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🚨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!
ALT The cover of the new issue of Cultural Anthropology, includes the journal title on a light blue background and then below it, a black and white photo taken in Taranto’s cemetery in 2019 (photograph by issue author Jasmine Clotilde Pisapia). It depicts an older couple with their backs to the camera, looking on as a worker in a small backhoe digs up a small grave.
In this author interview, Anjali Krishan reflects on the meanings that death and dying assume for the living, the narrative forms through which stories of suicide are told, and the possibilities of thinking with refusal as both an ethnographic and an analytical orientation.
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The conversation also considers what attending closely to storytelling, silence, and refusal can reveal about ethical life and gendered suffering in contemporary India. Read this fascinating interview here: culanth.org/fieldsights/titl…
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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.
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"Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of "Good" Womanhood" by Anjali Krishan looks at middle-class married women's stories about the suicides of their female neighbours.
Read here: journal.culanth.org/index.ph…
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"Bitter Sweetness: Compelling Greenhouse Farming and the Inter-mobility among Middle-Aged Farmers in North China" by Yue Liao explores how middle-aged Chinese farmers navigate between a mobile new urban elite and an immobile elderly peasantry.
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🎙️ New AnthroPod alert!
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.
Listen: culanth.org/fieldsights/iran…
How can educators assess genuine learning in the age of AI? Alyssa Paredes points to a centuries-old practice, the oral exam, as a compelling model for fostering deeper understanding, critical thinking, and student engagement.
Read the full text here:
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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.ph…
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📚 Explore Open Anthropology Research.
The Open Anthropology Research Repository offers free access to preprints, teaching materials, and conference papers from around the world.
Start exploring: openanthroresearch.org/index…
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In a few years, I think we will look back and realize that learning is like physical fitness in its simplicity and resistance to technology: in order to improve, you need to consistently do hard things without shortcuts.
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People are letting AI write their wedding vows, love letters, parents’ obituaries, kids’ birthday cards… Such a powerful loss to self and community when people relinquish the truth of their own words and voices to become epiphenomenal vessels for computers to talk to each other.
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People have all sorts of opinions regarding universities, but when it comes down to it, I and many like myself have now 20+ years of experience working at them (me: Canada+USA). One truism: the working conditions of the professoriate are the learning conditions of the students.
