loving words and what words on a screen can do? Read "The light between Strangers" by Fiona Murphy: www.otherwisemag.com/the-light-be... and published in Otherwise. #anthropology #lyrical #sonder

Happy new year! 🎊🎊🎊 All the best to our readers and authors! We look forward to 2026 being a year with lots of exciting encyclopedia entries coming out. Stay tuned and take a look at: anthroencyclopedia.com

👋 OEA is taking a short social media break until the New Year. While we’re away, dive into our latest #openaccess entries! Find new readings on #democracy, #anti-blackness, #dance, #outerspace, and more here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com See you in January & happy holidays from the OEA Team 🎉

Ending the week by sharing a brilliant #openaccess piece by @timmclellan.bsky.social 🌱 This article explores "temporal empathy": how #agroforestry scientists in #China and #Myanmar pay attention to ecological time, even while navigating the fast clocks of donors and institutions. #anthropology #OA

Happy to boost this ✨ “Anthropology of the Hometown” by @dadadocot.bsky.social is now out in American Anthropologist, offering a compelling argument for #anthropology of the #hometown as part of disciplinary redress and decolonization - and it's #openaccess!

🎊 Ending the year at the OEA with a fantastic NEW ENTRY on the #anthropology of #democracy, written by Eduardo Dullo! Read it #openaccess: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/democr...

we end the quotes-week with Feasting-Friday! “Feasts make rather than reflect qualities of the world.” written by Chloe Nahum-Claudel, found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/feasting

after the voice of Wednesday, the silence of Thursday: "silence ... is often a presence in social life, rather than a mere absence of sound and voice." by Ana Dragojlovic and Annemarie Samuels. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/silence

and a quote for Wednesday: “Anthropologists have shown voices — both as sound objects and as metaphors — to be culturally and historically constructed, and hence variable.” by Marlene Schäfers, found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/voice

📣 📣 📣 new entry, new entry, new entry Learn more about Anti-Blackness, the "pervasive and deeply entrenched form of dehumanisation and exclusion targeting people racialised as ‘Black’" in the latest #OEA #openaccess entry, written by Sebastian Jackson. anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/anti-b...

our Tuesday quote: "For anthropology, time is not one but many." Written by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. Found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/time

this week is dedicated to sharing beautiful, insightful, challenging OEA quotes. "...allowing anthropology to insistently ask: whose ‘sustainability’ gets to count on the global stage? And what, exactly, is being sustained?" by Alice Rudge, found here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

RIP Keith Hart "I never got over that primal scene of moving between Manchester and Cambridge. They seemed to be two completely different civilizations...

📘 New #OpenAccess book alert! "The Chronopolitics of Life": An interdisciplinary look at how #temporalities, #bodies, and #power relations shape #health. #Anthropology #Biomedicine

How does #anthropology understand #dance? 💃 In this new #OEA #openaccess entry, Panas Karampampas explores dance as an expressive system through which relationships, identities, and power are enacted and negotiated, from local practices to global circulation. www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/dance

Exciting 2-year postdoc position available with the ERC project “Amber Worlds: A Geological Anthropology for the Anthropocene (AMBER) at the University of Oslo.  Info in the comments! #anthropologyjob #jobopportunity #academiccareer #Postdocposition #hiring

Don’t miss this #OpenAccess issue on the #Anthropology of the #MiddleEast entitled "“Middle Eastern Migrants in East Asia: Navigation of #Identity, #Religion and #Belonging”

"Unearthing Collections" invites readers to reconsider the #ethics of collections and #archives through the lens of temporality. Edited by Magdalena Buchczyk, Martín Fonck, Tomás J. Usón & Tina Palaić Read this new book #openaccess! uclpress.co.uk/book/unearth... #anthropology

From Indigenous knowledge systems treating the sky as kin, to scientists translating gravitational waves into audible 'chirps'—our stories are written in the stars. 2/3 🔽

Outer Space is not "outer"; it is an inextricable extension of human life. Dive in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social : www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-... 3/3

Ever thought that a person, a room or a situation came with a specific kind of #vibe, #energy or #atmosphere? Social scientists actually study that. Check out this new #openaccess text on the topic by Prof. Michael Schnegg & Prof. Jonas Bens www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp...

What's the lesson from the anthropology of outer space? Across the globe, people actively strive for intimacy with the cosmos. 1/3🔽

"How do people interact with outer space? How does outer space impact human lives? How does outer space influence our understanding of social reality?" Anna Szolucha delves into these questions and more in our latest entry on anthropology & outer space! 🌌 🛰️ www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/outer-...

