editor in chief, american anthropologist, tweets my own. mastodon.lol /@elingchin

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The #WeeklyRead is "Revolutionary Papers: The Counterinstitutions, Counterpolitics, and Countercultures of Anticolonial Periodicals," the introduction to a special issue of @RadHistReview (150). Read it for free: ow.ly/i90X50U8jsb Buy this issue: ow.ly/9rEB50U8juf
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My prologue, “A Big Small Place,” is available for preview on Google Books. books.google.com/books/about…
The Petro-State Masquerade has a cover thanks to my friend and legendary artist, Christopher Cozier, and the design team at @UChicagoPress. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
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Hey #anthrotwitter — if you happen to find yourself (in two or three dimensions) at #AAA2024Tampa next week, a few cuties are doing a virtual panel on everyday and emergent ecofascism. Friday 10:15am eastern time. Link TBA. Should be… timely! 😬😬😬
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Anthropology for the win!
Harini Amarasuriya, a woman academic with a doctorate in social anthropology, winning the highest number of preferential votes in Lankan parliamentary history and the first woman to be Prime Minister with no family ties in politics, is a timeless flex every Sri Lankan now has.
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In our second issue of 2024 we moved further towards our commitments and we published the first ever Spanish-language article in Cultural Anthropology. A thread 🧵
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Read an article by a group of undergraduate anthropology students who conducted a research project exploring LSE’s archives, to uncover LSE’s connections to colonialism and to understand this relationship through the lens of decolonisation. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2…
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🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 POSTDOC IN PALESTINE STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO @PalestineUofT Due 6 January 2025 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨
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If you haven't already, check out the latest issue of, "Current Anthropology!" buff.ly/3HFFekH
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While I try not to waste time thinking about the institution I left, not a day goes by without me feeling so happy to be out of there.
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Are you a grad student heading to Tampa for AAAs? Join us for lunch on Friday, Nov 22 from 11:45am-1pm, Room TCC 412!
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Please note that the submission deadline for the Peter Kong-ming New Award is November 30. More info: appliedanthro.org/about/awar… #SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology #SfAA2025
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Doom napping seems to be my strategy.
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If you are an ECR and will be at the AAA in Tampa, join me for breakfast Saturday morning! I have room for 20. DM me. Nothing like chatting about journals and publishing first thing in the morning!
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ICYMI, we're hiring! Deadline to apply is November 18: bit.ly/3Y5Ef3R
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Anthro folks. NSF cultural Anthro Program Directors will be at AAA meetings next week. We will be at the formal joint Wenner-Gren/NSF workshop Friday morning of conference. For one-on-one meetings reach out to us on email new.nsf.gov/funding/opportun….
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The richest neighborhood in Wilmington, a community called Landfall, passed a HOA policy a few years ago to require contractors provide proof of citizenship for every worker and my buddy Cole who does countertops said every job site stopped for 3 months so they had to reverse it
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TOMORROW: Town Hall: Organizing Against Anti-Haitianism After the US Election Tuesday, November 12, 7-8:30 p.m. EST (ZOOM) buff.ly/3UDcjV8
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🎉Congrats to our AE (51.4) authors! 🎉 Muneeza Rizvi, Vivian Solana, Peter Redfield, @Ethnography911, Philip Fountain, @PublicAnthropol, @tom_neumark, @camilleafrazier, Olga Kanzaki Sooudi, @tessamuldvarp, @jon_schubert, Stephanie V. Love Find it here! anthrosource.onlinelibrary.w…
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Excited to co-host a book party at #AAA2024 with incredible friends and colleagues. Come celebrate five new books by Karl Swinehart, @chloeahmann, @cpt2103, @Beliso_DeJesus, and yours truly. Friday, November 22 at Earth and Bone Studio (108 N 11th St., Tampa, FL).
Lots of bad going around #anthrotwitter BUT ALSO a few of us are hosting a book party at the #AAA2024Tampa at earth & bone studio. Friday from 8–late. We'll have food, drinks, music, and catharsis. Good vibes only. Come hang! 📚🥂💃🎉 @RyanCecilJobson @Beliso_DeJesus @cpt2103
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