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

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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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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Call for papers

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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

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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 […]

What The System Leaves Behind

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The story of four boys, one wrongful accusation, and a cycle of violence that outlasted every attempt to stop it. It was still hot outside when Luis Alberto Quiñonez—whom everyone called Sito—reached Grant Avenue, in San Francisco’s Chinatown, around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 8, 2019. His girlfriend Arianna’s mother had been evicted that day, […]

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What Death Leaves Behind: The Social Afterlife of HIV Mortality in Tanzania

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Global health often treats death as the endpoint of disease. Mortality marks the conclusion of an epidemic, the final outcome in surveillance reports, and the measure against which interventions are evaluated. Yet during fieldwork in the wards of Buguruni and Vingunguti in Dar es Salaam, where many families live with the enduring consequences of poverty […]

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Who has the right to the forest? Multispecies political ecology and the contestation of legitimacies in the Bukit Tigapuluh Forest Landscape, Tebo, Indonesia

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The Bukit Tigapuluh forest landscape in Tebo, Indonesia, has become an arena of contestation involving indigenous peoples, migrant communities, corporations, NGOs, the state, and non-human species. This study examines how competing claims over forests …

Pennsylvania, Data Centers, and Challenging Myths of America and Anthropology

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As the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence, members of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government are rewriting and weaponizing history, narrowing the definition of who and what counts as American. Amid the celebrations, our team completed two years of fieldwork in Pennsylvania exploring the myths and realities of data […]

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