In 2014, Cultural Anthropology went open access, which means that all articles published since 2014 are freely available on the Cultural Anthropology website immediately upon publication. Articles published before 2014 are available at Wiley Online Library to members of the American Anthropological Association and institutional subscribers.
In this issue, we present seven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from vulnerability, the genetic diaspora, and collective life across African, Asian, and South American geographies.
In “Unexpected Callings,” Raffaella Taylor-Seymour... More
We present eight original papers in this issue.
In “Heads in the Stars, Feet on the Ground,” Hanna Nieber and Davide Chinigò demonstrate how scale operates as both an ontological and epistemological concept, closely tied to the ground, through the... More
We present seven original papers in this issue.
In “Waste Donations,” Kevin Yildirim explores how interdependencies are forged within precarious urban conditions through the auspices of charitable giving. Such hospitality helps forge moral... More
In “Reactive Regulation,” Indivar Jonnalagadda provokes us to imagine new ways to see urban development through an account of the micro-scale bureaucratic processes of property record-keeping, registration, and... More
In “On Chainsaws and Acoustic Violence,” Andrew Green shows how sound is part of complex multisensory and social entanglements that shape how people respond to deforestation.
In “Religious Afterlives of a... More
Skepticism and parody come together in Gregory Hollin’s original approach to professional wrestling in contexts of post-truth politics and labor precarity. Focusing on a recent effort to unionize professional... More
We present six original papers in this issue.
Kennedy Opande and Washington Onyango-Ouma focus on notions of the cosmo-juridical as a domain in which connections between human life and natural phenomenon might be forged. The cosmo-juridical is presented as the... More
We are delighted to publish the first ever Spanish-language article in Cultural Anthropology. David Lagunas’s text offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of the migration and arrival of Roma in Mexico, examining more closely how they negotiate and... More
We present six original papers in this issue as well as the inaugural guest commentary.
When the Society for Cultural Anthropology selected our distributed, international editorial collective to lead Cultural Anthropology, they did so in part to support... More
We present five original papers in this issue.
Melding discourses on technicity, decolonial epistemology, and anthropologies of energy, Katie Ulrich analyzes the traffic between sugarcane biological growth, industry growth, and economic growth in the context of... More
Chloe Ahmann, in her ethnography of the conspiratorial politics surrounding the construction of a waste incinerator in South Baltimore, asks “What do rumors theorize?” In a late industrial context where corporate... More
Five original research articles are presented in this issue.
Tsipy Ivry, Maki Ogawa, and Jun Murotsuki unpack the moral economy of decision-making by chronicling how the application of non-invasive prenatal tests is discussed among pregnant women and medical... More
The February 2023 issue of Cultural Anthropology is the first issue edited by the collective of Matilde Córdoba Azcárate, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Julia Elyachar, Joanne Nucho, AbdouMaliq Simone, Manuel Tironi, and Ather Zia and features six research... More
Featuring seven research articles, the November 2022 issue of Cultural Anthropology is the final issue edited by the collective of Chris Nelson, Heather Paxson, and Brad Weiss.
In “Orders of Protection,” Kelly Gillespie critically dissects the tactical... More
Our third issue of 2022 offers a wide range of perspectives examining an array of problems. While we like to think of this as a hallmark of Cultural Anthropology, this issue poses a critically reflexive discussion of diversity itself, suggesting new frameworks... More
May’s issue opens with #CiteBlackWomen, a searing colloquy in which Anne-Maria B. Makhulu, Christen A. Smith, Faye V. Harrison, Savannah Shange, and Bianca C. Williams analyze the race and gender politics of citation, and further spell out what our discipline stands to... More
Our first issue of 2022 opens with a Colloquy exploring the bioeconomies of mobility. Edited by Marthe Achtnich, its essays compare notes on how the controlled movement of life forms—humans and human oocytes, rare animals, viruses, and bacteria—can itself be... More
This issue of Cultural Anthropology features a Colloquy, as well as five original research articles. The Colloquy introduces the field of “Oikography,” an ethnographic method that proposes we think of housing not from the technical perspective of such... More
Our August issue opens with the Colloquy “‘L’enfer, c’est les autres’: Proximity as an Ethical Problem during COVID-19.” Six authors, in dialogue with one another, ask us to consider the ways in which ethical practices have shaped and been shaped by the... More
Our second issue of the year offers six original research essays that consider themes both classic and contemporary in our (in)discipline. Heath Pearson’s work offers a deep history of the coercive character of labor in the rural agricultural zones of southern New... More
This issue, the first of 2021, features six original research essays on a diverse array of themes. Gustav Peebles uses the example of electronic payments in Sweden—particularly the Swish cell phone app that is a pervasive e-currency—to demonstrate how these raise much... More
The final issue of 2020, a year too abundant in significance to characterize easily, brings us five original research articles. The issue begins with a consideration of dispute mediation in China explored by Andrea E. Pia. Pia shows how dissent is carefully managed in... More
Our third issue of 2020 finds us in the midst of a global pandemic. The lives of our authors, our readers, our collaborators, our students, and our families have all been touched. At the same time, here in the United States, outrage at anti-Black violence has fueled... More
This issue of Cultural Anthropology features a Colloquy, as well as four original research articles. The Colloquy revisits the pressing question of “security” across the Middle East. Moving beyond the now standardized geopolitical deployments of this... More
The first Cultural Anthropology issue of 2020 features five original research articles, as well as our first edition of a new feature, Colloquy. Colloquy collections are intended to take the form of a conversation in which different vantage points are... More
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