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Bateson Book Forum: Dust of the Zulu

Member Voices

Bateson Book Forum: Dust of the Zulu

Louise Meintjes’s Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics After Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2017) is an ethnography of post-aparteid ngoma dance—a competitive ... More

A Conversation Around Keith Hart: Swimming into the Current of Human Society Through History

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A Conversation Around Keith Hart: Swimming into the Current of Human Society Through History

Many of Keith Hart’s students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends have long wanted to express their appreciation for the influence that the man and his idea... More

Final Writing with Light Series

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Final Writing with Light Series

The Writing with Light collective was a SCA/SVA joint initiative which provided editors and authors the opportunity to focus closely on the photo-essay as a dis... More

Europe in the Balance

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Europe in the Balance

Europe seems to be plunging into crises of demographic and economic displacements, heightened nationalism, and general unrest. Wealthy countries that have enjoy... More

Cultural Anthropology

Established in 1986, the peer-reviewed journal of the SCA has expanded the boundaries of the discipline and brokered new engagements with adjacent fields. Committed to innovation in scholarly communication, the journal went open access in 2014.

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Member Voices Content Concern

Readers have expressed their concerns about an essay in Member Voices. We share these concerns, and we have removed the piece from the site. While the essays in... More

Student-Faculty Workshops at the 2019 AAA Annual Meeting

The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is pleased to announce the lineup for our twelfth annual Student-Faculty Workshops, which will take place on the sid... More

Distribute 2020

The Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Visual Anthropology are excited to bring to you our second carbon-neutral biennial conference: Distrib... More