Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Amoxtli | OtherwiseMag ​​​​​In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca, a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors

Read and learn. Engage. Get inspired. Today: the Book of the Smoking Mirror in #otherwisemag: www.otherwisemag.com/amoxtli
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Blood Blood is a polyvalent substance. Its dual nature as a vital physical entity and a potent symbolic medium makes it indispensable to medicine but also to ritual practice, symbolism, and popular…

"Blood is a polyvalent substance."
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here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/blood

📣 The Open Encyclopedia of #Anthropology is #hiring a new editorial team - These are the last days to apply!

Editing the OEA is a great chance to support #OpenAccess scholarship, foster collaborative knowledge, and shape the future of our discipline.

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#Anthropology connects us to the stories, cultures & experiences of people everywhere. At the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology, we make sure this knowledge is open, free, and accessible to everyone!

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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology | LinkedIn Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology | An open-access, peer-reviewed encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology, making anthropology accessible to all. | The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (OEA)...

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Deina Rabie writes about "Mamdani’s enterprising ability to subvert America’s Anglo-White normativity and expand the image of the American citizen through strategic semiotic and multilinguistic choices during his mayoral campaign." Read👇

Beauty Beauty is an aesthetic value that is tied to embodied practices, affects, and the senses. Whereas philosophers have long discussed beauty as disembodied aesthetics, and scientists have searched for bo...

"The anthropological study of beauty requires a relational understanding of how it is constituted in specific contexts and how it comes to matter in everyday life", writes Claudia Liebelt, in OEA's brand new entry on Beauty! Read it now, read it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/beauty

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Save the date: on February 23rd, the Wenner-Gren Foundation will host an important discussion of the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, which supports recent PhDs to write their book or a series of articles. Details in the link below 👇

🚨🚨 Hot off the press 📚📣🎙️ The latest issue of American Anthropologist is out with a great collection of articles! Congratulations to the editors and all the authors 👏 🥳 Check out the issue in the link below 👇 @amanthro.bsky.social

Platypus Over the past several years, menstrual and hormonal cycles have gained significant public attention across the US and Europe, concurrent with growing skepticism towards biomedicine and an…

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Featured Story | Otherwise 'the roofs of homes were sheared off and went flying through the air', a story by Dilshanie Perera

"Cucumbers aren’t so different from certain men in that way, she said with a raised eyebrow. " Dilshanie Perera in OtherwiseMag. Read more here: www.otherwisemag.com

Listening Against the Threshold of Pain SAPIENS’ 2025 poet-in-residence situates her listening in Kashmir and Germany, contextualizing her contributions to SAPIENS this year.

listening in Kashmir and Germany - listening against the threshold of pain. Thanks to SAPIENS, you can find Uzma Falak's amazing poetry and audio pieces here: www.sapiens.org/culture/list...

Democracy Democracy is a system of governance and a value with a widespread presence worldwide. However, anthropological literature has shown that the transition to democracy articulates practices,…

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is #openaccess! Choose your Friday reading 🤓
Perhaps an entry on democracy? Here it is: anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/democr...

Looking for work in #anthropology published #openaccess? Try these journals: www.antropologi.info/links/Main/J...

Open Access Arguments and Reservations Open access has many advantages, e.g. increased visibility and citation frequency of documents and better findability via search engines.

As you know we're excited about #anthropology and about #openaccess. Here's an overview of arguments why open access (not only for anthropology) is so beneficial to the entire scientific community: open-access.network/en/informati...

Read the new #openaccess edition of the Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford for 2025. The articles explores themes from collaborative publishing, kinship and belonging in Eastern China to precolonial ceramics at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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The latest OPEN ACCESS issue of Anthropology in Action has been published! View the TOC for Vol. 31, Issue 3 here: bit.ly/4pE9Xlp
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🔊 Listen to a new podcast episode from the AiA editors here--don't miss it!: bit.ly/3NqLIda

The latest OPEN ACCESS special issue of Social Analysis has been published! View the TOC and more for "Experiments in Moral Order: Doing and Undoing Authority": bit.ly/4sFoO21

Guest Edited by Anick Vollebergh and @naomivanstapele.bsky.social

#OpenAccess! ARTIC SILK ROADS: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt, edited by Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani has now been published.

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Some extracts from "The King of Bangkok", a graphic ethnography exploring urban migration, long-distance family relationships, and the uneven, sometimes damaging consequences of economic development for workers in Thailand.
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New issue alert!! "Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements" is out now and fully #OpenAccess
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Fresh perspectives on #anthropology: this #openaccess read challenges traditional approaches and explores more inviting ways to do research. Very fascinating!

Familiar with proverbs but curious about anti-proverbs? Erik Aasland provides a fascinating account of proverbs and anti-proverbs in Kazakh tradition and what they can tell us about the fluid and changing cultural contexts.

#OpenAccess and newly minted article, where Inés Escobar Gonzalez explores how for "...working-class Mexicans, property has turned into rent...eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations." Link 👇 @amethno.bsky.social

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Anthropology and AI: From Past Engagements to Today's Challenges

You can now watch the full webinar on demand here: youtu.be/h7EpStCLmnA

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Job alert: Tenure-Track position for Assistant Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, is open at Rutgers University. More details in the link👇

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Browse our #OpenAccess books in #PoliticalAnthropology: bit.ly/3UgEPeI

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Secularism The anthropology of secularism studies how nation-states actively shape ‘religion’ as a category, institutional structure, and lived experience. It does not cast secularism as an impersonal process…

🔥🔥🔥 Hot hot hot off the press: an OEA entry on SECULARISM, written by William Girard.
🤓🤓🤓 "The anthropology of secularism explores how modern nation-states construct and manage religion."
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