New #OpenAccess article "Dementism: A New Line of Inquiry in Dementia Studies From a Social Psychological Perspective" Too often dementia is reduced to memory loss. This article offers a new framework for #Dementia studies, centering dignity, inclusion & personhood. doi.org/10.1111/jtsb...

alert! An #openaccess special issue on the phenomenology of travel and tourism. www.mdpi.com/journal/huma... #anthropology #phenomenology #tourism #openaccess

#openaccess #anthropology Interested in love and belonging in Uganda? Read "Marriage Matters," edited by Lotte Meinert, Julaina Obika, and Nanna Schneidermann: bit.ly/4kZqLkQ

on winding paths and straight lines. As always, a wonderful and affectively insightful piece in @otherwisemag: www.otherwisemag.com/corbus-boars #anthropology

on food offerings in the oldest Buddhist temple outside of Asia. Listen here: themigrationmenu.com/episode/cult... #anthropology #food

2024 Bateson Prize winner, Naisargi Davé, talks about "indifference as a way of understanding interspecies relationality, the relationship between ethics & politics in anthropological thought, & her approach to the craft of ethnographic writing" in this @culanth.bsky.social interview. #Anthropology

In The Myth of 'Risk-Free' Gold, Giselle Figueroa de la Ossa "unpacks how colonial histories and racial and class hierarchies shape who is allowed to desire and accumulate gold today." @sapiens.org #OpenAccess #Anthropology

"To rethink citation is to rethink the very conditions under which we are allowed to know, to remember, to speak as anthropologists. Citation is not merely a scholarly apparatus; it is a declaration of allegiance. A tracing of kin..." @allegralab.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/beyond-the-f...

@appliedanthro.bsky.social The call for papers for SfAA Annual Meeting 2026 is now open! More details here: appliedanthro.org/annual-meeti... #anthropology

#OpenAccess book alert! 📖📖📖 "A Long Journey Home" traces powerful personal narratives from #Colombia, where decades of conflict have uprooted lives and disrupted the meaning of #home. #OA #Anthropology #MigrationStudies #RefugeeStudies

📖 New #OpenAccess book! "Marriage Matters" explores #love, commitment & belonging in #Uganda. Edited by Lotte Meinert, Julaina A. Obika, and Nanna Schneidermann; Published by @uclpress.bsky.social #OA #Anthropology uclpress.co.uk/book/marriag...

Check out the latest issue of the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ)! Special Issue: Re-orienting the Himalayan Borderlands Edited by Aditya Kiran Kakati, Mélanie Vandenhelsken & Bernardo A. Michael Read it here #OpenAccess: journals.openedition.org/samaj/9869 #OA #Anthropology

So happy to present the publication of this special issue on gender and medicine. It compiles 12 peer-reviewed articles for the "Curare. Journal of Medical Anthropology" with historical and contemporary perspectives on this topic. The entire issue is open access: curarejournal.org/ojs/index.ph...

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

"What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically?" Listen in to this Anthropod episode with Dr. Omar Kasmani, to "trace the hopes, heartbreaks, and potentialities that love can hold for field research and ethnographic writing." @culanth.bsky.social www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Kicking off the week with some editorial insights into writing and publishing, by the editors of American Ethnologist @amethno.bsky.social #Anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New publication alert 📚🎙️ The September issue of American Anthropologist is hot off the press with an exciting collection of articles 📣🔬 Congratulations to the authors and editors 👏👏 Check it out👇 #Anthropology @amanthro.bsky.social @americananthro.bsky.social

ever wondered how pop music and dance performances shape relations of the afro-european matrix? see here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... #anthropology #music #mediterranean

uncovering jewels from last year... "a duality of political imaginaries: remnants of collapsed past utopias colliding with the alluring yet hollow promises of contemporary global capitalism." quoted from focaal blog: www.focaalblog.com/2024/12/03/j... #anthropology

on "what it means to live in urban peripheries like Ennore, places experiencing unprecedented levels of industrial expansion and petrochemical pollution" see this wonderful article by Rishabh Raghavan: journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca... #anthropology #openaccess

"Nostalgia accompanies us throughout our lives, bringing us comfort, joy or sadness, or all of the above, at the same time." On nostalgia-inducing things, by Oana Lohan, see here: www.otherwisemag.com #anthropology

Check out the August issue of Current Anthropology with a range of articles on work and labor, state-society relations and politics, climate events, and human-animal kinship. @wennergrenorg.bsky.social #anthropology

Re-upping our latest entry on the Deep Sea, where Marta Gentilucci highlights #anthropology 's "shy yet critical approach to the deep sea as an ethnographic site–one imbued with meanings that shift depending on who encounters it, with what tools, and through which mediations." #OpenAccess

Clarice Cohn writes about the "...importance of understanding children’s own initiative in learning new skills as a relational practice informed by indigenous conceptualisations of openness, differentiation & transforming relations to the landscape." @easainfo.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Hot off the press: new #openaccess entry on the #anthropology of the #deepsea by Marta Gentilucci @unibergen.bsky.social www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/deep-sea

"From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex." Want to know more? Listen in: newbooksnetwork.com/ayo-wahlberg... #anthropology

"Exposing how conditions of lightness and darkness exist inside each other, spectacle [focuses] on regimes of visibility that afford different ways of seeing." Check out this wonderful article by Jane L. Saffitz. #anthropology #albinism #Tanzania journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...

