Society for Cultural Anthropology

@culanth

Challenging the boundaries of the discipline since 1983. Account managed by a volunteer team of Contributing Editors. Tweets this week by Social Media Team.

culanth.org Joined April 2010

2.4K Following 53K Followers 35K Posts

Latest posts 5

Pinned post

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth May 22

🚨Have you heard? The new issue of Cultural Anthropology is out now!
Featuring eleven original papers with ethnographic insights into topics ranging from evasion & repair to belonging across African, Asian & European geographies.

Find all the articles ⤵️ Open Access as always!

The cover of the new issue of Cultural Anthropology, includes the journal title on a light blue background and then below it, a black and white photo taken in Taranto’s cemetery in 2019 (photograph by issue author Jasmine Clotilde Pisapia). It depicts an older couple with their backs to the camera, looking on as a worker in a small backhoe digs up a small grave.

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth Aug 4

What does the shifting climate of gender and sexuality hierarchies reveal about the paradoxes that allow wounds and healing to coexist in Mexico's gay football scene?

Read Max D. López Toledano's "Wounds in Utopia: The Politics of Gay Football in 4T Mexico," in our latest issue.

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth Jul 6

Check out our latest #TeachingTools!

Here, Pinar shows how staying in the scene is a way of defending anthropology’s ongoing wager that knowledge begins not in the final text, but in the difficult and ethically charged labor of learning how to see.

culanth.org/fieldsights/st…

www.culanth.org Staying in the Scene: Situated Assessment and the Labor of Learning… In Spring 2026, I designed and taught Migration and Social Justice, a 200-level undergraduate course at Middlebury College, moving from transnati...

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth Jun 17

Have you checked out our latest issue yet? Here are some wonderful articles to get you started!

🧵⬇️

Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth Jun 12

🎙️ New AnthroPod alert!

How do Iranian diaspora communities navigate identity, belonging, and political change? Sharon Jacobs talks with Amy Malek about her book Culture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora.

Listen: culanth.org/fieldsights/ir…

www.culanth.org Iranian Diaspora Perspectives Iran has dominated the U.S. news cycle throughout 2026 so far. The U.S. and Israeli war of aggression in Iran just passed its 100th day, having c...