Society for Cultural Anthropology

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

[Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth]

🚨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!

[Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth]

"Bitter Sweetness: Compelling Greenhouse Farming and the Inter-mobility among Middle-Aged Farmers in North China" by Yue Liao explores how middle-aged Chinese farmers navigate between a mobile new urban elite and an immobile elderly peasantry.

Read here: https://t.co/r0JwYUDyEt

[Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth]

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

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"Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of "Good" Womanhood" by Anjali Krishan looks at middle-class married women's stories about the suicides of their female neighbours.

Read here: https://t.co/d7usLyamkd

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🎙️ 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: https://t.co/DPvKHpTwws

[Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth]

How can educators assess genuine learning in the age of AI? Alyssa Paredes points to a centuries-old practice, the oral exam, as a compelling model for fostering deeper understanding, critical thinking, and student engagement.

Read the full text here:
https://t.co/yEsGXaE3k9

[Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth]

How did Brexit and COVID-19 reveal the temporal regimes in contemporary England, implicitly reinforcing ageist marginalization and unequal power dynamics among different generational groups?

Read Cathrine Degnen’s article in our latest issue: https://t.co/ygVHd3vWmB

[American Anthropological Association @AmericanAnthro]

📚 Explore Open Anthropology Research.

The Open Anthropology Research Repository offers free access to preprints, teaching materials, and conference papers from around the world.

Start exploring: https://t.co/otzV0csKmW

#AnthropologyResources #AAACommunity

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Listen to it here: https://t.co/hglbpFEtBJ

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New AnthroPod!🔊

In the first of a three-part miniseries, we listen to the stories people tell themselves about themselves: how people come to connect with history, how traditions are carried and transmitted, and how emotional performances help people move forward.

[Matt Blackwell @matt_blackwell]

In a few years, I think we will look back and realize that learning is like physical fitness in its simplicity and resistance to technology: in order to improve, you need to consistently do hard things without shortcuts.

[Ethan @ethantgibson]

Probably for the purposes of doing peer-reviewed research and teaching at a university

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

People are letting AI write their wedding vows, love letters, parents’ obituaries, kids’ birthday cards… Such a powerful loss to self and community when people relinquish the truth of their own words and voices to become epiphenomenal vessels for computers to talk to each other.

[Ph.D., Phenomenologist, Pragmatist, Ethicist @SIUChasmite]

People have all sorts of opinions regarding universities, but when it comes down to it, I and many like myself have now 20+ years of experience working at them (me: Canada+USA). One truism: the working conditions of the professoriate are the learning conditions of the students.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

it makes me sad when people seem to have a huge vocabulary for critiquing writing but very few ways to describe what moves them, what they find effective or exciting or memorable, what they love—and why

[Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth]

🚨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!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[csz @cszabla]

there’s a reason humanities scholars don’t publish a paper every five minutes that somehow instantly gets 80000 cites like you can in some fields

[⚡︎ @_sorrengailll]

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT"
WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

[Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth]

Every year there is a new university graduation zeitgeist. This year it's commencement speakers getting booed vehemently when mentioning AI in a positive light.