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We are thrilled to announce that Mike Prentice (@miikeprentice) and Sabine Mohamed (@sab_culture) are the newly elected convenors of the NEW Network for Contemporary Anthropological Theory! Check out our new blog: anthrotheory.net/about/ New posts soon. Write us, get involved!

“Friendship might be a necessary condition of anthropology.” And yet there is relatively thin theoretical work on friendship. Susan MacDougall @macdougallsm has offered us an amazing and thought-provoking reading list on the ANTHROPOLOGY OF FRIENDS🔥🥳 anthrotheory.net/reading-lists/…

We are thrilled to share with you this brilliant reading list on the Anthropology of Friendship by Susan MacDougall. While friends are important in our ethnographic work +as anthropologists, we often relegate these relations to the background. Why is that? anthrotheory.net/reading-lists/…

Hot off the press! Congratulations to Scott MacLochlainn on his amazing new book "The Copy Generic: How the Nonspecific Makes Our Social World" 🔥🔥🔥 Make sure to get a copy (literally!)

Do you want to be the next convenor of an EASA network? NCAT is looking for new convenors. Attend our network meeting on Wednesdya July 27th to find out more! Find our network meeting below - #timetable/nm1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">easaonline.org/conferences/ea…

Panel 2 @ 11:15 AM GMT nomadit.co.uk/conference/eas…

Panel 1 @ 9:00 AM GMT nomadit.co.uk/conference/eas…

NCAT is proud to sponsor the following panel at #easa2022 - 'Towards an anthropological value theory of the commons', organised by Marc Morell and Oana Mateescu. Links below!

2) An extended reading list on the anthropology of British coalmining communities. anthrotheory.net/reading-lists/…

1) A review-essay on British coalmining from the perspective of "post-coalonialism" anthrotheory.net/essays/anyadik…

We are proud to announce two brand-new posts to anthrotheory.net by @CM_Anyadike on recent research on anthropology and British coalmining. Links below. Please read, enjoy, and share!

Check out my guest Q&A at the CaMP Anthropology blog, where I interview Michael Prentice about his findings and research process. An organizational researcher, Prentice has just published his organizational ethnography Supercorporate. See links via marketspowerandculture.wordpress.com/?p=572&preview…

What should South Korean offices look like in a post-hierarchical world? In his book SUPERCORPORATE @miikeprentice examines a central tension in visions of big corporate life in South Korea's 21st century: should corporations be sites of fair distinction or equal participation?

Looking for an alternative to Twitter and corporate social media? We’re working on this, and would love your company! Join EDC curators Michael Degani and @anandspandian this Thursday 5/19 at 6pm EST for a convo and strategy session. More details here. forum.ecodesigncollective.org/t/rebooting-th…

New Reading List on "Botanical Kinships: A Tangled Taxonomy" by Amy Leia McLachlan (U of Chicago & Field Museum of Natural History)🍃🌿🌱 McLachlan's list is part of a speculative genealogy of plant relations in the anthropological family tree. anthrotheory.net/reading-lists/……

We are thrilled to share with you our latest imaginative reading list on Botanical Kinships by Amy MCLACHLAN (UChicago). In tracing plant beings, queering human+botanical genealogies,McLachlan describes utopian+dystopian speculations about possible futures anthrotheory.net/reading-lists/…

We would love to have your reading list on friendship on our blog!

In assembling this reading list on methods, Mariner highlights @savannahshange's blueprint for an "abolitionist anthropology," D. Haraway's concept of "going visiting," J. Odell's approach on retraining our attention & @demonicground's interrogation between discipline + violence.

We are so thrilled to share with you this fantastic and thought-provoking piece on Ethnographic Methods by Kathryn Mariner (University of Rochester) anthrotheory.net/reading-lists/…

A beautiful piece.

Hot off the Press🔥🔥 Critical Philosophy of Race by the brilliant Kimberly Ann HARRIS (Marquette University) anthrotheory.net/reading-lists/…