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Long-running group blog where anthropologists and sociologists post field-based essays and commentary on topics such as Southeast Asia, bureaucracy, and everyday social institutions. Useful for seeing how practicing ethnographers write and reason, rather than as structured instruction.

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SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human

What makes you … you? And who tells what stories and why? In the SAPIENS podcast, listeners will hear a range of human stories: from the origins of the chili pepper to how prosecutors decide someone is a criminal to stolen skulls from Iceland. Join SAPIENS on our latest journey to explore what it means to be human.

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americananthro.org

AmericanAnthro.org is the site of the American Anthropological Association, the leading professional association for anthropologists. It offers news, ethics and policy resources, education and career tools, and information on publications and events for students, educators, and professionals.

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culanth.org

Cultural Anthropology (culanth.org) is the official site of the scholarly journal Cultural Anthropology, a leading venue for anthropological theory and ethnography. It offers peer‑reviewed articles, essays and features on theory and method, book reviews, and blog posts and news related to contemporary cultural anthropology.

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Gods of the Upper Air

Group biography of Franz Boas and his students Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ella Deloria. Explains how their fieldwork established cultural relativism and dismantled scientific racism, giving readers the intellectual origins of modern cultural anthropology.

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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Hurston's account, based on 1927–1931 interviews, of Cudjo Lewis, one of the last survivors of the transatlantic slave trade, carried to Alabama on the Clotilda. Published in 2018, it shows how oral testimony becomes ethnography and why Hurston kept Lewis's own dialect.

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Braiding Sweetgrass

A botanist and Potawatomi Nation member interweaves Indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal essay. Readers come away understanding reciprocity between people and land, and how traditional ecological knowledge differs from and complements Western scientific method.

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