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Thinking with Minorities: Ancient Weeds and Storytelling (Spanish translation below)...

16) Lema, Verónica S. 2026. "Thinking with Minorities: Ancient Weeds and Storytelling." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A Vegetal Apathy for an Asymptotic Taxonomy The last plant my dad named he named after me: Shorea kathleeniana. The plant is a species of dipterocarp, one of the many towering trees that ca...

15) Gutierrez, Kathleen Cruz. 2026. "A Vegetal Apathy for an Asymptotic Taxonomy." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Responsable Rice and the Silent Voices of Life (French translation below) ...

14) Chapman, Susannah. 2026. “Responsible Rice and the Silent Voices of Life.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Vegetal Response-ability on a Plantation Frontier Plant response-ability and vegetal care offer a rich analytic for reimagining agency and subjecthood beyond the realm of the human and against th...

13) Chao, Sophie. 2026. "Vegetal Response-ability on a Plantation Frontier." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Refusal from the Seed Room Floor A jar originally meant for yogurt now holds a mix of beans, peas, okra, corn, alongside other seeds that I cannot identify. The scribbled note ov...

12) Keeve, Christian. 2026. "Refusal from the Seed Room Floor." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Ultracross Collards and Unsettled Practices of Plant Care “The more trashy your source material is, the longer it takes to make a new variety.” The North Carolina State University crop science professor’...

11) Steinberg, Eva Rose. 2026. "Ultracross Collards and Unsettled Practices of Plant Care." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A Caring Predation: The Loving Perils of Plants Among the Kuikuro (Amazonia, Brazil) A few years ago, while surveying backyard plants in a Kuikuro village in the Upper Xingu, I came across a pequi tree (Caryocar brasiliense) with ...

10) Fausto, Carlos. 2026. "A Caring Predation: The Loving Perils of Plants Among the Kuikuro (Amazonia, Brazil)." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

After Care: On How Frozen Seeds Animate Climate Futures Inside the underground vaults of the Turkish Seed Gene Bank (TSGB), seeds of popular field crop varieties and their wild relatives lie in wait. K...

9) Dalyan, Can. 2026. "After Care: On How Frozen Seeds Animate Climate Futures." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Muted Meadows: Choreographies of Abandonment and Recovery in the Nordic Arctic (Norwegian translation below) ...

8) Lien, Marianne Elisabeth, and Janike Kampevold Larsen. 2026. "Muted Meadows: Choreographies of Abandonment and Recovery in the Nordic Arctic." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Politics of Tuberous Regards in Andean Practices of Agricultural Care (Spanish translation below)...

7) Angé, Olivia. 2026. "Politics of Tuberous Regards in Andean Practices of Agricultural Care." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A Technicity of Care: Yams as Co-Actors in “Abelam” Cultivation (Papua New Guinea) “One doesn’t enter a garden and start working straight away,” explained Robin. “It’d disturb the yams. You have to go first to the baarë [garden ...

6) Coupaye, Ludovic. 2026. "A Technicity of Care: Yams as Co-Actors in “Abelam” Cultivation (Papua New Guinea)." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Eating One’s Seeds: Care and Loss in the Mixe Highlands (Spanish translation below) ...

5) Roman, Gabriel G. 2026. "Eating One’s Seeds: Care and Loss in the Mixe Highlands." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Disease Management and Technical Regimes of Care in a Potato Genebank Every summer, potato diversity overwhelms a greenhouse in Dundee, Scotland. At the James Hutton Institute, the curator of the Commonwealth Potato...

4) Curry, Helen Anne. 2026. "Disease Management and Technical Regimes of Care in a Potato Genebank." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Stewardship and the Difficulty of Shared Responsibility On July 25, 2024, farmers, scientists, and officials gathered in Nyankpala, Ghana, to debut Songotra T, a genetically modified cowpea. For over a...

3) Rock, Joeva Sean. 2026. "Stewardship and the Difficulty of Shared Responsibility." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction The concept of care has become central to understanding multispecies relations (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017; Mol et al. 2020; Münster et al. 2021)....

2) Angé, Olivia, and Susannah Chapman. 2026. "Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care: An Introduction." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. 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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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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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.

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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:

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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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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.

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

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Levi-Strauss' structural rendering of Oedipus Rex

Prompt 4. What happens in Oedipus Rex?

Ambrym diagram of kinship structure

Prompt 3. Can kinship be interpeted as structural phenomena?

diagrams of meat distribution among relatives

Prompt 2. I have three buffalo. What should I do with them?

a complex chart from Levi-Strauss

Prompt 1. How many types of family and social relationships does marriage involve?