"Most ethnographic fieldwork is based on co-presence. During fieldwork, ethnographers constantly touch and are being touched." A touching essay by Julia Pauli, member of the OEA advisory board. #anthropology #touch

"waste pickers are ... vulnerable. That’s partly because they depend on others’ trash. It’s also ... because ... . And it’s largely because their work has been made illegal." #anthropology

end of week planning to make room for a fun talk: crocodiles are watching! #anthropology #environment

Our new entry on AGENCY "illustrates the varied ways in which anthropologists have tried to conceptualise the dynamics between agent and world, between creativity and stasis, between responsibility and fate, and between power and resistance." anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/agency

Listen to read. A podcast that may entail lots of reading suggestions for anthro-enthusiasts. #anthropology

"The lived experience of the authors is woven into a singular cautionary tale to provide an every-person understanding of career blocking within academia for disabled scholars." A "PanEthnography." #ethnography #DisabledInAcademia #OpenAccess

Important and timely resource for those heading into the new semester!

New Society for Cultural Anthropology issue just dropped and the line-up sounds exciting! Check it out 👇

"An anthropologist explores how the use of rats to clear ordnance in Cambodia is changing the culture of mine clearance." Read Darcie Deangelo's piece for SAPIENS on how to love a rat! #OpenAccess #Mondaymotivaion

Call for editors for the Anthropology of Work Review is still open! Details below

Us too and a plug: OEA is an open teaching & learning resource for anthropology. Our goal is to facilitate access to anthropological knowledge for experts & non-experts worldwide. Check us out and write for us: anthroencyclopedia.com

"Six anthropologists with field experience in Egypt, Greece, India, Laos, Mauritius, Thailand and Switzerland critically discuss these propositions in order to renew anthropology for the future." #Anthropology

"We should resist any effort to insulate data governance from democratic processes—and having an informed perspective on the politics of data requires that we attend not just to its present, but also to its past." And if you want to know more, read here ⬇️ #anthropology

home. homely. homeliness. homelinessless? #Anthropology

for the beginning of a new semester: some listening. #Anthropology #podcast

the power of textiles. 💪 raising the sugar price through cloth. 🪡🧵 what an intriguing story! #anthropology

Happening today– Felix Padel on "Arms and Man: Rethinking War and Self". Check for local timings, Zoom link 👇

Thinking about media, anthropology, and AI? Consider applying to this EASA Media Anthropology Network's workshop to discuss trajectories, challenges, and opportunities. CfP and important dates and details below EASA

A great collection of articles in the new CA issue! Society for Cultural Anthropology

Roadsides invites "papers that tackle the intimate relationship between toxicity & infrastructures, empirically grounding & considering the political, economic,& cultural relations that create & sustain toxic infrastructures across extended spaces & durations." roadsides