic of the historical archive www.at-commons.com/pub/u9q4ocbz... * Lisette Jong asks if orangutans can speak and whether they conjure ghosts of human evolution science www.at-commons.com/pub/pneeteps...

INDIANA JONES AND THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION CAPITULATING TO EVERY DEMAND OF A REACTIONARY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

two more in Ghostly Lessons! * Ricardo Roque considers the ghostly dynamic of the historical archive www.at-commons.com/pub/u9q4ocbz... * Lisette Jong asks if orangutans can speak and whether they conjure ghosts of human evolution science www.at-commons.com/pub/pneeteps...

Can orangutans speak? Conjuring the ghosts of human evolution science

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continuing our roll out of Ghostly Lessons: *Vivette García-Deister on forensic scientists' attempts to identify deceased migrants: www.at-commons.com/pub/dbu8b0wc... * Lydia Gibson on mediums, refractions, and the inner lives of ghosts www.at-commons.com/pub/ybaqzlrr...

continuing our roll out of Ghostly Lessons: *Vivette García-Deister on forensic scientists' attempts to identify deceased migrants: www.at-commons.com/pub/dbu8b0wc... * Lydia Gibson on mediums, refractions, and the inner lives of ghosts www.at-commons.com/pub/ybaqzlrr...

'May the eyes of the missing haunt you.' Attending to things that are not there

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Anthro Theory + Commons@anthrotheory.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Two more in our Ghostly Lessons series:

Two more in our Ghostly Lessons series:

Viral Spectres, Haunting Journeys

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we are thrilled to announce Ghostly Lessons, a new special Theory Forum at ATC, edited by Emma Kowal and Amanda Domingues. Their intro is here www.at-commons.com/pub/k3r17d8f... and keep checking our @ as the entire Forum will be rolled out in the next two weeks here: www.at-commons.com/ghosts

we are thrilled to announce Ghostly Lessons, a new special Theory Forum at ATC, edited by Emma Kowal and Amanda Domingues. Their intro is here www.at-commons.com/pub/k3r17d8f... and keep checking our @ as the entire Forum will be rolled out in the next two weeks here: www.at-commons.com/ghosts

Ghosts · Anthropological Theory

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see Public Anthro's important Special Issue "On Speaking Out: Refusing Complicity with Genocide" brill.com/view/journal...

can we interest any anthropologists (of security, capitalism, logistics, war, their intersections) in reviewing the new Mezz and Neil @versobooks.bsky.social? Those two are always a good time www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

The Rest and the West

In the wake of a pandemic that tested economies and societies, geopolitical conflict has taken on a new intensity. The Rest and the West locates the origins of this development in the turbulent dynami...

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anyone want to review, in an anthropological theoretical vein, this new one on late Marx? So much to sink teeth into, given anthro's recent and longstanding concerns with colonialism, gender, and communism (indigenous and otherwise). www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads

In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological ...

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check out Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS) Magazine's new issue: ‘Excess’ fittingly, there's too much good stuff in there: www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk/magazine-hom...

AT author Cheryl Mattingly reflects on how she does theory www.at-commons.com/pub/pcmcrp4w..., examining how anthro takes on phenomenology can assist in grasping how we think about stigma and disability. Her interview continues our series with AT authors, see here: www.at-commons.com/interviews

Errant phenomenology: an interview with Cheryl Mattingly

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Hurray - „Leaking panic as policy“, now published! Thanks so much @anthrotheory.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

we are soliciting anthropologists to review books of theory for how they apply to anthro (see here www.at-commons.com/reviews). Pitch us, and we'll get you a book for your trouble (press willing)

Book Reviews · Anthropological Theory

reviews

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feeling like we are in weeks where decades happen? want to theorize it, anthropologically? see www.at-commons.com and submit something.

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Anthropological Theory Home Page

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📰new article📰 by Sarah Haggar tackles Victor Turner's concept of communitas, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of the underdeveloped concept journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Communitas revisited: Victor Turner and the transformation of a concept - Sarah Haggar, 2024

Victor Turner's concept of communitas has been used in and beyond anthropology for years in a variety of ways. It is an effective concept for understanding one ...

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any economic anthros (or adjacent) interested in reviewing Immanent Externalities for ATC? www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2403-i...

Immanent Externalities

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🚀 New Website! 🚀 #BlueAnthro - we at Anthro Theory Commons are pleased to announce that our new website at-commons.com is up! This website can mint DOIs, which, when combined with our peer review process, makes your short-form theory more recognizable as scholarly text.