Ethnographic fieldwork is increasingly becoming (and perhaps has always been) a space of multimodal experimentation. As a number of recent interventions have ma... More
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Sahana Ghosh’s article ethnographically explores soldiering in independent India, focusing on the Border Security Force or BSF. Drawing on feminist thought and ... More
Confronting the entangled legacies of failed infrastructures, toxic materials, and compromised futures, this series opens up the concept of unbuilding as a crit... More
BeginningsTeaching race and racism at Princeton University brought home to me the truism that the U.S. conversation about race and racism is, if anything, diffe... More
We were walking with Juana, an Avá Guaraní teacher from the province of Salta (Argentina), through the school’s courtyard and into the library. Inside was the s... More
Cultural AnthropologyIn this issue, we present seven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from hospitality, debt, and refusal across African, Asian, and North American geographies.
Are you looking for a writing endeavor beyond your dissertation, final essays, and grant applications? Looking for a collective of inspired anthropologists to r... More
The Cultural Horizons Prize, awarded yearly by a jury of advanced doctoral students, honors an article appearing in Cultural Anthropology during the preceding y... More
The Gregory Bateson Book Prize is awarded each year by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), one of the largest sections of the American Anthropological ... More