#ECR opportunity: join us on 27 November in Glasgow for our annual Early Career Researchers Day. Professors Shahram Khosravi and Karen O’Reilly will lead sessions on migration studies and ethnographic practice. 8 September is the deadline to apply to join this funded event. buff.ly/RwAgtTj

What happens when heritage meets politics? 🏛️ Zhou X. & Huang J. introduce "heritagization" to describe how cultural heritage in China is shaped by, and shapes, political agendas and identity. 📖 Read the #OpenAccess article: doi.org/10.1186/s412... #Anthropology #China

Discover new #OpenAccess articles in the latest issue of #Anthropology in Action by @berghahnbooks.bsky.social - including "Anthropology in Action in #Vanuatu" on effective responses to natural disasters 🌏 📖 Read this and explore more articles here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

📢📚 #OpenAccess from @uclpress.bsky.social: "Navigating #ArtificialIntelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations". An insightful, interdisciplinary look at how #AI is shaping cultural institutions & heritage work. A must-read with relevance across fields! uclpress.co.uk/book/navigat...

📢📚 #OpenAccess from @uclpress.bsky.social: "Navigating #ArtificialIntelligence for Cultural Heritage Organisations". An insightful, interdisciplinary look at how #AI is shaping cultural institutions & heritage work. A must-read with relevance across fields! uclpress.co.uk/book/navigat...

🌿 "Learning through Freedom Ownership and Environment in Galibi-Marworno Children's Education" #OpenAccess 📖 article by Antonella Tassinari in Volume 33: Issue 1 of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

New #OpenAccess entry on 'Sustainability' out in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social Written by Prof. @alicerudge.bsky.social at @soasanthro.bsky.social Find it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

Coming soon: an #OpenAccess book on human responses to crisis and change, featuring case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies facing natural hazards. Don't miss it! 📖 #OA #Anthropology #ClimateChange

As someone who talks and thinks sustainability on a daily basis, I find the anthropological perspective very relevant, as always 💚

With "a keen eye for the workings of power," Anthropology "forces us to value the plurality that characterises the landscapes into which sustainability lands, that goes into constituting sustainability initiatives, and that marks definitions of sustainability itself," writes @alicerudge.bsky.social

Really sad to hear this news but I understand the urgency for Wenner-Gren to support field researchers. Proud to have written a piece for Sapiens. I will be continuing my mission to connect people with my areas of anthropology and will do what I can to broaden these connections.

The Wenner-Gren Foundation has made the difficult decision to halt the creation of new content for SAPIENS Magazine at the end of 2025. Read President Danilyn Rutherford’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/article/sapi...

Anthropology thinks of "technology beyond the machines of Western industrial-capitalism & engages with technologies across time & space, and across human & non-human actors", write Geoffrey Hobbis and Stephanie Ketterer, in OEA's latest entry on technology. www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/techno...

CAMHRA Inaugural Lecture by Dr. Bhrigupati Singh is now available on our YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMtv...

Authors of our OEA surveilance entry have a podcast series of which the last episode was published recently. Listen to "Rhythm and Vigilance: Ethnographies of Surveillance and Time": open.spotify.com/episode/1Xbh... #surveillance #anthropology

"These studies form a body of work that refuses to take high-level discourses on sustainability for granted. They push anthropologists to ask how attention to on-the-ground realities might pose alternatives to dominant sustainable futures that remain defined by growth, extraction, and profit."

New entry, new entry, new entry! 📣 📣 📣 SUSTAINABILITY 🌱 🌱 🌱 written by Alice Rudge 📝 📝 📝 "Sustainability is one of the key terms of the contemporary moment" - and thus there's so much to learn about this term! Read the full entry (as always, OA) here: anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

New article on 'Sustainability' out in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology! Written off the back of designing the @soasanthro.bsky.social MA Global Futures and Sustainability curriculum - thank you to our amazing students and all who supported!

Hot off the press: New #openaccess entry on the #anthropology of #sustainability by Prof. Alice Rudge at @soasanthro.bsky.social www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...

Why do anthropologists typically stay in the field for a year or more? Find out in this entry on # time and #anthropology www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/time

Are you ready to be moved? Read "Bicycle freedoms" by Odelia Younge in "Otherwise": www.otherwisemag.com #blackness #bicycle #poetry

PLEASE SHARE! Current Anthropology's annual competition is open! Deadline 15 Sept for 1-3 visual pieces plus extended caption in any of the 4 fields (soc/cult anth, arch, bio anth, ling anth). The winners will be published in 2026 Curr Anth AND be the issue covers!

New publication alert 📚📣📚: Anthropology in Action, latest issue, and #OpenAccess!