On love and war: in #Cambodia, deminers’ #love for landmine-detecting rats transforms former enemies into collaborators. Read more about #postwar #ecology, #nonhuman #love and the concept of "metta" in this new #OpenAccess article by Darcie Deangelo! #Anthropology #OA

Our new publication @amanthro.bsky.social, interview with Mun Young Cho, on youth precarity, poverty, and inequality in China, South Korea and the responsibility and value of anthropology doi.org/10.1111/aman...

Check out "'We Are All Implicated': An Interview With Korean Anthropologist Mun Young Cho" by Mun Young Cho, Yang Zhan, and Jing Xu. Out now! #Anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Read Dela Kuma's new #OpenAccess article "Trade Networks and Consumer Practices in Amedeka, Ghana: Negotiating 'Nkudzedze' From the Late 19th to Mid-20th Centuries" #Anthropology #Archaeology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In @amanthro.bsky.social, Mallory E. Matsumoto finds that in Guatemala, local practices generate forms of disruption, resistance, and refusal that challenge institutional constraints. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The second review of Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social written by Helana Marie Boutros has just been published in @amanthro.bsky.social. I have so much gratitude for this engagement with the book that centers its theological aspects and methodological-conceptual work.

New #OpenAccess article! Read "Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield" by Darcie DeAngelo #Anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New issue alert! The September issue of American Anthropologist is out now. It features two special sections, a year-in-review article, a multimodal collection on vanishing fieldsites, and more! #Anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...

We're more than halfway through 2025, so we're revisiting some of the most-read AA articles so far this year! First up is Alpa Shah's "When decolonization is hijacked" #OpenAccess #Anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎙️ Highlights | Check out our own @armanc.bsky.social l in conversation with @emmabunkley.bsky.social about her powerful article, “The Weight of Rumor,” from the June 2025 issue of American Anthropologist. Listen here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte... #AnthroSky #MedAnthro

📣 Call for Mentees! EASA’s free, remote Academic Mentorship Programme returns Sept 2025–May 2026. For late-PhDs, postdocs & early-career scholars (PhD ≤8 yrs). ⏰ Apply by 31 Aug 2025 🌍 Open to EASA members 🔗 easaonline.org/jobs-calls/m...

📣 Calling all early career anthropologists!! 🔎 @culanth.bsky.social is looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA! Check out the posting here and express interest in joining their podcast, social media, member blog, or visual and new media team by July 30: www.culanth.org/about/about-...

The search is on for the next #EditorInChief (or Co Editors-in-Chief) of #AmericanAnthropologist! This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of #Anthropology’s flagship journal & guide the discipline forward. Learn more & apply by April 28 l8r.it/LlQJ

In @amanthro.bsky.social, Emma Nelson Bunkley finds that in Senegal, women with Type II diabetes combat social stigma from weight loss that negatively affects their physical health and community participation. Read more: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Our June 2025 issue is out! 🚨 Includes 5 research articles + two special sections: ✨ Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin 🕯️ Ethnographies of a Dying Discipline—Anthropology in the 21st Century Read here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433... #AnthroSky #Anthropology

Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas! Read more here: tinyurl.com/4f2987rc

In @amanthro.bsky.social, Carol Chan’s examination of networks of migrant women in Chile finds that these relationships provide support and information but also conflict and competition.

In @amanthro.bsky.social, an 18-month study of how and when Turkish police use force, by Hayal Akarsu, shows that standardizing how much force is allowable does not prevent physical violence against the public.

From the archive. “Biological races do not exist in humans. Why, then, do so many people in the United States and other parts of the world continue to believe in this myth?” Read more: www.sapiens.org/biology/athl...

Just published: "Compression-Expansion: Miniaturization, Modularity, and Logistics Beyond Earth." Open access with @amanthro.bsky.social. (1/5) 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/aman... #AnthroSky #ethnography #outerspace #STS

⭐ Congrats to all our authors! ⭐ Chris Chaplin, Mark Drury @drurydrury.bsky.social, Sam Rumé, Tim Burger, Malavika Reddy, Onur Arslan + interview w/Bill Maurer & Chris Vasantkumar by AE’s eds #AnthroSky #anthropology Find it here: ⬇️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481425...

📢 Call for Nominations! @enpanthro.bsky.social Prize for a remarkable published paper: ✅ Published in 2024 ✅ Any area of psychological anthropology 📆 Deadline: 22 May 2025 📆 Winner will be announced at #ENPA2025 (Münster, 11–13 June) 🔗 More info: buff.ly/kgbD2NP

So... Now I'm tracking down ScholarOne execs in LinkedIn and sending them messages. I don't know what else to do after having been locked out of editorial access for two weeks due to a security fix they attempted -- the "fix" went badly wrong.

Still locked out of the system. It was kind of funny for a minute. Now I'm enraged.

🎓 Anna Harrison shares her inspiring experience attending the 2024 #AAA2024 conference as an undergrad—from presenting multispecies ethnography to building networks for grad school & beyond. Read the full piece: 🔗 www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte... #Anthropology #UndergradAnthro

It was a huge pleasure to talk to Armanc Yildiz about my recent article in American Anthropologist for their "Highlights" series!

Hot off the press 📣📚🥳 The March 2025 issue of American Anthropologist is out now. Congratulations to the authors! More details below 👇 @amanthro.bsky.social #Anthropology

In @amanthro.bsky.social, Shruti Vaidya and Michele Friedner examine how disability professionals in India approach the discernment of communication signals used by their disabled students and patients.

In @amanthro.bsky.social, @alana-ackerman.bsky.social examines how refugees in Colombia regularly use different strategies to evade identification in public spaces and avoid violence from their persecutors.

In @amanthro.bsky.social, Yana Stainova explores how experiences of entrepreneurship and small business ownership promote feelings of joy and community belonging in Hispanic communities in East Los Angeles. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In @amanthro.bsky.social, Tine M. Gammeltoft shows how rising rates of chronic illness highlight the moral and social conundrums faced by those caring for ill family members in rural northern Vietnam. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our first interview, as associate editors for @amanthro.bsky.social “World Anthropologies” section, featuring the unconventional journey and work of Ethiopian American archaeologist Helina Woldekiros. We talked about traversing different worlds, language, gender, etc.: doi.org/10.1111/aman...

My article "Tools for relatedness: 'Fetishes' in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors" is out in open access early view on @amanthro.bsky.social anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

"Putting Big Tech in its Place" is officially published in @amanthro.bsky.social! "Teasing out flexibilities [of practices and networks] expands anthropological inquiry [as it] provides opportunity for telling different kinds of stories about technology."

📢 The March 2025 issue of American Anthropologist is here! This issue features research on police officers reading Weber, autoethnography and kinship, and more. Read the full issue: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433... #Anthropology

🔦 Highlights | What does it mean to do anthropology like a friend? Marie Odgaard explores the ethics, tensions, and radical possibilities of friendship in ethnographic practice in this piece Read it here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte... #Anthropology #Ethics #Friendship

🔦 Highlights | In this critical fabulation piece, Urmilla Deshpande & Thiago Barbosa blend history and creativity to explore Irawati Karve’s life—from challenging racist science in 1920s Berlin to shaping Indian anthropology. Read the excerpt here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

📢 The December 2024 issue of American Anthropologist is out! This issue features groundbreaking research on topics ranging from highjacked decolonization to academic carework. Explore the full issue here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433... #Anthropology @labspeceth.bsky.social