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Read the latest #OpenAccess issue "Plastic Time" in Social Analysis (@berghahnbooks.bsky.social).
The introduction explores the #anthropology of #plastic and #time, and how this material reshapes relations between past, present & future.

More to read here:
www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

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Cover of a book on Toubou culture: a photo of a group with pack animals in a sandy Sahara landscape, with the French title "DAGA TUDAA. Pensées Toubou II" by Mahuma Abaliy Sediké printed beneath.

Cover of a book on Toubou culture: a photo of a group with pack animals in a sandy Sahara landscape, with the French title "DAGA TUDAA. Pensées Toubou II" by Mahuma Abaliy Sediké printed beneath.

New #OpenAccess book: "DAGA TUDAA. Pensées #Toubou II" 📕
Mahuma Abaliy Sediké explores how oral traditions such as proverbs, #Riddles, and tales convey broader knowledge on #Astronomy, pharmacopoeia, or clan brands in the Central Sahara.

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#HistSci #OralHistory #Anthropology

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New Open Access Article from #PracticingAnthropology: Thick Description or Thick Recreation? Creative Outputs and Ethnographic Expression Under Hong Kong’s National Security Law by Katy Pui Man Chan

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#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology

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Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library Being a bus operator has long meant access to middle class wages, quality benefits, and union membership, forms of security increasingly rare amid growing precarity. But transit is in trouble. In the...

🚍 What does the future of transit work look like?

This #openaccess piece shows how disinvestment and automation narratives are reshaping transit work and how workers are pushing back for dignity, safety, and control.

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The cover of 'An Anthropology of Crosslocations' and a quote from a book review written by Fabiola Mancinelli and published in 'Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale'. The quote reads: "The book's accessibility, combined with its rich theoretical engagement and wide-ranging case studies, makes it particularly valuable for scholars and students in anthropology, geography and migration studies, as well as professionals in spatial analysis, policy-making and interdisciplinary research."

The cover of 'An Anthropology of Crosslocations' and a quote from a book review written by Fabiola Mancinelli and published in 'Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale'. The quote reads: "The book's accessibility, combined with its rich theoretical engagement and wide-ranging case studies, makes it particularly valuable for scholars and students in anthropology, geography and migration studies, as well as professionals in spatial analysis, policy-making and interdisciplinary research."

'An Anthropology of Crosslocations' by Sarah Green et al. (2024) offers a fresh way of understanding #location and the connections and disconnections between places.

Read or download the book via: doi.org/10.33134/HUP... - it's #openaccess!

#anthropology #ethnography #borders #scholarlypublishing

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📢 The latest issue of LARR is out now!

Explore Volume 61 - Issue 1, critical debates on Latin America, spanning politics, history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

🔗 Read the full issue: https://loom.ly/GBwRiXU
#LARR #LASA #AcademicResearch #LatinAmerica

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Culture In popular uses of ‘culture’, the term often refers to sets of artistic accomplishments or pleasant manners. In anthropology, however, ‘culture’ means something much broader and its use includes all t...

🚨 New #OEA entry alert!

Often misunderstood, #culture is central to #anthropology. Christoph Brumann revisits its origins, debates its limits, and reframes it as a flexible analytical tool for understanding shared human life.

Read it now #OpenAccess 👇🏼
www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/culture

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The new Open Access issue of Anthropology in Action on anthropological perspectives of HBO's The White Lotus is live!: bit.ly/4srrjE2

Featuring a research agenda on the contested encounters and inequalities of Southeast Asia's multi-billion-dollar wellness industry by @meghaamrith.bsky.social

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🔎 Aubrey Butt Colson was a pioneer of Amazonian #anthropology in the UK, starting with fieldwork among the Akawaio people in Guyana. She is a vocal supporter of the Akawaio land rights movement.
@pittriversmuseum.bsky.social contains 300+ objects collected by her!
www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/cele...

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Open Access Article from #HumanOrganization: “We don’t mix with those married women”: Widowhood as an Emergent Gender for Development Projects in Urban Papua New Guinea by Melissa Demian & Zuabe Tinning

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#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology

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Open Access Special Issue of #PracticingAnthropology: Anthropology In, Of, and With the Public Sector

Guest Editors A.J. Faas & Crystal Felima

www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpa...

@practicinganthro1.bsky.social
@phelima.bsky.social

#SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology

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Learning anthropology through "radical cookbooks and satirical public health pamphlets...an evolutionary choose-your-own-adventure saga, a 'burn book' à la Mean Girls about Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict"?? 🥳 Nicholas C. Kawa writes about anthropology zines as playful pedagogical tools!

