Fiona McCormack’s essay, “Marine Inequality, Borderization, and the Radical Potential of Kinship,” engages with climate, capitalism, and decolonial critique, examining how marine spaces materialize global inequalities through regimes of extraction, governance, and labor.

In her essay, “Fugitive Kinships,” Suma Ikeuchi explores the performance of kinships by resourceful Filipino migrants in Japan. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

In “My Neighbor the Gringo,” @aangelini.bsky.social and Gareth A. Jones explore the different meanings of convivência in Rio de Janeiro’s self-built communities transformed into tourist accommodations over recent decades.

Based on fieldwork in London, interviews with global activists, and analysis of corporate materials, Sohini Kar’s essay, “The Financial Activist,” draws on Lauren Berlant’s theory of inconvenience to show how activists learn to live with and inconvenience financial systems,

Sending you into the weekend with a new two-part pedagogy piece on Teaching Orientalism, from @girishdaswani.bsky.social and @isisnaucratis.bsky.social:

Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism. Huge thanks to @culanth.bsky.social for publishing our piece in their Teaching Tools section! www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

@girishdaswani.bsky.social and I wrote a 2-part post on Teaching Orientalism for @culanth.bsky.social's blog. Here is Part 1: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Because plans were suspended, "the planned tallest building in Africa remains the largest hole in Nairobi"—but in this hole there flourishes an unruly, ruderal ecosystem. Here Constance Smith describes the lives enabled by Nairobi's unplanned urban lake: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

In our journal article "Touched By Deep Time," Lachlan Summers thinks with those who continue to suffer long after living through one of Mexico City's earthquakes. For many, structural volatility continues to reverberate in a sort of earthly seasickness. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

"It’s easy for Americans to think eugenics is over when they don’t know how and why it began." @danilynrutherford.bsky.social offers a personal and politically urgent review of Dagmar Herzog's The Question of Unworthy Life: somatosphere.net/disability-a...

Instead of a wrapping up the year with most-read, most-cited, or any of those metrics, we want to hear a more qualitative review. What were your favorite books or articles that you read this year? The most memorable? The ones that you're thinking about the most?

When Israel expanded its war into Lebanon once again, it threatened and disrupted many lives—including students and teachers. When formal education is disrupted by displacement, what do we learn in the meantime? www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

"Prophecies of an impending war no longer seem like vestiges of the past; instead, they can be read as warnings of a new epoch of slavery and dispossession under tourism." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

“We sometimes have our heads in the stars, but we really do need to have our feet firmly planted on the ground.” This article shows how astronomers engage different scales from the grounds of southern Africa—like this future (maybe) telescope site in Madagascar:

Can't believe it's almost been a year since kicked off 2025 with this series on rethinking facts from Latin America - still relevant, still waiting for you to read: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Here's one for all the readers! 📚🤓📚📑 Join us for our last SCA Fridays of the year as we reflect on, appreciate, and read from publications from 2025.

Here's one for all the readers! 📚🤓📚📑 Join us for our last SCA Fridays of the year as we reflect on, appreciate, and read from publications from 2025.

"La experimentación etnográfica se está convirtiendo en una práctica cada vez más común en antropología, con toda una serie de proyectos que expanden e intensifican el giro experimental." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

NEW: After freezing billions in U.S. foreign aid and putting countless lives at risk around the world, Trump administration officials in Washington celebrated with a sheet cake. By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social

"The border between Lebanon and Palestine has been troubled and troubling since its inception." Lara Deeb on the latest Israeli war in Lebanon and expansionist visions that transcend borders: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

From our latest journal issue, Ina Zharkevich on the invisible slow violence of debt, which haunts Nepali migrants unable to repay loans that they hoped would enable them to pursue life in the U.S.

