Society for Cultural Anthropology

#CiteBlackWomen by Anne-Maria B. Makhulu and Christen A. Smith

In our 2022 #CiteBlackWomen special section, authors discuss Black women scholars' limited visibility in anthropology as well as the means and methods for overcoming erasure. You can read all six essays here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Key Questions on the Role of Technology in the Expanding Middle East War Tech Policy Press asked experts working at the intersection of technology policy, security, and international affairs to share what they are watching.

In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, experts consider the urgent questions and fault lines about the role of technology in armed conflict that have emerged in the days since the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran. www.techpolicy.press/key-question...

Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. ...

How did the COVID-19 pandemic lay bare and also exacerbate tremendous changes in labor around the world? Check out our new series rethinking work: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Deeply important right now, and always—reflections on teaching Said's _Orientalism_, including discussions, activities, and relevant topics: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Death In this episode, we dive into the series of debates that have emerged around assisted suicide, both within and outside the boundaries of medico-l...

Our latest AnthroPod episode centers on the ethical obligations and the emerge around assisted suicide and voluntary death. Give it a listen: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher

“Abolishing tenure cripples scientific & creative research...

This sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately. Why pursue a job here under such a repressive climate?”

— Michael Givel, OU AAUP President

March 4 Day of Action to Protect Our Kids, Our Families and Our Communities · Protect Our Communities on Mobilize March 4 is a nationwide day of action to protect our communities and fight for a better life for all—for opportunity, freedom, safety and affordability. Join us!

Today! Join @aft.org day of action and #March4Communities. Find events and actions here: www.mobilize.us/protectourco...

Introduction: Another Season of War in South Lebanon Looking back, it feels like the war that slammed into Lebanon approached in slow motion. For almost a year for sure, since the beginning of the w...

From a previous season of war in south Lebanon: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

On Unity & Fragmentation in the Iranian Diaspora Since its rapid growth after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Iranian diaspora has been marked by deep fragmentations along political, ethnic, re...

Published from a different context, but perhaps in some ways instructive—read this 2023 essay on the unity and fragmentation in the Iranian diaspora: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Questions for the Jedi Vice-Chair of Graduate Studies Do I absolutely have to construct my own lightsaber to graduate? Will you accept 30 hours of transfer credit from the Dark Side? How will being at ...

"Why so biased? Where are the pro-Imperial voices on the faculty?" @mcsweeneys.net

On ‘Indifference’: A Conversation with Naisargi Davé Naisargi N. Davé won the 2024 Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. In awarding the prize, ...

"What kinships & constellations come into view when we approach ethnography with an indifference to the boundedness of categories?"
SCA Contributing Editor Poornima Rajeshwar interviews Naisargi N. Davé about her Gregory Bateson Prize winning book "Indifference."

It's not getting much press coverage, but last month the Department of Education quietly stopped fighting a lawsuit challenging the infamous DEI "Dear Colleague" letter. This effectively means the letter is unenforceable. This is a huge win that deserves celebrating, and we can thank unions!

So despite the ICE abduction this morning, Columbia didn’t take any steps to cancel classes or move them remote. No idea how noncitizen community members are supposed to feel safe showing up to study or work today.

What has hurt men so badly?

FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/J_3sLLv1v0g

Men are not trash. YouTube video by Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD

NEW: Men are not trash.

Every time we say that, it helps the rich vampire perverts in the Epstein Files because it makes it seem like it's just inherent to men's nature to be predators. It's not!

Read all seven articles, Open Access as always, below:
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Cover of the new issue of Cultural Anthropology. A light blue header with a black and white picture of a snack in a rocky alcove below it.

IKYMI the first issue of Cultural Anthropology of 2026 is now published! It features seven original articles with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from vulnerability, the genetic diaspora, and collective life across African, Asian, and South American geographies.
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Introduction: Where Have All the Workers Gone? Where and why do anthropologists studying the post-pandemic world locate workers and how do they frame them as ideological and (a)political subje...

"Where and why do anthropologists studying the post-pandemic world locate workers?"
Read the intro to our latest Hot Spots series on the images & re-evaluations of work/labor & changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic.
www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

Breaking:

Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.

Section Two: Grappling with Distress Guided Reading by Michael Schnegg Aijazi, Omer. 2024. Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylva...

One year ago our Teaching Tools series "Teaching Ecological Distress," compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective explored these questions and more. See the second section here:
www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Screenshot of the post title and cover photo: A mixed herd of goats and sheep graze below the high passes in the Dhauladhar range of the Himalaya. The shepherds experience ecological stress mediated through the animals that they care for. Photo by Suraj Gupta shared with permission.

In our classrooms we are increasingly encountering ecological distress & many of our students seek anthropological thinking as a way of making sense of the everyday challenges of climate change & ecological destruction.
Read our Teaching Tools series on the topic ⤵️

Students that have a red or a blue color wash over them mingle around a campus plaza.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus

A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

New Article!

Cultures of Energy: 249 - Weathering (feat. Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton) Dominic and Cymene talk about their Cathostant (or is it Protelic?) families in this week’s intro segment. And then (11:59) we are thrilled to be joined by and to discuss their work as the Weatherin...

New ep. of Cultures of Energy w/ Astrida Neimanis & Jennifer Hamilton & their brilliant new book "How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change." Ecofeminism, back & better than ever. Pls listen/share! tinyurl.com/5vatahmx @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

In “Toxic Synergy” #MedAnthroHI doctoral candidate Erin McConkey "introduces the notion of the precarious grasp to describe the unstable entanglements between humans and venomous snakes at a Thai antivenom facility, where survival depends on mutual exposure to harm."

Cultural Anthropology volume 41, issue 1, February 2026 cover image, which features a photograph of a snake.

Out now! 📢 The newest issue of Cultural Anthropology is now available open access - please check out the seven articles at the link below:

UNC Power Brokers Roll Into Raleigh With Tuition Hikes And Speech Rules On The Line UNC System leaders will vote on tuition hikes and a new academic-freedom definition this week.

The UNC Board of Governors is trying to rewrite the definition of academic freedom, restricting what faculty can say & do in their classrooms & in public.

This is a broader effort to limit open inquiry & free debate in higher education.

We know what the aim is. We can’t let this happen.

More than a Game: A Black Feminist Look at the Anthropology of Sports In this episode, we dive into college football by examining the lived experiences of Black players and their bodies through the lens of Black fem...

ICYMI: 🔊 Tracie Canada joined AnthroPod this month to talk about American football and sports more generally. From the Superbowl to the Olympics, "sports are an interesting mirror for what’s going on outside of sport, what's happening in the real world": www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

More than a Game: A Black Feminist Look at the Anthropology of Sports In this episode, we dive into college football by examining the lived experiences of Black players and their bodies through the lens of Black fem...

ICYMI: 🔊 Tracie Canada joined AnthroPod this month to talk about American football and sports more generally. From the Superbowl to the Olympics, "sports are an interesting mirror for what’s going on outside of sport, what's happening in the real world": www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...