Current issue: May–June 2024 Artificial Intelligence
This issue delves into the anthropological dimensions of artificial intelligence (AI): how it affects and is affected by human behavior, social norms, and cultural practices.
How is AI (re)shaping what it means to be human? And how is humanity shaping AI? How can we understand AI in the broader history of humans and technology? In what ways does AI challenge traditional anthropological concepts, theories, and methodologies?
Mar–Apr 2024: 13 Articles
Deception
This issue explores the anatomy of deception and dissects the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What lies do people tell themselves? What lies do they tell others? Are these depictions conscious or subconscious, harmful or benign, or even helpful in certain contexts? Are they structured as conspiracies, creating alternate versions of reality?
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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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