In our series on unbuilding, Simón Uribe examines concrete and corrosion from building roads to managing waterways in Colombia—like this retaining wall. Read more here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

A very interesting article @culanth.bsky.social by Meghan L. Morris: Soil Forensics: Property and the Buried Truth in Medellín

"The revolution must be victorious!" A recurring Burmese rallying cry, but what does it say about the temporality of activism? Elliott Prasse-Freeman's research among Burmese revolutionaries reveals shifting relations to failure & activist subjectivities: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Our latest Teaching Tools reflects on a collaboration between an anthropologist (@anandian.bsky.social) and a community organizer (Shashawnda Campbell of the South Baltimore Community Land Trust) on teaching and activism beyond the classroom: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

As Medellín embarked on post-conflict social urbanism, parks designed in poor neighborhoods threatened to evict informal settlements—and both city officials and residents leveraged knowledge about soil in imagining the city's past and future: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

What happens when we bring our sketchbooks and sketching practice with us into the field? Or into the classroom?

New in @culanth.bsky.social by Ina Zharkevich: Debt & the American Dream: The Specter of Debt & Its Slow Violence among Irregular Migrants from Nepal

Excited to check out this new @amanthro.bsky.social commentary piece of theory-in-the-making on emergent eco-fascisms: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Worth checking out: @amethno.bsky.social's new online collection featuring ten essays on the anthropology of free trade: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.

Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 to Leniqueca Welcome for winning this year's SCA Cultural Horizons Prize for her article, "On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad"

Have *you* checked out our latest journal issue? Full table of contents here, articles available open access at journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

After elections are over, what value might losing, discarded candidates have for democracy moving forward? In this interview, Tanya Jakimow expands on her recent CA article on democracy and waste: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Just published Cultural Anthropology's @culanth.bsky.social latest issue! Articles on scale in radio astronomy, debt’s slow violence, marine inequality, fugitive kinships, financial activism, revolutionary temporalities, shifting conviviality, and contested soil. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

Read Anna Simone Reumert, Wendy Vogt and Charlie Piot's introduction into their Special Collection, Bordering and the War on Migration. The online collection examines how communities around the world are affected by the criminalization of their mobility and how they respond to it.

ICYMI, our latest AnthroPod episode is all above ❤️~*𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮*~❤️ @yichizhang.bsky.social and @kasmanio.bsky.social discuss: What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...

Congratulations to @lmesseri.bsky.social whose book "In the Land of the Unreal" by has been named the winner of the Gregory Bateson Prize, given by @culanth.bsky.social! buff.ly/PXLvQC9

“Texas A&M acknowledged it had received the ‘non-binding findings’ from the hearing panel. The university said its interim president, Tommy Williams, would review the report…Mr. Williams is not a career academic, but instead rose to power when he was a Republican member of the Texas Legislature.”

#AAA2025 has been its usual whirlwind of fun and overwhelm. But I can’t underscore how much it has meant for ‘in the land of the unreal’ to be recognized as the winner of the Bateson book prize, and to celebrate the news w my ever growing anthro fam. @dukepress.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social

Hey #AAA2025, got a gap in your schedule this weekend? Check out our program guide: www.culanth.org/about/about-...

On Nov. 22, 6:30-9 pm, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology and the Association for the Anthropology of Policy will present, "Academic Freedom, Immigration, and Carceral Regimes." politicalandlegalanthro.org/2025/10/24/s...

Hello #AAA2025 #NewOrleans! If you're looking for AAA Climate Change Interest Group activities, Thursday, November 20, 2025 is THE day! See you there!

Are you attending #AAA2025? Here's a very culanth guide to the American Anthropological Association annual meeting: www.culanth.org/about/about-...

Remember that time celebrities were rumored to be buying real estate in Rio favelas? I got an article officially out in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology! Special thanks to my co-author Gareth A. Jones and the editorial team at @culanth.bsky.social journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

It's been a few years in the making, but a global pandemic, pregnancy, and a baby (now 4...) later, my work on financial activism is now out in the latest issue of Cultural Anthropology (open access)!

New Special Collection Out! The online collection, edited by Alejandra González Jiménez, focuses on the North American Free Trade Agreement and gives glimpses into worlds engendered by, or indirectly shaped by it. Read here: americanethnologist.org/.../anthropo...

It's that time of year!! 🎁❄️📚📚🤓 That's right! The latest issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now! Check out all eight new research articles open-access here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca