The Latest Anthropology News Issues

The archive below includes recently published issues in order of publication date. Every other month, Anthropology News develops a new issue to present engaging anthropology stories and perspectives on a particular topic and from contributors working across the profession.

Current issue: January–February 2024 Heat

AN 65.1 turns our attention to heat of all kinds in all places, delving into ways people experience and respond to resource insecurity on an increasingly hot planet, examining the bodily sensations of cancer treatment and giving birth, and showcasing artistic engagements with changing landscapes and climates.

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Nov–Dec 2023: 8 Articles

Silence

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Sep–Oct 2023: 11 Articles

Energy

AN 64.5 powers up for a series of stories about energy and our relationships with it. Join us as we delve into women's capacity to cooperatively share energy, learn how a hydroelectric dam charges connections and divisions across the Georgia-Abkhazia border, relax with some sound bath vibrations, and more.

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May–Jun 2023: 9 Articles

Magic

Piff Paff Poof! AN 64.3 is filled with stories to enthrall and delight. Welcome to our “Magic” issue, from ancestral spirits to ChatGPT, Roman curses to magical memorabilia. We hope you enjoy it.

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Mar–Apr 2023: 7 Articles

Digital

AN 64.2 plugs in for an issue about digital life. Join us on a technological journey as we discuss data and creative decision-making in a Hollywood media company, hang out with the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, learn how digital snapshots foreground lives lost to COVID, and more.

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Jan–Feb 2023: 8 Articles

Sex

AN 64.1 is filled with stories about sex and one or two about gender too. Welcome to our “Sex” issue, from migration to biotech, sex toys to saunas.

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Nov–Dec 2022: 8 Articles

After Dark

AN 63.6 stays up late for an issue about life after dark. Join us on a nighttime journey as we warm up with a group of Ethiopian athletes, find out how the Classic Mayas spent their nights, take a walk with an insomniac in Belgrade, and more.

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Sep–Oct 2022: 10 Articles

Play

AN 63.5 tells stories about play and games. We caper with a juvenile spider monkey, reflect on the Nintendo Game Boy’s transformation into music-making machine, learn how Slovakians responded to the country’s vaccine lottery, and more.

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Jul–Aug 2022: 13 Articles

Move

AN 63.4 is filled with stories about movements of all kinds—linguistic, migratory, existential, and locomotive. Welcome to our “Move” issue, from barbells to bicycles, football to TikTok. We hope you enjoy it.

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