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Post-Compassionate Aid and Emergent Forms of Support: An Interview with Daniela Giudici

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Post-Compassionate Aid and Emergent Forms of Support: An Interview with Daniela Giudici

In the following author interview, Daniela Giudici reflects on her ethnographic engagement with the asylum management system in Bologna, Italy. Drawing our atte... More

American Fascism

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American Fascism

“Every age has its own fascism,” Primo Levi famously wrote in his essay, “A Past We Thought Would Never Return.” “And we see the warning signs wherever the conc... More

Teaching Cultural Anthropology as a Community-Building MOOC-Style Course

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Teaching Cultural Anthropology as a Community-Building MOOC-Style Course

This post highlights the introductory cultural anthropology syllabus prepared by Rebecca Howes-Mischel and Megan Tracy, which they organized in similar style to... More

Creating Community in an Asynchronous Online Class

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Creating Community in an Asynchronous Online Class

In the summer of 2020, we faced a challenge (one of many collectively shared): what to do with our general education Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class... More

Cultural Anthropology

Established in 1986, the peer-reviewed journal of the SCA has expanded the boundaries of the discipline and brokered new engagements with adjacent fields. Committed to innovation in scholarly communication, the journal went open access in 2014.

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Seeking Advanced Graduate Students for the Cultural Horizons Prize Jury

The Cultural Horizons Prize, awarded yearly by a jury of advanced doctoral students, honors the best article appearing in Cultural Anthropology during the prece... More

Thank You, Reviewers

We thank all those listed below for generously volunteering their time for careful reading and constructive review of articles submitted to Cultural Anthropolog... More

Gregory Bateson Book Prize: Nomination Guidelines

The Gregory Bateson Brook Prize is awarded each year by the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), one of the largest sections of the American Anthropological... More