Curated Collection: Elections

Sean Mallin Published: Categories: English

Curated Collections highlight previously published articles from our AnthroSource archives that speak to urgent issues in the present, offering insight into current events unfolding around the globe. From movements for racial justice and Indigenous sovereignty to the social implications of climate change, technological transformation, migration, and public health, these contributions demonstrate anthropology’s enduring relevance and […]

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Emerging Trust

Trond Waage Published: Categories: English · French · Italian · Multilingual · Spanish

This article explores the transformative potential of collaborative filmmaking in fostering trust, dialogue, and social transformation among women in Northern Cameroon. Against a backdrop of existential insecurity and patriarchal norms, the stud…

From Truth and Trust

Vi Grunvald Published: Categories: English · French · Italian · Multilingual · Spanish

This essay arises from an extended conversation between anthropology, cinema, and activism—from within the intricate weave that connects the making of images to the making of trust. It unfolds around the Stronger Family, a Black LGBTQIA+ collect…

The Weight of What Will Not Return

Tereza Kuldova Published: Categories: English

In recent decades, Australia has developed a public grammar for addressing the Stolen Generations through inquiries, testimony, apology, commemoration, legal action and partial schemes of reparation. This article draws on long-term ethnograp…

Critical Nostalgia in Wolves in the Throne Room

Tereza Kuldova Published: Categories: English

Drawing on the innovations of Norwegian atmospheric black metal and its nature-oriented themes, Cascadian black metal foregrounds ecology and the natural environment—particularly that of the Cascadia region—while distancing itself from some …

Sustainable Finance: The Executive (Dys)function of Climate Governance?

Managing Editor Published: Categories: English

This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. In early October 2023, I arrived in Tokyo for the first time, as a financial professional and a graduate student in anthropology studying sustainable finance. Somewhere along my fieldwork journey, my attempts at breaking into the […]

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Kimberly Eison Simmons: An Anthropologist of Blackness, Diasporic Belonging, and the Politics of Natural Hair

Managing Editor Published: Categories: English

The Anthropology News Interview In-depth conversations with the people who make anthropology tick. Doing anthropology isn’t always fun, but some of the people doing it are absolute delights—and they have a lot to say about their research, the state of the discipline, and, naturally, their favorite foods. Welcome to The Anthropology News Interview, where we sit down with some of […]

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Air Conditioners and Other Bad Environmental Objects 

Managing Editor Published: Categories: English

This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. “In the past, a lot of money for capacity building has been spent on foreign consultants who fly in for a week and stay at five-star, air-conditioned hotels.” The audience, a group of environmental professionals, academics, […]

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Social Fires in Belém do Pará

Managing Editor Published: Categories: English

COP30 beyond the Documents This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. 20 November 2025. The eve of the final day of COP30 in Belém do Pará. The heat was intense. I was in the Country Pavilion in the Blue Zone, an area reserved […]

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The Second Círio

Managing Editor Published: Categories: English

This piece is part of a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. Since 1995 world leaders have descended each year on a chosen city to discuss the fate of the biosphere at the annual “Conference of the Parties” to the UN Framework Convention on […]

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Anthropology at the “Sites” of Climate Governance

Managing Editor Published: Categories: English

This piece is the introduction to a collection of Anthropology News articles on Climate Governance. Click here to read other articles in the collection. As a graduate student attending a climate meeting for the first time, I did not know what to expect. I hustled down a street in Katowice, Poland, in the early morning […]

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Pratiques ethnographiques, pratiques langagières

ethnographiques.org Published: Categories: French

Appel à propositions de la revue Ethnographiques.org

Date limite de soumission : 08/01/2027

Coordination : Grégoire Andréo, Université d’Helsinki, Roxanne Comotti, Kone Foundation, Université Grenoble Alpes, University of Helsinki, Anaïs Leblon, Université Paris 8, LAVUE-Alter et Paul Sorrentino, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, CASE

En quoi l’ethnographie et les savoirs qu’elle produit sont-ils façonnés par le fait qu’elle est une méthode d’enquête fondée, entre autres,[…]

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Call for papers

Alexander Akulov Published: Categories: English

Dear Colleagues!

The CAES editorial team welcomes your submissions for CAES Vol. 12, No. 3, scheduled for publication in the second half of December 2026.

CAES Vol. 12, № 3

Alexander Akulov Published: Categories: English

Editor’s foreword  Articles The hieroglyphic writing system of the Ryazan-Oka burial grounds technocomplex Yelena Desherieva, Yelena Kolesnikova The Ryazan-Oka burial grounds technocomplex (ROBGT) features artifacts with inscriptions representing a fully developed logographic writing system. Crucial to decoding this writing system is a graffiti on a buckle depicting sexual intercourse accompanied by a two-sign inscription: a […]