"Atmospheres are the overall feeling of a situation that people experience individually & collectively", write Micheal Schnegg & Jonas Bens, in our brand new entry on Atmosphere! Read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/atmosp... #OpenAccess #Anthropology

"How might we speak of love, especially in today’s social and political climate?" Omar Kasmani talks about the "hopes, heartbreaks, and potentialities that love can hold for field research and ethnographic writing." Listen here🎙️: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A collection of essays on the Anthropology of Free Trade, by @amethno.bsky.social 👇

New paper alert! 📢 "Enterprising Citizens: Digital Self-Help Gurus in Post-Liberalization India" by Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey. A look at how SHGs reshape aspirations, normalize failure, and push entrepreneurial citizenship in #India. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New #OpenAccess article! ✨ “Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground: #Scale and #Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa” by Hanna Nieber & Davide Chinigò Exploring how scale shapes radio astronomy in #SouthAfrica & #Madagascar, from ground infrastructure to outer space doi.org/10.14506/ca4...

🛎️ 🛎️ Cultural Anthropology has published a new issue. 🤓 See it here: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca As always, it's OA 😍 #anthropology #publishing # openaccess

"‘The line starts here!’ the officer shouts. But no one here believes the line ever begins." Continue reading Fulya Pinar's poem here: www.otherwisemag.com/the-line-sta... #anthropology #poetry #migration

Congratulations to Kristina Douglass on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their new #OpenAccess article "Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production" #Anthropology #Archaeology #MacFellow doi.org/10.1111/aman...

New book by UCL Press 📚 Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world edited by: Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf Free download: bit.ly/4pkQ5VQ #anthropology #bookpublication #openaccess

Spreading it around: a new look at redistribution and tax. Today. A panel discussion. Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, LSE. Find our more and register here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/sprea... #anthropology #redistribution

New issue of @amanthro.bsky.social is out now with a great collection of articles 📚🎙️ Congratulations to all the authors and editors 👏👏

Write a blogpost for the World of Work Blog on the Anthropology Career Readiness Network (ACRN) website! More details👇 @anthrocareerready.bsky.social

Happening today: Book discussion with Danilyn Rutherford, President @wennergrenorg.bsky.social, on her new book, "Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World." Registration details below.

"Academia is precarious" - a statement most (if not all) of us have come to experience in one way or another. The EASA Anthropology of Labour Network invites you to a webinar on experiences of academic precarity on 12 November. We encourage you to attend this timely event. Info in the comments.

Written by James B. Greenberg a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Founding Editor of the Journal of Political Ecology, and past president of the Political Ecology Society. substack.com/home/post/p-...

New article alert 🔬📚 "...labor management practices associated with soft skills have as much to do with old ways of disciplining labor as new and highlights the co-constitution of labor anxiety and racial ideologies", writes Sydney Pullen in "Don't Complain." @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social 👏 📣

Attending #AAA2025 this year? Join @culanth.bsky.social and Society for Visual Anthropology for a reception on Thursday evening (11/20)-- there will be art, music, and food!

New #OpenAccess book by Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh! "Economies of Care: Market Women in the Highlands of #PapuaNewGuinea" explores how women market traders in Goroka navigate a complex moral economy rooted in #care, #reciprocity, and spiritual value www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

”Former taxi driver & accidental professor of anthropology”: meet Shahram Khosravi, who will give this year’s Sociological Review Annual Lecture on 27 November in Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social How to do Migration Studies in Dark Times will be his theme. ➡️ More on his work: buff.ly/FGxRPeo

New special issue, Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology is now out & open access as part of @berghahnbooks.bsky.social's Open Anthro initiative! 'Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility & Displacement', guest edited by Hilal Alkan & Sandra Calkins 👇 🌱 www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Postdoc Opportunity The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropology to work on ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 24, 2025 📍 Oslo, Norway 🔗 www.prio.org/about/career... #Anthropology #PostdocJobs #HBES

These past few days marked the Day of the Dead across multiple cultures 🕯️ Let’s explore a standout OEA entry! Check out this insightful #OpenAccess piece on the #Anthropology of #Death by Bob Simpson in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology #OEA: doi.org/10.29164/18d...

Read this #openaccess piece on the collaboration between #art and #anthropology in Amanullah Mojadidi’s experimental ethnography, “Art, Anthropology, and All That Lives Between.”

University of Washington is hiring: Lecturer Part-Time Temporary in Anthropology

A fascinating new #OpenAccess article by @fonck-martin.bsky.social traces #geology after perforation in #Chile - exploring how the discipline transforms when drilling is no longer possible 🌎 Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/2572... #OA #Anthropology

Check out some of the recent entries in the @anthroencyclo.bsky.social Did you know there was an #anthropology of the #deepsea? or of #populism? Find out more: www.anthroencyclopedia.com