What does the shifting climate of gender and sexuality hierarchies reveal about the paradoxes that allow wounds, healing, and violence to coexist in Mexico's gay football scene? Read Max D. López Toledano's "Wounds in Utopia: The Politics of Gay Football in 4T Mexico," in our latest issue.

What if studying a community meant not decoding what people mean, but protecting their freedom to stay undefined? Check this new article on men who race pigeons in Surabaya's alleys—where being hard to read is survival, and opacity is a shield against a state that sees too much.

🎙️ A new episode of Anthropod is out! In the second installment of our miniseries on love and anthropology, Yichi Zhang and Dr. Luisa Schneider explore how love is inseparable from the inequalities and insecurities that shape intimate life. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Check out our latest #TeachingTools! Here, Pinar shows how staying in the scene is a way of defending anthropology’s ongoing wager that knowledge begins not in the final text, but in the difficult and ethically charged labor of learning how to see. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Staying in the Scene: Situated Assessment and the Labor of Learning to See

In Spring 2026, I designed and taught Migration and Social Justice, a 200-level undergraduate course at Middlebury College, moving from transnati...

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🎙️ New AnthroPod: Iranian Diaspora Perspectives How do Iranian diaspora communities navigate identity, belonging, and political change? Sharon Jacobs talks with Amy Malek about her book Culture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Iranian Diaspora Perspectives

Iran has dominated the U.S. news cycle throughout 2026 so far. The U.S. and Israeli war of aggression in Iran just passed its 100th day, having c...

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As instructors in higher education wrestle with how to design assignments that foster genuine learning in the age of AI, Alyssa Paredes offers a timely reflection on an alternative form of assessment: the oral exam tradition. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

In “Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of ‘Good’ Womanhood,” Anjali Krishan examines how married, middle-class women in Delhi remember and narrate the deaths of women around them. Read Anjali Krishan' article in our LATEST ISSUE:

How did Brexit and COVID-19 reveal the temporal regimes in contemporary England, implicitly reinforcing ageist marginalization and unequal power dynamics among different generational groups? Read Cathrine Degnen’s article in our latest issue: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/5951

New AnthroPod!🔊 In the first of a three-part miniseries, we listen to the stories people tell themselves about themselves: how people come to connect with history, how traditions are carried and transmitted, and how emotional performances help people move forward.

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Strategies to transform student interactions with #GenAI from one-line questions to robust prompts that yield reliable results and improve critical thinking skills: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/researchled-approach-teaching-genai-prompt-design #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

Every year there is a new university graduation zeitgeist. This year it's commencement speakers getting vehemently booed when they mention AI in a positive light.

🚨Have you heard? The new issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now! Featuring eleven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from evasion & repair to belonging across African, Asian & European geographies. Find all the articles ⤵️ Open Access as always!

Every year there is a new university graduation zeitgeist. This year it's commencement speakers getting vehemently booed when they mention AI in a positive light.

i used "ontologically" correctly but the supermarket cashier wasn't impressed

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Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Strategies to transform student interactions with #GenAI from one-line questions to robust prompts that yield reliable results and improve critical thinking skills: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/researchled-approach-teaching-genai-prompt-design #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

I've talked about this with a lot of different smart people lately but it is truly amazing to see how much the tide of public opinion has changed against the tech oligarchs and executives.

What happens when researchers claim insider status to legitimize their work? This piece explores “self-indigenization syndrome” and the pressures in academia that can encourage blurred identities, tokenism, and contested belonging. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Where Does the ‘Self-Indigenization’ Syndrome Come From? Critical Reflections on ‘Research Legitimacy’ in Contemporary Academia

Over the last decade, there have been growing calls for “academic decolonization” (Moosavi 2023) in the Global North, the need to approach and kn...

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What if drawing could translate culture? This text dives into how illustration works as a tool in ethnography to interpret and communicate lived experience in ways text cannot. A thoughtful take on creativity, research, and the limits of language. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Speculative Manuals: Illustration as Situated Translation in Ethnography

From Commission to MethodTake One Object (Errázuriz and Martínez, forthcoming) is a collective experiment in ethnographic attention. Forty-one an...

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Our latest series tackles climate change, human-environment interactions by looking at histories of environmental anthropology: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Have you checked out our first ever Open Book? A new peer-reviewed digital experiment from our most recent editorial collective 👇

Society for Cultural Anthropology@culanth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Capture/Connect/Shift is now published! The eight original inquiries in this collection explore the relationship between modes of capture, connect, and shift in a wide variety of contexts. Read more here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and interact with plants, examining both ethical responsibility and control. They highlight “response-ability” and show how human-plant relationships shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them ⬇️ www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care

The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated ...

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Capture/Connect/Shift is now published! The eight original inquiries in this collection explore the relationship between modes of capture, connect, and shift in a wide variety of contexts. Read more here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Capture, Connect, Shift

This Open Book project is a space for experimental, peer-reviewed digital scholarship curated by Cultural Anthropology’s editorial collective und...

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📢New Teaching Tool alert!📢 What if protest is a form of knowledge? This article looks at how activism can reshape teaching, bringing lived experience, collective struggle, and critical inquiry into the classroom. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and interact with plants, examining both ethical responsibility and control. They highlight “response-ability” and show how human-plant relationships shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them ⬇️ www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care

The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated ...

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New AnthroPod! 🔊 In our newest episode, guest contributors Martina Weber and Lena Löhr move beyond the image of the lone anthropologist and explore the tensions, negotiations, and possibilities of shared knowledge-making in the discipline. Listen to it here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Thinking Through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in…

In this guest episode, guest contributors Martina Weber and Lena Löhr ask what collaboration in anthropology really looks like and who gets to sh...

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How do queer youth in Zimbabwe reimagine ancestor spirit mediumship, reworking ancestral epistemologies and responding to colonial demonization of both queerness and ancestors? Read Raffaella Taylor-Seymour's article in our latest issue: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

📢 New Teaching Tool out! Nikita Taniparti shares three exercises to embed writing within the classroom and build voice and confidence, encouraging students to engage with ethnography not just as source material, but as a craft they can practice. More here!

Teaching Writing While Teaching Anthropology

On the first day of class, while students are combing through the syllabus, I often watch for their reactions as they look at the assignments for...

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Prompt: How do I start my story of my expeditions?

Society for Cultural Anthropology@culanth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some PhDoh's are still doing research like the original affluent society. Other PhA+'s have PERFECTED research with AI. Try out these *insane* Claude (Levi-Strauss) prompts and shortcut your way to a billion—yes, with a B!—dollars of research funding!!! (save this)

In our inbox, from @americananthro.bsky.social! Get your submissions in for this fall's AAA meeting in St. Louis! annualmeeting.americananthro.org