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CfP for AI pedagogy and teaching as part of @culanth.bsky.social Teaching Tools series. Details in the link below👇

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Our most recent seminar brought together a global cohort of scholars thinking through “Biocultural Anthropology for the 21st Century.” These meetings provide great opportunities for generating meaningful insights. There was even a cat! We’d love to receive your submission 🙂

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Blood Blood is a polyvalent substance. Its dual nature as a vital physical entity and a potent symbolic medium makes it indispensable to medicine but also to ritual practice, symbolism, and popular thought....

Re-upping our latest entry on blood, that, write Jieun Kim and Jacob Copeman, "has the power to both divide as well as connect people." Read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/blood

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What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? A webinar, on 27 March, 2-3:30 pm CET, with Amira Mittermaier and Sylvain Piron. For more information, see allegralaboratory.net

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Amoxtli | OtherwiseMag ​​​​​In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca, a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors

Read and learn. Engage. Get inspired. Today: the Book of the Smoking Mirror in #otherwisemag: www.otherwisemag.com/amoxtli
#anthropology #openaccess

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Blood Blood is a polyvalent substance. Its dual nature as a vital physical entity and a potent symbolic medium makes it indispensable to medicine but also to ritual practice, symbolism, and popular…

"Blood is a polyvalent substance."
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Read 🤓📚️ 🤓
our latest entry on BLOOD 🩸🩸🩸,
✍️✍️✍️ written by Jieun Kim and Jacob Copeman,
here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/blood

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📣 The Open Encyclopedia of #Anthropology is #hiring a new editorial team - These are the last days to apply!

Editing the OEA is a great chance to support #OpenAccess scholarship, foster collaborative knowledge, and shape the future of our discipline.

Learn more here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com

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🌏 Celebrating World Anthropology Day 🌏
#Anthropology connects us to the stories, cultures & experiences of people everywhere. At the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology, we make sure this knowledge is open, free, and accessible to everyone!

#WorldAnthropologyDay #OpenAccess www.anthroencyclopedia.com

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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology | LinkedIn Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology | An open-access, peer-reviewed encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology, making anthropology accessible to all. | The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (OEA)...

Late to the party, perhaps, but we are now also on LinkedIn! 🥳 Follow us there too for all the professional updates: www.linkedin.com/company/open...

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Deina Rabie writes about "Mamdani’s enterprising ability to subvert America’s Anglo-White normativity and expand the image of the American citizen through strategic semiotic and multilinguistic choices during his mayoral campaign." Read👇

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Beauty Beauty is an aesthetic value that is tied to embodied practices, affects, and the senses. Whereas philosophers have long discussed beauty as disembodied aesthetics, and scientists have searched for bo...

"The anthropological study of beauty requires a relational understanding of how it is constituted in specific contexts and how it comes to matter in everyday life", writes Claudia Liebelt, in OEA's brand new entry on Beauty! Read it now, read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/beauty

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The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is looking for a new Editorial Team. You can apply here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Could you please share this call? @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @aaas.org @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @appliedanthro.bsky.social @histanthro.org @polar-journal.bsky.social

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OEA Call for Editorial Team

We’re hiring! 📢📢📢

The Open Encyclopedia of #Anthropology is looking for a new editorial team. Join us in strengthening #OpenAccess publishing and shaping the future of our discipline.

Applications welcome from individuals or groups.

Please share widely! 🌎🌍🌏

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Save the date: on February 23rd, the Wenner-Gren Foundation will host an important discussion of the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, which supports recent PhDs to write their book or a series of articles. Details in the link below 👇

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🚨🚨 Hot off the press 📚📣🎙️ The latest issue of American Anthropologist is out with a great collection of articles! Congratulations to the editors and all the authors 👏 🥳 Check out the issue in the link below 👇 @amanthro.bsky.social

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Platypus Over the past several years, menstrual and hormonal cycles have gained significant public attention across the US and Europe, concurrent with growing skepticism towards biomedicine and an…

You like listening to podcasts? You're interested in anthropology, science, technology, computing, and anything else that makes the world go 'round? Check out platypus: blog.castac.org

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Featured Story | Otherwise 'the roofs of homes were sheared off and went flying through the air', a story by Dilshanie Perera

"Cucumbers aren’t so different from certain men in that way, she said with a raised eyebrow. " Dilshanie Perera in OtherwiseMag. Read more here: www.otherwisemag.com

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Listening Against the Threshold of Pain SAPIENS’ 2025 poet-in-residence situates her listening in Kashmir and Germany, contextualizing her contributions to SAPIENS this year.

listening in Kashmir and Germany - listening against the threshold of pain. Thanks to SAPIENS, you can find Uzma Falak's amazing poetry and audio pieces here: www.sapiens.org/culture/list...

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