Society for Cultural Anthropology

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. ⤵️

Introducing @MESA_1966's Academic Freedom Initiative website, including data on: -weaponization of civil rights law/Title VI -employment retaliation -event cancellations/censorship -Congressional harassment campaigns afi.mesana.org

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Who gets to be an “insider” in research? This article examines “self-indigenization syndrome” and how academia can reward blurred identity claims while reinforcing tokenism and power imbalances. A sharp critique of research legitimacy. 🧐 🔗 culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

What if ethnography were not just written, but drawn? This piece explores illustration as a form of “translation” in anthropology, and capturing what words often miss in lived experience. A fresh take on research, creativity, and meaning-making. culanth.org/fieldsights/sp…

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

Don't forget to get those AAA annual meeting submissions in by this Wednesday! This is the only submission period this year - for all events. See below for more info:

We all should be very worried to see the Texas government using religious rules to ban students at a public university from doing academic research.

Students discussing the essay they wrote with AI

it's highway robbery for universities to charge you years and years of tuition fees and then not give you lifelong access to online academic databases via their library portal

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

Submissions close soon! The deadline for the 2026 AAA Annual Meeting is April 29. This year’s theme, On the Verge, explores the thresholds shaping our world today. Propose a panel, paper, roundtable, workshop, or more. Submit: annualmeeting.americananthro.org/submit/ #CallForSubmissions

📣New series alert! They explore how humans care for and control plants, questioning responsibility in these relationships. Through case studies, they show how human-plant interactions shape ecological, cultural, and political dynamics. Find them⬇️ culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

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: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

📢 New teaching tool published! 📢 What can protest teach us? This piece argues: a lot. From power to pedagogy, activism can reshape how we teach and learn. culanth.org/fieldsights/br…

16) Lema, Verónica S. 2026. "Thinking with Minorities: Ancient Weeds and Storytelling." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. culanth.org/fieldsights/th…

15) Gutierrez, Kathleen Cruz. 2026. "A Vegetal Apathy for an Asymptotic Taxonomy." Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, April 7. culanth.org/fieldsights/a-…