What happens when researchers claim insider status to legitimize their work? This piece explores “self-indigenization syndrome” and the pressures in academia that can encourage blurred identities, tokenism, and contested belonging. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

What if drawing could translate culture? This text dives into how illustration works as a tool in ethnography to interpret and communicate lived experience in ways text cannot. A thoughtful take on creativity, research, and the limits of language. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Our latest series tackles climate change, human-environment interactions by looking at histories of environmental anthropology: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Have you checked out our first ever Open Book? A new peer-reviewed digital experiment from our most recent editorial collective 👇

📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and interact with plants, examining both ethical responsibility and control. They highlight “response-ability” and show how human-plant relationships shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them ⬇️ www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Capture/Connect/Shift is now published! The eight original inquiries in this collection explore the relationship between modes of capture, connect, and shift in a wide variety of contexts. Read more here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

📢New Teaching Tool alert!📢 What if protest is a form of knowledge? This article looks at how activism can reshape teaching, bringing lived experience, collective struggle, and critical inquiry into the classroom. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and interact with plants, examining both ethical responsibility and control. They highlight “response-ability” and show how human-plant relationships shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them ⬇️ www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

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New AnthroPod! 🔊 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. Listen to it here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

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: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

📢 New Teaching Tool out! 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. More here!

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

In our inbox, from @americananthro.bsky.social! Get your submissions in for this fall's AAA meeting in St. Louis! annualmeeting.americananthro.org

Some PhDoh's are still doing research like the original affluent society. Other PhA+'s have PERFECTED research with AI. Try out these *insane* Claude (Levi-Strauss) prompts and shortcut your way to a billion—yes, with a B!—dollars of research funding!!! (save this)

Teachers, professors, instructors! Our Teaching Tools team is looking to publish short contributions about AI policies and pedagogy—usage, bans, activities, etc. See the full call below:

New AnthroPod! 🔊We're launching a new podcast series, "Rewiring the Field," which discusses how anthropologists' digital research rethinks fieldwork. Check out the first episode here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Check out this fantastic @truthout.org article about the AAUP's defense of pro-Palestinian speech on campus. It discusses on our report on the weaponization of Title VI, the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's Faculty on the Front Lines initiative, the Fired Four at @psc-cuny.org & more.

Welcome to Bluesky, @femanth.bsky.social! Give the Association for Feminist Anthropology a follow

Teachers, professors, instructors! Our Teaching Tools team is looking to publish short contributions about AI policies and pedagogy—usage, bans, activities, etc. See the full call below:

"What animates the modern compulsion to historicize is often a compulsion to discover and expand the possibilities for world-shaping intervention." A conversation about concepts, genres, contingency, and other scholarly grammars: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

As bombs sink metallic toxins into the earth and destroyed oil refineries send chemicals into the air, coating whole cities, we are thinking of the many harms caused by war's environmental violence as well as its military force. We've been here before: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

We are pleased to invite you to Remembrance & Resilience, a special series hosted by #SfAA, co-sponsored by the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA), and supported by the Tashima Family Trust. More info: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeting @napa-anthro.bsky.social #SfAA2026

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...

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...

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/...

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/...

“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

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

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

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/...

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

"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

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!

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. ⤵️

"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/...

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.

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 ⤵️

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

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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."

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

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.

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/...